Those words, as unexpected as they are, cause her to go very still. Was he actually offering... The how escaped her reckoning as much as the why, but it's an offer she was strongly considering, nonetheless. It had been an awfully long time since she'd felt anything this good, and even longer since someone else had had any interest in participating in such activity in any way with her.

It wasn't proper southern manners to talk about such things, but... Well, screw southern manners.

Her hands grip his door a little tighter and her voice wavers slightly as she quietly asks, "Are you being serious right now, sugar? Because I trust you a whole lot but I don't think I could take it if you were teasing me about this."

This is a big step for her, a leap that she is so willing to take — so long as she knows she can trust him in this too.