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Silena had been sore after our wedding night. Of course, I’d been a lot younger and less experienced then. I hadn’t yet known how to please a woman properly or how to prepare her for my entry. Silena and I had learned together after that night. Silena. The thought of her was like a dagger in my heart. I’d pledged myself to her forever, and now I’d slept with another woman. Even though Silena was gone, it felt like a betrayal. I shouldn’t even be thinking about her while I was in bed with Rose. Guilt wracked my body with a shudder and conflict warred within me. Not only guilt for sleeping with Rose, but guilt for thinking of Silena at a moment like this too. My heart was torn between the two women who owned it. The one I’d lost, and the one I was terrified to lose now. “I’m not sore. I fe
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