"Despite your experience, not every Master desires a completely submissive slave," Derek confessed, his tone wry. "Kate was the opposite of P--of my other slave, in a lot of ways. Loud, and provocative, and older. I was your age, or Stiles' when we met. Still technically a minor. I guess you could say I didn't know what I was getting myself into. But she was...very persuasive." Telling him that he needed a woman, not a girl. And she had a way of daring, of challenging him without making it seem like that was what she was doing, and he'd played right into her hands.