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to his office at the church to look up something, and that led to something else he needed to look up, which usually led to another thing.
    Sure enough, his office light was on. The shades were down, but light seeped around the edges. She took a step on the grass...and then stopped. An idea bubbled up inside her.
    With a giggle, she hurried inside and up to their bedroom. Crouching in front of her dresser, she pulled out the bottom drawer closest to the wall. The one she only opened every month to change the sachet. And as she took out the top negligee, she smelled the lavender. 
    Lavender was supposed to be the smell that made men...well, horny. 
    She brought it to her nose and inhaled deeply. The shimmers still inside her danced wildly, as if something were waking up. As if something good were going to happen.
    “Oh,” she whispered. “Oh, oh, oh.”
    She set it on the bed and started to undress. Jim was going to be in for a surprise tonight.
    *****
    Becky ran across the grass and laughed at her brashness. She wore her tan trench coat – her church coat – over her red negligee. Tonight she felt free. With a sexual appetite and playfulness she hadn’t felt for a long time.
    She couldn’t swear that what she planned had never happened in the church, people being what they were. But it had never happened in the church before with her and Jim.
    Laughter spilled out of her mouth, and she only stopped because she was breathless from an overload of excitement. The need to experience something more with her husband had been building inside her for a long time. Now it was finally boiling over – leaving her lightheaded and unlike her usual self.
    She liked these feelings. Liked this side of her a lot.
    When she’d stepped out of the car tonight and looked up at the stars, something happened. Something changed. For so long, she’d been carrying a dark weight around with her. Going through the days and nights trying to say and do all the right things, when inside something had felt all wrong.
    She’d lost the joy in her life. Hadn’t been fully living...just going through the motions. At only thirty-six, she’d felt old and dried up.
    Now she felt young again. Free.
    Jim wouldn’t know what happened to his proper wife.
    She reached the church’s back door, using it instead of the front entrance because she didn’t want anyone passing by to see her. Not that there was anything wrong with going to see her husband. But if anyone mentioned her late night visit, her face would probably turn the color of a ripe tomato and give away what they’d done.
    She slipped the key into the lock but it turned easily. She stepped inside. Jim must’ve come in this way and forgotten to lock the door behind him. He was always preoccupied with his work and his parishioners.
    She admired that. She did. But once in a while, she wanted his mind, plus a few body parts, to be on her.
    And not just when her body temperature was right for conception.
    She started toward Jim’s office, and her heels clicked on the laminate floor that looked like wood. Laughing under her breath, she stopped and took them off. She wanted to give Jim a surprise he’d never forget. A good surprise. No. A wonderful surprise.
    His door was closed. Habit, she supposed, since no one was here except him. She heard him speaking. Couldn’t make out the words. Just his voice. Probably saying lines from the sermon he was preparing. Then his voice stopped, and she imagined him frowning at his computer screen while he wrote the next line.
    She started to undo the buttons of her coat, then decided it would be sexier to do it inside with him watching. Kind of like a stripper.
    Stifling a giggle, she turned the handle and flung open the door.
    “Surprise!”

 
    Chapter Four
     
    Sitting on his couch, wearing only his white shirt, Jim stared at her as if she were his worst nightmare. So did Diana Kellman, who wore nothing, her brunette head lifting from his lap. Her fingers