One of the reasons I had fought so hard in the arena was so that I might never have the look that she now had. This beautiful woman must think I was no better than the men, who frequented the whore houses that I had by my own actions saved her from as a girl.
I let go of her wrists and stepped back abruptly. She looked up at me surprised and wary of my next move all at the same time. I let my hands fall to my sides and I moved further back.
"I'm sorry! I didn't mean to lose control like that! I'm sorry if I hurt you!"
Shocked she stared at me while rubbing her wrists. I gestured towards a sofa, "Will you have a seat please?"
Krista looked at the sofa and then at me not sure what to think of the change in my demeanor towards her. She moved over to the sofa never turning her back on me and sat in a corner of it, drawing her knees up under her protectively. I pulled a chair out across from her and sat down. Sweat was beaded all over my face and I searched for something to say in the awkward silence of the room, as she watched me closely.
"Do you need anything? Are you hungry?"
Somewhat hoarsely she said softly, "I am a little hungry. I don't eat much during the day leading up to these events. The clothes are tight enough without having a full belly too."
My eyes drifted down and I saw what she meant. Huskily I asked, my eyes still clinging to the well defined womanly curves, "Why does Sebastian have you dress so provocatively? He doesn't strike me as the kind of man to show off something he values to others? I know he values you very highly."
She paused hesitantly and then looked up at me somewhat shyly, "Sebastian and I…..we don't…..we aren't intimate together. I'm for show, to make others think of Sebastian as a vigorous man for lack of a better way of putting it."
She finished embarrassingly before she continued, "I help Sebastian in his work. Men will often let information slip that they wouldn't otherwise around a……around a."
"Beautiful woman." I finished for her.
She blushed a little and nodded her head. She didn't know how much her telling me as to what the extent of her relationship with Sebastian was meant to me. I had felt a big sigh of relief inside of me at the divulging of that information.
"Don't tell anyone please. I only told you because I know that you're of Sebastian's family and that you know of the work that he does."