" Okay, I'll leave you now," Ally walked to the door then turned to look at her "don't keep him waiting"Sam thought for a second 'never!' she told her...self with a smile before repeating it to the older woman "I won't, not ever."Ally closed the door behind her. Sam looked around her in the empty room; this is her home, the place where she was going to live with Shane, the place her children would grow up in and the place where she and Shane would grow old together.She opened the door to the. The next day, she said nothing. For five days, I lay in bed, wrapped around my bat and fell asleep without hearing so much as my name.The fifth day was my eighth birthday. We had a party. I don't remember much of it, except that I fell asleep at the end of it and must have been carried to my bedroom. I dreamt of a carnival and woke with the smell of fairway in my nostrils and what felt like a cat licking the dried strawberry ice cream off of my lips and a weight on my hips. The monster wasn't. I’m…I’m engaged!He didn’t know what came over him, but Jake abruptly turned on his heel and walked out of the date he had moved mountains to engineer.As he sat in his hotel suite that night, Jake Johnson looked at peace, but underneath the calm exterior, a fire had spawned in his heart which left him torn between two sides. He knew she was promised to someone else, but Johnson was just a slave to its whims. This time though, it seemed as if he wasn’t going to get what he wanted. And he always. Her hands were on his chest, massaging it. He felt she was handling them awkwardly, like she didn't know what to do. Still kissing her, he gently took her hand and placed it lower, wondering what she'd do, but sensing she wouldn't get mad.He was right; she rubbed him through his jeans, her hand feeling his stiffness for the first time. Ryan gasped in her ear from her touch, and she grasped him and he nearly came right then. He wanted to touch her down there too, make her gasp in pleasure as.