With work to occupy him—and Roxie to annoy him—Matt found the last three days of his self-imposed celibacy much easier to get through than the first three had been. As he always did, he swore silently that he wouldn’t go through it again the next year, but he knew he was just being silly. Maybe Vic did need this recovery period to get the powers out of his system. Maybe he needed some downtime to remember what it was like being human again. Whatever the reason, if Vic wanted them to abstain from s*x for a few days, Matt would do so, for him.
But only once a year, and no longer than a week. Jesus, but a man had needs. And the longer these days played out, Matt was beginning to think he had more needs than most.
As he had threatened, he wore the handcuff nut ring to Roxie’s party. The ga
