" Do you want me?” I coaxed. “Want you?” The table nearly flew to the other side of the room from the impact of his slap on it. “I’m way beyond want. I’m somewhere between need and desperate. And I don’t like that place, Jesse. I don’t like it at all.” “Take me, then. "

― L.J. Shen , Bane (Sinners of Saint, #4)