The look on his face! The gasp of shock when she walked right out the door! Needless to say, it was better than she expected. For the first time since Kasper had come to Ithaca, Emilia was in control—and she liked it. Loved it, if she was completely honest with herself, and the mere potential of it opened up a new realm of daydreams and fantasies that kept her preoccupied as she avoided him—playing her game as she had planned. The only bad part of their newest interaction was how difficult it was for her to concentrate on everything else. Even the most basic things reminded her of sex, cleaning the hard-drive of her laptop, cutting up a banana for her cereal, even clipping the dogs’ nails reminded her of the way he might groan when her nails ran down her back… “Em? Hello there?” “Oh.” She giggled and twirled her pen around between her fingers. “Sorry about that. I guess I sort of left the building there.” Claudette laughed.
