Jacob I’d been in the shower for hours now, and yet my skin had refused to peel off my bones. Nathan was going on about his day, thinking, believing that I was that innocent young boy he’d met at the campus years ago. That I was that boy he’d fallen in love with. The thought of how I’d betrayed him, and how he would react if and when I finally decide to tell him the truth, sent chills down my spine. So this hot shower was a part of the punishment I’d laid out for myself. Maybe if it did its job, if it peeled off my skin, then maybe that would make things easier… better. Maybe that would keep Daniel away… from me. Even while in the shower, all I could think was how his lips always claimed mine, and how he would kiss every part of my body, like he was memorizing the curves and p

