Moonlight on water

Playing the noble guy, how sweet... Osprey though sarcastically, while she listened to the big guy boast, how he would take care of her and of the pups that were going to be born. That he wouldn't even mind, if they weren't his own and so on, and so on. If she had been as naive as she pretended to be, then she would pounce at him and get the deal sealed right there and then. But her instinct told that this sounded too good to be true. Men weren't like that - they took pride in continuing their bloodline and they had little to no tolerance to those, who didn't belong to it.

"You are such a sweet and honourable man, Burke," she said in an innocent voice and her expression reflected true gratitude. For a moment he could believe that was true. "But you see... before we get married, I have to know, what is your opinion about polygamy," she asked him with true concern in her eyes. Somewhere in the back of her mind she thanked Peregrine for all his experience in relationships with both sexes.