The next day, I woke up to an empty bed. Faruk was already gone, and I didn’t know whether to be relieved or uneasy. I stretched, the soreness from last night’s… encounter still lingering in my muscles and in between my legs, after getting out of the bathtub Faruk continued till midnight . It was midday, judging by the sunlight streaming through the windows, and as much as I wanted to stay in bed, I couldn’t. My mind was spinning with thoughts I’d rather not dwell on, and lying in the same bed we had shared only made it worse.
I slipped out of bed and made my way downstairs, intending to find Amy. There was something I needed to ask her, something I had been too embarrassed to bring up before. I hesitated at the bottom of the stairs, my feet frozen as the nerves hit me all at once. I coul
