" Dominating the world by day, most powerful men needed to submit by night to maintain the polarity of their tastes, indeed their lives, if just for a moment. But it was also about men in general, too – because men generally don’t enjoy hurting women. But a woman hurting a man? Most people would admit there was something nasty and naughty about it all. And right. Just so right. Needing pain was Shay’s dirty little secret because by day she promoted femdom, but in the very late hours she needed someone to give her pain, a deep pain nobody but Teddy could deliver, not in the same way. Deep, soul-churning pain from the one man she’d ever loved. The one man she’d ever love. "

― Sarah Michelle Lynch , The Risk (Nightlong, #3)