Chapter Twenty-One
Zander needed some recovery time after that wild experience with Gretel. Not just physically, but in all ways. Together, they’d gone to a place he wasn’t really used to. It was more than s*x. A lot more.
Was that because they were doing this “marriage with an asterisk” thing? Because he needed to keep in mind that just because they might fill out some paperwork, it didn’t mean Gretel was going to stick around.
He took longer than necessary to dispose of his condom, just so he could get a grip on himself. Keep it real, he kept reminding himself. As long as he and Gretel both knew exactly what they were getting into—and not getting into—they should be fine. Right?
He hoped so, because damn, he wanted to do what they’d just done again, and again, and again. How long wer
