It’s in controlling someone else’s pleasure that the real man finds his own.

She raised her eyebrows, gripping her ice-cream by the shaft of the glass to take another spoonful. Firm grip. Nice fingers.

Insanity is knowing that what you’re doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can’t stop it. Elizabeth Wurtzel.

But you can’t save other people, no matter how much you want to. People will always walk their own path, dance with their own demons.

The legal Puppet Master pulling the strings of the dirty elite. Just who is Alexander James Henley Jnr?

You’re mine in this place, Cat. Mine to command, mine to control, mine to protect. You will give yourself to me.

His eyes eat me up but I hold mine firm. The darkness there takes my breath. My demons wave at his, and I swear they wave back. I feel the ghost of a shiver up my spine. My whole body wants him to wrestle me into his truck and drive me away. “Goodbye, Cinderella,” he says and my heart stutters.

Love has to be free. Alive like a butterfly, not pinned to a mount like the specimens I’ve been keeping for so long.

I don’t need to drape myself over a woman to show she belongs to me. It’s all in the eyes. In hers, in mine. If a woman truly belongs to you it’s written all over her. She smells of it. It’s in her smile. In the flutter of her lashes. In the way her body pulls towards yours, like a magnet. A charge.

Sometimes in life you have to let people take care of you. Sometimes you have to accept that people want to help, want to be there for you. Not.