Sheltered by Charlotte Stein

Ugh, it sounded even worse on the outside. Maybe the sex he’d been having was just some newfangled tame kind, that didn’t really count. He just looked so big and warm and comforting, not to mention fully dressed. He put a hand out to her, and dear Lord she wanted to take it. His real girlfriend had probably developed the program designed to make Eve Bennett into a normal person. Lord, no wonder his real girlfriend understood the situation. “I was just…checking this was your apartment.” Though naturally, she hated herself for doing it. “Oh, hi,” she found herself saying, all falsely casual. You couldn’t hike one leg over a ladder with your cheating boyfriend watching you. He’d opened the window, and everything looked even more embarrassing than it had a second ago. “Evie! Jesus Christ-what are you doing out there?”