He shrugged. “I discovered it is one and the same to me. There is great pleasure in pleasing a woman knowing she does not depend on my attention. You allowed me into your life because you desired me, not because you needed me. Very flattering. I consider you thoroughly seduced.” But she did need him. Love, she was learning, was needing someone even when he offered nothing but himself. “It takes a brave man to want a woman who wants rather than needs him,” she said instead.
