My Possessive Dom

Chapter 30

"Olivia you need to do something with all your shit," Allison said, she was the blunt type.

"I'm working on it," I say with a laugh.

"Are you going out with us tonight? You know you're only going to get to celebrate graduating college once. And if you don't I will kill you and you know how I am with my promises," She says as she hugs me, a little aggressively.

"Fine fine I get it," I reply, looking into the eyes of my best friend for the past couple of years and probably the best and most maddening roommate I've ever had, well maybe second best.

I press play on my phone and start my packing playlist again. I start emptying out my bedside drawer. Who knew I had so much crap. I decide to just dump the whole drawer in the trash but as I'm emptying it something catches my eye. A picture, the picture. We took it on the last day of the summer program. I pick it up out of the trash bag and stare. I was so different then but a lot of me still feels the same as I did those last weeks of the program. I wish things could have been different and that Caleb felt the same. He had his world and I guess I was just a passing part in it. I think I loved him.

"Oooh who's that cutie?" Allison asks, throwing her face over my shoulder.

"Nobody," I say and toss the picture into the bag. "Seriously go girl you need to get your shit packed too," I say with a laugh.

"Yes sir!" She says as she kisses my cheek and goes back to her room to finish packing.

I turn to the trash bag and reach for the photo and place it gently in the box of personal things I've started packing.

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"Hey big C, congrats on the listing."

Adrian congrats me as I walk past his office. Ever since I've moved on from the school I've taken up real estate. The last couple of years have sent my life into this never ending question of 'what do I want?' And I thought I knew, but then she happened. She offered me more than what we had and I said no, because I thought I knew what I wanted.

I think back to the night I decided to leave the school. My sub, Sarah, was in the kitchen making food and humming. She had been humming all day and I just didn't want to hear it anymore. I didn't want to remember that she was here and Olivia wasn't, I didn't want to remember who she wasn't. The punishment was too much and I'm too sorry about it for my own good. She deserved better but I wasn't emotionally available to provide it.

"Hey big man," Carter says with a nudge as I walk by.

I don't feel so big. I think what I need now more than anything is a break, but also maybe a tiny celebration.

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"Olivia you hot piece of brilliance how dare you show me up like this?!" Allison says with a hug, never in the past four years has she made me feel like I'm anything shy of great.

"Just a coke please," I say, I'm going to start very slow and just see how the night goes.

"Just a coke? Isn't this a bar?" A voice asks behind me.

I turn around and ask "and you are?" But I realize as I ask it that I already know. Five years later and I still know, I think it hits him too. I've never seen him dress so nice, a suit and tie always seemed so far away from what he deemed to be 'him'. Of all the times I daydreamed about meeting him in obscure places, any place I went really I didn't think it would be like this. I thought I would turn around in the line at the grocery store and see him with the same hungry look in his eyes that's captivated me so many times before. I would leave my groceries in the basket and let him whisk me away to a place I haven't been in years. A place with complete passion and pleasure, a place where I feel complete. I would be seductive and graceful. But now, now I could really only say one thing,

"Oh, Caleb."