In the bedroom, he put her down and stepped away from her. She instantly missed his heat. "When I spend time with you in the sleeping place, you will feel pleasure."
She shook her head, frantic at the thought of those scary feelings overtaking her body again. "No, I won't. I'm not a sinner. I'm not."
"Making sex, having relations, is not a sin."
Susannah twisted her hands in front of her. "Brother Joseph said a woman experiencing pleasure during relations is the embodiment of sin."
Azagor rubbed the ridge on his head. "This is the fat man that put the scars on your body? The human that took your cousin from you?"
"Yes." Every time he called Noah her cousin, guilt wanted to consume her. She should've told him the truth from the start. Now she didn't know how to explain her reasons for lying. Didn't even understand them herself.
"Do you accept that such a useless human knows right from wrong?"