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    When she touched bare skin on her stomach, her eyes opened wide in shock and this time she did swear silently when she realized she didn’t have a shirt on. Not even her cammy. She tried not to groan as she groped for the kill button on her phone. She swore again bitterly. What had she done? What in the world had she done? What had they done? Her head hurt too much to even try to remember clearly.
    Jason slept next to her, the car blanket lying loosely across his gorgeous bare chest, and she dreaded finding out how many more clothes they were missing. Oh, man, what had she done?
    Her head was pounding with a vengeance and even the minimal light from her phone hurt as she retrieved her new text message. She swore again. It was from her mom. “Hey, are you okay? You’ve never stayed out this long before. Just checking. Love you, Mom.”
    Kate groaned and put a hand under the blanket to find that she was missing a lot more than just her shirt. She licked her dry lips and started to cry, trying to be quiet enough not to wake Jason as she rummaged under the blanket to see if she could find her clothing. There was no way she was going to pull that blanket back to look for them. She was such a fool. Such a complete fool. Man, she felt awful.
    She suddenly remembered that Cody and his obnoxious woman had been here last night and she almost panicked as she looked around. Thankfully, there was no one in sight and she quickly pulled her shirts on and then shrugged into her pants. She hadn’t found all of her lingerie and she gave up looking with an angry sob and slipped on her sandals, thinking only that she wanted to get out of here and never have to face Jason or Cody or that small brained Ryanna again in her life.
    As she stood up in the pitch darkness, her head began to pound with an even meaner throb and she struggled to stifle the urge to throw up as she began walking back up the gravel road toward town. She had the worst morning breath she could even imagine.
    Once out of hearing of the burnt out fire, she dialed home and struggled to control her tears as her mom picked up on the first ring. “Katie, are you okay?”
    Kate groaned and bit back her tears. “No, Mother, I’m a complete idiot.”
    “What happened? Are you hurt?”
    She sighed and couldn’t help the tears that overflowed as she said, “I’m fine, just incredibly, amazingly stupid. Would you come and get me please? I’ll be walking your way on the gravel road out by the river.”
    “Where’s Jason? Is he okay?”
    “He’s fine. I think he’s fine. I’m not waking him up to find out. I honestly never want to see him or talk to him again in my life. Just please come get me. I’ll explain when you get here.”
    There was a pause and then her mother sighed. “Oh, Kate. I hope you didn’t forget who you are. Stay with Jason and don’t go walking alone. I’ll be right there.”
    Kate pushed the end button and slid the phone into her pocket. She wasn’t even sure what had happened last night, but she suspected she’d more than forgotten who she was. She started to cry all the harder and then went to the side of the road to deal with her uncontrollable urge to vomit. Geez, she was a disgusting mess. Why in the world had she ever agreed to try his champagne? She’d known better even though she’d always trusted Jason’s judgment in the past. Yeah, sure it wasn’t really alcohol. Who were they trying to kid?
    She kicked at a rock in utter self loathing. Her, of course. She was who they were trying to kid. And it had worked beautifully. She’d never really thought she would turn out to be such a sucker. She knew better. She’d known better since she was a little, tiny girl. She was pitiful. She swore again and swiped angrily at the tears on her cheeks. What in the world had they done?
    On the one hand she was furious with him for helping to fool her into such a big mistake. On the other hand, he would be just as sad as she was when he woke