Today, if Karen could actually make it to that blind date, he’d eat his own hat.

But it didn’t cost three times to exhaust a woman. By round two, Karen was already speechless. Her whole body was drenched as if she’d been pulled from a stormy sea.

“I really… can’t do this…” she rasped. Her voice was hoarse and breathless, her fiery spirit worn down to a mere whisper of surrender.

Jeffrey, too, was feeling the burn of exhaustion that came from days without proper rest. But that didn’t stop him from teaching the woman beneath him a lesson.

“Still thinking about that blind date?” he taunted.

“If I say I won’t go, will you stop?” Karen wheezed, her throat as dry as a bone.

He raised an eyebrow, “Maybe.”

“Fine, I won’t go. Now let me go,” Karen managed to say, her voice barely above a whisper.

Satisfied with her capitulation, Jeffrey gave one final push, bringing their second round to a swift conclusion.

He withdrew, standing to fetch a bottle of water from the trunk of the car for Karen, who was too exhausted to even reach for it without trembling.

unscrewed the cap and held the bottle to

too spent to argue

chose that moment to ring—it

He was calling to

an intensity that made

dare speak,” Karen

go on

I couldn’t go on a blind date if I

her hair a wild tangle, and her new

she was still hard to mask the roughness in her

“Dad…”

where are you? It’s time. Will you come straight there, or do you want to come home and

parched lips, hesitating, “Dad, I might not make

Derek

sort out. I probably won’t be able to make it. Please apologize to your

cut her

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