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Chapter One

Abby

Nathaniel looked at asped

Exactly the reaction I’d expected I took a sip of my red wine and repeated myself "I think we shouldn’t have sex the "

"I was afraid that’s what you said" He tilted his head "Why?"

I picked up my napkin and pretended to wipe my mouth in order to hide my smile Why? This fro at the beginning of our relationship Quite a change from the one who sat across the table from me now The one who felt the need to discuss the whys and why nots and even the I don’t care, whatevers about al

"I know the napkin trick," he said with a smile of his own "I’ period of abstinence when you have long-term sexual deprivation marked as a hard limit"

"I suppose the s tero, you’d think your definition is a week"

"A week forterm"

I laughed "Then let’s just say this islimits is my job," he said in a serious tone of voice, but his eyes were lit with aafter one of our nore how often we had sex during a typical week, but gave up Between our everyday lives during the week and our weekend lives when I wore his collar, well, there was a lot of sex

"It’s not as if I’ve never gone a , do you et off individually?"

I couldn’t help it; I laughed again

"What?" he asked

"Just you being you Trying to establish the rules of soreed to yet"

"I want to ht-out decision," he said in typical Nathaniel fashion Always the planner Alith backup plans Hell, I bet even his backup plans had backup plans