Surreptitious by Michelle Brown

Surreptitious: adjective
kept secret, especially because it would not be approved of
My name is Roman.
I’m forty-five and he’s only twenty-seven.
It has been years since I last had someone in my bed longer than a few hours.
Now, I have him sleeping next to me.
He should have never stayed.
He doesn’t play by the rules.
Rules that are there for a reason.
What are we going to do now?