No More Waiting, She Chooses Love

Chapter 247



"Goodnight, my dear girlfriend!"

It was half an hour later when I got a message from Ernest.

I had no idea what I'd been doing for that half hour. Was I taking a cold shower like they do in the novels?

Thinking back to that abrupt stop earlier, I was too embarrassed to reply to him.

I didn't sleep well that night, probably because I didn't take that cold shower. It felt like something was crawling under my skin.

The door to desire, an insatiable chasm, I'd learned that lesson firsthand.

Restless and uneasy, I woke up early.

But no matter how early I was, Ernest was already out for his morning run.

The man's energy and stamina were truly admirable.

And in that department, I bet he was just as vigorous!

I felt like I was under a spell, my thoughts constantly drifting to...that.

And it was all Fanny's fault. Why did she give me such rotten advice last night?

Without caring what time it was, I texted her: "Hungry? Get up and join me for breakfast."

but with all the overthinking,

and he'd whip up

was best

perhaps, but I

more than twenty years, experiencing what happened last night for the first time, even though nothing really happened, felt worse than if

about it,

this way after taking that final step, waking up the

I'm really losing

my fingers from the keyboard when Fanny's

was a bust, huh?" she teased

wasn't for you, would I be starving

her lab coat

chair, perked up, "Spill the beans. What happened last night? I need a good story

Willis, have

insult my sacred profession," Fanny jabbed at

and I'll tell you," I got up, "You're at the hospital, right? I'll

bring me a tofu scramble and some hash

Willis," I ended the call and sighed as I went to the

the restless night, looked surprisingly fresh,

was weird. I thought I'd look

this be the

then tiptoed out the door,

Success!

and headed downstairs, relieved, and began to walk to my

the morning fog, "Where are you