Denial * * * * * * * * * Bayá * * * * * * * * * * "You're a complete i***t, Bayá," Ramsés insults, and I can't refute it. It was true; I had been a complete i***t. I should have been the one not to act impulsively and stop everything that had already happened at the time, but... but I didn't, and it was because... I didn't want to; I didn't want to stop. Seeing her exposed in front of me was enough for that desire, which I didn't know existed, to take over me and my instincts and... I didn't think of anything else but making her mine in every possible way and without measuring my roughness. "If I had known she was a virgin, I..." "What would you have done? Would you have stopped?" I inquired angrily, but I remained silent because that was not what I would have done. I was anxious, I

