Chapter 45

• He turned to me then, looked at me. Rolling from his back to his side, he gazed at me in the dim light of the bathroom’s nightlight. “I like you,” he said. “I like spending time with you. This doesn’t mean that… you know? We can’t have an affair. I can’t cheat on my wife.”
• “No,” I said. “I know.”
• “But I don’t think that… if… I’m rationalizing here, but I think this is alright. If we talk, that’s fine. And maybe the spanking is alright. I don’t know. It… that’s a fine line. If we’re close and careful, but nothing too far. No sex, and…”