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Ash is thirty six, far from home, and tired of wanting the one girl he is not allowed to touch. Lucy sits three seats from the aisle in his Tuesday seminar. She says his title like a polite student. He goes home thinking about her anyway. He books a hotel and pays a stranger so he can stop thinking. The stranger is the wrong girl. She sends someone new. The someone new is Lucy. She needs money. He needs her. They tell themselves it is only a transaction. It is not. She has a boyfriend who will never have her. Ash has a job he can lose in one rumor.

Lucy never planned to cheat. Ash never planned to risk everything. She is a 21-year-old Chinese college student with a boyfriend who thinks she spends her evenings studying. He is her 34-year-old American English professor with a girlfriend who believes he is grading papers. For months they only traded dirty videos and late-night messages. They never crossed the line. Until the night they both lied to be alone together in a private hot spring. That night Ash takes Lucy’s virginity in the steaming water while the city continues outside, completely unaware.