Chapter 29

“Quinn?”

“Making love with you wouldn’t exactly be a new experience for me.”

“No.”

“Excuse me?”

“Trust me, Quinn. If we’d made love before, I’d remember.”

“Mark…”

“Yeah?”

“Look. I’m telling you I’ve had a few male lovers. That…the French person who called me mon angeand mon coeur—he was a boy.”

“Son of a bitch.”

I flinched.

“So you’re saying I don’t have to treat you like spun glass.”

“I’m not a woman, Mark, but I hope you’ll treat me with courtesy, just as I’d treat you.”

“Okay.”

“I beg your pardon?”

“As hard as this might be to believe, I don’t get off on hurting my partners. I might handcuff you to the headboard or fuck you in the shower, but I’m not into S&M, and I won’t take you without lube or a condom.”

“Will you let me fuck you?” I had the feeling this was something that might be a deal breaker. But if he were reluctant to bottom for me, even though he’d said he’d give me everything I wanted…