“Are you insinuating that women—” “I insinuate nothing. It is experience that has taught me to be cautious. Your kind enjoy the thrill of the exotic, but the consequences of such encounters usually yield imprisonment for males of my people.” She felt sick. “That’s not right. Everyone should be accountable for their actions, Heimseryan or Talagan,” Tempest said heatedly. “If both parties were willing, then there was no crime.” “You would think,” Briggs said, his hands gentle on her thigh as he unwound the gauze. “But that is not the way of the world, my lady. Talagans get the brunt of blame.”
