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look at him. He had propped himself up on one elbow and the duvet had ridden down to his waist. Her eyes were compulsively drawn to the glorious sight of his exposed chest which in turn triggered off a series of hot littlerecollections of how that chest had felt under her feverishly exploring hands.
    ‘You were a virgin. Why didn’t you tell me?’
    ‘I told you I wasn’t experienced. Does it make a difference?’ It did; she could read it in his eyes. Her parents had never preached to her, but still she had been raised with high moral values. She had never made a decision to save herself for after marriage, but she had always known that she would save herself for someone she truly cared about. It was just her bad luck that she had picked a man who didn’t truly care about her. Her virginity was an embarrassment for him.
    ‘Of course it makes a difference!’
    Because what experienced man wants to make love to a woman who hasn’t a clue what she’s doing?
    ‘Are you going to talk to me? Damn it, Agatha, we at least need to discuss the fact that I didn’t use any contraception.’
    Agatha blanched in receipt of complications she hadn’t even considered. She had been so blown away with passion that the most basic issue of consequences hadn’t even begun to surface in her scrambled brain.
    ‘Don’t worry.’
Don’t worry? Of course he would be worried—sick!
He had slept with her, caught up in the moment just as she had been, but smart enough now that they had exhausted their passion to ask the most fundamental of questions.
    ‘Normally I take responsibility for contraception but this was an event that I didn’t foresee.’
    ‘There’s no risk of me being pregnant.’ She did some quick maths in her head and worked out that she was probably telling the truth. ‘So you don’t have to add that further worry to the pile. I…I’d like you to go now.’
    She would have taken the first step and set an example by getting dressed, but her clothes were on the ground, andcovering the short distance with nothing on was too much to bear thinking about.
    ‘Funny, but I’m not believing you. Why did you decide to give your virginity to me?’
    ‘I didn’t
decide
anything!’ The words were wrenched out of her in her last-ditch attempt to cling on to her dignity. ‘It just
happened.
I was really upset over all that business with Stewart and I just wasn’t thinking straight. I wasn’t thinking at all,’ she battled on wretchedly. Nothing in her sheltered life had prepared her for dealing with a situation like this, and it fought against everything in her that compelled her to be honest, but the instinct for survival was stronger. ‘I just… fell into bed with you because you were here and I needed comfort.’
    ‘You’re telling me that I was
handy??
    Given a way out, Agatha still shied away from using it. ‘I…maybe I don’t know.’
    ‘You used me, in other words.’
    ‘Of course I didn’t use you.’ She was horrified at the picture of herself that those three words conjured up. ‘But people just don’t think straight when they’re upset. And I
was
upset.’
    ‘You barely knew the man!’ After an extraordinary high from their love-making, Luc was plummeting back down to earth faster than the speed of light. Since when had he ever been the equivalent of a bottle with which someone could drown their sorrows? If she clutched that damned duvet any tighter around her, she would be in danger of imminent strangulation.
    ‘That’s true,’ Agatha was forced to concede in a shaky voice. ‘But that still doesn’t make this right. I’m not, you know, the kind of girl who jumps in the sack with a guy.’
    ‘But you were so overcome with misery after a botched relationship with some loser you knew for all of threeminutes that you decided to go for it? Well, on the bright side, at least there won’t be any lasting consequences.’
    ‘Sorry?’ Her heart skipped a couple of beats as he pushed himself off