Ooooooookay he seemed to like that. Right. It was Reno. Of course he liked that. Good. Good. She could do this.

Okay, then, she was still fierce and in charge. For real. That's why she was prowling around the bed again.

"So I have the second-in-command entirely at my mercy," she purred. "Still so arrogant. Still trying to bluff your way out of this. Still unwilling to admit I've got the upper hand."

This time the riding crop was on his stomach again, but gliding lower.

"'Fastest of the Turks,' eh?" she repeated, with a mocking smile. "Funny. That's not what all the girls in sector six say."