Chapter 20

The following morning, I crawled from my bed with the worst headache that I could remember having.  My first thought was that I should have had white wine because it contained fewer tannins.  Not only did my head ache, but every muscle in my body felt like it had been abused.   I found a note from Max on the nightstand saying that he’d been called in to work at pre-dawn and that he would check on me at lunch time.

Alone and feeling like crap, I staggered to the bathroom and looked at the tub. Had I taken that bath the night before?  I just couldn’t remember.  I felt like I needed to cleanse myself - especially my female area – but I didn’t dare wash off the potion.  I settled for washing my important parts at the sink.

I found some over the counter headache tablets in my medicine cabinet and popped two into my mouth.  At the absence of a glass, I leaned over and drank directly from the faucet while I washe