8 - Confession
Talon awoke to find the bed empty. He quickly squelched the instantaneous flood of fear that nearly drowned him until he caught the sound of the shower running behind the closed bathroom door. Rising up on one elbow, he first glanced at the clock on the bedside table. It was nearly nine in the morning.
Crawling out from under the tumble of sheets and blankets, he padded over to the bathroom, where little curls of steam tweaked from underneath the door. He chuckled. It would be a veritable steam room inside.
Although she liked her tub baths warm, Æquana took her showers hot, almost to the point of scalding. Why, Talon couldn’t figure, but he guessed it might have something to do with the fact that his wife was cold-natured. Given that she also dove in some of the coldest
