SAMMY My senses returned much before I could lift the heavy-lidded eyes, but the dizziness held me back. The strings of events, slowly, began to accumulate in my mind and shot me straight into a panic mode. The hushed voice around me was familiar; in fact, too familiar to spark a fire through my veins. Lorenzo couldn't—wouldn't—right? Unfortunately, the events of my life were too doomed to be thought otherwise. After years of walking away from men for they wouldn't ever see me past my golden shell of a lifestyle, I chose Lorenzo for being different. Perhaps, he turned out to be too different. As I slowly opened my eyes and tried to open my mouth to speak, I realized it was drier than cotton, and only a groan slipped out, dragging all the attention to me. And my throbbing brain