PORN-ICATION: EROTIC COMPILATION
He just flipped on a small, brass desk lamp, a single pool of warm light that pushed back the shadows, but left the corners of the room dark and mysterious.
"Your paper," he said, his voice a low, intimate murmur that vibrated through the floorboards. "You wrote about sovereignty. About seizing power. But you seem to be under the impression that power is given. That it's a prize to be won, like a good grade or a professor's approval."
He walked toward me, his movements slow, deliberate, a predator stalking its prey. "It is not. Power is taken. And it always comes with a price."
"What price?" I asked, my voice barely a whisper.