"Mind if I help you with dinner?" I asked. She welcomed my help, and we fell into a comfortable routine of cooking together. At one point, though, I did ask her a question that had been bothering me. "When you invited me to come back over here, after I dropped Trina at her place, were you planning to seduce me?" She chuckled at that. "Oh, sweetheart," she replied, "I didn't seduce you. You just needed that to get relaxed. Don't get me wrong—I have really enjoyed this a lot more than I expected to—but if you had been able to just open up and tell me what was bothering you, we would not have had s*x at all." That left me in a thoughtful daze. "Am I some kind of s*x addict?" I wondered aloud. "Oh! Sweetheart, no!" she set down her spatula and hugged me tightly. "Don't be silly. You are

