Baby, Oh Baby!

Baby, Oh Baby! by Robin Wells

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seems like he's moved farther away than just down the hall."
    It was Joan's turn to hesitate. "Do you think there's someone else?"
    Susanna had been shocked. "Oh, no. It never entered my mind." Another woman? The idea was incomprehensible. "I just meant ... well, we've lost touch. We hardly talk to each other. It's like we've become strangers."
    "Well, then, get reacquainted," Joan had urged. "Tell him how you feel. And if that doesn't work, I'm sure you can come up with a way of showing him."
    That had been her intention when she'd gone to the airport to meet Tom. She'd thought he'd be pleased to see her out of the house, glad to see her interacting with friends and family. She'd thought an evening of dinner and pleasant conversation with Jake would break the ice between her and Tom. ` She thought they'd joke and laugh on the drive home, then open the champagne she'd left chilling in the refrigerator, and before they'd each finished a glass, they'd wind up in each other's arms.
    That had been the plan—until she saw Tom walk out of the jetway, a tall, attractive blonde at his side. Tom had been listening to the woman intently, his head inclined , in that way Susanna knew so well, a way that meant his full attention was focused. He'd thrown back his head and laughed in a way she hadn't seen in a long time. It was a young, sexy laugh, rich and full-bodied, the way he had laughed when they were dating.
    The laugh had struck her as odd. But the way he'd sucked in his stomach when the woman looked at him—sucked in his stomach and straightened his back, the way a man does when he wants to look his best-well, that had made the hair rise on the back of her neck.
    She'd felt the strangest stab of alarm, uneasy and outof-place, as if she were somehow intruding. She'd an almost overpowering urge to turn and leave before he saw her. But then Tom spotted her, and she felt like a Peeping Tom who'd just been caught red-handed outside a bedroom window.
    Tom had quickly introduced her to Kelly, and the explanation seemed natural enough—the woman was a fellow attorney who had been opposing counsel on a recent case. They'd attended the same 'legal conference, and had coincidentally booked the same flight home. There was nothing truly unusual about the situation, nothing except for the odd, frightened feeling it left in Susanna's gut.
    She'd never been the jealous type. In thirty-three years of marriage, Susanna had never once doubted Tom's faithfulness. He'd always been a wonderful husband.
    But then, until lately, she'd always been a wonderful wife. Lately, she realized with sudden, sickening clarity, she hadn't been much of a wife at all.
    "Is there someone else?" Joanie's words floated through Susanna's mind now, as Tom steered the car onto their elegant, oak-lined street in north Tulsa. A cold, achy fear gripped her stomach. She tried to shake it off, but it held her fast. Tom was different-distant, removed, remote.
    He pulled into the long drive that led to their house, hit the automatic garage door opener, and slid the car into the garage.
    She followed him into the house, through the kitchen door. He dropped the keys on the kitchen counter.
    "I've got a bottle of champagne in the fridge," she ventured. "Would you like some?"
    "Champagne?" He couldn't have sounded more incredulous if she'd offered him an armadillo.
    She nervously twisted her fingers together. Throughout their marriage, they'd always shared champagne on special occasions—anniversaries, Christmas, New Year's. "I—I put it in to chill before I picked you up at the airport. I thought ..."
    She took a hesitant step forward, feeling unnaturally awkward.
    Tom regarded her warily. She stopped and swallowed hard. "Look ...I—I know I haven't been much of a wife to you lately. I haven't been myself. But the medicine is helping, and I'm better. I'm even sleeping through the night again."
    Tom looked away. "Good. I'm glad to hear it."
    Susanna's heart pounded hard. This was

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