“Ground rules?” she echoed.
“Yeah. Like… if we were together, I wouldn’t spend time with anyone else at all. No women in the crash rooms in the bar. No women in any rooms, anywhere.”
“Really?” Sarah said, the skepticism clear in her voice. “You’d do that? You could do that?”
“Of course I would, and of course I could. But here’s the thing, OK, and it may well be a deal-breaker for you. I can’t totally commit to you, not all the way, and maybe not the way you want or need.”
“What do you mean?”
“I’d never cheat on you. That’s a promise, and it’s not up for discussion of any kind, ‘cause you deserve a guy who’s faithful to you. I promise I’d never lay a hand on you in anger, and I’d never lie to you, and I wouldn’t force or guilt you into bed – anything we did there, I’d want it to be bec
