“Because something like that should be my decision. Just because you’d choose something of your own free will doesn’t mean you want it forced on you. Maybe I would be happy with you, but that doesn’t mean I want to be given to you by a goddess.”

“It isn’t like that,” he says. “I don’t own you, except, perhaps, in the sense that we could be said to own each other.”

“That’s still a problem. I don’t want to be owned by anyone, even if I own ...