" So let me see if I got everything straight … This … means that we are somehow meant to be husband and wife. But if I refuse you, you spend the rest of your life impotent and alone? But I, on the other hand, am free to live my life however I see fit?”
He nodded.
“It really sucks to be you, doesn’t it? "

― Sherrilyn Kenyon , Night Play (Dark-Hunter, #5; Were-Hunter, #1)