He knows he has no hold over me that way this time as long as I am discreet.

He knows I can walk out the door and never come back.

I have all the upper hand this time, and it only dawns on me that I have left him powerless in this. His toy isn’t his toy anymore. She’s her own person, and he has to curb all his control-freak bully ways because she can disappear again. And it matters to him this time if she does.

I never thought of that before and wonder if the docile act ...