I felt like I was back in Liz’s house, tied to her bed.I could see Liz’s face, grinning down at me as she held the red jar over my head.I hungered...for it.Whatever it was, made the hunger go away.I thought about baseball.I thought about my friends.I tried to sing a song in my headBut no matter what I did, I couldn’t ignore the pain inside me.Jennifer let out a small gasp and I turned towards her.She had tilted her head away from me, exposing more of her neck.I couldn’t help myself anymore.I just. In a few days he would leave town and then begin writing his dissertation. He felt like it would only take him a couple of months to finish it. All of the data analysis had already been completed and the results were very interesting. His dissertation wouldn’t be long, but it would constitute a valuable contribution. His professor and other committee members were already suitably impressed with his work.He would graduate within the next year and that fact actually represented a significant. I’ll just wait in the car. Thanks, Layla.”My heart skipped a beat. He was leaving. Do something for Pete’s sake!“Oh, you wanted to stay here till your wife returned?” I blurted out. I was about to mentally berate myself when Jacob turned.“No,” he chuckled. “I was going to ask you to climb in through the kitchen window and get my keys for me. I figured with your tiny frame you could get in.” He shook his head. “Nevermind, it would have been a weird request.”He turned to leave again and my heart. ”“What?”And she explained.“When you changed course I was asleep. I woke up because the motion of the boat had changed. The bow had been going up and down now we’re rolling ... ergo...” Really ... she said ‘ergo,’ honest. “We are broadside to the current ... the first roll was to starboard ... we turned to starboard ... right. Right is north ... and the weather report for tonight and tomorrow is north winds veering west throughout the morning. Therefore ... we must motor and we have a quarter.