"I think I finally get it."

"Get what?" There was something about the look in his eyes, the confidence, the surety, that had me swallowing hard.

"You." And as he smiled, it was almost smug. "I get you, Oz. You're a little, Aren't you?"

If only I had known at the time just how much those few little words were going to change my life.

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/"I'm into something called DDLB. It stands for — /"

/"But wait,/" I cut him off. /"An actual, grown-ass person sits there sucking on a pacifier? You said it was consensual, so you've done it before? You've had somebody suck on that thing?/"

Deacon faltered but recovered very quickly. /"Yes. I mean, not that specific pacifier. That one is brand new. But my ex, Jason, wasn't just my boyfriend. He was my Little. I was his boyfriend and his Daddy./"

The words did something. Uprooted another ghost of a conversation. Drunken slurred words against foggy actions and fuzzy vision, it didn't make any sense.

Recoiling at the word, I could only gape. /"Is that what you were trying to do to me? Turn me into a fucking freak?/" My tone had risen. Tainted with a waiver of hysteria.

Holding up his hands, eyes softening, he spoke in such a soft, calming manner. /"No. I would never force that on you, Isaac./"

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