Playing Hard to Get

Afterward, she'd gritted her teeth through the soreness and still dragged herself out of bed at three in the morning to go back to her own place.

She was completely exhausted, yet she insisted on leaving. In the end, Nolan had driven her home.

To save her the back-and-forth, from then on, their liaisons shifted to Stella's spacious loft. Nolan would always return to his own apartment afterward.

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