THE NEXT MORNING, Andrea wakes up wrapped under Alexander’s arms, while the blinding sun rays passing through their bedroom window kiss their skin. Slowly she pulled herself away from Alexander’s arms, but, as soon as she moved, an unexplained pain she had never felt before awakened all of her senses. Andrea felt like she'd been beaten, significantly down there on her lower body and back. Andrea immediately checked her body under the blanket. As soon as she saw her bare skin, waves after waves of memories from the night she shared with Alexander came rushing down in her mind like a high-definition movie.
The red stains on the bed sheets, the pain she felt, their clothes scattered on the floor, and her bare skin filled with marks speak more than a thousand words of explanation about what
