Gabe patiently let me come down from the cloud where he’d put me, rolling over to lie on his side next to me. When my heart rate and breathing returned to normal, I turned to face him.
“You are a wizard, you know. It’s impossible for anyone to feel as good as you make me feel, impossible for anyone to be as happy as you make me.”
He put his arms around me and began to kiss me lightly, my hair, my forehead, my nose, my eyelids. He didn’t say anything. No words were adequate. We simply lay there together, arms around each other.
“Oh, lover, thank you,” I finally said into his chest. “You are magnificent. But don’t you need to get some relief? It’s been eight hours since our office tryst, you know.”
He squeezed me, kissed the top of my head, and said very softly, “In the morning, maybe. N
