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My parents would kill me if they ever found out I had plans, priorities I was studying to be an architect like e didn’t fit into those plans In another ten, fifteen years e at twenty-one? Hell no I hadn’t even been on a second date in years and now I had a ring on er No way did thatcaper wasn’t so I could hide from

Or could I?

Unless my parents could not find out Ever Over the years I had s that ht be seen as unsavory, unnecessary, or just plain stupid This ories

Actually, maybe no one need know If I didn’t tell, hoould they find out? They wouldn’t The anse-inspiring in its si the shower head with the side of ht inme Never rave No one would ever know of my extreme drunken idiocy

I sh so that I could breathe Oh, thank goodness Everything would be okay I had a new plan to get o and face hirand life plans didn’t as, no ers happened to be It would be fine He’d understand In all likelihood, he sat out there right noorking out the littered onmyself to take it off just yet It was like Christh, upon reflection, my temporary husband didn’t exactly appear to be rich His jacket and jeans were both orn The al? Maybe I’d eance My sto about the person waiting in the next roo I’d shoved hi his name

A knock on the door senthe at least knew my name

"Just a second"

I turned off the taps and stepped out, wrapping a towel around myself The width of it was barely sufficient to coverit back on was out of the question

"Hi," I said, opening the bathrooth He stood almost half a head taller than me and I wasn’t short by any means Dressed in only a towel, I found hi However eous as opposed towet The aspirin hadn’t done nearly as much as it should have

Of course, I’d thrown it up

"Hey" He didn’t et this taken care of, okay?"

"Taken care of?"

"Yeah," he said, still avoiding all eye contact Apparently the hideous green"My lawyers will deal with all this"

"You have lawyers?" Criet uy now

"Yeah, I have lawyers You don’t need to worry about anything They’ll send you the paperwork or whatever However this works" He gave ht line, and pulled on his leather jacket over his bare chest His T-shirt still hung drying over the edge of the tub Soruesome If I were him, I’d divorce me and never look back

"This was a hts

"Oh"

"What?" His gaze juree?"

"No," I said quickly

"Didn’t think so Pity it h his hair andring wouldn’t co to wrestle it into sub my knuckle raw in the process Blood welled to the surface One more stain in this whole sordid affair "Here"

"For fuck’s sake" He scowled at the rock sparkling in the palm of my hand as if it had personally offended him "Keep it"

"I can’t It ed

"Please" I held it out, hand jiggling, impatient to be rid of the evidence of s to you You have to take it"

"No I don’t"

"But--"

Without another word thethe door shut behind him The thin walls vibrated with the force of it