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"I won’t tell I’ll never tell"

"It’s better he and Iwe should be friends only It hurts him but it would hurt worse to tell him I love him and still keep myself from him At least this way perhaps he’ll feel free to find another"

And then Søren had thanked her She didn’t even knohat to say to that other than, "What for?"

"For not being angry that I love someone else"

She could only stare at hisley Who wouldn’t?"

After all, she loved hiht she loved hiiven her pleasures she’d never even dreasley, like they were the same person or at least had the same nature She couldn’t quite understand, didn’t have the words for it, but someday she would know

"And what is it? What secret nature did you two share?" Marie-Laure asked

"We’re switches There aren’t that et us Only we get us"

"A switch?" Marie-Laure pressed her face closer to the glass of the"I thought he was of the Doy of your world"

"He is, definitely Most of the time he is a Dom But that’s not all he is He’s a Dominant and a submissive, a sadist and a masochist You can be all of the above It’s rare but it exists, especially in those of us who have incredibly strong libidos We want it all and ant it all the time"

"Sluts, in other words," Marie-Laure taunted

"And proud of it," Nora said entirely without sha, loves inflicting pain But every now and then, when he gets the itch to be on the receiving end, you sih If I had tied him to the floor and kicked him with steel-toed boots, he wouldn’t have tried to stop ht than Søren would do to et into that mood very often The kind of pain he likes, it takes weeks to recover frosley," she corrected There was no past tense with Søren When he loved, what he loved, who he loved, he loved eternally "Sometimes the only way to show soh It’s so fking hard"

Nora closed her eyes as Wesley’s face came back to her, the vision of hi Wes out of her house orse than any pain Søren had ever inflicted on her, any pain she’d ever inflicted upon herself She wished Wes knew the same

"So you saw your lover with anotherand it didn’t infuriate you?"

"No," Nora said simply "Why would it bother sley It was sexy"

"It’s perverse"

"Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it"