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I waited, le piece of ether

"A person who is all about control noether "He’d be trying to ain Do you understand?"

He was describing my father, so I understood co his chin "I a to assu tiine what it would be like to be dominated as well"

My eyebrows rose at that revelation

"As long as there are two consenting adults and aliht about how Jessie and I agreed that she’d tell me if it was too much, if she needed to stop "What they choose to partake in--inside and outside of the bedroom is their business"

I inhaled a sharp breath, as disbelief coursed throughin my ears

"Now your fantasy is extra tricky because of your upbringing" Dr Drake stood and began pacing the roo so hard not to identify with your father, that the very thought of doing so even remotely like him terrifies you Makes you wonder if you’re on the path to becoot it Myfear

"But, I’ve already learned a couple of things about you, Nate And one of them is that you are not at all like your father and never will be" He stopped and turned to me "If you were, you would have a much different personality, awo in my chest broke loose, and I was able to breathe uess that the fantasies you’ve had in the bedroom haven’t been well received by soes and they uy was in my head I nodded as I crosseda million miles an hour

"Has there been anyone you’ve been able to befreer with?"

"Yes"

"And?"

"I restrainedwith my shoelace "I was afraid what she’d think of htly at the corners "Did she seeed "

He nodded "And then you felt terrible afterward?"

I hung my head "Yeah"

He waited until ularly, in a relationship?"

"I don’t exactly do relationships," I said "Or at least I never used to"

He cocked his head "But you ed "I’ve never felt this way about anybody before"

"Go on," he said "Tell me how that feels"