Gerard Point of View

For many years, I lived my life in calm. No big storms. Just smooth sailing.

But over the course of the last few weeks, my emotions had been on a roller coaster. Most of the falls had been terrifying. Hearing that my father had been in an accident immediately took me back to when he was a child and I found out about my mother's death.

As always when I wanted to escape, I sought solace in the pleasure of sex with Silvia. But then she started touching me in ways that I desperately wanted and that terrified me at the same time. It was too...