Zerrin sensed the tension coming from her boyfriend. When he arrived at her apartment that night for dinner, it seemed like he was in another world and that her mere presence annoyed him. Even when she wanted to submit to him, Nick went through the motions and wasn’t the serious Dom she knew.She massaged his nude body, and felt the tight coils in his shoulders. His whole body was stiff and there was negative energy coming from him. “Is everything okay?” she asked.Nick wish everything was okay. He knew it was a lie. Everything was not okay, far from it. He was stuck between giving up his career and giving up his woman. He always wondered exactly what the phrase “stuck between a rock and a hard place” meant and now he was finding out firsthand. “I just have a lot on my mind,” he answered truthfully.“Did you want to talk about it?” Zerrin offered.“Not really,” Nick sat up on the bed. He began gathering his clothes and putting them on. “I need to leave tonight.”“Leave?”