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No Lloyd.

That was the worst part of all.

Fulfill your promise to me and make love to my wife.

“Shit, shit, shit. Goddammit.”

He sat in the darkness of his room, not moving for a long time. When he did move, around three in the morning, it was just to pad to the kitchen for a drink of water. He meandered back to bed, lay down, and stared at the ceiling for the rest of the night.

There were no sounds in the cabin, and the wind outside was muffled.

All he heard was the franticthump, thump, thumpof his cheater’s heart.