He sat up suddenly, reaching for a tissue—but then he realized it was useless. Even if he tried to sop up the mess, the faint stains still would be there. There was no way he could sneak the article back into the bathroom. In fact, the shower had stopped, and most likely Melissa had already noticed his accidental taking of her garment and simply had gone back to her room in a towel. Certainly after that embarrassing encounter she would not come to ask for it, nor did he feel comfortable right now going to her room to give it back.
When he went back to the bathroom for his shower, he would have to drop her shirt in the chute that would carry it to the dirty clothes hamper in the basement. He could only hope she wouldn’t notice the spatters.
Yet notice them she would, he realized just as q
