Chapter Seventeen
Only in my Dreams
Time is a dream ... a destroying dream;
It lays great cities in dust, it fills the seas;
It covers the face of beauty, and tumbles walls.
- Conrad Aiken
ETHAN
Tampa, Florida
Present Day
I couldn't sleep last night.
I woke up in my hotel bed, harder than I'd ever been, because for half of the night, I'd been having bad dreams, good dreams... wet dreams... of nothing but Kat.
I'd been tortured by visions of her for years, but nothing could compare to what I'd seen just a few hours earlier when she was standing there, wide-eyed, in front of me—looking more edible than ever before.
I was a f*****g i***t to let her walk away from me. Scratch that... let her f*****g run. And instead of following her, I watched by the pool's edge, willing an erectio
