“So, you’re going to punish me?” she finally voiced her thoughts. From a hot, quick f**k to purge their lust—to being punished? How far would this go?
“If you admit that’s what you want, that’s what I’ll do.”
She pulled away, shyly, afraid to even look at him, but he drew her back. Her legs felt as if they’d buckle underneath her, and the bum ankle throbbed with pain. He searched her long and hard; the tension between them bearable, but it suddenly broke.
Alex shook his head, then finally let her go and moved away. He turned and gathered up the papers that had wrapped their sandwiches, and stuffed them into his knapsack, then headed toward the door.
Laney watched his movements feeling numbed by the shocking turns this day had taken. Alex was at the doorway. She could let him go and for
