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"Can I tell you how sorry I am?" Juliette asked

"For what?"

"I shouldn’t have slept with you if one night was all I could give you I shouldn’t have brought you into the mess that is my life"

"We barely know each other You don’t owe ht with youit was selfish of me"

"You aren’t selfish very often, are you?"

She raised her hands in a question A question, orselfish"

"Why not?" Kingsley asked

"Because I’m owned"

"I know manyselfish Some of them have made an art of it"

"I’m not owned the way they are"

"How are you owned then? What other way is there?" he asked

"The people you know, they are owned by choice? Because they want to be owned?"

"Yes, very sley turned and faced her finally "What do you o"

"Don’t be naive," Juliette said with a ssley was certain that was the first ti as there are men with money and power and women without it, there will be slavery in this world"

"But you’re here with ht now On this beach You can walk away froht"

She shook her head "No, you can’t"

"No one can own another person There are laws against it"

"This isn’t about laws"

"How can he own you like this?"

"He owns e debt I can never repay"