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 reserves of sexual desire made me excited. There's no way we couldn't propel this to higher a