"You are eighteen, right?"

"Yes."

"My mother wants to know if you would be interested in a part-time job."

"What kind of job?" Russ asked.

"Working here, giving massages."

"I don't know anything about giving a massage, and there's no way I would do the extra thing you did."

Lan laughed. "We'll teach you about the massages. Hao told my mother he's going back to Vietnam for the summer. About a third of our clients are women who prefer male hands to those of a female. Many of them come here for the special services we offer. Unless you choose otherwise, you wouldn't be expected to work on male clients,"...