"And she wanted the monster in him. The unleashed. The crazed. Against everything that made any kind of sense, she wanted him to devour her, master her, take her down onto the hard floor right here, right now, and pin her under his naked, pumping body until she had no thoughts of who or even what he was. Who or even what she herself was. "Wipe me clean," she heard herself say against his mouth. "Take everything away for me until I know only you. Make everything disappear . . . but you."