Pain can kill, all on its own: the body goes into shock and shuts down.

Turn around? No. Keep going, it’s the only way to make sure I don’t end up going back and forth.

His closeness makes my heart beat faster, my skin tingle, my body want things it doesn’t even know.

Use the fear; feed the anger.

I was told very sternly at the hospital to avoid boys at all costs. Mess up your levels.””Oh, they do that!” Amy laughs. “Probably best to leave them alone for a while. The secret, though,...