MarkAfter telling Charlie I was in love with him and him admitting the same, I was on cloud nine. I couldn’t even be too upset that he’d wanted more from me and we couldn’t do it. I didn’t want us to have some quickie in his kitchen with people in the next room. I wanted time to ourselves to find out what we each liked and be able to pleasure each other slowly before making love. And I still couldn’t quite believe that I felt this way about him, given how long I had thought my life would be about s*x and not about love. But he had me wanting to do everything just right so I would never lose him. I waited anxiously for him to turn up before work the next day. When he hadn’t arrived and it wasn’t long before I had to leave I started to be afraid that he wouldn’t come and for some reason I h

