If I expected sudden anger at my calling out of Julia I was disappointed. She remained calm during my rant, probably because this was nothing new: Patrick had already basically called her and Odelle and Renata lacking. But a corner of her mouth did twitch, the only indication that I had gotten through to her. Once I finished she didn’t immediately respond, but her eyes flicked back and forth from me to Patrick and back.
“Getting lectured by a dom-in-training,” she said. “Now that is a novel experience. Yes, I made a promise, but you’re wrong, I did intend to keep it, only later I was convinced that the best thing for this beautiful boy was to let him go.” Julia stretched out a hand as if to stroke Patrick on the head. He jerked away and Julia quickly withdrew it.
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