Chapter 37

Chapter 37

Brooklyn

Jayde is not going to take no for an answer.

I stand up with her and swallow my last sip of wine. Then, I follow her back into the house.

Help me be the best lover anyone has ever known? How on earth is she going to do that?

And will all her expertise just be wasted on me in the end?

Jayde bustles through the house and I trail behind, following her to a door in the kitchen that I hadn't noticed before. She opens it and heads quickly downstairs.

The air is noticeably cooler down here, and we pass a series of metal doors. I slow my pace the farther we go, starting to feel anxious.

"What is this place?"

"It's just down here," Jayde says, not answering my question and opening the last door on the left.

At this point, I'm not sure what to expect when I walk inside, but I definitely don't expect a little study with a worn rug on the ground beneath a fine leather recliner.

There's a coffee table next to it and a large television. The walls are covered in media-old VHS tapes, magazines, books, photo albums stacked along the walls.

I organized it a while ago. I thought it would be better to set it up like this

have your help," I murmur, my gaze trailing over

old family stuff," Jayde says, waving her hand at the far wall. "But this..." She leads me over to a corner with stacks of magazines and VHS tapes. "This is what

and plops them in my hand. I gasp out loud when I realize they're all Playboys! Naked women adorn the pages, their bodies in inviting, suggestive poses, their eyes staring

adds another bunch to the stack in

course I'm uptight. All

Until Aden.

at me. "I thought if you came down here,

I say, blushing

the leather chair. "Listen, I'm going to

lots of VHS tapes up there," she continues, gesturing towards the corner where she found the magazines, "if movies are more your thing. Stay

staring at the stack of nudie magazines in my lap. What the hell am I doing here? This is so not

to do. Besides, if Aden is the only one that can make me feel... the way I've been feeling, maybe looking at some of this could help me refocus that heat

know, not on my

through a couple of the magazines-they're super old, definitely before Aden's time and wonder who collected them in the first

wander over to the stack of movies, laughing a little at

Co-Eds and their Punishing

Street Skanks in 3D.

hell

unlabeled in black plastic boxes. Curious, I

inside doesn't have any writing on it, either. Maybe a home video,

into the VCR, rewinding to the start. Then I sit

video. The room being recorded is empty, though I can see a bed in a pretty room with two windows

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