17. CONTRACEPTION: Part of the honeymoon checklist, if the couple is not yet planning on having babies immediately after the wedding. We dropped off my family at the Waldorf Astoria. Then, Ryder and I drove back to his apartment in silence. We were playing a dangerous game. In truth, no guy would put up with this. Why Ryder was doing so, I didn’t know. And he was doing it so well, and so nicely, it was getting more and more difficult for me not to feel something for him. Damn! Already physically attracted to him; I didn’t want to wish this was all real. I couldn’t take that risk. When he closed the door of his apartment, I turned to him nervously. He was smiling at me mischievously. “Ryder, I can’t really kiss you here. No one is here to see us. No need to put on a show,” I said. H

