Chapter Thirty-Four
Like so many of their most momentous encounters, and indeed the entire adventure they were sharing, this one began in the morning bath.
Here they were most comfortable in their roles, with rapture and possession only a shared glance away. Here she’d first aroused him and gained his notice in his ennui. Here she’d offered to cure him and here she’d made good on the first installment of that promise. Here he’d first seen her naked, was shorn of his monster’s mane and had his terror of orgasm and intimacy jerked lovingly out of him. Here he’d indulged shameful sacrificial fantasies after his sunburning while she clutched his jack-knifing body to her breasts and jerked him with fervent complicity.
Here he felt comfortable exposing his deepest weaknesses to her as well as
