Fear cut Billie as deep as a knife wound and a kind of panic raced like a wrecking ball through her more usually calm thoughts, creating mental havoc. Her blood ran cold, her skin turned clammy. ‘L-lies?’ she queried, playing desperately for time.
‘That certainly wasn’t the very first time you had s*x. You weren’t a virgin before I married you, yet you were determined to make me believe that you were. What is that other than a lie?’
He was disappointed, she assumed, realising just what a pit she had dug for herself to fall into. How could she tell him the truth without telling him the whole truth? The few hours of grace she had believed she still had had suddenly vanished, depriving her of any control over the situation.
‘Of course it would be downright hypocrisy for a guy of my experie
