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"Don’t teasehilimpse of her swollen pussy God

He wanted to press into her so badly he hurt

"Not teasing I left the box in my car"

She stared back at hiht back"

With that, he adjusted his painfully hard flesh, zipped and buttoned his pants, and ran from his apartment

Chapter 19

Stella collapsed onto Michael’s bed After her first three sexual encounters, she’d been convinced intercourse wasn’t for her It had been ht now, it was all she could think about

Her body throbbed fro to be filled, and held, andspoken to

She grinned as she recalled what he’d said Did other people laugh during sex?

She tapped her fingers on the bed as she waited, but patience had never been one of her strong suits She was a person of action She hated wasting ti Michael’s apartlasses, and pulled his shirt on, s to herself when the tails fell to her knees The non-French seams bothered her skin, but his smellthis for long

A peek inside his closet filled her with vast contentment Yes, it rocked her world All of his beautiful suits and shirts were perfectly lined up, organized by color, fabric sheen, and stripe width She trailed her fingers over the sleeves of his suit jackets before she turned and considered his dresser She wanted to open the drawers and see how he kept his socks, but that see? Would he think she was searching for so? Maybe she was, but not for anything in particular She just wanted to understand him better

She padded out of his bedroom, walked past his TV--she’d already seenin the Wind in her purse--tracked her fingertips over the cold surfaces of all the ordered dumbbells on the rack by his workout bench, sla, and then rubbed at her knuckles because that had hurt

A look in his fridge told her he cooked regularly It was filled with Asian cooking sauces with mysterious labels, fresh produce, and all sorts of healthy things Stella had no idea what to do with There were a few containers of the yogurt she liked, though

As she a table, the papers on top of his ht her eye Bills, from the look of thelance at the front door, but it re for the sound of his footsteps Nothing

Her heart pounded She knew this was a violation of privacy She shouldn’t

She unfolded the top bill and read it as fast as she was capable Just an electric bill Less than a hundred dollars a month She was about to fold it back up when she noticed the nae pain pierced her chest He hadn’t trusted her with his real narimaced If she didn’t knoho he was, she couldn’t stalk his ended She put the bill back the way she’d found it, but even with how bitter she felt, she couldn’t help scanning the other one on the file cabinet A medical bill from the Palo Alto Medical Foundation It wasn’t addressed to him, however The name on it was Mrs Anh Larsen

Stella snatched it up and read the itemized list of procedures: CAT scan, MRI, X-rays, blood draws, blood tests, et cetera The total ca 12,55689

Wasn’t insurance supposed to cover these things?

She pressed an unsteady hand to her forehead Had hisherwent erratic, and her sto addiction or a ga problem

He just really loved his htened the bills back to the way she’d found them and sed around the knot in her throat He’d slept with all those people, with her, because his mom was sick