“Then what exactly are you suggesting, Your Highness? Because I’m confused as to why you would now demand that I be…what? More argumentative? Irrational?” “As I told you before, I quite enjoyed the more…reckless side of your nature.” I was still on the outside. Inside, however, I trembled. “But this?” He lowered his hand to the surface of his desk. “This was how you were raised to be, wasn’t it?” I sucked in a breath. “Pliable. Submissive. Quiet.” He paused. “Empty.”
