It did nothing but hurt and confuse me, I bitterly bit back, feeling all the hurt return, enough to bowl me down like a brutal wind.
I imagine it did, he replied. It wasnt my aim to make you suffer that and a week of waiting for my explanation. But maybe some things work out the way they should. You had a week to consider your submission to me and what it meant and how much you really wanted it. You had time to yourself without my imperious demands to further trouble you. And if Im rightespecially after that nasty snub todayyou probably came here with every intention of breaking things offfor very good reasons in your opinion. He wanted my response, but I wasnt sure what to say.
I told you our relationship must be based on trust
and weve just had an object lesson in how far
