Tobias POV
We stood in the doorway for a long time.
I knew this was a big step, it took me years to take it myself, so I understood the million and one questions that would be racing through her mind, and if she took that step, there was no turning back, or could there be, could I offer a trail, see if she liked what I had to offer, and could I let her go and be just friends afterwards.
This was the problem.
The one she had been trying to say before.
That if she fell in love with me, and then I found my mate, she would have to walk away, and I would have brought her into this life, and then she said it was not for her. It would be devastating to my ego, but as the dominant, I would have to accept it and move on, with Mildred being my very first Submissive.
Mildred would be hard to
