“You know, the way you ran out of the Leather Heel that night, everyone was sure you’d never be seen again.”
Huh? She was at the Leather Heel? The way Jill continued to talk as she led me inside said – yes.
“...way would I let someone like you just disappear. But then I wasn’t the only one who fell in love with you that night.”
What? Fell...in love?
We reached a set of double-planked stairs that led up to a deck. The wooden steps creaked under our feet.
“Of course, you scared a lot of people too,” Jill said. “They hadn’t seen such a depth of submission, ever. Most people couldn’t handle it. I guess you were too real. But, then, some of us are. You reminded me of myself when I first went to the Leather Heel and hooked up with Hayden.”
We stopped on the top step and, in the porch light
