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Veducci. The fey, outside of some of the Seelie Court, see no shame in sex, as long as it is consensual.”
    “All right,” he said. “I’ll ask the next one. How many men at a time do you routinely sleep with?” He shook his head when he asked as if he couldn’t believe he was asking it.
    “I don’t think that’s appropriate,” Biggs said.
    “I’ll answer it,” I said.
    “Are you sure…?”
    “It’s sex. There’s nothing wrong with sex.” I held Biggs’s gaze until he looked away. I turned back to Veducci. “Average is probably two at a time. I think the max that I’ve ever done at once is four.” I looked at Doyle and Frost. “Four?” I made it a question.
    “I believe so,” Doyle said.
    Frost nodded. “Yes.”
    I turned back to the lawyers. “Four, but two is average.”
    Biggs recovered a little. “So, you see, gentlemen, ladies, a two-day wait between sex, or less. There are married men who have to wait longer than that for their needs to be met.”
    “Princess Meredith,” Cortez said.
    “Yes, Mr. Cortez.” I looked into his dark brown eyes.
    He cleared his throat and said, “Are you telling us the truth? You have sex three times a day with an average of two men at a time, and sometimes up to four. Is this what you want in the record?”
    “It is sealed,” Farmer said.
    “But if this does go to court, then it may not be. Is this really what the princess wants the public to know about her?”
    I frowned at him. “It’s the truth, Mr. Cortez. Why should the truth bother me?”
    “Do you honestly not understand what this information could do to your reputation in the media?”
    “I don’t understand the question.”
    He looked at Biggs and Farmer. “I don’t say this often, but is your client aware of what this record, even sealed, can be used for?”
    “I did discuss it with her, but…Mr. Cortez, the Unseelie Court does not view sex in the same way as most of the world. They certainly don’t view it as mainstream America views it. My collogue and I learned that when we prepped the princess and her guard for these talks. If you are hinting that the princess might be more careful about what she admits to having done with her men, then save your breath. She is absolutely not bothered by anything she has done with any of her men.”
    “Not to bring up a painful subject, but the princess didn’t seem very happy in the media when her ex-fiancé, Griffin, sold those Polaroids to the tabloids a few months back,” Cortez said.
    I nodded. “That did hurt me,” I said, “but because Griffin broke my trust, not because I was ashamed of what we’d done. I thought we were in love when those pictures were taken. There is no shame in love, Mr. Cortez.”
    “You are either very brave, Princess, or very naive. If you can use the word naive to a woman who is having sex with nearly twenty men on a regular basis.”
    “I am not naive, Mr. Cortez. I simply don’t think like a human woman.”
    Farmer said, “King Taranis’s allegation that the three guards he accused of this crime did so out of unmet sexual needs is a false assumption. It is based on the king’s own lack of understanding of his sister court.”
    “Is the Unseelie Court so different from the Seelie Court when it comes to matters of sex?” Nelson asked.
    “May I take this one, Mr. Farmer?” I asked.
    “You may.”
    “The Seelie try to ape human behavior. They’re stuck somewhere between the centuries of fifteen hundred to eighteen hundred, but they try to play human more than the Unseelie. Many of those exiled to our court have been exiled because of simply wanting to remain true to their original natures, and not let themselves be civilized in a human manner.”
    “You sound like you’re lecturing,” Nelson said.
    I smiled. “I did a paper in college on the differences between the two courts. I thought it might help the teacher and the other students understand that the Unseelie Court wasn’t the bad