INTERLUDE NINE

 

 

Lest anyone think I dissembled… allow me to make things plain.

Is Cicero handsome? Extremely... but I've lain with the truly breathtaking before.

Is he a skilled lover? Unquestionably... far more so than perhaps he believes, actually… but, again, I’ve been previously partnered with men and women who were exhaustively trained in—and then proceeded to incessantly practice—the science of love.

Is he, as you humans so charmingly say, “well hung”? I shall answer thus: He is, indeed, and far more than sufficient to thoroughly sate me. In my life, though, I have been had, and greatly hurt by, men—and, yes, creatures—who were grotesquely, even monstrously equipped. In turn, I have been pleasantly surprised, and satisfyingly taken, by others that a less imaginative person might hold in disdain, or even contempt.

As you might guess, thus, such things do not at all impress me.

I say this as a former courtesan, and a woman in love: The best sex is about magic, not mathematics. We possess the former—in a quantity and degree I have never before known.

He gives me more pleasure, more easily, than anyone ever has, and I’m glad for it... not only for my own selfish reasons, but because I know his prideful heart, and that he wouldn’t accept anything less.

In that, he is quite boyish.

I cannot say precisely why I so love him... and I think that to analyze something like that is to insult love itself.

For me, it’s enough that I do.

 

 

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