Imade it home not even ten minutes before my wife did. God was on my side too because I needed to jump in the shower. If she would have made it home before me, I would’ve been fucked royally. The last thing I needed was for her to smell sex on me. I didn’t know about everybody, but the smell of sex and the smell of workout sweat were two totally different smells. If I could smell myself, I knew without a doubt Ava would’ve been able to smell it also. Hauling ass to our bedroom as fast as I could, I stripped out of my clothes then jumped into the shower.
As I was showering, Ava walked into the bathroom. “Hey baby, just wanted to let you know I’m home.”
“Hey, baby girl! How was work?”
“It was fine. Today was pretty easy. Now tomorrow is going to be a different story. My schedule is booked with a gang of meetings. I texted you, how come you didn’t text me back?”
“Uh… I’m sorry, babe, I didn’t even notice. I mean, I didn’t see it. I was at the gym and didn’t have my phone on me.”
“Oh, okay. Well, I’ma go get dinner started. I’m surprised you didn’t cook.”
“Yeah, I didn’t get a chance to. I kinda got a late start at the gym. For it to be the middle of the day, it was packed. You know Mondays at the gym be crazy packed from the time it opens ‘til it closes. I guess everybody trying to work off they weekend weight.”
When she didn’t reply, I figured she had walked out of the bathroom. I finished washing off and then stepped out of the shower. As I reached for my dry towel, I looked in the mirror and noticed a hickey on my chest. It was small but still noticeable. I wasn’t sure if Ava put it there or if I had gotten it from my lover. Things got a little hot and heavy today since it had been a while since we got to spend time together.
“FUCK!” I said out loud, rushing into the bedroom so that I could get dressed. Being careless gon’ get my ass in some trouble, I didn’t want Ava to see it just in case she wasn’t the one who put it there. “Shit! Shit!”
Once I was done getting dressed, I headed to the kitchen to help Ava cook dinner. I should’ve gotten home earlier so that I could’ve had dinner done for her, especially since I was off all day and it was her first day back at work. It was the least I could do. Plus, the last thing I needed was for her to start getting suspicious and shit. To be such a beautiful woman, she had some major issues with being insecure.
She could sometimes be too observant. The shit was aggravating as hell, but it kept me on my toes. I knew that cheating on my wife was fucked up on my part, but I couldn’t help myself. Choosing to settle down and marry her was solely for her. I only proposed because I didn’t want to lose her. I loved my wife, but she could never fully satisfy me no matter how hard she tried.
“Hey, baby, give your hubby some suga,” I greeted Ava as I stepped into the kitchen and walked up to her.
Wrapping my arms around her, we started kissing. I made sure to kiss her as sensually as I possibly could because I felt bad about not having dinner done for her. My nerves were getting the best of me and had me feeling awful and guilty. The least I could do was show her a little attention. Plus, it kept her from being suspicious. Ava loved attention, and if I were to start slacking on giving it to her, she’d start her complaining, making sure to let me know. Since things had been going so good, I wanted to keep it that way for as long as possible.
“You betta stop before you get something started,” she said, breaking away from my embrace then going back to gathering all of the stuff she needed to make dinner. “You smell so damn good.”
“Thank you, baby. So, what you cookin’? Or shall I say, what we gon’ cook?”
“I was thinking grilled steaks, baked potatoes, and some corn on the cob. While the food is on the grill, I’ll bake the potatoes in the oven.”
“That sounds good. Let me go get the grill started while you season the meat and get the corn together.”
Opening the patio door that led out to the backyard where our barbeque grills were, I went to the shed and pulled out all the stuff I needed to get the charcoal grill started. We had two grills; a propane grill and a charcoal grill. Ava normally cooked on the propane grill. She hated using the charcoal grill. The last time she tried to get it started, she damn near burned all the hair off her head.
She put too much lighter fluid on the coals, and when she went to put fire to them, the whole grill engulfed in flames. The shit shot so high and so quick that she didn’t get a chance to back up fast enough and some of her hair caught on fire. She was pissed OFF. Once I saw that she was okay, I laughed for days behind it. So now, all the grilling was on me. We had the propanegrill as option B for her days I wasn’t home, and she wanted to grill.
Once I got the grill started, I cleaned it off then headed back into the house to get the meat. Ava was still seasoning the meat, so I went ahead and put the potatoes in the oven, that way they would be done by the time the steaks were ready. Baked potatoes took fucking forever to cook. Getting the grill fork and tongs, I grabbed the tray of food then headed back outside. As I was putting the food on the grill, Ava came outside and sat in one of the lawn chairs that were near the grill.
“I made you some ice water, baby. It’s hot as hell out here today.”
“Thanks, yeah it’s a scorcher.”
“So, how was your day? What else did you do besides go to the gym?” Ava asked.
“Shit, nothing really. Like I said, I had a late start getting to the gym because I got wrapped up into this episode ofThe First 48.”
“You actually found an episode you haven’t seen already?”
“Nah.” I chuckled. “It was a rerun, but a good one,” I lied, knowing good and damn well that wasn’t the case.
Ava sometimes liked to ask questions like she was an interrogator. That was one of the things that I didn’t particularly care for about her. I hated to be questioned, especially when I knew that I had been up to no good. Plus, with her, I could never tell if she was questioning me just to be doing it or if it was because she was suspecting that I was up to no good.
“I talked to my sister and Shane today.”
Thank God she brought up something else.
“Oh yeah, what’s been going on with them?” I asked.
