“Sure!”

After dropping Sonia off at home, Ariana checked the time. The afternoon interview was still a few hours away. Deciding to take

Melon back home briefly to tidy up, Ariana began her tasks.

Once back home, Ariana helped Melon get cleaned up and changed, and then headed to the bathroom for her own shower.

She slowly peeled off her wrinkled clothing, catching her reflection in the mirror and pausing. Angry red marks littered her body, some darkening into bruises that would take time to fade.

remained elusive. She strained to remember the mystery man’s face, but only

sanity. How could that man be Theodore? She couldn’t recall the stranger’s identity,

her along with disbelief

face during intimacy with

on it, the more agitated she became. She stepped into the shower. The hot water calmed

that the man had left before she

from seeing him allowed her to hold onto her fantasies a little

herself it was just a dream, a way

had awoken first. He must have seen her

her face and

the stranger’s path would never cross hers again. Praying that if he recognized

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