Chapter Five
With some objective distance, I concluded that the encounter with Rudi had not been a singular moment of folly driven by curiosity. Rudi might have honed his abilities during his sojourn in Milan, regarded as the country’s most progressive city. He certainly would have been a magnet for both sexes and I imagine it wouldn’t have taken much to flatter his preening vanity. If anything, I seemed like the novice as Rudi alternately took and ceded control. Unlike many of my past s****l partners and to some degree, myself as well, he was an unselfish lover, seeming to derive personal satisfaction through gratification. A generosity of affection that made the encounter all the more pleasurable and genuinely intimate.
If he had strayed before, Santina undoubtedly guessed. Love may be
