Seraphina's Point Of View
Rose kept her palm pressed against her forehead for a long, heavy minute, her chest rising and falling in slow, bewildered breaths. She looked like a woman trying to reboot her own mind, as though sheer willpower might rearrange the words she'd just heard into something that made sense. Her fingers twitched slightly against her skin, betraying just how hard she was working to keep her thoughts from spiraling into complete chaos.
"Okay," Rose breathed out slowly, dropping her hand to her lap and looking at me like I was a stranger who had just beamed down from space. Her eyes darted over my face, searching for some sign that this was all an elaborate joke. "So... you had an unhinged, wild night in Naples with three terrifyingly gorgeous men who you thought were high-end male escorts. And that was your first time? You lost your virginity to three men at once?"
