Eric woke the next morning, hard as a rock and wanting Lori. His fiancée. Damn, that sounded good. She was sleeping so deeply, though, so peacefully, that he didn't have the heart to wake her, not even with kisses. She needed a day off, he decided, after all she'd been doing lately and he was a little worried that she'd been running herself into the ground. The bedroom phone was still unplugged, he noticed, so he slipped quietly out of bed, drew on a pair of baggy cotton gym shorts ...