vigorously. “Then, yeah, we’re attracted to each other.”
“Well, I’m pretty sure that the mechanics are pretty much the same as they would be with a woman. There are just a few variations. You’ll want to use plenty of this,” Nate said as he reached into the nightstand and pulled out a bottle of lube, handing it to Joe.
“Lube?”
“A gay man’s best friend.” Nate laughed before turning serious again. “I’m sure in your experience, you’ve had anal sex with a woman, right?”
“Sure, why?” Jim asked in confusion.
“Did you like it?”
Jim could feel his face heat up again as he nodded. Yeah, he had liked it. In fact, he preferred it. It also seemed to be the easiest way he could get off when having sex with a woman. He just hadn’t found a woman that liked it as much as he did.
“When you’re with a woman, you don’t just stick your dick in her, do you? You make sure she’s ready, right?”
“Of course! It would hurt if I—Oh!” Jim felt like an idiot for not thinking about why he would need the lube with a man. He’d seen videos and everything.
Nate patted Jim on the leg. “You’ll get it. Men and women have pretty much the same erogenous zones, I think. Nipples are nipples. A kiss on the lips is a kiss on the lips. Get my drift? The actual intercourse is a little different but not that much. When you go down on Donovan, you’re not going to find a vagina. You’re going to find a dick. Just do to him what feels good to you, and you can’t go wrong.”
Jim wasn’t so sure. He could think of a lot of ways it could go wrong. “You make it sounds so easy.”
“It is easy once you get past the fact that he’s a man. That’s going to be your biggest hurdle. But the nice thing about being mated to a man? You don’t always have to be gentle.”
“What do you mean?” Jim asked in curiosity.
“Sometimes Joe can be very gentle and loving. Other times, he just tosses me over the side of the bed and fucks me. We don’t have to worry about him hurting me during those times. I think women prefer gentle to rough. Course, having never been with a woman, I could be wrong.”
“Not by much. It depends on the woman, I think,” Joe replied.
“So, what are you going to do?” Nate asked after a moment.
Joe looked down at the bottle of lube in his hand, turning it over as he thought about what he was going to do. “I don’t know if I’m ready to be with a man, but I can’t give him up. He’s my mate. I’m never going to have another one, and I guess I’m hoping to have what you and Joe have.” He just hoped Donovan wanted the same thing.
After Donovan had left him in the study, he had been positive that wasn’t what the man wanted, but during the conversation downstairs, Jim began to have his doubts. Donovan looked at him a little too long, made comments that Jim knew were aimed at him. Besides, Jim just couldn’t give up, not when true happiness was just downstairs.
Nate smiled over at him when he looked up. “As long as you remember that you have been granted a very special gift and never take Donovan for granted, I don’t see why you can’t. Finding your mate is the easy part. Learning to love the one you’ve been given is not so easy.”
“You don’t love Joe?”
“Of course I do. I love him very much, but things aren’t always perfect. Look at the shit I’ve brought into his life. It’s horrible. And him being a sheriff? He could be taken from me every time he goes to work. It’s not perfect, but I wouldn’t trade it for anything. When I’m with him, time stops. He’s it, all I think about, all I want, but it’s not always easy.”
“I guess I see what you mean,” Jim replied, trying to think what life would be like if he had never met Donovan. And now that he had found him, what would life be like if he let Donovan go? None of it looked good.
“Uh, where can I get a bottle of this stuff?” Jim asked as he held up the bottle of lube. If he
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