Their desire for each other had increased during their time together, as their lovemaking had grown more skillful. They’d learned to come together, or if one should come first, they might be so lost in each other at the moment that neither could quite tell who. Today, before that moment arrived, Maurice murmured, “I want you to enter me.” Alec knew the longing Maurice now gave voice to, a desire at once sensual and mystical and at last impossible: to incorporate the other into himself. Despite their passion, they’d not yet tried penetration, held back by a fear of giving pain. “Won’t it hurt?”
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