Chapter 21

Stephen needed to wash away her scent off his body. The dust of the mattress on which they just slept was all over him. His hair was sticking to the neck and for that moment he hated his body more than anything else in the world. How could he get his body to rule over his mind? How could he think of sleeping with her after knowing fully well who she was? Merlyn was giggling stealing her looks from him but trying to control her smiles by flapping her palm on her lips while she scrolled through the TV channels. Stephen wondered how she could find a reason to grin in the bleakest circumstances. He had opened the shower, five minutes had passed by but still the water wasn't hot. Hot was a very big word, it was not even warm. The motel was below average in providing facilities. The management couldn't look after basic necessities like maintaining hot water for its customers. The snow continued to drop down the window panes. Of all the negative scenarios occupying him, the only positive t