The Heartbreak Prescription by Glazed Snow

My Dad Please Come 205

Wendy pushed him away, her voice firm. “No, it's not!"

She struggled, trying to shove him back.

In the chaos, she accidentally hit his left hand. Stanley winced, letting out a low hiss.

Wendy froze, her concern rising. "What's wrong? Are you okay?"

Stanley stared at her, a faint grimace on his face. My hand hurts."

He lifted his left hand, holding it out in front of her.

Wendy knew his hand had been seriously injured, but she hadn't realized that he'd had 23 stitches and that they'd only recently been removed. The scar that remained on his palm was deep and long, looking like a caterpillar.

They stood in the narrow corridor, lit only by the dim, warm light overhead. The space between them felt charged, so close that they could hear each other's breathing, each other's heartbeats.

"Wendy, do you see it? My hand hurts," Stanley repeated, his voice low.

Wendy wasn't sure what to make of his constant mention of pain. For a man like him-someone who could withstand so much-it seemed odd for him to keep saying his hand hurt.

She lifted her face and looked at him with a soft smile. "That's ugly."

She was talking about the scar on his palm, calling it ugly.

warning, he lowered his head

words with his

away, but it was impossible. His long fingers tangled in her

was forceful, his tongue

couldn't breathe, as if

she clenched her fists and hit him lightly. Only then did Stanley slowly pull back,

breathing deeply, his voice gravelly, "Wendy, someone

pressed so close together that she could feel the heat from his body and the hard, undeniable evidence of his desire. She tried

go-the wall stopped

what?" she asked, her voice

he said, his voice low and

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earently, his words whispering only for her to hear. "Wendy, I want to be

guessed why he was here, why he had come to

he with Jessica? Why had

Suite: that Jessica was pure, untouched, and that it was

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to impose on Jessica, to relieve his desires

forgotten the humiliation he had made her

up into his eyes, she said firmly, "I don't want

She didn't want to.