Kate closes her eyes and lets herself have this. It's dumb, both needing it and being ticked at herself for needing it. She's never gotten up in her head about sex before and he just fucked her stupid. Owned her. She knows enough about BDSM to know what aftercare is.

It's just...she's pretty sure that her need to smell his skin and slide her hand under his shirt to touch him and feel his hand in her hair isn't aftercare. It's much, much more dangerous than that.

"It was kind of supposed to be the promise. You know, a symbol. That's probably stupid. But I figured if I could commit myself to that and finish it, for you, I could at least try this."