The Price of Innocence

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She stretched herself under the bed covers and then curled up, hugging a fluffy pillow to her body as the morning sun streamed through the window. She sighed happily and smiled. Life was good. She couldn't imagine being any happier.

It had been a month since she was married and she felt very fulfilled. At twenty two, Innocence was living life beyond any of her dreams. Everything was perfect.

Her husband, Richard, was twice her age at forty five. But she was not a gold digger. Richard was well off but not wealthy by any stretch of the imagination. And she was sure that he did not view her as a trophy wife. Their relationship might not have been normal by most standards of marriage, but it was firmly grounded in love.

The romance caught them both by surprise. He was a professor at the university where she was a student. For the last two years, she had been his teaching assistant, helping to grade papers and occasionally assisting him in the classroom.

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