Lotus Oden. I woke up to sunlight streaming into my windows and Nati curled into my side, her face soft in sleep. I was not often a man to sleep the day away with a person, and particularly not with a woman. But nothing else appealed to me more at this moment than to spend the day in bed here with her, sleeping between cycles of s*x, laughing, drinking coffee, TV, more s*x. All day. I would have been anywhere else in the world but there. I turned to her, drawing her into my arms, and she nestled there as if even sleeping, she wanted to be near. Her sweet, perfume-scented hair tickled my nose as I breathed in. I knew I had to get up, shower, cook her breakfast, something.but I couldn't get the strength to leave behind her warmth to face the cold day. She groaned something, and I brushed

