The way Roman says that I should think of this as an 'opportunity' makes me all tingly.

I give a nervous laugh. "An opportunity to humiliate myself?"

"I was thinking more along the lines of an opportunity to... expand your horizons a little."

There's a suggestiveness in his tone, and it makes panic rise in me anew.

"Tell me," he says, "do you think you're attractive?"

That question doesn't make this any easier. "I - I mean, I ...