"She'll leave me alone. She will. She promised." All of this was muttered under her breath and it wasn't clear who it was she was trying to convince, her or him.
But she didn't want to think about it anymore and Nikolai promised she didn't have to. She accepted a cigarette and waited for him to light his first before lighting her own. "Oh no, we're definitely using those again. When I'm sober and you remind me, I'll show you how to use the ropes too. There's lotsa things we could play with," Bailey explained, her bad mood evaporating at talk of handcuffs and sex. "I wont show you everything all at once but if there's anything you want to try, you should definitely just ask. I'm up for just about anything."