“You really want to know?” Mal nodded, and she looked at him, considering. Then, “Okay.” She took a breath, looked down at her boot then back at him. “It was a man I met in a bar. Slept with him that very night.” She saw his face tighten, as if, despite his insistence, he was finding the information hard to take. She paused a moment before going on, “Then we shipped out next morning.”
Realisation hit. “Did you happen to save this man’s life?”
Freya raised a brow as if in thought. “You know, I believe I did.”
Mal’s surprise was almost palpable. “You were a virgin?”
-- Shades - Part II by Jane0904