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"Whoa How’d you and Boden get to be friends?"

Dalton looked Ben in the eye "At the Rawhide Club"

That shocked his cousin "Wait Are you a member?"

"Guest" Dalton’s face heated as it did every ti he hadn’t understood "Look, Ben, that’s theyour brothers and staging an intervention about your sex life Not even walkin’ out onholds a candle to that boneheaded otta know that’s been over and done with for a long time" He sipped his beer "So the club oin’ there…six years later?"

"The place--the whole situation opened ned from the club, I went in and ended up talkin’ to Layla"

Ben’s eyes narrowed "What did she say?"

"Nothin’ about you or Ainsley That wasn’t why I went in I wanted to understandobvious I didn’t have a clue"

"And? What’d you learn?"

"More than anything I learned different strokes for different folks"

Ben choked on his beer and Dalton laughed

"Got ya there, cuz"

"Smart ass"

"Eventually I learned there ain’t no one-size-fits-all sexual playbook I stopped in and I took in scenes, figuring I’d try them out in the privacy of ht sex moves doouldn’t have to try so hard omen I’d be a killer lay" Dalton shook his head "Jesus This is really e to ado back to kitchen reged oin’ into specifics, I’ve been in some pretty fucked up situations oot it Hell, I even hooked up with a lesbian for a while so she could teach me about women Didn’t work I think she knew less about o this, but I never participated in any activities at the Rawhide Not out of fear, or worry about bein’ judged"

"Then why abstain? It is a sex club"

"Because when it came to sex I’d always acted first and didn’t consider the results of my actions until it was too late"

"When did you cooton to ot back ho on tome because of my shitty reputation as a wannabe player" He felt like such a fucking pussy talking about this shit with his cousin Bennett, legendary Do you tell me stays between us, okay? And it seems to me you need someone to talk to"

"Probably" Now that Rory was in the picture, he didn’t want to screw this up with her "So I needed to rethink my entire approach to women, to sex, and what I wanted out of it That’s why I went to the club a couple years later again"

"So what did you learn about yourself?"

"I’m more tolerant than I believed I could be Watchin’ some of those scenes just reinforced er on a woman, or a whip, or a strap" A shudder of revulsion rolled through hih he tried like hell to repress it "I doubt I’d even be interested in playful spanking"

"Why not?"