Phin considered s*x an inevitable necessity to life. Like eating, or sleeping, or going to the dentist every year. Although s*x was more enjoyable than going to the dentist by far, Phin had never had any s*x that he could’ve described beyond enjoyable.
Phin lay awake, Emily passed out next to him, and he realized that he’d been wrong. Completely, utterly wrong. s*x with Emily had destroyed everything he’d thought was true and had set him completely adrift. It was like he’d thought he would just remodel a single room and had returned home to find his house reduced to complete rubble.
What did you do when your own heart was the rubble in question?
He reached over and touched Emily’s hair, which had fallen out of its updo hours ago. It was currently fanned across both her pillow and his, a
