Daniel sat and waited.
The ticking of the clock seemed louder, and, finally, Lacey couldn’t hold it in anymore. “I just don’t understand why it all changed, like it blew up in my face. I don’t understand why he had to go away. He was like a best friend to me. We did so much together.” She stopped, silenced by her confessions, and then as if rekindled, began again. “I mean every time I think about that night, I cringe outwardly knowing I called him Peter, but even worse than that, I cringe inwardly, wondering how something so wrong could feel so…” Lacey couldn’t finish her thought.
“Feel so good, you mean?”
All Lacey could do was hang her head and let the tears flow as she wallowed in her shame.
Daniel handed her some more Kleenex. “Lacey, first of all, God intended for s*x to be incre
