Lust still had a look of disbelief, someone would marry this scruffy pig? She smiled with acidic sweetness, "Really? And we are talking women, yes? Farm animals don't count."
She looked uncomfortable when he mentioned her bruised cheek and looked away but with her nose in the air, ever prideful. But she did like he said her skin was gorgeous. A bit stating the obvious but still. "Some idiot got a little rougher than I'd bargained for... but I allowed it, it was the price to pay to get what I wanted. Rare but necessary." rare because Lust never paid. She made others pay. But Nicky had been a special case, to completely break him, she had to let him damage the goods.