A Morning of Firsts

All night long, intermittently, we had made love; passionate love, gentle love, discovering and rediscovering our bodies.

I must have climaxed almost a million times- well, yes, that's an exaggeration- but the heightened desire we felt after the separation he had imposed on us made it feel like a new birth..

When I came awake in the early hours of the morning, it was to find his powerful warm body