Chapter 32

In that moment she felt really close to him. How peculiar that a simple hug could be infinitely more intimate than full-scale sex. She pulled away— knowing that it was dangerous to attach more than she should to small acts of support.

You’d…better go… and me too. I should leave,”

“Yes.”

But he seemed strangely reluctant to move. “I’ll walk you to your car,”

Silently, Sasha followed him. They walked silently to her car and he opened the door for her. She slipped inside and he stared at her for a while, “Goodnight, Sasha” he said at last.

“When will I see you?” Funny, too, that her new-found ‘condition’ gave her the right to ask questions like this.

“I don’t know,” he told her. “I honestly don’t know.”

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Just as soon as Kaleb had left, Sasha was asking herself why on earth she’d been so passive. She shouldn’t have asked when she was going to see him. She should have demanded to know!

Because things needed to be decided.

Lik