92. Distress (Jude's POV)

Why did I stop? I did so not because I wasn't hard, because I wouldn't get the condom over my cock, or because the girl before me wouldn't do the job.

It was because I remembered the feeling of holding Lesly in my sleep, along with the precise content of my dream, and what I felt for the man inside—the'me' in the desert. 

And that was what had prevented me from continuing with this senseless search for a feeling I wouldn't get anyway.

I felt pity. Pity for the burning man, so desperately searching for water, and after finding it, not being able to hold on to it.

So, although I still felt agitated and still erect, I didn't want to do it anymore. Seeing that this girl was far more understanding than the last, I nodded at her baseless accusation.