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“I have no boundaries now. You burned them all. I have no walls around myself; you have reduced each one to rubble. You have undone me in every conceivable way and yet still you hesitate, and I adore you for it. Sometimes I wish I did not; God knows it would be easier for me. But if an easy life must be paid for with the absence of you then I find the price too steep to so much as contemplate. I am your creature now, wholly and completely - so do with me what you will. I shall not turn you away,' he says, so low and calm you could almost imagine it meant nothing.”
― Charlotte Stein, Sweet Agony: A Provocative Adult Fiction Erotic Romance of Secrets and Submission

“It didn’t come from any place. You’re imagining it. I absolutely never call you cute nicknames in my head. Ever. I’m much too manly for anything like that.”

“Well, that’s a shame because I was just thinking how great it is when you go against the manly grain. You know, like…when you cook things, and respect my boundaries, and touch me so…gently.”
― Charlotte Stein, Almost Real