The meal was delicious and as they ate and drank, they freely chatted about this and that. Afterwards, Alex cleared things away and Casi set up a film for them to watch. As Alex sat down she snuggled into him, like a cat demanding attention, almost purring in her contentment. The film however was not as good as she thought and although he tried to stay alert it was obvious to Casi just how tired Alex was. He had been putting in some late nights at work and working over this weekend to finish the presentation had just about finished him off. She pecked him platonically on the head and said, "It's ten-thirty, why don't you get an early night? You're gonna want to be fresh for the meeting tomorrow, aren't you?"
"Yeah," he said, "you are right as ever. Sorry." He kissed her lightly on the lips and stood to go to bed. "It will get better once I settle in." He said as some form of explanation.
Casi smiled, blew him a kiss and returned to watching the film. In Alex's head he counted, 'two strikes'.
As soon as the moving upstairs had stopped and Casi was sure that Alex had got into bed, she turned off the film. In truth, she hadn't been interested in it either. All she could think about was this burning in the pit of her stomach, radiating downwards towards her pubic area. She had been frustrated before, of course she had, but this was the first time during their short marriage that she had not been able to entice her husband into fulfilling her needs, in all senses. The thought that he had someone else flashed across her mind, but was instantly dismissed. How could he? She knew his whereabouts pretty much all of the time, they talked constantly on the phone, and when he was working late, he invariably did so at home, so at least they got to see each other. No, he could not be seeing anyone else.
But maybe he had gone off her? Maybe he no-longer found her to be attractive, or he didn't fancy her anymore? Casi was annoyed at her immature thoughts and got up to get herself another drink. Between them they had polished off a bottle and a half of wine. As she swayed a little unsteadily on her feet, she thought to herself that most had probably been drunk by her!
Suddenly a naughty thought came into her head, probably helped along by the alcohol. She had never done this before, but then had not normally felt like this before. Taking her glass of wine with her, she walked into her husband's study. She knew what she was looking for; it was just a question of where he had put them for safe keeping. She searched through his computer discs. A few were games for the PC, but in the main, they were work related. She scanned all of the titles, but most had the legend 'back-up of...' and were dated at the time he had taken the copy. It was obvious that he did not want to lose this information, so she left it untouched.