The Anniversary Stories by Lexy Harper

Author:Lexy Harper
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: erom, Erotica for Couples, adult romance, contemporary erotica, Roleplay Romance, roleplay erotica, romance, erotic fiction, adult fiction, erotic short stories, erotica, romantica, Romance for Couples, contemporary romance, erotic romance
Publisher: Ebonique Publishing
Published: 2013-07-13T22:00:00+00:00

It’s Good to be Neighbourly!

Taking a careful sip from the oversized mug cradled between his palms, John Elliott sighed in contentment as he gazed out through the opened kitchen door. Freshly brewed coffee and a chance to drink to the last drop without any interruptions or distractions from his noisy, playful, demanding twins. Heaven on earth!

He was on his first real vacation in nearly seven years and he’d already vowed that it wouldn’t be his last. The business was doing well; it was time he enjoyed the fruits of his labour. A few noses had been put out of joint when he had announced that he was taking a three-month vacation and leaving Carl, the second youngest of his bus drivers, as Office Manager. One of the other drivers had sniggered knowingly, but John had refused to acknowledge the inference that the openly gay young man was more to him than just an employee. It was a business he had worked hard to turn around. He couldn’t afford to be sentimental—if he left any of the others in charge he would constantly worry that things weren’t running smoothly. Carl was resourceful enough to handle minor emergencies, but had the acuity to call if a situation arose that needed John’s expertise.

The first two days of his break had been tough. Helen, John’s wife, should have been off too, but at the last minute her employer had asked her to postpone the start of her leave because the young man they had recruited to cover her absence had had to work a longer notice period than anticipated for his previous employer. And with his seven-year-olds, Tim and Tina, on school holidays but spending a week with his sister Susan, John had had the house to himself. Used to dealing with a dozen or more emergencies daily, he had found it hard to adjust to the slower pace of life and had desperately looked for tasks to occupy the hours. But, by the third day he had gotten the hang of being idle.

Remembering that he hadn’t yet read the newspaper delivered that morning, he turned and walked through the house to the living room. The neatness of the room gave him an unexpected pang—the twins were mini tornadoes, leaving mayhem and destruction in their wake—the room seemed sterile without them. Shaking his head to clear the feeling of loneliness, he took the newspaper out of the magazine rack where Helen had placed it earlier and settled into his favourite chair, a wide buff-coloured leather recliner.

“Is there any more coffee?”

Engrossed in the newspaper, John started at the sound of his next door neighbour’s voice.

“Sure,” he replied, smiling across at the West Indian woman as he folded The Times over at the sports section and placed it and his half-empty coffee mug on a small side table and got to his feet.

“No gardening today?” she asked over her shoulder as she preceded him to the kitchen.

“Not today,” he responded.

Florence and her husband, Sydney, had moved

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