CHAPTER HUNDRED AND FORTY0

“What happened though?” I pulled back from his embrace and looked over him.

“I was trying to turn on the tap and I fell.” I chuckled.

“Of course.” I turned on the tap for him and walked back. I stared at him and gulped.

“I should probably go.” My hair was matted to my face and my shirt was probably see through at that point but my heart had been beating like crazy, ever since the lights came back on and I had to look him in the eye.

“Go where?” Jared cocked his head to side, as if to remind me that it was raining cats and dogs outside. I took a big gulp and opened my mouth but no words sounded.

The water I’d turned on was causing the bathroom mirrors and glass door to fog up. At least that was what I thought, as opposed to my heavy breathing and the palpable tension in the atmosphere.

It had been weeks, maybe months since Jared and I had been in such a confined space and we weren’t fighting. My skin felt starved of his touch, my lips, my hair… everything begged to be ravaged by h