Tessa silently looked at the back of Ray, who, having finished speaking, simply left. The girl was now in the strangest situation of her life. The face, completely red from anger and embarrassment, expressed a simply indescribable range of emotions.

"Bastard. Do you think I will let you do something like that!?”

Having made up her mind, the girl clenched her white teeth and, having collected the remains of her weapons from the ground, displeasedly went home, under the strange looks of the mercenaries, who did not know about the second part of the bet.

Having reached the place of her lodging for the night - a small tent, Tessa was not even going to go to bed. Her heart was constricted with terrible resentment and an even more unbearable feeling of self-hatred for being ready to break her own word. Until that moment, the girl had always been true to her principles, but remembering those damn words… “your ass will be mine”… she wanted to cut off the guy's genitals. What she, however, was going to do that night.

"Uncouth bastard. Just to insert your dick somewhere."

Thinking about it, the girl felt a strange tingle between her legs, which made her want to punish Ray even more. She sat down, clasping her knees, trying to drive out of her head the pitiless look of the son of the forest, who brought the blade to strike at her neck, but instead another image appeared in which she herself ...

Unable to restrain herself, the girl rolled over and with all her might hit the sleeping bag made of soft skin with her fist.

“What!? This will not happen! Never!"

Continuing to pour out her emotions on the innocent sleeping bag, Tessa cast a predatory glance in the direction where the guy should have been. Her eyes shone with undisguised murderous intent, as if she were trying to make a hole in the tent lining.

Suppressing the urge to step out and order Rey's kill right now, she sat up and took a few deep breaths to force her mind to think more or less soberly.

“I will do it myself. You can't ask for help. I'll just wait until he falls asleep. The panther can't protect him forever."

The girl was inflamed and was about to leave when she heard a voice from outside:

- Tessa? I enter.

- Stop! All confidence vanished when she realized who had just spoken.

She was about to draw some kind of weapon, but before she could even move, Rey entered the tent, still dressed in his armor, but already having removed his hood.

Suppressing the urge to run away, Tessa made her voice as stern as possible.

- What do you want? - the girl understood that she could not defeat him in a direct collision, moreover, being also unarmed in such a closed space.

I seem to have overestimated myself. I thought I could last another day, but no. I guess I haven't been with a woman for too long, so let's do it today. - the voice was calm as always, as if he was talking about the weather, but Tessa, looking into those impassive green eyes, felt only an unexpected fear, which had not been there before.

The guy, not particularly worried about her condition, began to unceremoniously remove the armor. He had already managed to pull off his boot when the girl came to her senses.

- Stop! Are you completely insane!? - she screamed, involuntarily crawling away from Rei further and further.

Looking at her in surprise, the boy calmly asked:

- You gave your word, Tessa.

Hearing him, the girl bit her lip, but was not going to give up.

- I'll pay you. Ask for whatever you want, money, weapons, food. I will definitely give you a fair price. – she spoke quite confidently, but in response the guy just shook his head.

- Weapons, better than mine you can not give. I'm not particularly interested in food. And I don’t know the price of the money you have ... - as if tired of his words, Ray sighed and continued. - Enough. Get undressed.

- I said no". If you lay a finger on me, you will be very sorry. - she tried to speak with as much pressure as possible, but there was still a slight tremor in her voice, which even spread through her body when she saw the frown on the guy's face.

- Will you break your word? – Ray's voice was rather gloomy, which made Tessa move even closer to the opposite wall of the tent.

“As if you would really give me Cess if you lost!?”

Ray clenched his fists at this pathetic excuse, but decided to wait and talk first.

- You have no right to judge this, because I did not lose. Besides, if you're that interested, I was actually willing to give it to you. I needed him only as a companion in the woods, and although I became a little attached to this cat, I would keep my promise.

The guy's words were like a knife, for the girl's already squeezed in a vise heart. She understood that he was right and she was disgusted by the fact that she decided to break the contract, but she also did not want to give her body to the first person she met.

“If you don’t leave now, I will scream and the whole camp will attack you!” was the last argument she had, and Tessa was sure it would work. Hearing her, the guy didn’t even frown, on the contrary, his face softened a little. For a moment, it seemed to the girl that such an outcome would suit him even more, which was confirmed by his following words:

- I don't mind, but I assure you it's not worth it. Even at the moment of the meeting, I told you that I could kill everyone here like cattle, and after the battle with what you called him "the second strongest warrior", I can say this with even more confidence.

Ray had a reason to be so confident. And it was not in Cess, and not even in his specializations, but in the second green soul that was in his inner space.

Tessa did not want to believe his words, but the guy's eyes, so similar to those that she happened to see during their fight, simply did not give her the opportunity to doubt it.

Ray, please. I ... - the doom that filled Tessa's consciousness did not allow her to finish speaking normally.

- Do not exaggerate. I'm not going to kill you, nothing will happen to you after one night. At that moment, Ray noticed tears dancing in the corners of the girl's eyes.

“Just don’t say that you still…” the girl didn’t let him finish, interrupting him with a displeased, still trembling voice:

- What? Thought I was a whore, since there are so many men around!?

- Tsk. No, I just thought that you had at least some experience, and now it turns out that you have not yet slept with anyone at your age. You can't even satisfy me normally.

Tessa didn't know what to think after hearing his words. Now she was torn from a mixture of a wide variety of emotions and she only hoped that Rey would have mercy on her, but his next phrase, uttered at the time when he was removing his bracer, deprived her of those smoldering sparks of hope:

- In general, choose. Either you immediately undress and I try to be gentle, or I take you by force, but then you, as you threatened me, will definitely not be able to sit on horseback for a couple of days.

Two tears rolled down the girl's eyes, but she still forced herself to remove the small chest bandage.

- You are terrible!