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him, gently at first then a little harder. His tongue found its way into her mouth as his hand slid up and down her back, slowly working its way towards her butt. He found the bottom hem of her tee shirt as they separated. He pulled her shirt off and stared up at her as she pushed him onto his back. Amy kissed him again, his hands moving down her sides caressing the lump where her child grew in her womb…
    He lay awake after they had finished feeling strange and listening to Frays snore contentedly into his chest like a Harley Davidson with its muffler missing. The loss of his wife still gnawed at him like biting insects in his mind and somehow he could not help thinking that he had betrayed Laura. The hurt in her eyes when Mister Frays had accused him of doing what he had just done… He realized that Laura was dead and she would want him to find someone else…but…still… Lacey propped himself up slightly on an elbow and looked down at Frays’ face as she slept.
    God, she’s beautiful… he thought and gently caressed her cheek. His finger gently traced the scar from the bullet wound just below her eye. The woman stirred and squirmed up against him, a slight smile flitting across her drowsing face. Guilt boiled to the surface. As much as he did not want to think of it that way he could not help but feel he had taken advantage of her. Then again, Frays had proven in the past she was more than capable of letting him know if she was not interested in him…
    It was late. Lacey looked around in the gloom, trying to figure out a way to extract himself from the situation. He would almost certainly wake Frays trying to get up and he did not want to do that. She seemed so peaceful despite the noise rumbling out of her chest that it seemed a shame to wake her. Still, he had to get back to his kids and if anybody caught him coming out of her room in the morning it would raise all kinds of questions…
    He bit the bullet and as gently as possible tugged his arm out from under Frays’ head. She stirred and rolled onto her back as he sat up. “Sorry.” he said quietly and smiled down at her in the reddish haze of the emergency lights. “I gotta get back. The kids will be worried if I’m not there in the morning.”
    Frays yawned and stretched, vaguely reminding him of a cat. “Alright, Adam.” she mumbled her voice still thick with sleep. To his surprise the woman rose up on her elbows her face mere centimeters from his. She gave him a quick peck on the lips and smiled. He kissed her back, letting his hand run through her long brown hair and savoring the taste in the woman’s mouth for a long few seconds before regretfully disengaging from the situation.
    Lacey threw on his gear and slipped out into the hall in a haze. It was almost like a dream or something. He never actually suspected that Frays even seriously thought of him that way. It still struck him as kinda weird though. Sure…he knew that she had obviously slept with at least one guy before… He just never suspected that she could be so frenetic in the sack especially seeing as how she was pregnant and all.
    Lacey snuck back into his room and nudged Rodriguez. “Hey.” he said quietly. Lacey smiled awkwardly in the gloomy dark as he helped Rodriguez collect her gear. “Thanks for watching the kids.”
    There was a big shit eating grin plastered all over Rodriguez’s face when he turned around and handed the woman her plate carrier. “You totally fuckin’ did it, didn’t you?” she asked and gave the man a good natured jab in the ribs with her elbow. When Lacey just stood there gawping at her like a landed fish Frannie just shrugged and started off towards the door. “I guess I’ll have to ask Frays in the morning.”
    Frays woke up and stretched. The lights had not come back on yet so she figured that there must be a little more time before it was actually time to wake up and get to work. She squirmed on her cot trying to get comfortable again. Frays