*Tia* I am no stranger to the ways of men, and yet he seems to defy everything I know and understand. I have never known a man to emit such a powerful hunger, to give the impression that the passion rising between us will consume not only me, but him as well. That he welcomes it. He braces his hands on either side of my head, angling me slightly to better position himself for the assault. Yet for all the voraciousness of his urgency, I never once feel as though I can't step away, as though I can't stop it. If I wanted to. But I don’t want to step away. And that alone terrifies me. That he somehow manages to call to the wantonness inside me, that he makes me long for all the dreams I had held when I was young and innocent. That he makes me believe that perhaps they are attainable, that t