Chapter 135

Lying back in his arms afterward, stretched out but still close, our cum and sweat, our hair and our flesh were all smooshed together, as the hands on the clock overhead tick, tick, ticked away time. I decided I had to draw him and climbed the stock ladder we’d played on earlier for a bird’s eye view.

“I wish I could draw,” Patrick said, lying on his back with his hands under his head. “You look amazing up there.”

The look of him made me smile. The green eyes, the glasses he’d left on during sex, the big ears their limbs curled around, and the perfect nose they sat on. His naked body reminded me of the statue of Poseidon in Copenhagen Port, all deep sculpted roundness with hard and soft fleshiness and muscle, much of it dusted or covered in orange. “Here.” I ripped off a sheet of paper that floated down to the bed once I’d released it, like one of the snowflakes outside. “Try.”

“It’s going to suck.”