Chapter 10. Yes, Fuck Nathaniel Madden

He didn’t let her go as they drove to his home a mere 5 minutes away from the Hermes bridge. To Rachel, it felt like forever. Her body was awash with a new fire she never felt before.

Sex with Jacob was routine. She got undressed with the lights turned off, he kissed her, took off his clothes, and climbed over her. He entered her slowly, sometimes fast if he was feeling wild. Her mother had told her that sometimes men were so caught up in their own pleasures that they forgot about a woman’s satisfaction. Patricia Rivers had told her that she was supposed to endure it. Marriage was about endurance.

Yet here she was in Nate’s car feeling her mother must have been wrong. He held her firmly against him, his fingers toying with her nipples. He nuzzled her neck and ears but didn’t go any further until his driver pulled into the drive and he led her under the cover of darkness into his house. Rachel could barely see. She vaguely made out the huge silhouette of his house. She co