“Come here, sweetheart.”

It wasn’t so much what he said as how he said it; with that expectation of compliance. He sounded like her dad, not like a lover.

Why did some men feel they had the right to compel obedience?

She wondered what would happen if she said no.

Joanne has self-published a novel called “They Called it the Incident,” available on Amazon. She also has a short story published in an anthology put out by Polar Expressions Publishing. She continues to hone her writing skills and is working on a second novel. See more at jmjohnson-author.simplesite.com.