“I'm chasing an itch that I can't reach and a scratch that's too deep, and I don't know how to stop bleeding.”

“Let me be selfishly selfless and love you in the back of my mind where I know it’s safe for both of us.”

“I have so much pent-up anger and resentment for the man who took the good parts of me and twisted them into the fucked, dismantled, and distorted version that I’ve become.”

“I admire it so that every time you stick your nose somewhere it doesn’t belong, I want to bend you over and punish you for it.”

“It’s nice to hear your voice. For a while, I felt you didn’t enjoy my company.”

“But as a wolf, I can be real fucking disrespectful…and you have a pretty mouth, kid.”

“Coat my lips in your arousal? Or lick the arousal from yours…either way, yes…I was about to make you cum.”

“Offer a cornflower, did you? Tell me…how good did it feel to be home? Was it still as wet as you left it?”

“I brought her back here because this is where she wanted to be, and I’m seeing that was a fucking mistake.”

“...and what would he need to protect here, baby?”

“So unbelievably comical that you wanted so badly to be away from the rotten walls of death, and yet…here you are.”

“It’s hard for me to say it now, and I don’t know you like I did then, but I'm still just as grateful to know someone who makes a goodbye so hard to say.”

“If I weren’t trying to exercise self-restraint, I might think it deserves a lashing from the leather of my belt.”

“It’s murder, isn’t it? Fucking deadly…this little thing.”

“I’m sorry, mommy. I only wanted to color, but it started coloring back.”

“I didn’t bite you, but I will leave your neck as blue as it was the day you came to the grove without using my hands.”

“I love you, Sage, but I would rather make adjustments in my life than create boundaries around my heart to accommodate disrespect.”

“You will take an equal power source of my choosing, this isn’t a fucking game.”

“I’ve spent so long behind the mask that I want time to feel you without it.”

“You will cry for sanctuary and repent for the sacrifices you’ve made, for monsters aren’t created in battle. They’re bred in shame.”