ALEXMy body was aching all over, in places that I did not want to think about when I sat at my kitchen table the next morning, staring at my cold coffee with regret eating me up. What the hell had I done? First the drunken night with Marcus, then letting him into my apartment like an idiot. I rubbed my face hard because I was stupid, so fucking stupid. And I cursed myself under my breath and swore that I would never let it happen again because it shouldn't.And my first step towards achieving that was to avoid bars completely after that with a no more drinks, no more nights out rule that I took seriously to prevent all of that.I threw myself into work instead and stayed late at the publishing office every day, buried in manuscripts and emails because my desk had become my safe spot where I would read through pages until my eyes burned, hoping that the words on the papers before me could somehow push Marcus out of my head. But it never could, never worked because every time I clos
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