" This looks like the red room of pain,” she says. My mouth drops open. My little prude has been expanding her reading horizons. I choke on my laugh, and a couple of people turn to look at us. I narrow my eyes. “You read Fifty?” I ask quietly. She blushes. Amazing! — the woman is capable of blushing. “Everyone was reading it,” she says, defensively. Then she looks up at me with big eyes.
“You?” “I wanted to see what all the hype was about.” She does that blink, blink, blink thing with her eyelashes. “Did you pick up any new techniques?” she says, without looking at me. I squeeze her hand. “Would you like to try me out and see?” She turns her face away, pressing her lips together — horribly embarrassed. "
― Tarryn Fisher , Thief (Love Me with Lies, #3)