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"Tell me, sweet Ariel," he murmured, "are you a virgin?"
I tried to jerk back away from him, surprised and thrown off by his question. This was something I'd assumed he already knew the answer to, something all of my guys knew the answer to. Didn't they all get together and talk about these things when I wasn't around?
Lie, that was the point of this. Perhaps he wanted me to lie in answer to questions he already knew the answers to. That way he'd know what he was feeling and could tell whether or not his magical brew was working or not.
"No," I told him in a serious voice. "I'm not a virgin."
Absolute lie, one hundred percent.
His nostrils flared angrily and he hissed, "Who was it? Who did you have sex with? This is absolute bullshit. We all agreed to take things slow with you, and someone went behind our backs and fucked you?"
I reared back at his ugly choice of words and jerked out of his hands. He could not be serious right now.
"Julian," I snapped. "Maybe it would be best if you stopped talking."
Please, pretty, pretty please. Stop talking, I silently urged him. He was going to freak me out if he kept going like this.
"They promised," he whispered in a heated voice.
I shook off my thoughts and stepped into him. I wrapped my arms around his middle and pressed my forehead to his. I scrunched my eyes up tight and hoped what I said next could get him to calm down.
"That was a lie," I rasped out. "I lied to you just like you asked me to. I've never had sex before, but lately I've really wanted to. Nobody will have sex with me though, because apparently you all promised some stupid crap about me that you probably should have asked me about before agreeing to. I really don't like the thought of all of you sitting around and discussing my virginity, and the how's and when's of when it's appropriate or not for me to be rid of it. That's really fucked up if you think about it. I mean, I get that we're all in a relationship together, and we are supposed to work together on everything, but I’m seriously uncomfortable with the rest of you talking about these things without me. Especially because it'saboutme."
I paused to suck in a sharp breath and immediately shut my mouth when it hit me that I was ranting and needed to stop. It wasn't helping the situation at all.
I opened my eyes to find Julian's eyes staring into mine intently. He wasn't blinking either, and for the first time since meeting him, a sliver of fear shot through me. I wasn't afraid for myself, but for the rest of the guys, because I worried he might take his rage out on them in order to figure out who he thought had deflowered me.
"I'm a virgin," I muttered in an attempt to calm him down.
"That could be a lie," he rasped out.
"It's not," I whispered urgently. "I promise."
Honestly, I didn't get what the big deal was here, but apparently it meant something to him.
Because I had to know, I asked, "If this is your reaction now when you justthinkI've had sex, then what are you going to be like when I've really done the deed with one of the guys and it's not you?"
He shook his head and his forehead slid across mine with every move.
"It's nothing you'll have to worry about," he choked out. "It's just the thought of one of them lying to me that has me acting irrational. We went through a lot because of Annabell and I never want to have my brothers, my family, lie to me again because of a female. I don't want to go through that hell again and I don't want them to either. You can have sex with whoever the hell you want to amongst our coven, just don't let anyone lie about it. That's all I ask. That's all any of us should ask."
I dropped my hands from Julian's sides and stepped away from him in frustration. What he was asking was reasonable. Quinton had actually asked me for something similar when it came to honesty, it hadn't been about sex but honesty alone, and I had agreed to be completely honest with him about most things. Though, if you asked him, he'd tell you we agreed to honesty inallthings, but a girl had to have her secrets every now and then.
It was the mention of Annabell, yet again, that had me frustrated. They had an evil ex who really did a number on several of them and had left her mark. I knew this because I had to put up with the mess she'd left behind and it was starting to piss me off just a little bit. I didn't want to be looked at as untrustworthy because of the actions of another person. That really didn't seem fair to me.
"You're mad," he said quietly.
I shook my head and looked everywhere but at him, and ended up looking at the other end of the room.
The dirt was smooth and a rich, dark brown color.
I stumbled back and connected with a warm body. Julian wrapped his arms around me and held me close to him. His lips brushed my ear as I stared, transfixed, at the dirt where Vivian's body had been buried. My mind flashed back to the bathroom and watching her head bounce off of the countertop before falling to the floor, where blood oozed out of her head. It was an image that would forever be burned into my brain, because it was one of the most horrible things I'd ever seen. I had a whole list of horrible things I'd seen now, and that was only one of them. Like Chuck, another horrible memory I'd never be rid of.
I shuddered violently and Julian held on tighter. His heat surrounded me protectively, but it did nothing to calm down my nerves.
"Did anyone tell you about the dirt?" he asked in a hushed voice.
I shook my head in the negative, too upset to speak. I wasn't surprised to hear something had been kept from me about this room, because the boys avoided saying anything about Vivian's death if possible.
