It was you in that alley. I know it immediately. Ok, well, maybe not immediately, but it is clear the moment I place my hands on your chest in your kitchen. I know by the way you feel, and I know by the way you smell. I don’t tell you I know because this is not a time for talking.
immediately,I have to have you, not just tonight, but indefinitely. Or at the very least, for this lifetime—this much I also know. You found me, as I knew you would, and when I least expected it, you showed up and called yourself my date. This in and of itself would have been enough. But then you invite me into your home, your bed, your heart, in a way that leaves little doubt that I will be inexplicably changed for having known you.
After we’ve made love for the third time, we lie together in your bed, too bli
