Kieran could bend the truth, identify the non-penetrative sex that people could have, but with their upbringing and the circles she ran in he was fairly sure she already knew. If she was asking him it was because she wanted to have penetrative sex - if she was not having penetrative sex already - and if they circled around it he would not help her.

And - well, this aspect of his identity was illegal too, and Kieran knew it well. But it felt less dangerous than the werewolf thing, less likely to blow up - people went to prison for it but they didn't ruin lives, and if Fallon did arrest him then he was confident in Eileen as a cover story, sure that she would come down and say that they were common-law married, that they had sex all the time and that he simply pulled out before the point of no return, and say it so believably that no one would convict.

So it was with all this knowledge, and looking carefully at her - he wanted to gauge a reaction, especially if things were going to come to blows - that Kieran said: "I don't sleep with women."

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