Chapter17

#Chapter17

Maximillion's Point of View

In the shadows, his face was so close to mine that I could smell the sweet fragrance of the drink he had been drinking, and then my lips were on his pink plump ones. In all truth I had not invited this ideology of a tongue; turning, I had merely wished to look at his face, expecting only that the expression of aesthetic pleasure I might find there would correspond to what I knew was my own. But I did not even catch a glimpse of his face, so instantaneous and urgent was that tongue. Plunged like some writhing shape into my gaping mouth, it all but overpowered my senses. It had the power in itself to force me, or somehow get me back, against my office chair, where I lolled helplessly with my eyes clenched shut, in a trance of tongue.