Once we had that conversation, it was very simple to give in to what we’d lusted to do for years.”“Give in!” Lara laughed. “Right!”“Ask ...asha about that,” I grinned. “Tasha’s virtue was never safe from Tasha! She asked ME to preserve it for our wedding night, which I was faithfully doing until we realized that night might never come. Then she browbeat me into relenting on my commitment to her.”“I think I understand how Tasha’s little sister got pregnant!”“Clarissa told you?”“Yes, walking back. Ippozhuthu naan avaludy periya suuthai paarthukondu irukiren pinbu iruvar matum thaniyaaga irukirom.Aval ennai thirumbi paarthu en arugil vanthal pinbu enathu kannathai pidithu kiss seiya thudanginaal. Naan avalidam unaku eppadi kadi udaya saavi kidithu irukirathu endru ketten? Appozhuthu aval ithu ennudaya sontha kadai endru sonnal, ennaku appozhuthu than therium ival kadaiyudaya owner endru.Piragu naan avalai asaiudan katti pidithu udhatil mutham koduthen, appadi avalai katti pidikum pozhuthu. Brenner, Miss Brenner, in my chambers. Now, please!”As Bullock was stuffing his notes into his briefcase, Harley tapped him on the shoulder and said, “Mr. Bullock, someone handed me this note and said it was important that I pass it on to you.”Bullock looked irritated at the interruption, but he took the note, opened it and read. Then he went very pale in the face and looked around frantically, like he was expecting to see a ghost.I passed by his table, ushering Aunt Margie toward the Judge’s. .. and a little sad.”“I’d never heard it - not until my seventeenth birthday. Nor have I heard it since.”Her lips dried and her heart pounded like a bass drum. “I didn’t know that.”“Yes, that was a special birthday, not least because I’d determined I would lose my virginity.”“An unusual present.”“Yes,” he agreed. “Victorian men would visit the red light district to gain experience before they married. I had a different motive - simple lust.” Charles’s voice softened as he snuggled his head.