Rupert Cadell fails to voice his suspicions in a timely way. There are a couple of consequences.
"Whatever you want," Nathan finds himself saying when his shirt comes off over his head and his glasses hit the nightstand — like he's talking to himself, which he might as well be. "Don't think about it like should, or shouldn't. Don't think. Don't fucking try and figure it out. Come on. You can keep your shirt on."
Before Lan Yi is alone with the Yin Iron, she's alone with the Yin Iron and Baoshan Sanren.
Or: being immortal means always having to say you're sorry.
Richard likes secrets, and Mowbray likes oaths.
They were nearly at the end of this bout of fucking, when Sergei gave that damned scarf still looping over his shoulders a playful jerk and whispered in his ear if he would mind if he choked him a little?
Kreizler conducts an inquiry.
PWP. Taylor discovers Selena likes being choked.
The love of Sander's life still manages to surprise him.
In the early days of the Russo-Japanese War, a disciplinary episode results in Sugimoto Saichi being transferred from the 1st to the 7th Division. It doesn't take long to figure out that Russian gunfire might pose him less danger than the tangled web of a unit in which he's ended up.