To realize that I slept, and as I slept my forearm had moved across his, my wrist had pressed to his, our fingers had entwined, and now I grip his han... tightly, my thumb caressing his flesh.I freeze.DanethImpossible. I do not dream ... and yet...I wake ... to a sense of loss so profound I desperately wish I had not waked at all.I wake ... to find my right hand unconsciously rubbing still-warm semen between my fingers, into the hair of my stomach.I wake ... to the horror of finding my hand being. That means certain types of girls will be coming out of the woodworks, gunning for you.’ ‘But I don’t want any other girls. I just want you,’ Luke said matter-of-factly, as if he couldn’t figure out why Kaylee was so upset. Kaylee smiled. She even felt a little guilty. He sounded so calm when he said that, like he didn’t know how to look at any other girls. It was as if he really, truly didn’t understand why she was overreacting. Maybe she needed to relax, but she couldn’t help worry about his. They said he wouldn't lose his leg. That was supposed to make him happy. They said he'd never run a marathon but the only place he'd ever had to run was in the army so who the fuck cared about that. What they didn't say was that he'd be in pain every day for the rest of his life. Fuck them."I love you, David." I love you, Ella. You are what kept me alive over there. I had to come home to you." They hugged and he suppressed the wince. They said the piece in his shoulder was there to stay. They. .. I suppose I was in a tight-ass mood today. For a while anyway. Fuck all that other shit from my past, now though. I’m in the mood to live my life to the fullest, and I want to experience all those things Carl Steiner denied me – then made me feel guilty about, because I wanted to try all of them with him. If I’m oversexed, then that’s just the fucking way I am made and the rest of the world can accept it or go take flying leap up a monkey’s ass. I already know one thing after that hot little.