INT. - SILVER CITY MORGUE - EARLY EVENING

Ray avoided Robert's eyes, not wanting to have to explain where she'd been. That she'd rented a cheap hotel room on Cici's request and met her lover there, the by-the-hour dive seeming to make the passionate woman even more driven to claim Ray for her own.

No sleep, not yet. Just bone-heavy weariness, as though sex with the woman she loved devoured parts of her soul every time they were together. And yet, Ray was as insatiable ...