The phone has been disconnected for twenty-four hours now.
I’ve spent most of that time staring at it, checking it incessantly, hoping that he’ll have a change of heart and restore the connection.
Once my hope well and truly dies, however, I decide to take my art supplies and head down to the edge of the lake to draw.
I haven’t seen Aleks since he left me standing, wet and shivering, by the water.
He saw right through my seduction attempts. And the humiliation was only made worse by the fact that he wasn’t affected in the slightest.
Sure, he looked. Maybe he even admired my body. But he didn’t lose his mind with lust. Seeing me naked was no different than any of the hundreds of other naked women that have waltzed across his path.
At least he didn’t rescind my freedom. I can still mov
