[My Dear Nikolai, your resolve is a wonderful display of your affection for those girls.]
The gentle voice of Elizabeth echoed through his mind, a soothing warmth spreading through the painful organs, reducing the pain in Nikolai's body.
[But…]
A sudden pause, his mother's voice low, and without her usual confidence.
[Do you think you can handle it?]
'W-What do you mean, Mother?'
He never doubted his mother's reasons or meaning because she mentioned this. Nikolai knew for sure that she didn't say these things just to second guess him, or to make him doubt.
[It might have been fine in the past, until you slept with her. But your body is being torn apart resisting that natural desire right now.]
[Can you endure it, my lovely child?]
Elizabeth's affection and love, something he would never doubt. Now he understood her meaning, and the burning sensation spreading through his abdomen, the dull ache in his muscles each time he turns away from her.
She wasn't lying to him.
