“s*x club?” she asked as he escorted her inside. “Kink club. We cater to all the fetishes here.” “Is ‘terrified of s*x’ a fetish?” “It’s a damn shame, is what that is.” He led her up the central staircase to a room at the end of a second-floor hallway. He opened the door to a bedroom that appeared to have been lifted from a nineteenth-century house of ill repute. Seemed an appropriate setting for some behavior of ill repute. “Let’s get you over that, shall we?” “If you can do it, you’re a miracle worker.” “I can do it if you’ll let me. You’ve gotta trust me though.” He opened an ebony cabinet inlaid with ivory and pulled out a flogger. “Okay, you weren’t kidding about the flogging thing?” “I never kid about floggings. You say you’re afraid of pain during s*x. Fine. Let’s get the pai

