Chapter 29

"I'll always tell you the truth," she said. "I'm not trying to make you mad. You're amazing. The most amazing person I've met since Patrick."

I laughed, which pushed away the slight tension that had come between us.

"I will never be mad at you for pursuing pleasure," I said. "I'm sort of... astonished. Jealous. And I'm also scheming. We can have some fun, babe. Don't think we won't. There's just a lot of planning to do!"

I got the sense that Kat had held something back about Patrick, but I didn't dwell on it. We were into the home stretch on our Vegas trip, and I wanted to enjoy it. The thought of going home to Houston and returning to normal -- whatever that might look like between us now -- sat uneasily in my mind. I also was armed with a great deal of new knowledge about Kat and her likes. She was more enchanting to me than ever. Our mutual kinks and seemingly limitless res