One of the first things Rin taught me about working as a courtesan was how much more successful I would be if I didn’t sleep with my patrons.
I thought that a courtesan was just a fancy prostitute, but she showed me that was far from the truth; many of the men we worked with wanted us because they couldn’t have us. We had to make our patrons want us more than anything else in the world, and to convince them that they might win a single night with us if they remained loyal to us and showered us with gifts.
But Caius… he really didn’t care about that; he had plenty of women willing to spend the night with him.
I hadn't planned on sleeping with him when we went back to his Villa together. I made that decision when I understood that he wanted something other than my body.
It was not diffi
