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been whacked with a shovel.
    My new sundress was a strapless piece of fabric with a denim vest. Ray accessorized it with teal platform pumps that I was willing to bet would be less comfortable than the aching pink heels I walked home in last Sunday.
    My anger began to dissipate once I felt how soft the fabric felt against my skin. These clothes even smelled fancy, if fancy had a scent. I was also amazed to find all of the necessary undergarments as well as the sundries I would need to freshen up. I wondered if Ray picked this all out by himself or if he got help. I concluded he had gotten help from a commission-based sales representative, which would explain all of the added bonuses in the bag.
    Exiting the bathroom, I felt like a hundred bucks. I laughed as I looked down at the shoes, thinking each foot probably cost a hundred bucks. I had to feel at least like double that price.
    I looked across the room and saw Ray had returned. He was holding a coffee in each hand and his jaw dropped to the floor. I did a small curtsey and smiled at him. “All I need is a sunhat and giant sunglasses and I’ll be movie star status,” I joked as I very carefully walked across the room and took his arm. “All set?”
    Speechless, Ray nodded his head as he handed me my coffee and we exited the hospital.
    Once we arrived at Granny’s, I kicked the teal pumps off and strode around barefoot. Without the added height, I now just felt like a girl in a sundress. Poking my head in Granny’s room, I saw that Chrissy was in there giving her a beauty makeover.
    I smiled at the thought of Granny being primped and pampered by my high-maintenance BFF and turned to exit the room. That was when I saw her room. All of Nouri’s things had already been removed. Her relatives back in the Philippines had requested that her body and belongings all be shipped back to her homeland. There would be no funeral service for my beautiful nurse here in the States.
    I would just have to learn to move on without her.
    Ray and I had stopped on the way home and we enjoyed an early lunch at some upscale restaurant where my attire seemed to blend right in. After the rich meal, I was ready to down a couple of painkillers and take a nap. Closing the door of Nouri’s now empty room, I headed upstairs with Ray in tow.
    As we entered the pink bedroom, I heard the door close and lock behind me. I turned around and before I had time to object, Ray’s mouth was on mine as his hands gripped the back of the denim vest and ripped it off me. It was like the scene in a movie…frenzied hands tugging at every article of clothing as we blindly made our way over to the bed.
    Maybe it wasn’t such a bad idea to let Ray pick out my clothes after all.
    He was anything but calm. “You had me so scared, Sid. I thought I had lost you when I found you crumpled in the backyard. I can’t live without you.”
    Our lovemaking was different than usual. It was as if Ray felt a need to display his strength as he gripped me tightly and poured himself inside me, as if he were using my body as an escape to drown out all of the memories of Monday’s gruesome scene. He was rough, burying himself in a pit of sensuality, showing me just how strong and powerful he could be. His body draped over mine, allowing me the visual of this superior being against my petite feminine frame.
    In the past he had always been so gentle and soft. He was the only person I had ever been with and there was once a time that I could say the same for him. But now he was a stranger with this animalistic instinct that seemed to possess him as he sexually devoured me. I would be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy it. I had yearned for any affection this man chose to give me and now I couldn’t pry him off with a crowbar. I looked into his face and he wore the same dead eyes that I saw in the hospital. No feelings, no depth, and no intimacy, just empty pools of nothingness.
    As he climaxed he collapsed on top of me, his breathing