According to my watch it was after ten in the morning when I finally woke. As my eyes opened, I had that strange sensation of disorientation: that feeling of not knowing where I was, as if my dream world and reality had come together, crashing in an unknown dimension. It didn’t help that I was only wearing my underwear, and the damn underwires were reminding me why I don’t usually sleep in my bra.

I’d been too tired physically and especially mentally after Sterling left ...