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Wesley’s head throbbed, his eyes burned He’d never felt so raw and wounded in his life

"Do you have any idea," Søren began, picking up the elass once more, "how hard it is to overco face-first into hardwood and see if you don’t catch yourself You think you can do it, but I promise you, at the last second you’ll put your hands out and catch yourself every single tihed her love for herself The least I could do is let her have her way She wanted you to think I was a brutal monster? Fine It’s not far from the truth I’ve certainly been brutal in the past Even to her"

"But not like that"

"No Not like that The one time Eleanor ended up in the hospital because of h his hair It was such a huy that Wesley almost didn’t believe his eyes at first Søren was huuessed? "I’m sorry I’m sure you don’t want to hear this"

"I think after all I’ve been through I can take it"

"The one tio to the hospital because of me--I had her tied to the bed, only her wrists to the bedposts by leather cuffs, and I was inflicting one of the worst for She has thetickled Infectious God can hear it in heaven when she laughs like that She flinched wildly and twisted too hard in the restraints She sprained her wrist She screa"

Wesley stood up and turned his back to Søren He couldn’t even look at the h"

"That she does It’syou," Wesley said, staring into the shadows between the trees that surrounded the house

"You’resley and I were at school together" Søren’s voice trailed off and Wesley said a silent prayer of gratitude that the priest chose to go into no further detail "That he enjoyed it is no excuse for hing matter I’ve hurt Eleanor, too, very badly Not necessarily physically, although she has been the priet of my sadism for the past fifteen years I have bruised her, beaten her, cut her, burned herall for pleasure I know that turns your stomach, and I certainly won’t attempt to defend myself But I also know I don’t have to remind you that Eleanor was an adult who chose to submit to me and to pain of her own free will and that all she ever had to do was utter a single word to stoptoyou" Wesley turned back around "You are the weirdest lanced at the ceiling and seemed to mull the words over

"You only say that because you haven’t gotten to know Griffin yet"

"I know she consents to what you do to her That’s the only reason I never called the cops on you, and you better believe I seriously considered it a tiht of youranniversary She said it would be as stupid as calling the cops on two boxers fighting it out in the ring Kink is a blood sport, she said"