Voices and moaning on the second floor…? The sounds made sense to her now. Had the two been a couple all along? Stunned by a disturbing pang of jealousy, she burned with anger, feeling mad enough to shout from the rooftops, Go ahead and take him! if she’d been more bold. But even her jealous rage seemed like a hollow emotion after what she’d been through that night. Her world was quiet now and she liked it that way. No sneers, no catcalls, no demeaning putdowns. No smarmy hands lighting flames in her s****l body. For just a little while she could forget the treachery and the humiliation, she could forget that Luke and Ashley were screwing around the master bed she’d shared with him the last few months. The world around her was at peace, and none of what had transpired earlier seemed import
