Chapter 53. The Price of Freedom

“Why didn't you tell me you were a virgin? That you'd never had sex with Allister?” he asked with cold eyes and a bored voice.

   “Would it have changed anything? I even tried to talk on a few occasions, but something told me that your desire was beyond your ethics, and you wouldn't see that as an obstacle, nothing I told you... On the other hand, you might not believe me. You were so sure that I had already... lain with other men, that I wondered if in some of your dreams you'd seen that, and associated it with reality.”

   Adam looked at her sideways.

   “It wasn't in dreams. When my father showed us you in a photo as his new acquisition, I saw the innocence in your smile, and I asked him about your experiences, and he told me that you'd been having sex with men since you were thirteen...”

   “And would you have changed your mind if he'd told you the truth?” Anna asked, smiling, and not at all surprised by All's att