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Cristian watched me the entire way I didn’t need to look back to know that

Once inside, I flattenedI didn’t regret what I’d just done Not in the slightest But it made my life infinitely more complicated

More exciting

It was like I’d been unplugged for the past five years, and Cristian was a neer source, electrifying everything, showing me how dead I’d been

Moving slowly, I used the facilities, my limbs heavy and sore

My eyes seelow back at er co too many pains to replicate what it had been like before I walked in here Nothing could look or feel the same now

Though I was te in the luxurious bathroom that would be more at home in a mansion than an office don, I restrainedto hide, he would hide it Nothing ileaned fro to do Mostly, I was anxious to breathe the saer was unhealthy, toxic even But then again, I’d coh I’d been lying about it to everyone for the past five years, I’d never lied to myself

Well, except for telling myself that I’d ever be able to live as so my most carnal of desires

Cristian was standing at a bar in the corner of the rooed The office smelled of sex

He’d shed his suit jacket and had pushed up the sleeves of his shirt to reveal his sinewy forearms, deeply tanned and immaculate Only someone who had seen him naked would know about the expansive and detailed tattoo on his back, one that was at odds with everything else he put out into the world