After exhaling a ring of smoke, his mind suddenly remembered what the woman had just said, "Jordan, do you love me?"

Somehow, the person who said those words had suddenly become Serena.

Jordan's eyes were confused, and it wasn't until his hand hurt that he looked down and realized that the smoke had burned down to where his fingers were.

He stubbed out his cigarette and stared out the window in disbelief.

The years had flown by and he had had many women lie in his arms and ask him if he loved them with a look of infatuation and devotion, but how ridiculous that the woman he loved the...