I wanted to rip her from her gilded cage and force the world onto her just to watch her crumble. Misery loves company, and I was nothing if not lonely.“- Kaden.

I’m not hiding. I’m wearing my heart on my sleeve. Everything anyone wants to know about me is right in front of their faces. Most just don’t bother to look.

When I have you bent over this couch, which one of your names should I moan?

I hadn’t slept well since I was a teenager. Monsters loved to play in the dark.

If you don’t believe in yourself, why should anyone else?

Worthless. It wasn’t that I viewed my tears as a weakness; it was that I knew what they’d said was true. I was a nothing. No one looked forward to seeing me in the morning. No one laid his head on his pillow at night to dream of me. I existed by pure accident, and no one would let me forget how unwanted I was.

If anyone makes you cry, I will make them cry, okay?

Moth to a flame. Somehow we both got burnt.

I needed to find a real sub. Someone who knew better than to talk back to me. Someone who took my word as law and didn’t question what I did.

I love you,” he repeated. “I wasn’t sure it was even possible for me to care about anyone else again, but I can’t deny how I feel about you.