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“Every damn moment I can. But enough about me, it’s time to talk about you and Henrietta.”
“Etta, she prefers to be called Etta now.”
“Fine, let’s talk about you and Etta.”
“I hate her, I’ve always hated her,” I say, but my words lack the venom that they did before I saw her again.
“Why?”
Sighing, I lift my hand and rub at my forehead. “Honestly, I don’t even know anymore. She’s not like I remember.”
“It’s been fifteen years; it’d be messed up if she was the same person now. She was just a kid the last time you saw her. You were both kids.”
“She texted me a few weeks ago. She thanked me for offering to let her stay, but said that her roommate would be in town a couple of days after she got here and that it made more sense for her to stay in a hotel.”
“I can see her logic, I guess.” Buck nods. “But if that’s the case, why is she at your place right now?”
“I went to the bus station. I wanted to see if I recognized her.”
“Okay.”
“I ended up taking her home with me.”
“Jesus, Oz, did you kidnap that girl?” Buck asks, his eyes wide.
“No,” I snap. “I mean, I don’t think so. She didn’t argue about coming with me.”
“So that’s what you meant by controlling her? Because you made her stay with you instead of at a hotel? That makes sense, it saves her money and keeps her safer,” Buck says with a shrug. “I wouldn’t have been happy with Juni staying in a hotel on her own. There’s no way I wouldn’t have dragged her back to my place, that’s a big brother thing.”
“I kissed her,” I blurt.
“Okay, so not a brother thing. Got it.” Buck nods.
“I feel like a fucking psycho,” I tell him. “She barely eats, she’s tiny, and she does this thing where she looks at me with these big fucking eyes. I can’t help telling her what to do, and she obeys me so fucking beautifully. It’s fucking addictive. I have never cared what any other woman I’ve been involved with does when we weren’t together, but I need Etta to do what I say. I keep telling her to behave and be a good girl and she kissed me back. She was sending me the photos and doing as I told her and then she stopped and now I need to go and check on her but it’s four in the fucking morning.” Everything rushes out of me in a jumble, and I’m not sure that what I just said even makes sense.
“Wow,” Buck says, clearing his throat. “So, you want some kind of power exchange thing with her?”
“I hate her,” I say again, only it’s even weaker than the last time I said it.
“Clearly, you don’t fucking hate her. And if she kissed you back, I’m taking a guess and saying she doesn’t hate you either. Have you talked about everything that happened when you were kids?”
“We haven’t really talked about anything, except she asked me if I was a daddy dom.”
Buck coughs, his eyes going wide. “Are you?”
“No. The only person I want calling me daddy is my kid.”
“Does she want a daddy dom?” Buck asks, his cheeks turning pink as he fidgets uncomfortably in his seat.
“She said not.”
“Why did she think you were one?”
“Because I gave her rules.”
“Rules,” he says slowly.
“This all stays between us, right, Boss?”
