CHAPTER 15 DOC Playing along was way easier than I thought it would be. Easier than it should have been. Easier than I wanted it to be. One guy was a s*x comedy. One guy was an intense dark romance. And one guy was a slow-burn rom-com who made my head swoon with his kisses. I almost forgot the new plan when I visited Des-E to seek assurance. Studying with them, being with them…it was so much nicer than I'd expected when I decided to bide the time it would take for my plan to work. I thought maybe Des-E, with his quiet sincerity, would be the one to assure me they planned to let me go before January 3rd. I hoped he’d tell me they weren’t planning to keep me here in this helpless state forever. You have to trust us. He really tried to make me believe that trust was what this was all a