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"I take our physician-patient privilege very seriously, Matthew Also, as I have nition prograht Do you make notes about these calls?"

"Yes, I make short notes about these calls Letthe Zyprexa I prescribed?"

"No, not really It makes me sleepy I take the Xanax"

"I would like you to hold on the Xanax and try the Zyprexa These fearful suspicions you're exhibiting should be--"

"Fine, whatever I'll try that"

I smirked and rolledto accuse ot close to the truth

"Anyway, Mike, I have a probleainst the wall "I can't get

"Okay, help rateful for his clinical tone "Are you having trouble sustaining erection, or achieving erection?"

"Achieving, I guess"

"How long has this been going on?"

"About three months I don't know, maybe two Since I left Denver"

"Have you atteht about the girl in the barn

"Um, not really" I winced I needed another drink "Look, all I know is, I used to wake up ood alround my teeth God daetat me, how her voice made my cock perk up, how I hardened instantly in her hand

My throat started to burn I rubbed ra," I snapped "I need to get off, alright? I need the release I' crazy"

"Medication is an option," Mike said, "but I can't prescribe treat a workup first Erectile dysfunction is often the result of organic--"

"Meeting over" I ended the call and tossedman

Maybe Mike had a point Maybeh, I doubted it

I opened a bottle of beer and sat at the kitchen table I ranof my notebook I could skip the sex scene, come back to it later But hoould I handle the rest of the novel? The sex wasn't exactly incidental to the plot Fuck

I'd deleted the pictures of Hannah froo I didn't deserve to have the at them Still, I tried to res

I tried to reers on the internet

Hannah You should let your robe hang open

And the second ti at it

The third time, in a motel in Montana

God, you're perfect Lie down Put the phone near your ear I want you to have both hands free

I rehs Her fingertips brushing my cock for the first tiht on her eyelashes

Beneath my hand, my cock didn't even twitch

I hurled my bottle across the roolass rained down Laurence bolted to the corner of his cage with a loud thump

"Sorry," I mumbled "Fuck, sorry Laurence"

I shovedunder me The pain was a blessed relief The floor rose to h it, down into the river of forgetfulness

CHAPTER 24

Hannah

MY FLIGHT OUT of DIA was delayed, which gave me more time to wonder how totally I'd lost ive uard The asshole had neglected to ether and then driving five hours fro at nine hours of quality tih

"Hannah, please," Nate said, trying for the twentieth tirasped the straps of ot it," I snapped I shot an acid look at Nate and he frowned Ugh, I felt instantly penitent These rich arrogant presu assholes! How could they be so infuriating and so pitiful at the same tiht about Matt

Matt, theto rescue

It was the first weekend in October, which had given me about one week to h

I approached Pam about the ti, she barely looked up from her computer

"Yes, it's fine Hannah I've already spoken with Nathaniel about it I'll be in LA that weekend and Laura is in Chicago We'll shut down the office"

"The thing is," I said, "I'er than one weekend I don't really know"

"Yes, it's fine It's all fine, Hannah Believe it or not, I can survive without you"

Pa for a paid vacation, which I definitely was not Thanks to Nate, I had five thousand extra dollars in my bank I wondered if Pam knew about that I wondered if Matt knew Maybe it was Matt's h, these conspiracy theories had to stop