Cephus’ POV

Chapter 172

Cephus’ POV

“I’m not like one of your usual little boys who is too afraid to even touch you. If you try to play games with me, I won’t allow you to assign me different rules.”

“You know what I think,” I muttered, “you have a problem with expressing intimacy with a woman unless there’s a point to it.”

“Spoken like a young woman who has never used intimacy without a purpose—and that being a purpose that pleases her and nobody else.”

“Who else am I supposed to be looking to please?” I demanded.

“If you intend to be intimate with me, you will need to be focused on pleasing me.”

“That sounds a little bit like your personal fantasy, Mr. Cephus.”

Cephus turned away from a very meticulously spread piece of toast on the jam to frown at me. “No, Katie, I can’t say it’s ever been a fantasy of mine to have to put a young woman with a bad attitude back in her place.

Some men may feel differently but you’ve chosen wrong in this case, if that was what you were hoping for.”

“It’s not lik