jerked back from him. ‘You’re joking. You have to be joking! There’s no way we have to do that! How would anyone know if we, um, did it or not?’
He gave her a levelling look. ‘We’d have to prove it.’
Her brows went up. Her eyes went wide. Her heart started to gallop. Her inner core got hot. Very hot. ‘You mean like witnesses or something? Oh my God, I can’t believe this! I’m so not a threesome person. I’m not even a twosome person. I—’ She clamped her mouth shut. She had given away too much as it was.
‘We’ll need evidence that you’re a virgin.’
Angelique blinked. ‘Pardon?’
‘Blood.’ He had his poker face on. ‘On the sheets. We have to display them the next morning.’
She gave him a narrowed look. ‘Whose blood?’
His mouth cracked in a half-smile. ‘Yours.’
Angelique sent him a fulminating glare. ‘I just knew you were going to say that. The only blood I want to see spilled right now is yours.’
‘You’re really hating this, aren’t you?’ His expression was amused.
Her eyes went to slits again. ‘By “this” I suppose you mean this ridiculous subservience.’
He gave one of his loose, get-over-it shrugs. ‘It’s the way things are done here.’
She shook with outrage. ‘But it’s the wrong way!’
‘The women here are happy.’ His voice was calm, measured. ‘They don’t have to do anything but be who they are. They don’t have to primp and preen. They don’t have to have a spray tan every week or put on false nails or colour their hair. They don’t have to pretend they’re not hungry when they’re starving, because they’re not going to be judged solely on their appearance. It is who they are on the inside that matters.’
He was describing a paradise...or was he?
She set her mouth. ‘That’s only because they probably don’t know what they’re missing. If just one woman gets a glimpse of what she could have, you could have total anarchy out here.’
An amused quirk tilted his mouth. ‘And I suppose you’d be out front and leading the charge of that particular riot?’
She gave him a beady look. ‘You’d better believe it.’
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