William’s actions in quelling the recent revolt are rewarded with a virgin of his very own, a woman from one of the newly repressed tribes, the gift of a grateful nation.
But he’s worried: if the authorities find out what he’d really done on the battlefield, how he wasn’t a hero at all but a coward, they’d probably want their woman back. Still virgin.
Now he’s afraid to touch her. Every night he makes excuses to her impatient beseeching.
<END>
THE FRIDAY PITCH
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