This is the first chapter of a finished, five-chapter novella, which will complete posting by the end of November 2017.
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Taking him. All of him inside me. Fucking me doggy style on a platform bed in a seedy beach hotel cabana room just steps away from the ocean north of Suva, in Fiji, across a thin line of coconut palms from the top of the beach. He was a muscular hunk, atypically younger than I was by a year or two, crouched over and mounted on my hips, his strong hands grasping my wrists, my hands buried in the mattress to hold me steady. Atypically because I was used to going with older men. His teeth chewing on my earlobe while he pounded, pounded, pounded away inside me.
He released one of my wrists, rummaged around in the drawer to the nightstand without missing a beat of the fuck, came out with what I took to be a small bottle of poppers, and ran it under my nose. Whatever it was, it didn't enhance anything sexually. What it did rather than the expected was that it put my lights out just after he went rigid, jerked, and gave me his load.
When I came to, I was stretched out, flat on my stomach, appendages all akimbo. Through the open sliding glass doors out onto the beach, the sun was going down. Another spectacular sunset over the South Pacific Ocean.
Etienne—if that's what his name really was; he had been quite secretive about letting me see his passport when we'd entered Fiji—was gone. And the cabana had a deserted feeling about it. The eerie quiet prompted me to drag out of the bed, staggering a bit and shaking my head to try to shake off what had to be more than just the one bottle of scotch we'd polished off together earlier in the afternoon, and to check out my valuables. My former valuables, I must say. Etienne had cleaned me out. At least he'd been gentleman enough to leave me my passport and my clothes—other than that Western-style leather-fringed vest he'd admired so much when we first met in Nouméa, on Loyalty Island in New Caldonia. And my fancy tooled cowboy boots. He'd wanted them too, I could tell.
I was a pushover for French men. And Etienne had been more exotic than that. Some Maori or other native South Pacific Islander breed in him. It gave him bulk and the look of carrying that bulk well—of being overpowering. He certainly overpowered me—emotionally as well as physically. I was on a discovery tour of the South Pacific in the summer of my junior year at Princeton. Not so summer down here in the islands, but still warm enough for the beach life. I was looking for life experiences. I was getting them.
I'd done Sydney and had enjoyed the laid-back gay scene there—and fully intended to go back there before going home to the States. And then to Auckland, in New Zealand. I wanted to work on my French and was told I really should take a swing through the South Pacific islands, so I decided to do so. I had the means and the time.