“They stopped and bowed their heads close together as the revelers ate and danced and celebrated around the glow of the fire. Darkness was falling over Lilyvale, the pink horizon a glorious and unusual marvel.Lily and James hardly noticed, lost as they were in the preciousness of the moment. "Lily mine," James whispered. "We're finally home.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”