"And you lot believed that if you became my women, I would at least honor your contract?" I surmised.
The girls all raised their heads to nod at my question.
"Then what would you all have done if I had abandoned your guild after I had taken advantage of you?"
One of the girls, eating a {Heal} tablet, looked at me as she answered.
"That was a risk we were willing to take, Patron. If even one of us found favor in your eyes, we hoped you would keep us by your side."
"Why didn't you all just leave Golden Wick and join one of the better guilds?"
A childish voice from one of the girls squeaked in anger. "Because they are bad people, Patron! They cheat and blackmail new Wraiths just to fill their quotas! Golden Wick is not like that!"
"Yet they are able to survive while you throw yourselves at a man you don't even like," I replied coldly.
"That..."