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I can’t have that I knew the ested that Ao too This was his push, his way to say that we needed to finally get it over with and fuck, or at least talk and figure out e are to each other Get it out of our syste that e come back to Dark Eyes and the house in San Francisco, that we’re either able to move on or…move in

It won’t be the latter I wish it would be I wish it could be But it won’t

Which is why last night was last night, I tell ray horizon through her bedroo that was inevitable, but still so we can recover from

In a way, it’s a blessing she passed out because I probably would have fucked her and then I’d really be done for Instead, I noticed her slipping below the water, then quickly pulled her up She was delirious, could barely open her eyes It was like all the alcohol had hit her at once I took her inside, got her so I brought her to the bed, toweled her off, took off her clothes, then put her pajamas on Then sat in the chair in the corner for hours, watching over to make sure she was okay

Then I went towink Couldn’t I kept thinking about her, about the way she felt as she caroaned ht, I’hter than a nun’s asshole

I let out a little growl of annoyance and that s out a creaky moan Slowly she raises her head, then once she notices my presence—she always does—she looks over her shoulder at me

“Hey,” she says in a craggy voice

“Good ainst the doorway

She frowns and then slowly turns over on her back, hoisting herself up on her elbows, staring down at her pink pajaht? I, uh…”

“You mean in the hot tub?”

Please tell me you remember that

“Yeah The…yeah when you…I re underwater,” she says that in such a way that she’s skipping over the obvious “And then I…”

“You passed out,” I inform her

“I passed out?” she says in disbelief

“Yes,” I tell her, folding ht whisky, no dinner, being in a hot tub too long, and theout” I pause and give her a playful grin, so she at least knows I’”