Chapter 25

Thomas took a blanket and curled up on the sofa. No sex for tonight. He’d decided that night he would have to look for another kind of warmth. And for sure, it had nothing to do with the fact that he was loyalto Elias. They weren’t a couple, and they hadn’t promised each other anything, so there was no need to keep nonexistent promises. Actually, it didn’t matter that he hadn’t had sex with anyone else since the moment they met, from that first kiss, wet with rain. Or that it had been a week since he’d last seen Elias and he wondered when they would be seeing each other again. They didn’t have a relationship—no, you couldn’t call it that—but it was something

When he heard his cell phone vibrating, he thought about not answering it. He didn’t feel like talking; he wanted to let himself go to the sounds of the storm; he wanted the bad weather to shift the discomfort he was feeling inside.

But in the end, he decided to read the message.

Are you at the Black Sheep tonight?