“You did?” Toho stared at Aoki now. This was a story Aoki-san had never told him before.
Aoki nodded. “Yes. I know I’ve never spoken to you of that before, perhaps because I felt embarrassed, or that it wasn’t proper.” His hands slid to Toho’s shoulders and squeezed them. “But now, I know. You are that samurai, the one I used to wish for. The man who has been my destiny. I just didn’t know it. Until now.”
The warm flush Toho felt deepened. It spread to his chest, into his belly, his heart, everywhere. “Aoki-san,” he whispered. So! Aoki felt as much love for him as he did for Aoki!
Aoki smiled at him. “You have done something much greater than avenging me, To-chan. You helped me heal. You have helped to make me smile again, to want to live, because you are in my life and I don’t want to miss a moment we could have together. You are the best friend I ever had and could ever hope for. There is no greater love than a lover who is your true friend. The mate of my soul.”
Aoki’s confession seized him with its freeing passion. Toho surged down onto Aoki and took his lips in a deep kiss that lasted for what seemed like forever. Lifted from the darkness of his worry, Toho’s desire reawakened. His lower parts came to life again, still buried within Aoki’s passage.
Aoki sighed and murmured happily into Toho’s mouth. His hands resumed their caresses on Toho’s back, and he squeezed Toho’s hips with his inner thighs.
When Toho finally pulled from their kiss so that he could look once again into Aoki’s eyes, the pools he would be happy to drown in forever, his vision blurred with unshed tears. “Thank you, Aoki-san,” he breathed.
Aoki’s smile widened. A tear had escaped his eye and made a glistening track down his cheek. “There’s nothing to thank me for, To-chan,” he said. “But if you really want to show gratitude, get back down here.” He tugged Toho’s arms and squeezed him invitingly down below.
Toho returned his smile and happily obeyed.
More from Sedonia Guillone
Sword and Silk: Book One
In eighteenth century Japan, during the golden age of samurai and of the Kabuki theater, young actors known as “flying fish” traveled the countryside, performing for audiences by day and giving their bodies to their samurai patrons at night.
Genji Sakura is one such flying fish, yet he dreams of finding the man he can give his heart to and leave the loneliness of his itinerant life behind. Though he loves theater, he doesn’t love every part of his profession, especially some of the patrons. So when a handsome ronin comes upon him stealing some solitude for a bath in a hot spring and their encounter turns passionate, Genji’s surprised and delighted.
Daisuke Minamoto’s past fills his life with a bitterness that grips his soul and makes him dangerous. Yet passion takes him when he spies on a graceful young man bathing naked in a hot spring. He has always loved women, but he can’t deny the call of his heart.
After an afternoon of sexual bliss, his heart and soul are tormented and torn. Keeping this miraculous lover will require giving up the one thing that has kept him alive for years: his hatred for the lord who murdered his wife. If he loves another, how will he go on and who will he become?
Sword and Silk: Book Two
After a harrowing seventeen-year separation, Hirata Morimasa leaves his home and secure future to search for his childhood friend, Sho. Blinded by illness when they were children, Sho was sent away, apprenticed to a blind masseur (an anma) to learn his trade, and then disappeared.
Desperate to find the other half of his heart and soul, Hirata willingly sacrifices the prestige and security of his father’s dojo to find him. When an anma who looks exactly like Sho crosses his path in front of a gambling parlor one day, the man flatly denies he is Sho. Hirata knows better and is determined to get the truth… and to get back the friend he’d lost. However, even though Hirata knows in his bones this man is his soul mate, Sho has changed in ways Hirata could not have prepared for in his wildest imaginings, changes that could continue to keep them apart… forever.
Multipublished, award-nominated author, SEDONIA GUILLONE lives in Florida in winter and on a river in Maine in summers with a Renaissance man who paints, writes poetry, and tells her she’s the sweetest nymph he’s ever met. When she’s not writing toe-curling romances, she loves watching spaghetti westerns, Jet Li, and samurai flicks, cuddling with her cat, Molly, and eating chocolate.
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By Sedonia Guillone
SWORD AND SILK
Flying Fish
Blind Love
Blossom of the Samurai
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Digital ISBN: 978-1-63477-544-1
Published February 2017
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