Chapter 6Arabella snapped awake, not sure what had drawn her from a deep sleep. The low angle of the soft sunbeams told her the day was still young. For a moment, she felt energized, eager. Then the sharp twist of pain came again—and she knew it was the pain that had awakened her. Her period. She muttered a grumpy curse. She didn’t always have severe cramps, but this was going to be one of the times when she did. What a perfectly revolting development!
Now it would be several days before she could again enjoy Zeth’s loving. Surely he would not since most primitive people believed a woman to be unclean at this time, didn’t they? Of course, she could hardly classify him as primitive, although given the time in which he said he had lived, how could he be anything else? Yet he seemed very urb
