He sighed now, breathing in the smell of her shampoo, and a bit of his own relief.  He was impressed.  She’d called his bluff and this made him happy, because otherwise she might have been angry.  This sort of thing had happened before.  He’d discovered the only way out was for him to play his “man” card, act dumb, awe struck, and tell her she was “just too much woman” for him.  He could get away with that because both he and Lauren understood that she had more experience in the area of seduction.  Though usually he thought the imbalance between them here worked in his favor. He liked learning from her.  It was nice to finally be in a position where he became something other than Dr. Freitag.

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