An unknown woman

You stand behind Julie, peering into the dimly lit living room, trying to make out the figure sitting on the shadowed sofa. All you can see is the general shape of their body in the near darkness but you can tell it's a woman who is sitting there, her presence making Julie very worried.

"How long have you been sitting there?' Julie demanded again, her voice trembling slightly with anxiety. "How long, Alice?'

"Long enough," the woman called Alice replied with a low chuckle, leaning forward into the dim light so that I could see her features. Alice looked to be about Julie's age with short dirty blonde hair and a wide sensuous mouth. She was shorter than Julie, probably not more than 5 feet tall, and the large sweatshirt she was wearing doing nothing to hide her ample bosom. "Long enough to know you've been having a lot of fun without your husband," she assured Julie, her eyes fixing on me. "Aren't you going to introduce me to your friend?"

"Alice, I don't..." Julie started a denial but must have realized the futility of it as her words drifted off. Julie was silent for a few moments before looking back at me. "This is John, I... I used to work with him. John, this is Alice. She lives next door, " Julie told me reluctantly.

“Nice to meet you,” Alice almost purred at me as she got up off the sofa, moving across the darkened living room with a feline grace. She was shorter than I had originally thought but her compact body moved with a sensuous confidence that caused a stirring beneath my robe. “What Julie isn’t telling you is that our husbands are business partners as well as being neighbors,” Alice told me in a pseudo whisper.

“What…. Why are you doing here, Alice?” Julie asked impatiently, a worried frown still on her face as she watched her neighbor suspiciously.

“Joe was worried about you,” Alice told Julie casually. “He knew Mark and the kids weren’t here and when the power went out… well, my husband has always been very concerned about Julie,” Alice confided to me with an insinuating wink. “So I volunteered to come over and check up on you,” Alice assured her neighbor with a wicked smile.

“What…. What are you going to do now?” Julie asked her nervously, glancing back at me with a worried frown. We both knew Alice was in a position to ruin Julie’s marriage but we weren’t sure what to do about it.

“Oh, I’m sure we can come to some understanding,” Alice told Julie with a predatory smile.