"Just truth" He leaned against the car and the jut of his hips was like an open invitation.

Vivian looked him straight in the eye. "I’m not interested in being one of a long line of willing victims, Scott" she said.

He thought that victim was an unusual choice of word. "I’m not as indiscriminate as you seem to imply, Vivian," he said softly.

"No? So what was all that? And besides, apart from me, when did you last have a lover?"

He frowned with memory, and the wry knowledge that, ...