Hearing the sudden panic in his voice, Natalia paused in her teasing, pulling her hand away and looking up at him with a worried frown. "Um...da?" She gave a small shrug, sliding her arms back around him again. "It's no big deal, James. It was my choice to even let you, in the first place," she told him, wrinkling her nose a little playfully.

"But now I'm curious." Slim fingers drifted down his belly again, teasing and touching. "How would you have done it, as you say? If you'd known, back then?"