Jean-Claude almost shudders at her words. There is nothing sexier to me, ma petite, than a woman who knows what she wants and is not afraid to ask for it, he sends to her through the marks.

Aloud, though, he speaks to Asher. "Perhaps with a trifle more restraint than last time, mon ami?" he says with amusement tinting his voice. "We want the evening to last, do we not?"