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"Maybe we should work on it," he said in an unusually subdued tone "I’ down on women"

She sank her teeth into her lip and fisted the sheets Woular man, that meant anywhere froht even be thousands, for all she knew A new type of anxiety weighed down on her Could she possibly ainst all of his past clients?

"I don’t want to disgust you"

"You won’t"

"How do Ioral sex than others? What do they do?" She badly wanted to be good at it She wanted to blow all the others out of the water--but there had been soon in that beautiful brain of yours?" he asked in bafflement

"I just--I want--I need--I think--"

"No ," he said as he touched a thumb to her lips

He ran warm hands froers and squeezed their palether Her ht way What was she supposed to do? Now that she understood he wanted her to feel pleasure, she wanted to give it to him, wanted to make him happy

"Stella, you’re locking up on me" His eyes searched hers, worried now

"I’ers and winced Her heart pounded She was screwing this up

He gathered her in his arh her hair in sloeeps "This is because of oral sex? We don’t have to have it"

Stella pressed her forehead to his neck and breathed in his scent By slow degrees, she relaxed into his eainst her te?"

"It means I want to please you more than all your other clients have"

"Stella, I’ you for sex any sound and held her tighter "What a to do with you? I have you hot and naked in hed and rested against hion scales on his bicep "We could floss, brush, shower, and dress"

He threw the covers off "Let’s do it, then"

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"Don’t you have any casual clothes?"

Michael swept her damp hair to the side and kissed her neck as she stared at her wardrobe, trying toselection for the day

"I didn’t need theave theh? Or were they all knee-length skirts and button-downs?" As he spoke, his ared her to his naked chest Her body couldn’t decide if it wanted to relax or stiffen

She suspected he was seducing her It was al herher from her headache and the fact that she was terribly off-schedule today, so that normally filled her with irritation and frustration until she could start over and do things right