HIS SECRET DESIRE (MxM)
We'll order food and watch something stupid and you can leave in the morning.
I looked at the building, then back at her.
Fine, I said.
Her apartment was warm and familiar, the place I had sat in dozens of times over the years when I needed somewhere to be that wasn't my own four walls. We ordered Thai food and found something on television that required no emotional investment and the evening was easy and slow and exactly what it needed to be.
By eleven Mitchell and Sarah had disappeared to the bedroom, and I lay on the fold-out with the lamp off and the city doing its quiet nighttime thing outside the window, and I felt the pleasant heaviness of someone who had actually used their body and