Trembling, I dropped my face down against hers, blonde hair tumbling all about her. As our lips touched, I let my mouth slide tentatively open, and though at first she hesitated, in but a moment Gabriela parted the succulent plums of her lips and let my tongue swirl gratefully inside. She shivered delicately as I probed her, and then she began to respond in turn. How we kissed! Never had it been so good, so—so right. Finally, I had found my heart’s desire, and in acknowledging that profundity and giving myself up to it, I found a freedom and contentment such as I had never known. I moaned unabashedly as her innocent young mouth accepted me, stimulating me not only physically but spiritually as well. For the first time in a long, long time, I had met an equal—not a protector or a demanding

