The moment she realized where she was and what time it was, she jumped up, startling Ethan in the process, and scrambled about the bedroom looking for the large bag she took everywhere. “What’s the matter?” he asked, still half asleep.
“Gotta go,” she told him, relaxing a bit after finding her bag.
“No. Come back to bed. We’ll have s*x one more time and I’ll make you breakfast,” he patted the mattress next to him and pulled up the covers to keep warm.
“Sorry. Really, it has nothing to do with you. I’d love to, but I have an obligation.”
“It’s Sunday,” he complained. “No one has obligations on Sunday.” The words hung in the air a moment before he realized what he had said. “Oh s**t, you don’t have some church thing you’re going to, do you?”
She paused in the middle of donning on her br
