Patch POV

He must have dozed off, maybe after the second time he and Anneliese made love, because his eyes opened and adjusted to the cocoon of the dark. The only light was the stars and the glow from the city that he could see from the far window. He wasn’t used to a big, overwhelming city like this with buildings that reached up to the heavens. In his heart, he felt like a country boy and was d*mn proud of it. 

But the city had its charms. And one of those charms lay wrapped ...