"Hey, babe," Jason, Ellie's fiancé, greeted her when she returned home from her parents'.
"Hey," she replied with a blank smile while sashaying to their bedroom.
He followed her. "Did you and your brother talk things over?"
"You can say that."
She took off her clothes and patted to the bathroom in her bikini, longing for a purifying shower.
"And...?"
"And though there's still a long road ahead, we're making progress." She untied her long blond hair and gave it a rough stroke with her fingers. "Oh, we're going out this Friday."
She stepped out of her bikini and studied her nude reflection in the mirror, easily agreeing with Oliver's confidential review of her body: she was just as hot as she had always been.
"Great! I'm happy to hear that. I know how hurt you've been by him."
"Yeah
