34 MEGAN Four Days Later I THOUGHT SPENDING a week alone would be easy, but it was really terrifying. Pretending not to look over my shoulder at every turn was hard. I thought Alex would have made a move by now but he was biding his time. I’d given him plenty of opportunities to come after me, and it was driving me insane. The worst part was seeing Kyle at the gym. I wanted to talk to him, but I kept my mouth shut, even when some of our women patrons flirted and touched him. We were playing our parts, but it sucked giant monkey balls. Kyle taught our Monday self-defense lesson while I went home to sit by myself. Mason had filled Tyler in on the whole plan so he’d know what Kyle and I were up to. It’d been four days and I still had the rest of the week to endure. At least, we were able

