My body was sore all over but in the best way possible. Now that my feelings were out there and Joel felt the same way, I wasn’t sure what would hold us back now. For the first time in my life, I believed in something. I believed in what Joel and I had and that it could actually work. We had one more hurdle to get over, and that was Nick. Once that nightmare was out of the way, there were all sorts of possibilities for us.
Joel was sound asleep in bed beside me. When I got up out of bed, I realized that it was still in the middle of the night. I was starving. I haven’t eaten much since our trip here because I’ve been too preoccupied with other things. Thinking of earlier had me blushing, which was a rare thing for me.
I wrapped a robe around my body an
