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"Shit, I’m sorry," she said, and tried to pull away

"No, no, no, you stay If I like pain enough to have these bruises, then I like pain enough to feel you against them"

"Are you sure?"

"I’sley hesitated before answering He far preferred to keep secrets than to share the arouses me more than pain and fear"

"Your pain?" she asked "Your fear?"

"My pain My fear And the only things that arouse me as much as my pain and my fear are someone else’s pain and fear I didn’t know the word switch until four years ago when I found a club in Paris That’s what I a kink since you were a teenager"

"I was doing kink before I’d even heard the word kink We didn’t knoe were doing or ere doing it We only knehat we needed"

"We? We as in you and Father Eyelashes?"

"He wasn’t Father Eyelashes ere together He was a student like sley corrected "The second time he was a teacher--Mister Eyelashes"

"So that was the teacher you seduced?"

"He was," Kingsley said with pride He knew Søren would never have pursued hisley hadn’t pursued Søren first

"Did he hurt you like this?" She touched the bruises on his chest and shoulder

"He hurt me much worse than this, which is why I loved him more than anyone"

"He hurt you worse than this?" she asked, sounding gling withhatred of Søren and total fascination with hi me I wanted him to And there were fifty other boys in our school, all of theer than them, smarter than them and had them all in his thrall And he didn’t touch any of them"

"So why you, then?"

"They were afraid of hiht of hated him but it was probably jealousy, not hate I don’t blame thesley admitted without shame "I stared at him, followed hi to do his homework I even kissed him Also uninvited"