Chapter 27

Allen After months of sleeplessness, today I anticipate a good rest filled with beautiful dreams of Ari and me. Curled to a side my wife looked so peaceful in her drowse.  I take a shower and change into my night pants ducking my head into her slender neck. Ari's mesmeric scent of lilies and roses immediately awed my nostrils. I close my eyes in tranquil respiring deep after laying a hand around her slim waist. Her soft fragile hands run the length of my arms. "You are home? That must be an emergency." She murmurs drowsily. "Sleep good my love." I tell her and kiss her neck.  She turns to my side and runs her hand slowly on my bare chest and adjusts her head on my shoulder. Somewhere in the middle of the night.... "Baby wake up" I try to wake Ari shaking her. She opens her eyes disoriented peeping at me, holds my face in her little hands and cries. "Allen I love you so much and want you as much as you need me but I am afraid, I may have been infected." I snort extending my lips. "Y