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Ti to be difficult," he said softly "I can leave if you’re not coentleht here under false pretenses "Once you’ve given me your answer, of course" Okay, so entle me cupcake?" She wet her lip and shifted from foot to foot
Stall tactics He considered her question and shrugged There was no har "Well, first off, cupcakes can be vanilla, like you But they’re also sweet--" He stepped closer and let his gaze trail over her from head to heel "Pretty to look at, and I can’t be within ten feet of one without wanting to taste it"
She looked around the rooaze again, she see to say no and walk away The tiny part of hi in the world wouldn’t stop this wo havoc on his life, felt relieved, while the rest of hiain "You said it had to be the next time I saw you" Her tone was one froht in front of ht" She tipped her chin in challenge and waited
He adet aith it Instead, he pressed, running on instinct
"Four separate occasions, at reed-upon list of possibilities, with the understanding that full-on intercourse is at your discretion I can’t pro in close to make sure only she could hear, "but I proht Over and over And you can take that to the bank Last chance, Courtney Going once" Her lashes fluttered rapidly and she bit her lip "Going twice…"
"Okay," she shouted before glancing around the roo her voice "Okay I’ht the basest of instincts, co him to scoop her up and carry her out of the place They still had a lot to work out, and he needed ti it when he’d told her that he wanted to help her, too Teaching her to eli to eht now
He had tolittle part of hiain, he smashed it down one last time The details would be worked out beforehand, and there would be no i’s undotted, no t’s uncrossed
It would be foolproof
Chapter Five
The next day after work, Courtney found herself staring at Cat, still in semi-shock as her friend shoveled a forkful of Cobb salad into her ainst her knuckle as she glanced down at her smartphone
"Okay, we decided that double penetration is a hard no, right?"
Courtney didn’t answer, the gravity of her circu more apparent by the second What the hell had she been thinking? With the dare in Rafe’s eyes and the fear of letting an opportunity slip through her hands, combined with her own false bravado courtesy of Saht
But in the light of day, sitting across from her friend with a sheaf of paper between the" and "anal," she wondered if she’d lost her fucking mind
"Courtney?"
"What?" she snapped back
"You’re stillforward in her seat, the regret plain on her face "If I’d known he’d given you an ulti him, I would never have told Shane and him it was okay to meet us And once you told me…"
"It was too late I know I should’ve told you sooner, and I already said I wasn’tbuyer’s reeneric list, souideline He probably isn’t even into most of this stuff," Cat reassured her
"Says you," she , remeht to start filling it out Now buck up and let’s have fun with it"
She hadn’t been able to wait because of crippling anxiety seeping in once she’d received Rafe’s e- Once she’d seen the kind of stuff on the survey he sent her, she’d needed Cat fora twenty-dollar bill in a pair of jeans you hadn’t worn inon a war at a diner looking at a BDSM checklist online, sussing out the things she would or would not be okay doing with her new sex-on-the-edge instructor, and assigning the the world’s ed from 1-5 but also included question marks, backslashes, and a capital X? That was the opposite of fun
Cat sighed and set down her pen "Look, let’s finish the task at hand, okay? Rafe wants this scanned and e-mailed back to hie so after you sleep on it And if you decide you want to back out altogether? You can still do that too Just don’t send hiether so that if you do decide to go through with it, you’re prepared, okay?" Her green eyes dimmed and she set her fork down "Are you scared? If you’re scared and want to change your mind already, fuck it, we don’t need to--"
"Nope" Courtney shook her head and ran a finger around the rilass "I’ti like this" Maybe it was time to come clean with the rest of it… "Rafe was ainst her chair so hard it tipped, al her onto her back "Shut the front door!"