whims. In short, you will learn self-control.”
Norris gulped.
“You will be pleased with the results. I won’t fail you,” he repeated. “In fact, I can guarantee you that all aspects of your life will improve.”
She wanted to impress potential clients, her clientele and her associates. Jack Rodriguez in particular. “That’s why I’m paying the big bucks.”
“Don’t forget it.” He was very close to her, his breath clean and sweet. With her vision gone, her other senses came to life, including all her female awareness of him as a man. If she didn’t hate him so much, she might be tempted to turn her head and find out how he tasted. Did he ever get it on with his clients? Maybe that was one of the unpublicized benefits. And it had been a long time…
“Do you have an active sexual life?”
Her breath whooshed out. How could he read her mind? Active sex life? No. Dull, sluggish, nonexistent? Yes. And worse still, it was her fault. Along with her once slimmer body, she seemed to have lost what few skills she’d had to attract men, much less lure them into bed.
“N…no,” she admitted. The only activity her sex life had seen lately, besides her immediate and uncomfortable awareness of Adrian, were her fantasies of throwing Jack to the boardroom floor, jumping his bones and taking him so deep inside her, he’d never get free. Never want to, either.
“Why not?”
How humiliating! He’d already seen her body bared to him, did she have to expose the depressing facts of her sex life? It was embarrassing to admit that her age she had so little experience. Her weight was a turn-off for men, she knew that, but she hadn’t always been this heavy. Even before she gained this weight she’d been a washout in the seduction department. She turned her head away.
“Don’t make me repeat myself, Norris.”
He didn’t touch her, but she felt the threat. She licked dry lips. “Too busy, I guess,”
she mumbled.
“I don’t believe you, but we’ll let that go.” As soon as Norris began to feel relief, he added, “For the moment.”
He walked around her. Even without her vision, she knew he was looking her over.
Like a side of beef in the meat market, she grumbled to herself.
“Are you hetero?”
Why did men always assume that if a woman wasn’t busy servicing some man, she was lesbian? Was she? No. Had she ever wondered what it would be like to make love to another woman? Of course. What woman hadn’t?
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Sweet Discipline
He touched her mouth with the tip of one callused finger. “Well? Men, women or both?”
She parted her lips. “Men.”
He ran his finger down the valley between her breasts. When he paused, she urged him silently to go on, then stopped herself. It boggled her mind that she’d be here, naked, restrained with a mask over her head, letting a stranger touch her so intimately.
Let? She wasn’t letting him do anything! He stroked slowly down her belly, down below her navel. Her breathing slowed, waiting to see what he would do next. She swallowed, her mouth suddenly dry. His finger traced the edge of her mound. Oh, lower…lower… How could she be responding to him when he’d strung her up and… ohmigod , that felt so good!
“Would you like a satisfying sexual life?”
She flinched and tried to ignore the heat behind his finger just barely touching her curls. “Wouldn’t everyone?”
He set her swinging again. Frantically, she pressed her toes against the floor.
“Okay, okay!”
“Would you like to improve your sexual life?” he repeated.
“Yes,” she whimpered as he stopped her swinging and the pain eased.
“Are you willing to learn what it takes to make it happen?”
All it would take was to lose those pounds and get the hell away from here!
“Are you?”
“How?”
“Yes or no?”
“Yes, dammit!”
“Then I will teach you that, too.”
“ You ?”
“I am your trainer in all things.”
“No way! I’m not attracted to you.” Okay, so she