The next morning as the others showed up, we headed for our respective homes and women. Some of the guys had families of their own that they needed to get back to. I wondered if Lily would be up waiting for me as she’d been doing every morning for the past week and a half. No matter how much I told her not to do that shit she didn’t listen.

She had her own shit to take care of since she’d opened her own private practice, and I didn’t want her losing sleep over me, and ...