Sunshine Valley

Not really a secret

    Simon was lying in the bed reviewing his schedule. Not a lot was happening. He prayed for snow, that meant work cleaning driveways. He was startled when Rebecca jumped in the bed. Laughing he asked, “happy?”

     She purred in his ear as he laid his phone on the night stand, “you will never guess what I learned today?” 

     “What did you learn?” He hissed as she nibbled on his ear. 

     “So,” she raised up straddling him. “The crones were talkin’ in the teachers lounge. Not as important, looks like long range forecasts have predicted a freeze out for us in January.” She laid her hands on his chest. “This led to a conversation about our beloved sheriff.” He shifted slightly under her. The heat from and the position of her body was working magic. “The crones say that soon after he became sheriff, during one of these ‘freeze outs’, “she straightened up so she could use air quotes when she said freeze outs. “He and a couple deputies went to Coal Town to see if he could get THOSE people to shelter.” Even though he was in a state of arousal, Simon didn’t like the way she said ‘those people’. “Apparently, he found his mother, butt naked, dead. The crones couldn’t decide between them what the corner had ruled the cause of death.”

     Simon wanted to say how horrible this information was. And how horrific that must have been. But his wife was doing things to him. Things he enjoyed and he couldn’t form a thought, let along a sentence to express that thought.