TOGETHER FOR A NIGHT

the agony was akin to a slow-spreading cancer. Heartbreak, that's what it mirror

d I hadn't been intimate for weeks, and well before that, my orgasms had ceased. My once jo

supposed to be. I was in my prime and should have been enjoying mind-blowing sex at least four times a

s well past dinner time, but my appetite had deserted me. I clutched the cup, hoping to still my tre

cheated on me," I said, mor

d out that he'd been cheating on me about five days ago. That's

ing on the couch - his favorite spot in the small apartment we rented

his brown eyes filled with pity for me. There was a time when I used

over now. Gone. Adio

r me when you weren't." He shrugged his shoulders and went back

e by surprise. Had

you how?"

his eyebrows dipping low and slanting as

xua

wo

when I'd asked why he cheated his answer had been different. He said it had to do with me

r than intended, the edges dripping with unconcealed pain.

ed me out. There was nothing I could do to make you come. Do you know what something like that does to a man's ego? I started thinking maybe you wer

his was good. Maybe I woul

now why it happened. We talked about this, and we agreed that if I didn't come within

? Most of it was in the first week after we found out about your little proble

opped, but you never made a move. The seven or eight times we did it was because of me. I told you I did

, but didn't fall over. This was stupid. I felt stupid as shit. Talking t

ay... and he had better do something about those eyebrows

int if you were getting nothing out of it. I needed to feel like a man. I needed to feel wanted and I needed to know that

was instant. I clamped my jaw shut, all the while rubbing my tongue along

t, leaving a wake of fire on its wa

ys. Chamomile, bland, no sugar

ut of my ex-boyfriend's mouth. The tea was supposed to help tone down the

my quiet query, and now that he had, I felt a