“That’s what I talked with Carmen about, yes. I don’t need a new car. Mine is fine, but I’d like it to be paid off.”
He looked at me. “You’re talking about your Honda, right?”
I nodded.
“If you could have any car in the world, what would it be?”
I shook my head with a smile. “One that’s paid off.”
“That’s zero fun. Come on. Tell me.”
“Fine. I like those MINI Coopers.”
He grinned. “You would look perfect in one of those, baby. We’ll get one today.”
My mouth dropped open. “That’s really not necessary…”
“Okay. Next section. I’ll be taking you to several society functions. However, there could be times when I have to take a different woman to a gala or ball if my parents will be in attendance.” He looked uncomfortable, knowing how I felt about this already. “My parents are… traditional, old school, and Italian. One of the ways I escaped going into the family business was by being bad at it and by being really fucking smart. Thank goodness. But I still feel that I owe them some things because of not going into the business. One of those things is that they want to see me settled down with an Italian girl of their choosing, or at least someone from an upstanding wealthy family.”
I nodded, understanding a little better why he’d been so set on having a society woman on his arm at the endless functions he was required to attend.
“I don’t want it to hurt your feelings if that happens. I did see in your contract that you don’t want me to sleep with anyone else during the four months we’re together. If I do take another woman to a function during that stretch of time, I won’t fuck her. Just so we’re clear.”
I nodded.
“But you’re not going to fuck anyone else, either.”
“Right,” I agreed, trying to hide a smile.
“What’s that for?” He pointed at my face. “Why are you smiling?”
“I’ve only slept with three people in my life, and you’re one of them. That’s it. I wasn’t planning on branching out to add lots of other guys during this four month stretch of time.”
“Three people?” His eyebrows shot up.
“Yes.” I didn’t want to tell him that Nico Salazar was one of the people. I had a feeling that wouldn’t go over well at all.
“But I noticed on your sexual survey that you wouldn’t mind sleeping with two men at one time. Is that true?”
My face turned red. “It’s something I’m not opposed to.”
He smirked at me. “We can probably make that happen. I want to choose the guy, though.”
I made a face. “I don’t know about that. What if you chose… like the night watchman at the hospital?”
“Oh my God. Creepy Dale?” He looked disturbed. “Why would I choose Creepy Dale?”
“I don’t know. I just don’t know if I’m fine with it being someone of your choosingcompletely. Like, don’t I get veto power?”
“Of course you do!” He was offended. “What do you think I’m just going to bring some rando in and be like ‘get naked, Jelly, we’re about to have a three-way?’”
I giggled. “No, I guess not.”
“We can get that worked out another time. But you’re down for pretty much anything sexually, huh?”
“Yeah, I guess. Why are you into something weird?”
He chuckled. “Not weird, no. I’d like to tie you up and have you at my mercy, though.”