HIS SECRET DESIRE (MxM)
I think I'm just finally being something I was always there.
She tilted her head, considering that.
Yes, she said. That's exactly it.
We stayed talking for a long time after that, the wine going slowly, the evening settling around us. Katherine talked about choice and guilt and the particular kind of social pressure that sat on women who stepped outside the lines that had been drawn for them, and she spoke from experience, from her own divorce and everything that had come after it, and I listened and felt understood in a way that still surprised me slightly, how easy it was with her, how little I had to manage.