"The first night I watched a man put his hands on her, I told myself it meant nothing. Serena is the kind of woman who rooms reorganise around. The kind men cross floors for and never forget. I was one of them. I got lucky. She let me in. She also told me, right from the start, that she likes to be the centre of attention. I thought I understood what that meant. I didn't. What followed was the slow, humiliating, completely irresistible education of a man who loved a woman he could never own.
I watched. I listened through the walls. I stood in the hallway and didn't leave. My body responded in ways my mind refused to explain. She never lied to me. She never hid what she was. She just did as she wanted, and somewhere along the way, I stopped trying to stop her. This is that story. All of it. The parts I'm ashamed of and the parts I'd do again."
"The first night I watched a man put his hands on her, I told myself it meant nothing. Serena is the kind of woman who rooms reorganise around. The kind men cross floors for and never forget. I was one of them. I got lucky. She let me in. She also told me, right from the start, that she likes to be the centre of attention. I thought I understood what that meant. I didn't. What followed was the slow, humiliating, completely irresistible education of a man who loved a woman he could never own.
I watched. I listened through the walls. I stood in the hallway and didn't leave. My body responded in ways my mind refused to explain. She never lied to me. She never hid what she was. She just did as she wanted, and somewhere along the way, I stopped trying to stop her. This is that story. All of it. The parts I'm ashamed of and the parts I'd do again."