Teach Me a Lesson
Authors: Jasmine Haynes
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Berkley titles by Jasmine Haynes
TEACH ME A LESSON
THE NAUGHTY CORNER
THE PRINCIPAL’S OFFICE
WHAT HAPPENS AFTER DARK
PAST MIDNIGHT
MINE UNTIL MORNING
HERS FOR THE EVENING
YOURS FOR THE NIGHT
FAIR GAME
LACED WITH DESIRE
(with Jaci Burton, Joey W. Hill, and Denise Rossetti)
UNLACED
(with Jaci Burton, Joey W. Hill, and Denise Rossetti)
SHOW AND TELL
THE FORTUNE HUNTER
OPEN INVITATION
TWIN PEAKS
(with Susan Johnson)
SOMEBODY’S LOVER
Specials
LA PETITE MORT
UNDONE
TEACH ME
A LESSON
Jasmine Haynes
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Excerpt from
The Principal’s Office
by Jasmine Haynes copyright © 2012 by Jennifer Skullestad.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Haynes, Jasmine.
Teach me a lesson / Jasmine Haynes.—Heat trade paperback edition
pages cm
ISBN 978-0-425-26624-3 (pbk.)
1. Student counselors—Fiction. 2. School principals—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3608.A936T43 2014
813'.6—dc23
2013036556
PUBLISHING HISTORY
Heat trade paperback edition / April 2014
Cover photograph: “Girl tied with a bow” © Yarkovoy / Shutterstock.
Cover design by Diana Kolsky.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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Contents
Berkley titles by Jasmine Haynes
Special Excerpt from THE PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE
PROLOGUE
Chapter 1
To Kurt Loesch, a wonderful friend. We miss you.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thanks to my special network of friends who support me, brainstorm with me, and encourage me: Bella Andre, Shelley Bates, Jenny Andersen, Jackie Yau, Ellen Higuchi, Kathy Coatney, Pamela Fryer, Rosemary Gunn, and Laurel Jacobson. Thanks also to my editor, Wendy McCurdy, and my agent, Lucienne Diver.
1
“HE WANTS ME TO HAVE SEX WITH OTHER MEN.” JEANINE SMITH
punctuated the admission with a sob and a dab at her eyes with a moist tissue.
Charlotte had heard a lot of strange things within the confines of her therapy office, but this was definitely a first. She’d read of such behavior, men who wanted to loan out their wives, but she’d never personally encountered it. She dealt with relationship issues, performance and satisfaction concerns, self-esteem and body image difficulties, trauma and abuse recovery, and a whole list of other sexual anxieties. Her watchword was
empowerment
, and she believed in a compassionate, sex-positive psychotherapy. To her, no client’s problem was greater than another’s, and she never allowed herself to make judgments about whatever matter a client brought her. But she was human, and she could still be shocked.
It had taken Jeanine three sessions to work herself up to this revelation. “I mean
he
doesn’t want me, so he intends to give me to other men? Isn’t that crazy, Dr. Moore?” She sniffled, blotted her eyes, then her nose, threw the tissue away and grabbed another from the box Charlotte kept handy on the table between them.
Charlotte didn’t believe in the psychiatric couch. She set two comfortable chairs by the corner windows of her office, with a view of the oak trees separating her complex from the neighboring one. Even at the beginning of November, when the weather in the San Francisco Bay area had begun to change from fall to winter, she found the view to have a calming effect on her clients. She didn’t refer to them as patients. She wasn’t a doctor, she was a psychologist, but Jeanine didn’t listen well and Charlotte had stopped correcting her on the title.
Jeanine also paid in cash and didn’t bill her insurance company, all of which made Charlotte wonder if the overly common
Smith
was a false name. Charlotte had decided to let her keep her anonymity; if she’d pressed the issue, she wasn’t sure Jeanine would come back.
“Let’s discuss the particulars,” Charlotte said, her tone neutral. “We can start with how he brought up the subject.”
Jeanine blew her nose. Despite the red-rimmed eyes and the slightly smeared mascara, she was a good-looking woman. Wavy blond hair past her shoulders, blue eyes, a neatly dressed woman with a trim figure, she was a well-kept forty-three-year-old. Charlotte didn’t even need to add the common phrase
for a woman her age
. Jeanine had a teenage son with her first husband—who, by Jeanine’s account, rarely saw the boy because he was often abroad on business—and two more children, a girl of ten and another boy aged eight, by her second husband, David. He was fifty-two, and their sex life had ground to a halt two years ago. Of course, most couple’s problems weren’t about sex per se but usually concerned issues in other areas of their relationship that manifested themselves in the bedroom, which was why Charlotte would have preferred couple’s therapy. Jeanine claimed her husband refused to have any counseling. She believed David was suffering from erectile dysfunction and had even gone as far as to suggest Viagra. He’d refused that, too, telling her there was nothing wrong with his . . . parts.