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."

night, but with all the overthinking,

Ernest, and

figured it was best

bit dramatic, perhaps, but I

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

thought about it,

other couples feel this way after taking that final step, waking up the next morning as flustered as I

really losing

from the keyboard when Fanny's video call

night was a bust, huh?" she teased

I be starving this early in the morning?" I blamed

her lab

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

"Dr. Willis, have

sacred profession," Fanny jabbed

got up, "You're

"Sure, bring me a tofu

the call and sighed as I went to the

looked surprisingly fresh, cheeks

I'd look

be the so-called glow of

freshened up and changed, then tiptoed out the door, hoping not to

Success!

relieved, and began to walk to my

Ernest's voice cut through the morning fog, "Where