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I wait until he’s finished brushing his teeth and slides into bed wearing only his boxers before I slip into the bathrooht there"

I brush my teeth, washeverything If the ive him sex I want sex Let’s have sex! I quietly pad out into the darkness My stos slick and ready and this is it, I think This is when the fun starts, when I can enjoy him and this city and this tiny slice of life where I don’t have anyone else I need to worry about but hts a path from the small bathrooht, pulling the light covers back so I can climb into bed beside hier the hunger I’ve rip of his hands, the feel of hi over me But even when I slide my hand up his stomach and over his chest, he re comes out when I open e to whisper, "Do you want to have sex?" I wince at the stark words, blown free of nuance or seduction

He doesn’t answer and I shift closer, heart ha as I curl around his hard, warm body He’s fast asleep, breaths solid and steady

HE’S UP BEFORE ain, this time in a charcoal suit, a black shirt He looks ready for a photo shoot: black and white stills of hi a shadow through the sky behind him He’s bent over me, about to deliver a chaste kiss to my lips, when my eyes open

He steers himself from my mouth to my teain, he’ll be working all day

"Sorry about last night," he says quietly into aze flickers away from mine and he focuses instead on my lips

I had dreah--sexy dreaine the feel of his hands and lips, his voice grown hoarse after hours over and behind and beneath h to act Without thinking, I pull at his ar it beneath the covers withsleepily up

at hi at first and I watch when understanding dawns as I drag his hand down row heavy Ansel ers between roans with an expression I can’t quite read It’s part longing and part so that looks more like anxiety At the border, awareness trickles in

Oh shit

His suit jacket is folded over his other forear out the door

"Oh" The flush of e his hand away froin, "I didn’t--"

"Don’t stop," he says, jaw clenching

"But you’re leavi--"