Chapter 174

• FITZ
• She slid off my desk and I could almost see the uncertainty in the air around her, but I couldn’t allow myself to comfort her. No, doing that would have me sliding back in and then I wouldn’t know which way was up or down again. I’d just been drowning in everything that she was and my hindbrain wanted her to be.
• She left, and I sagged in my chair, thinking. We were just sex. That was it. Sex. It couldn’t be anything more than that because I didn’t believe in anything other than that. I was never going to marry. Never be a couple. Because that was stupid.