It was a condom. He planned to have sex with me. And worst of all, I wanted it. Badly. He grinned up at me. "Didn't want to get you pregnant your firs... time. That's a bad first impression to have of such an...intimate act." I looked at him suspiciously. "How did you know I was a virgin?" "Well, first of all, you told me, but I watched your reactions to make sure you weren't lying. You responded to everything with wide eyes and you were shaking a bit. That's how I knew." "But why is it so. Kari looked quite nervous so I said, "You're going to tell me eventually; you might as well get it over with quickly."Kari reached into her pocket and took something out. She reached over and dropped it in my hand. I looked at what she had given me, and I saw that it was a JG charm. I looked at her, not knowing what was going on."I was given this a while ago," she explained, "but I didn't feel that I deserved to wear it." Why not?" I asked her."Because all those others could take them off at. She spoke calmly but forcefully, insinuating an edge in her voice implying immediate discipline if obedience did not follow the words. i immediately stood, my head bowed, looking at Her boots, my hands behind my head, resting on the end of my slavehawk strip of hair. Mistress Jennifer was what some people might call a mannish woman. She was tall and strong, with a brownish blond head of hair kept short enough that it never got in her eyes when she rode or fought. Her body and clothes. The thought that we'd end up in bed that afternoon didn't even cross my mind.“So, what are you working on now?” I'd asked him.That was the moment of my destruction, although I wouldn't know that for awhile.“I'm shopping a novel around,” he told me. “I want a signed copy when it's published,” I said.“Would you like to see it?” he asked. “I've got it on my laptop.” I could have asked him to send me a copy, of course. I didn't have time to read a novel in an afternoon. He knew that as well as I.