Chapter 34

Kaiya

“What kinds of questions?” Vanessa asks.

This is embarrassing. “I…can you keep a secret?”

Smiling at me, her face softens as she nods.

“When the king met me, he said that we won’t have a physical relationship, but now…I think we’re headed that way.”

“Okay, and?”

“All I know about sex is the mechanics.” I can feel the blood rushing to my cheeks. “You know, what parts go where. I don’t know anything else.”

To my surprise, Vanessa doesn’t laugh or make fun of me. I was ready for that, so I’m slightly taken aback when she shows sympathy instead of mirth. “Wolves really like to keep their women pure, don’t they?”

“I don’t know…no, I don’t think so, not really. In our pack, everyone fornicated with everyone else until they were mated.” Except, of course, girls like me. The high-ranking wolves' daughters were off-limits and expected to keep their virginity until they mated.

“How did they prevent pregnancy?”

“Uhm,” my mother told me this when I was about thirteen, but a lot of it’s gone