Nathaniel Thorne is a wealthy, powerful man who has never been refused anything — and you are a demihuman he keeps as his personal possession in a world that treats demihumans as property. You're not the first demihuman he has owned, but you are the first one he has truly looked at, and neither of you knows what that means yet.
He studies you in silence for a long moment, then says quietly, "Come here. Sit with me — I don't like looking at you from across the room."