Chapter 23: Heavy Breathing in the Office

I did not know what possessed me. Was it the loneliness gnawing at me, or the wounds left by those two heartless women? Whatever the reason, Paula Zimmerman and I went at each other with abandon. All that mattered was we were just a man and a woman who wanted each other. I forgot she was my boss, forgot she was more than a decade older. I did not think about how I would face her afterward, or whether this betrayed Colette Warth. All I felt was a huge emptiness inside me that pulled me under and...