ETHAN
Pain, that was what I felt when Marcus used Samuel to tame me and Olivia letting him. I got where he was coming from, and I got where Olivia was coming from, but my Emily was different, and we were working on ourselves. Going to therapy as they requested, there was no need for them to go that far.
Olivia seemed to forget who was there for her when she had no one, she forgot who took care of Samuel until he was two years old, she forgot that I was his father first before Marcus or even his biological father, Nick.
They needed to stop controlling our lives the way they did. It was not fair on us; they wanted us to change and live our own lives and when we were doing exactly that. they still had objections, what the Hell did they want from us.
“Tell me again why you worship that woman? Because I didn’t see anything special about her.” I didn’t want to get into it with Emily, she knew nothing of what we went through. Olivia might have pissed me off, but that didn’t give her the right to interfere.
“She didn’t even acknowledge me as if I were something beneath her shoe, she thinks she is better than everyone, she…”
“I think it’s best you keep quiet.” I didn’t want to argue with her, she knew nothing about why Olivia acted that way. “Are you taking her side? After she treated me, us like that, are you serious right now, Ethan?”
I wished she didn’t push; I didn’t want to get into it with her. “I don’t want to talk about it, and you wouldn’t understand.” She turned fully to me as I drove. “Why can’t you explain it to me then, make me understand why all of you listen to her so much. One word from her and you turned into a different person.”
I took deep breaths trying to calm myself down. I liked Emily and I didn’t want to say something that would offend her. But if she kept pushing, I would end up saying something we would both regret.
I kept my mouth shut. “Wow! Really? Are you just going to let it go, well, you are not the man I thought you were, I thought I was getting a man, but I was wrong, I am getting a sub that obeys everything the master says, and the master spoke, and the sub had no choice but to obey.”
My grip on the steering wheel tightened. I was trying really hard not to lose it, but I was close, and I hoped she could see that I was trying and stop talking. The shit she was saying was pissing me off.
I thought she would wait until I was ready to explain our weird relationship with her. “I am so disappointed, you know, when we see you guys on tv and magazines, we think you are men but nope, you are just dogs on a leash…”
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