Unbroken Pleasures (24 page)

“I don’t really
want you to leave, I told him, “I want you to be a part of my life.”

“Didn’t you hear
anything I said? I’m no good for you. There is only one thing that I can offer
you.”

“I don’t care,
Reese. We can work it out somehow. If you didn’t believe that then why are you
here now?”

I couldn’t help
myself. I looked into his eyes and saw the pain and desperation. A part of me
knew that he was right and I should let him be but I couldn’t accept it. I
leaned forward and I kissed him hard. I didn’t just sink into our kiss, I gave in
to some primal urge inside me that told me that nothing else mattered except
being with him. I kissed him with an urgency and passion that I’d never felt
before and much to my relief, he didn’t push me away. He kissed me back.

Our bodies spoke
the words that we couldn’t say. Our hands and tongues engaged in conversation,
pulling free from clothes, and blending into one another so that the only the
only thing that existed was him and me in one moment and somehow we knew that
whatever we felt together was greater than ourselves and we would never walk
away from it. We had both changed since that first night in the rain. In some
strange way, we’d both been lost and searching and we found ourselves in one
another.

We didn’t even
bother to try to make our way to the bedroom. Reese pulled me down to the
living room floor with him and there we rolled and tangled together and
explored one another’s flesh as though it was the first time we’d ever seen
another human body. I kissed him everywhere as he did the same to me.

When he reached
my ear and nibbled along the edge he whispered breathlessly, “I love you,
Alex.”

We both knew
that whatever obstacles may lie in the path ahead, we would face them together.

“I love you,
too.”

My body tingled everywhere
that he touched me. If I thought that my experience with Reese couldn’t have
been more intense the other times that we were together, I was very mistaken.
We moved perfectly together and once we had satiated each other thoroughly on
the living room floor, we made our way to the shower where we started all over
again. No matter how many times we pleasured each other, I didn’t think it
would ever be enough.

As the morning
sun tiptoed through my bedroom window and we lay in my bed wearing nothing but
a sheet and each other’s arms, we made a promise to each other that we would
always be together.

And many years
later, our promise remains unbroken and our pleasures know no bounds.