Page 46 of Faith

“Please, just call me Jensen.”

He heard a grumble from her but couldn’t make it out. She returned just a moment later, walked into his office and sat in one of the two chairs in front of his desk.

“So, talk.”

He knewthisNicola. She manipulated a lot of their conversations. Most of the time, Jensen was okay with it. He knew she did it to move their work along. She almost always had his best interest at heart. This was different.

“I think you are mistaken about this conversation.”

She swallowed her coffee. “How so?”

“I have questions, and theywillbe answered.”

She frowned. Jensen didn’t care if she was brassed off. She would have to learn to deal with his authority. When she said nothing, he took that as his cue to continue on.

“First, you’ve been a sub for six years?”

She nodded but said nothing else.

“And you knew Micah before you knew me?”

She nodded again.

“How?”

“We were both in the life.”

He felt it was more than that, but he didn’t want to push her just yet. They had no agreement. “But you never thought to tell me.”

“It’s personal. You don’t tell everyone about your sex life.”

“But I don’t hide it either. Also, I hate to point this out, but you knew about my sex life.”

“True, but it’s different.”

“Why?”

“You’re my boss. I know you can’t understand that, but it’s different if I know this about you.”

“That seems hypocritical.”

“How?”

“You know everything about me, but I know next to nothing about your life.”

“First, when I was your sober companion, I had to know all that stuff about you. And let’s be truthful, you know a lot about my life. Hell, my mother sometimes texts with you more than she does with me. So you know a good deal about my life, just not this small part of it.”

“Why not?”

“Okay, do you tell Marta about your new favorite sub?”

“I don’t have a new favorite sub…yet.”

Her frown turned darker. “What the bloody hell do you mean by that?”

“We’ll get to that later. I just thought since you suggested D/s relationships to me, that you would tell me about your own experience.”

“That would have been extremely awkward. I had only been working with you for a year when you had your one setback. It’s different now.”

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