Maya
"May I please use the bathroom to freshen up?" I asked Asher. "You can. Do you want to take a shower too?" "No, I just need to brush my teeth and wash my face before you show me what you wanted to." "Okay," he says, and opens one of the doors in his room. He leads me into his bathroom and hands me a new toothbrush and face cloth that he took out of a cabinet. He takes his toothbrush and starts brushing his teeth, like it's a normal thing we do together. He looks at me in the mirror and winks, and I have to smile.
This man sure is something else. I open the packaging and join him at the sink. It's kind of weird how normal this is. He finishes before me and kisses my cheek with his wet mouth, before he washes and dries his face. When I am done, I look at him as he stands leaning again
