When the Devil Drives
“She'd been driving around endlessly, aimlessly for hours, trying to make some kind of decision about her life, a plan for the future, and failing miserably. She could think of nothing but that brief, searing and hideously final confrontation between Cal and herself.
Over and over again she told herself that Cal's dismissal of her was no more than she'd expected, and that she should be thankful that he had wearied of his joke before taking their 'relationship to the ultimate intimacy. She'd been... spared that humiliation at least.
'It's all for the best,' she kept whispering to herself, as if repeating some mantra against harm. 'All for the best.' But although she might be able to harness her mind rationally, it was not so easy to control bruised emotions or the physical and sensual awareness which he'd so swiftly and shockingly aroused.
Her aroused and aching body screamed at her that it had been cheated of its fulfilment. And the shaming thing that would haunt her forever was that Cal, not herself, had been the one to draw back.MoreLess
Over and over again she told herself that Cal's dismissal of her was no more than she'd expected, and that she should be thankful that he had wearied of his joke before taking their 'relationship to the ultimate intimacy. She'd been... spared that humiliation at least.
'It's all for the best,' she kept whispering to herself, as if repeating some mantra against harm. 'All for the best.' But although she might be able to harness her mind rationally, it was not so easy to control bruised emotions or the physical and sensual awareness which he'd so swiftly and shockingly aroused.
Her aroused and aching body screamed at her that it had been cheated of its fulfilment. And the shaming thing that would haunt her forever was that Cal, not herself, had been the one to draw back.MoreLess
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