CHAPTER THREE NICK My blood rushes, my heart thumps in my chest. I’ve needed this. I’ve needed her. I started planning this two years ago. I thought I was ready last year. I was wrong. But this year… this year will be different. I had another year to get myself together. Gather my thoughts. My desires. And hope that Grace would be willing to play. Could I have found another woman to play with me? Yes. Did I want another woman? No. Don’t ask me what it is about Grace. Because I don’t have that answer. Maybe she doesn’t seem jaded like lot of women from the city. Maybe I think she’ll appreciate everything I’ll do to her. There was something in her eyes every time I checked in. Every time I checked out. The first year I hardly noticed her. The second year, I did, but I couldn’t pull