“Honey I have to tell you something,” Jason said making me look up from the book that was perched on my lap. “It has to do with Christmas.”

I just nodded, not knowing what to expect.

“The office called me and said that I was needed in New York on both Christmas Eve and Christmas.” He said looking dejected, but what I didn’t know is that it was all a secret plan to surprise me.

“Really?” I asked sadly, letting out a sigh before looking down at my book, not wanting to show that he never being home did affect me in some way. Even if I didn’t actually love him like I used to, he was still a big part of my life.

Jason sighed and left me alone in the room.

~~

Snow had covered the ground and the temperature was steadily dropping more and more every day. The days had been spent with me either alone at home trying to find something to do, or out with Alex doing various Christmas like things like seeing lights and decorating the trees at his house and mine.

Things began to work towards Christmas Eve until the day was finally here and I had seen Jason to the airport the day before meaning I would probably spend the night alone.

That’s what I thought at least until there was a knock at the back door before Alex appeared in my kitchen with flakes of snow stuck to his hair and eyelashes making his rosy red cheeks stand out from the cold.

“What’re you doing here Lex?” I asked moving into the kitchen to watch him pull his coat off revealing his plain t-shirt and arms red from the cold. “Fuck come here, you look freezing.”

“I know that Jason isn’t here, and you shouldn’t spend a day like this alone.” He explained sinking into my hug. “Shit you’re fucking warm. My parents are used to me being out tonight since I’ll be over there tomorrow to see them.”

I just nodded, rubbing my hands up and down his arms to try and get them to warm up.

“Let’s go upstairs.” I said moving away only to have him latch back on making it just a bit harder for me to get up the stairs and into the bed room.

~~

We sat with our backs against the headboard just talking as I leaned against Alex’s side.

I was talking, just rambling on about something as I looked over at him, my eyes roaming his face, when suddenly he cut me off by kissing me. I leaned into his touch my fingers moving up to tangle in his long brown hair, pulling him closer to me.

He lowered us down so that I was lying down with him hovering over me, our lips still attached.

Clothes were discarded and I realized something more as Alex and I tangled together, moving in unison. It was never the fact that Jason was too gentle or too sweet when it came to sex, it was the fact that he wasn’t Alex because as Alex took things slow I felt like I was in pure bliss. His soft touch sent tingle through me and his light kisses made me want to let out content sighs of pleasure.

It was even better than those rough, kinky times at his place, or his parents place, or even in the bed where we were.

I felt the familiar twinge and knotting in my lower abdomen.

~~

Jason was walking up the driveway with a bouquet of roses in hand smiling to himself as he thought of his wife’s surprise when he arrived to sweep her up off of her feet.

The opening of the front door went unheard to couple up in the master bedroom, tangled together in the bed sheets. Alex had a hand caressing Christine’s bare arm as she sighed, snuggled into his sweat covered chest. He sang lightly to her, knowing that she had loved his voice.

Jason quietly made his way up the stairs only to stop at the very top of them when he heard a voice coming from his bedroom, one that did not belong to his wife. The male’s voice was singing and it sounded familiar to him, but he shrugged it off as her listening to music.

“I love you Christine.” Alex said quietly as he finished the song making her look up and into his deep drown eyes.

“I love you too Alex.” She replied smiling as she bit her lip.

Jason watched on silently from the doorway of the open bedroom door. He watched his wife in the arms of another man confessing her love for him. And he finally understood. He understood her withdraw from him and her random disappearances.

Alex and Christine’s heads snapped over to the door at the sound of something dropping to find Jason standing there with a look of betrayal filling his features.

“You bitch.” He said as he watched her scrambled up to put on clothes but it was too late.

“Jason-“ She tried to say but he was already down the hallway.

~~

Alex left silently, a whole new walk of shame in his eyes.

Christine sighed with her hand in her hair before walking into the kitchen, almost jumping out of her skin when she saw Jason sitting at the counter, waiting for her.

“I’m moving, and if you value this relationship, this marriage, at all, you’re coming with me.”