Chapter 35

“Is this a first for you?” he asked. If they were going to continue, Gideon realized he needed to know how much Jesse had done before. “Being…punished, I mean.”

“I experimented with light bondage and S&M before. I’ve always been…attracted to the idea of it, but it’s not easy to find the right partner.” Jess ran his fingers through Gideon’s hair. “I tried a few clubs before when I was younger, but that didn’t work out for me. So this is, by and large, entirely unexplored territory for me.”

Pausing in his attentions, Gideon glanced up at Jess. “Then how do you know this is what you want?”

“It feels right. Every time you touch me, everything you do, it just feels right.”

Gideon averted his eyes and returned to washing before his thoughts betrayed him. “I think we’re very compatible,” he said, instead of the far more fervent vows going through his head. “It helps that we know each other so well.”