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I laughed. “I asked you to.”

“Yeah, but there’s blood trickling all down your back!”

“Now you know how I got those scars.”

“Yeah, but – ”

“You said you worked as a dominatrix in the past. Surely you did worse things to your clients thanthis.”

“Yeah, but only when theywantedme to!”

“I wanted you to,” I said huskily. I leaned over her body on all fours and kissed her. “It was the only way I could hold out for as long as I did.”

“Yeah, well, I wish youdidn’thold out that long, then!”

I looked into her eyes. “Are you saying you wish you didn’t have that last orgasm?”

She bit her lip as she stared back at me.

“…okay… yeah, it was fucking incredible – but I wish I hadn’t shredded your back in the process!”

“I’m fine. I wanted it.”

She sighed. “Well, what’s done is done, so let’s get you cleaned up.”

“Sounds good,” I said, and kissed her again before we headed for the shower.

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After we were both clean and dried off, my scratches had stopped bleeding – but that didn’t mean they wouldn’t start again.

I offered to lie on a towel so I didn’t stain her sheets.

“Don’t worry about it,” she said. “If it doesn’t come out in the wash, I have plenty of other sheets.”

When we returned to bed, I lay on my back with Mei-ling under one of my arms.

As she nestled up against my chest, she murmured something in Chinese.

“What does that mean?” I asked.

“The closest approximation is ‘holy shit.’”

I grinned. “I’m hoping that’s a good‘holy shit’ and not a bad one.”

“Very,verygood.” She paused for a moment, then asked, “Did you learn all that from the older woman you lost your virginity to?”

“A lot of it. Not all the first night, though.”

“I should hope not. I can’t evenimaginethat beingmyfirst time. I would’ve lost my mind.”

“Did you lose your mind tonight?” I asked playfully.

“A couple of times, actually.”

I laughed and kissed her.

When we went back to lying in each other’s arms, she asked, “So… you received your education from – what was her name again?”

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