What is happening to me?
Her hands in her lap clutched at each other. She felt dizzy. It had happened so easily, so quickly. Was she becoming more than one person, like someone possessed by spirits? How could you know who you were unless you had a place and were firmly attached to other people?
Now, looking at David, she was aware of the feelings Simon had aroused in her as if they were the feelings of another person. Sophia Karaiannides wanted David. Her longing for him had been growing in her ever since their eyes first met in Manfred's audience hall months before.
"What is troubling you?" David said, frowning.
She felt flustered. "Nothing." When he looked skeptical, she added, "I am not certain how he feels about me."
David glowered at her. She tried to read his expression. He looked angry. Was he angry at her for being willing to take Simon as a lover?
He probably thinks I am nothing but a whore.
She liked to think of herself as a woman who was able to move easily in many circles, a woman who involved herself in affairs of state. But was she not deceiving herself? Was it not that all men valued her for was her body in bed? And David did not even want that; he just wanted to use her body to ensnare Simon de Gobignon.
Then why did he look at her so angrily?
"How will you find out what he feels for you?" David said. "Will you wait for him to make the next move?"