When Shayla heard the knock on the door, admittedly, she was startled. She took an involuntary step backward. ‘So he’s not going to come in through the window like the criminal he is.’ Shayla thought. She wasn’t expecting him this soon, but she expected him all the same. First, Shayla thought she heard a muffled voice. Then, looking through the peephole, she wasn’t surprised to see it was him. Shayla took a deep breath as she turned on soulful music before walking over to unlock and open the door. It was Shay at the door, but she was far more beautiful than ever before. She was standing there with a little more weight than the last remembered, in a full-length black trench coat. Her long black hair is pulled back, showing off the perfect contours of her face shape, narrow chin, high

