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"Sorry for answering your phone He kept calling so I thought it was so important"

"Oh, I don’t care about that," I said "I just don’t want to talk to him" I looked at the coffee table in front of Lacey streith papers and I s?" Lacey screeched "I’m so lost I don’t know if I have too much sex or too little sex in the book"

"Why don’t you read some to me, and I can let you know?"

"Really? You sure you want to listen?" Lacey said "I just printed out this scene and I don’t know if it’s too much"

"Go ahead" I settled into the couch next to her "I’ today"

"You don’t want to call Bob back first?"

"I don’t want to dress up like a clown this weekend" I shook s on the cushions "And thanks to your dad giving you rent money for two months, I don’t need to"

"Yeah" Lacey nodded "You needed a break," she said and looked atinternally as to whether to askWe had only spoken about what had happened with Scott once and I’d never ain She knew that I was the sort of person that brought so up when I wanted to talk about it She knew that after what had happened with Shane, I was very careful to not talk too much, because I didn’t want to make ingly "I’"

"Okay" She smiled nervously and cleared her throat She leaned forward and picked up some of the papers on the coffee table and shuffled the hour Midnight is the hour that Cinderella fled from her prince It’s the hour that the prince turned into a olf and it’s the hour that I experienced ht I can still feel the touch of his hand on the curve of my butt, as if it were an extension of les, smell the fear and exciteainst ers and one palm Who knew that they could cause such bliss?" Lacey paused and looked at my face and her hand flew to her htly awestruck expression "Oh "

"It’s fine," I said, not even blinking as I sat there in shock and sadness

"I didn’t ot"

"It’s okay" I reached out and touched her hand "Don’t feel bad It’s not as if Scott and I are the only people that have ever engaged in spanking Many bedroo that bliss, as you put it"

"I feel so insensitive," she said and sighed, her brown eyes looking sad "Sorry"