Chapter Eleven
Karl went to sleep as pleased with himself as he’d been since the accident.
Doreen had not only saved him from the state home and spirited him off to paradise, but her insight into his condition was convincing and her unorthodox therapy and treatment were already having an effect. He was keeping up his end of the bargain too; Nurse Drake was pleased and proud and effusive in her love. Yet the most encouraging development of all was that the huge changes to his situation had not only incidentally resolved his issue with orgasm and intimacy, but they’d shaken him out of his institutional torpor just as he’d hoped.
For a year he’d done little but deteriorate away, going through the motions and taking Doreen shamefully for granted even as she steadily laid claim to ever more
