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she’d promised him she’d see her way through the
week. Now, more than ever, she was prepared to do it.
     
    Get a bottle of water and go down to the north end of the
atrium for thirty minutes. Sit in the sun and relax.
     
    She stared down at his instructions. Relax? There was
no relaxing in her current state of mind. Her cell went off again.
     
    Alexis?
     
    Oh for crying out loud. She answered, “’K.”
    Ten minutes later she seated herself in one of the puffy
leather chairs that were nicely heated by the sun streaming through the
glass-domed ceiling in the atrium when she heard it. A deep and familiar
laughter. That was Michael, she was sure of it. Was he purposely avoiding her?
Hiding out down here? Strangely that gave her a little comfort. She took a sip of
water and leaned back in the chair, listening to the distant exchange of
voices. It sounded like a crowd had gathered. Not that she could see them
through the foliage wall.
    Taking another sip, she sighed and rolled her shoulders. As
the tension began to ease, she closed her eyes and relaxed just as Rene had
instructed.
    Rene.
    She concentrated on him and thought about his other
instructions. Warmed by the sunshine, she leaned back, sinking deeper into the
couch and mulled over what she could text to him about the beginning of their
relationship.
    The first thing that came to her was the movie theater. She
tried to envision that night. To recall the power of it. So innocent now that
she was able to view it through the distance of their rawer experiences together.
Even still, when the images began to surface she thrilled with the brief but
poignant chills that zipped through her.
    They’d sat side by side in the theater that night. He’d let
her pick the movie. In the beginning, Rene was careful to let things evolve at
her pace and this was right at their very beginning, only their fifth date. It
was a time when she did nothing but think about him every minute of the day.
Watch her phone and wait for him to call and later lie in bed alone and imagine
him touching her. Even now she could practically smell his cologne. That unique
blend that he’d let her pick out for him on their third date, which turned out
to be the exclusive scent he wore during their intimate sessions. At the time,
she hadn’t known how solidly she’d connect with it or how much it would come to
mean to her. How she’d crave it. Thinking about it now made her restless.
    With a deep breath she focused on the two of them in the
movie theater that night.
    “Are you comfortable, Alexis?” he’d asked in that authoritative
tone of his. The one that made her insides melt and her heart race under her
rib cage.
    “Yes.” She remembered she’d leaned toward him, until her
shoulder was pressed against his biceps. “Are you?”
    He never answered. He just pushed his elbow out at an angle,
wordlessly directing her to slide her arm around his. When she had he’d
readjusted until she was captured and happy. Not wanting that moment to end
because she was sure that it didn’t get better than that, but Rene blew that
position out the water a few minutes later when he’d dropped his big hand to
her knee and squeezed her as if he knew all her secrets. The very idea had sent
blazing shots of electric tingles up her thigh, through her skin and penetrated
muscles deep into her core. That was the first time she’d felt anything in that
part of her body without actual physical stimulation being applied and the
realization had made her jerk. She probably would have made some excuse for the
sudden movement if Rene hadn’t reacted.
    That was the first time he’d put his hand under her chin.
The first time he’d drawn her gaze up to meet his. The first time he’d looked
into her eyes and whispered a command that made her lightheaded and breathless.
“Open your legs for me.”
    That was it. He told her to do it and she did it and from
that moment on her life was never the same.
    Too bad it hadn’t