Closing
the door behind him [Qhuinn], he leaned back against it. The only
person he wanted to see was the one guy in the house who had no interest
in-
[...]
"Is there anything I can do?" [Blay said]
So
funny. Qhuinn had always felt as though he'd come out of his mother's
womb an adult. Then again, there had never been any cootchie-coo crap
for him, no darling-little-boy stuff, no hugs when he hurt himself, no
coddling when he was frightened. As a result, whether it was character
or the way he'd been brought up, he'd never regressed.
Nothing to go back to there.
Yet it was in the voice of a child that he said, "Make it stop?"
- Favorite scene from "Lover at Last", written by J.R. Ward