Chapter 12Autumn slipped further and further by, the chill in the air growing sharper with each passing day. Eiji’s birthday came in the middle of November; they celebrated by feasting their tenants, packing everyone they could fit into the formal dining room for a meal of Eiji’s favorites, steaming rice and fried pork and roasted vegetables, and enough wine to drown them all in. Once everyone had left, Vincent took Eiji upstairs and continued his meal, spreading Eiji open and descending upon him with lips and tongue until Eiji begged, then pulling them both off with his hand in a drunken haze. Eiji collapsed next to him that night, both of them falling asleep promptly from drink and orgasm. They woke in the morning having somehow scrambled under the covers in the night and twisted around

