When two people are deeply intimate, even the slightest emotional shift in one can be immediately sensed by the other. Scott noticed it the moment Julissa became distracted. He pulled away from her lips. “What are you thinking about? You’re so absent-minded,” he said, displeased. Julissa hesitated, unsure how to bring it up. How was she supposed to tell him… that she had been with another man? Of course, she could choose to hide it or simply never mention her past. But what if he did care? If he did, then he was nothing more than a controlling chauvinist. And in that case, they wouldn’t be happy together anyway. She had always felt that men who obsessed over whether their girlfriend was a virgin had a strange kind of psychological fixation. Even if they got married, he might eventu

