Jarrod's POV:

This is a nightmare. It's hell. Pure torture.

It is excruciatingly painful - I'm lying in my bed wishing that tonight had gone differently. It's not that I'd expected to sleep with Tallulah tonight. I hadn't. It's just I hadn't expected that blasted promise.

I think she might be trying to kill me, except she's far too kind for that. All night all I wanted to do was touch her, hold her hand, run my hand along her neck, play with her hair and I ...