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Sometimes I made myself sick

I dropped her off at her car at work a little after dinnerti and her jacket and muttered a halfhearted ‘thank you’

I didn’t reply and I drove home

So… No sex No alcohol My two favorite ways to cope were closed off to es, but I had to aded clothes, went to the gym and worked out for hours until I was numb and ready to fall down from exhaustion

Chapter 15

April

I stepped into the apart day, and for all the good cheer and humor hich it had started out…it sure ended on a sour note Jordan had said little else after lashing out at otten too close--I saw that now His defenses were quick and impenetrable, and when he detected that I’d seen a weakness, he shoved ht we’d started to make some sort of headway to…whatever this was Boss/employee? Mutual co-lusters? Friends who kiss each other and hand out the occasional orgasm? Or maybe merely my unrequited crush on the surly man

I knew I should try my best to keep it strictly professional Reain to keep my distance

And I must not…definitely must not remember how it had felt to wake up withshoulder

I gulped I was in a pool of crap and headed toward the deep end

I walked into our bedroom to find Sid in bed, her iPad propped on her knees, FaceTi one of her many relatives who lived on the other coast

I pulled offher conversation, she set her iPad aside "Hey…looks like you had a long day Are you hungry?"

I sighed "No, not really I want to play sohed "Only about five times" She tossed her pillow at ue and blew a raspberry

"Hoas Santa Barbara?"

"Ugh Too da I still felt fro I knew I shouldn’t take it personally His family had ambushed him, and he’d been upset and embarrassed But he was so prickly and unpredictable so to solve the ot uploaded to the Internet"

I plopped down onto my bed and stared at her "That may never be solved I think we have to chalk it up to my blatant stupidity"