Don't tell me how to act she considered snapping. Don't tell me what I know. But it wasn't worth the fight. Look at him.
"We both wanted to fuck the whole world up last night," she said instead, setting her cup down on the coffee table. "Pain was stronger than reason, as it so often is." There was no real control, when it came to pain. That was what she knew. She frowned in his direction, thinking now was not the time for a lesson about the power of pain either, and took her dress back into Alan's room to get changed.