I woke up the next morning with a dull, sweet ache low in my body and the faint sticky reminder of what Ryan had left inside me. The sheets still smelled like him—skin and sex and the clean soap he used. For a long minute I just lay there staring at the ceiling, replaying every second of the night before: the weight of him, the stretch, the way he’d looked at me when he came, the filthy things he’d said while he was buried deep.Sarah’s car pulled into the driveway at 8:17 a.m.I heard the front door, her voice calling a tired hello, Ryan’s answering murmur from the kitchen. I stayed in bed longer than I needed to, half-hard again just from the sound of him talking to her like nothing had happened. When I finally went downstairs he was at the table in yesterday’s jeans and a fresh T-shirt, scrolling through his phone. Sarah was pouring coffee, still in the clothes she’d worn to work, hair in a messy knot.“Morning,” she said, and kissed my cheek like she always did. “You look like you
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