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I think he’s trying to make a joke, but I don’t know why that would be funny.
“You don’t want to have sex with me?”
“Are you kidding me?”
“I don’t know what you mean by that.”
“Of course I want to sleep with you. Make love to you. Not fuck you, by the way.”
“What is the difference?”
“In a different situation, I’d spend an entire weekend showing you, Paigelynn.”
“We are two hundred feet underground, alone in a billionaire’s bunker, Cam. You have all the time in the world.” I stand on tiptoes and aim for his mouth, my need for a kiss a full-blown tornado inside me.
“Hold on there,” he says kindly, hands on my shoulders. “That’s not how this works.”
“Something isn’t working?”
He closes his eyes and frowns. “Oh, everything’s working just fine. No problem with the equipment.”
“Equipment?”
“A bad joke.”
“I want to understand the bad joke! All the jokes! I need you to teach me everything about life. And good food. And sex. And the world out there.”
“But mostly sex,” he mutters.
“Yes,” I whisper, instantly aflame, eager but feeling uncoordinated. Stupid. I pull him closer for a kiss.
“Paigelynn,” he says softly. “This isn’t how it works.”
“How what doesn’t work?”
“Sex.”
“I know I don’t know, Cam. That’s why I need you to show me. I’ll disrobe.” I step back and reach for the hem of my skirt, pulling it up. His forearms, tight as bands of steel, connect with my elbows and I cry out at the pain.
“Leave your clothes on.”
“I thought you had to take them off for sex. That’s what The Mother told me.”
He stiffens. “Donotbring her up right now.”
“But—”
“I understand what you’re trying to do. You think that if I ‘ruin’ you by taking your virginity, the bastards won’t want you for your genetics. It’s not that simple.”
“You mean theydowant me, even if I’m not pure?”
“I didn’t say that.”
“Then why did they constantly teach me about making certain to stay a virgin?”
“It’s complicated.”
“You’re hiding more from me!”
