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“No Nothing like that It’s not—it’s not that”

He tried a different tactic “How do you like to be fucked?”

I pulled in a slice of air “Hard and fast My clothes still on”

His brow knitted “Every time?”

I nodded

“Tell h his hair, as though knowing the details would tor about here”

I wasn’t sure this was the right path to travel, but I offered the highlights “I’ll see a man in a hotel bar, sit next to hio to his room—or he will I don’t need to know his nao at it No foreplay NotFive, ten minutes later, I leave”

His jaw tightened as he took this all in Then he asked, “Why so impersonal?”

“I don’t want to get involved Intiets too complicated It leads to e”

The furrowed brow jerked up “And you don’t consider e just did intimate?”

I nodded slowly, steeling erous”

“Why?”

“Because I knohat happens when things like this go wrong My grandparents, ave a sh this was no minusculeIt destroyed him For quite some time He was a mess And that wreaked havoc on his career His life My life”

Dane rested his forearhs and leaned forward “You think history will repeat itself?”

“I do believe it’s genetic”