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disappointed.” Cooper raised his head and looked Nando straight in the eye. “I want you to tie me up and then fuck me in the mouth.”
    In any other circumstance, Nando would have wolf-whistled and adjusted his crotch, but now he just smiled slightly and bit his lip, trying hard to hide just how much Cooper’s confession turned him on. He didn’t want to scare the man by seeming too eager. “I’m no Shibari master, but I know my way around a rope, so if we set some boundaries, I’m sure we can do that.”
    “Boundaries?”
    Cooper’s eyes drifted south again, so Nando moved closer and lifted Cooper’s chin with his hand. “I need to know your safeword, and I need to know how strong your gag reflex is.”
    Cooper swallowed. Hard. “I’ve given blow jobs before.”
    “This isn’t just going to be a blow job,” Nando teased.
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    able to pull away.” Nando let his eyes wander down—not to avert his eyes but to check out Cooper’s groin. Cooper’s jeans were tight so there was no mistaking his arousal. “So why don’t you give me your safeword on the way to the room?”
    Cooper got up right after Nando did and followed him down the dimly lit corridor. “I have some questions.” Nando turned around briefly but kept on walking. “Fire away, but I can tell you this. Our session will have a clear start and finish. Anything we agree upon will happen or not happen during the session. Outside of it, we just act normally. Afterward, we’ll review what you liked and disliked, and we’ll talk about what happened. This is for both our benefits. And all intimate contact will be safe. Even for the blow job, I’ll be wearing a condom.”
    “That won’t be necessary,” Cooper was quick to say.
    “Yes, it will,” Nando replied when he opened the door.
    He switched the door sign to “occupied” before going in.
    “What kind of health and safety officer are you?” He tried hard to make it sound like he as mocking rather than reprimanding Cooper. “We’re both gay, which means we’ve probably had a cock down our throat before, which also means we might carry a few unfriendly germs. I have a clean bill of health—you can check my records here if you like—
    but I take no risks with my clients. Why would I take one with you? For a Dom, the safety and well-being of his sub comes first.”
    Cooper nodded, albeit reluctantly. “Crimson. My safeword.”

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    “Crimson it is,” Nando replied happily. “Now take off your clothes and kneel on the rug there.” Nando walked to the small connected room. He knew it always worked best if he left the new guy to check out the room on his own, give him some time. Some guys hated the waiting and became more nervous. More than once, he’d returned to an empty room. When the potential sub was determined, though, Nando would return to the room and find the guy just as he’d requested: naked and willing. As he took off his shirt and briefly looked at his reflection in the mirror, he felt himself hardening. For a moment, Nando closed his eyes and inhaled. He had to stay in control, no matter how much the prospect of what was going to happen turned him on. Cooper came first tonight, in any way possible. Nando was going to have to make it good for him, turn his interest, his craving, into the idea that putting himself in the hands of an experienced Dom and completely letting go was the most amazing feeling in the world, and then Nando would find him that experienced Dom and turn him over. Assuming everything played out the way he imagined, he already had the right man in mind.
    Nando took one more look in the mirror at his lean, well-balanced physique and elaborate body art and gave his tight leather pants with the zip-away crotch a short tug before rounding the corner to the room. Cooper was there, on