The Ticket (The Affair Duet Book 1) by Aidèe Jaimes

I used for them. And my tummy… not only could that use some toning up, but the long scar left by my cesarean section healed so poorly that one side of it comes up over my underwear line, looking more like a crooked smile than a paper-thin line. No amount of sit-ups will ever fix that. My shoulders slump and I look away from the mirror to stop the critical analysis of my body. I feel oddly defeated, as though I have already been judged and deemed unworthy. As though it matters what a man that I may never see again would think of me. I can hear Owen typing on his laptop through the door that separates the bedroom from the bathroom and the guilt of wanting another man to find me beautiful and desirable makes me feel even more like a hag. “You okay in there? I don’t hear the shower!” he calls out. I love him. He is my life. It’s always been that way. The moment I met him fifteen years ago in the bank, I knew with certainty that he was the one. We started out hot and heavy and we haven’t slowed down. Despite our exhausting schedules and child rearing, our sex life is great, adventurous even, within our marriage of course. Owen is an amazing lover, from his kiss down to the way he pulls my hair and the way he bites my neck just hard enough. He knows me, knows my body and how to make me beg for more. Attraction to another man is ridiculous. There is no need for it. No room for it in my happily ever after. I have everything I could possibly want and more waiting for me in my own bed.