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“I don’t know about the caning,” she said.
“It didn’t arouse you?”
“I suppose it did in a weird sort of way. I don’t think it should have.”
“What is, is,” he said.
“Did it arouse you?” she asked.
“No,” he replied.
“That surprises me,” she said.
“Alexandra fights herself so much, she was staging a rebellion, but that gets a little dreary sometimes.”
“It does?” Jocelyn pondered aloud, not expecting him to say that. “Was she the other woman that tried to get inside your heart?”
The comment stopped Reggie cold. Only after a few chilly moments did he reply. “She was.”
“And she didn’t go far enough, I wonder why?”
“I wouldn’t let her.”
“Why was that?”
“Because I knew she’d be happier with Will. I think the two of us are too much alike.”
“What do you mean by that?” Jocelyn was completely confused.
“We’re perfectionists. We both need a milder kind of energy to counteract our intensity.”
“That’s interesting.”
“Why?”
“It’s almost an admission of imperfection,” she said, laughing.
“Haven’t I done that before?”
“Never in business, and rarely when it’s personal,” she replied.
“Well s
ee? I’m changing. That should make you happy.”
“That depends on what changes,” she said. “Most of you, I wouldn’t change for anything in the world.”
“That’s good, because I think most of me is perfect to a fault.”
Jocelyn laughed again, the melody of her mellow voice touched him in places that had been too long denied the opportunity to feel.
Chapter Eight
Jocelyn walked into Reggie’s office and directly past his desk. All protocol aside, she moved around his chair, and standing behind him, she leaned in and began rubbing his shoulders.
He sat up straight. “To what do I owe this forwardness?”
“My extreme affection for you,” she replied.
