Finally Satisfied

Her gaze returned to Ethan as she took in his cutoff jeans encasing his tanned muscled legs, and his bare chest sprinkled with a smattering of hair started her heart tripping in her chest. The sight of him still caused a stirring effect to race through Mandy and she wondered if it was only a physical reaction. His dark, almost black eyes, held a questioning look as he continued to make eye contact with her. He raised his hand and pushed his long black hair away from his face revealing his chiseled profile.
“Is something bothering you, Mandy?” he placed a basket of plants he’d gathered from the forest onto the table. “You’ve seemed a little preoccupied. Aren’t you feeling well?”
“Just a little tired lately,” she murmured, as she walked to the stove and checked on the bubbling stew she planned for their meal.
So, he’s finally noticing my unrest. She silently wondered when he’d wake up and see how unhappy she was in their daily routine. Mandy thought she still loved Ethan, but little doubts kept hammering in her head. Maybe it was the isolation causing her to think this way and the idea she was missing something in life. He’d been her only lover and she was looking for more satisfaction in the bedroom, needing to experience what it felt like to have another man in her life, if even for a short time. These strange thoughts began to fill her mind a few months earlier and refused to go away no matter how hard she tried to dismiss them. At first, she felt shocked to be thinking of other men, but now the visual scenes entering her head were an everyday occurrence.
Maybe knowing they were going to have an associate from the college back home arrive for a short visit brought the strange fantasies to her mind. When Ethan mentioned the fact to her, he said someone would arrive within the next month or so, although he hadn’t given her an exact date.