"Stop." In that one word, Eli pushed all of his commanding tone to make Shannon pay attention him. "Do you really think I would hate you or think you were worthless? No, of course I wouldn't. I made your Mistress put you through this to show everyone how strong and worthy of me that you are. What she said was meant to hurt you and everything she said about my thoughts on you weren't true. You are my beautiful and clever sub. I would never think of you as anything but perfect for me."

Even though Eli was in charge here, Michelle wasn't idle. She was quieter to keep her from drawing attention away from him, but she was still holding him and murmuring soft words of love and encouragement to him. She might have broken him, but she wanted to help fix him as not only an apology for pushing him so far, but to also show that she did love him and whatever flaws that he had.