"How about you find someone to fuck you that doesn't care about protecting you from your own goddamn self-destructive tendencies? I care about you. You want it hard? You want it to hurt? That's not me," Declan snarls back.

"And it's never going to be me. Hurting you is never going to be on my agenda. I am not denying you anything you need emotionally, Kate, and I never would. But I am not going to be responsible for hurting you, the end. I'd hate myself."