Instinctively, I let out a groan of pain. It was something I felt I couldn't bear, so I got up immediately.
I looked at Arthur; he seemed surprised and even embarrassed.
"Sorry, I..." I said, feeling a lump forming in my throat. I hadn't known it would hurt so much the first time.
"You didn't...?" he muttered, then moved away and got up. He put on a towel and a bathrobe, then picked up mine. "I'm sorry. I didn't know you were still..."
"A virgin?" I admitted, feeling a bit embarrassed, not because I was a virgin, but because I had imagined all this differently.
The sensual and intense atmosphere that had been there before had suddenly disappeared, and it was my fault.
"Come here," he said, extending my bathrobe to me. I left with my eyes downcast, unable to look him in the eye. I had
