"Would you stop digging through my underwear?!" Bates withdrew his hand from the box grasping a nude thong. "This s**t looks like dental floss," he laughed as I snatched it away. We were upstairs organizing all of my clothes into boxes; underwear in one, shorts in another, tank tops separated from t-shirts, and so on. It had been three days since I'd seen Luca or anyone else for that matter besides Bates and I was going crazy. He was like the younger brother I never had, except he was older than I was and a very large, grown man. Yet I still felt like punching him in the face half the time. "You're so annoying," I told him, as he placed one of my bras over his chest like he was trying it on. "Are t**s like d***s for girls?" He asked me. I scowled. "What kind of a question is that

