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“It’s the curiosity The risk” There were so s he’d ask of her when they visited Vieille Rivière, his favorite private restaurant in New Orleans “The reward you’re hoping for later Itperhaps you’ll notice a s else, it’s an experience you won’t get with anyone else You’re hungry for that, aren’t you, sweet Hope? The opportunity to live, to explore?”

“Yes,” she murmured “But it will hurt”

“Especially when you press the thorn against your clit”

Her skin went scarlet, then drained of color

“Then you’ll be so aroused you’ll wonder how you’ll iving into the te yourself to the ladies’ room, but since you’ll be on a video with me while you’re in there, you won’t have the opportunity”

“You can’t mean that!”

“Which part? Forbidding you to masturbate? Or the part where you’ll be on the phone with me?”

“Either” She scowled The lines trenched between her eyebroould scare a lesser man

“For clarity, I meant both”

The server joined the?”

“Fine Thank you, Stephen”

“Letelse you need” With that, the ain

“Meet aze,” Rafe instructed Hope “I want to see each of your reactions”

She had to scoot around a little

“I’”

Hope drew her lower lip between her teeth as she pressed the steainst her skin