“It was good for her though, to submit to things that weren’t for her pleasure, but his.”

“Theo was so pleased with her, so proud of her. In love with her, whatever love was.”

“What kind of slut do you think I am?”Theo bumped his hips against hers. “This might not be the best moment to ask me that.”

“Do you know about it, Kelsey?” he asked after a while. “Dominance and submission? This thing we’re doing? I don’t know so good how to explain it. Only how to do it.”

“I was his comfort object, and what he asked for, I did.”

“I want to mark you, and I want to own you. I want to fucking live inside you.”

“Oh my God. Party punch. He’d brought a woman with the social age of twelve to the Citadel. He deserved everything he got.”