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I Dare You 06:43 A.M. The surveillance footage didn’t lie. Cain watched the loop again, arms folded tightly across his chest. Saxon—barefoot, shirt half-unbuttoned—was in the east courtyard last night with Luca, the new guard. Laughing. Smirking. Standing too close. Touching his shoulder. Cain didn’t see a threat. He saw a game. And he was about to end it. — 08:10 A.M. The estate’s training room was a brutal stretch of reinforced floors, wall-to-wall mirrors, and weapon racks lining every edge. It was Cain’s favorite room. His sanctuary. The only place he could release what Saxon kept caging inside him. Until today. Because today, Saxon walked in. Tight black compression shirt. Black joggers. Freshly showered. Still damp. And smiling like the devil had handed him a dare. Cain didn’t look at him. Not at first. He just kept punching the heavy bag—thud, thud, thud—his knuckles wrapped, his jaw set. “Your technique’s gotten sloppy,” Saxon said behind him. “Or maybe you’re just angry.” Cain landed a final blow that rocked the bag sideways, then turned. “You’re not cleared for this room.” Saxon took a step closer. “I’m cleared for anything I want.” Cain grabbed a towel, wiped sweat from his neck, and tossed it onto the bench. “Get out.” Saxon ignored him, sauntering toward the mirrored wall and picking up a training dagger from the rack. “Still like your toys, I see.” Cain stared. “That’s not a toy.” Saxon flipped the blade between his fingers, testing its weight like he knew what the fuck he was doing. “Then show me how to use it.” Cain walked up slowly—each step deliberate. He stopped inches away. Looked down at Saxon’s hands. “Hold it tighter,” he said flatly. “You’re going to cut yourself.” “Maybe I want to bleed a little.” Cain ripped the blade from his hand and threw it across the room. It clattered hard against the mat. Saxon blinked. Cain grabbed his wrist and shoved him against the mirror—forearm pressed to his throat, body caging him in. “You think this is a fucking joke?” Cain growled. Saxon smirked. “No. I think this is foreplay.” Cain shoved harder. “Keep testing me, Rivera. I dare you.” Saxon’s breath hitched. Cain’s lips grazed his jaw. “Say one more thing. See what happens.” Saxon’s voice was a whisper. “Luca said I smelled good last night.” Cain snapped. He yanked Saxon away from the mirror and threw him onto the padded mat, pinning him beneath his weight, legs spread, both wrists locked above his head in one strong hand. Saxon was panting, eyes blown wide. “Do it.” Cain leaned in. Pressed his cock right against Saxon’s. And whispered, “No.” Saxon blinked. “What?” Cain smirked. “You want to act like a tease? You don’t get to come.” Saxon growled, squirming. “Cain—” Cain released his wrists, stood, and adjusted his pants. “You’ll wait.” “Wait for what?” “For when I decide you’ve earned it.” He turned and walked out. Saxon lay there, hard, panting, furious. And leaking. — 11:55 A.M. Cain sat in the security control room, watching Saxon pace the courtyard like a caged animal. He wasn’t stupid—he knew what denial did to him. What a denied orgasm felt like for Saxon Rivera, a man used to being worshipped, touched, fucked on demand. This? This was Cain reclaiming power. And fuck, it felt good. — 14:00 P.M. Saxon showed up to lunch late. Shirtless. Sweaty. Hair damp from a workout that Cain hadn’t approved. He strutted in like nothing mattered, dropped into the seat across from Cain, and poured himself a glass of sparkling water. “You look tense,” Saxon said. Cain didn’t answer. “I’ve been thinking about what you said,” Saxon continued, lifting the glass to his lips. “About earning it.” Cain’s jaw clenched. Saxon licked a drop off the rim. “I don’t remember you being into chastity.” Cain’s fork froze mid-bite. “Don’t test me, Saxon.” “But that’s the fun part,” he purred. Cain stood, palms flat on the table. “Upstairs. Now.” Saxon grinned and rose slowly, smug. “I knew you’d break first.” — 14:07 P.M. Cain shoved Saxon into the bedroom, slammed the door shut with his foot, and locked it. He grabbed a length of soft black rope from the drawer—Saxon’s, of course—and ordered: “Strip.” Saxon’s smile dropped. Cain’s voice dropped lower. “You have ten seconds.” Saxon tore his shirt off, joggers next, until he stood there—naked, flushed, erect, and waiting. Cain walked a slow circle around him. “No touching. No talking. Hands behind your back.” Saxon obeyed. Cain tied his wrists together—tight, but not painful. He admired the way Saxon looked like that: bound, vulnerable, angry. Needful. “You like control,” Cain said quietly. “I like you when you’re like this,” Saxon whispered. Cain grabbed his chin. “No. You like being ruined.” He shoved him down onto the bed, face-first, and straddled his hips, grinding down against his ass with slow, agonizing friction. Saxon whimpered. “Please.” Cain bent low and bit his shoulder. “Not yet.” He reached beneath Saxon’s body, found his cock, hard and leaking. Cain stroked it once. Twice. Then let go. Saxon cursed. Cain stood and walked toward the bathroom, unbuckling his belt as he went. “Where the fuck are you going?” Saxon shouted, breathless. Cain looked back over his shoulder. “To shower. Alone.” Saxon thrashed on the bed, rock hard and desperate. Cain smiled. “Maybe if you behave tomorrow… I’ll let you come.” — 17:30 P.M. Cain stood in the west tower, overlooking the perimeter. Rain had started to fall—just a mist. He liked this view. It helped him think. Footsteps behind him. He didn’t need to turn. He already knew. “You’re quiet,” Saxon said. Cain replied without looking. “You’re still hard.” Saxon laughed bitterly. “You’re a sadist.” Cain turned. “And you’re addicted to punishment.” They stared at each other. Then Saxon moved. He walked up to Cain, grabbed him by the shirt, and kissed him—hard. Desperate. Teeth and lips and rage. Cain responded in kind. This wasn’t about rules anymore. This was fire. Cain shoved Saxon against the glass window—rain streaking down behind them—and kissed him until Saxon gasped. “Do it,” Saxon whispered. “Do it now. Please—” Cain reached between them. Fisted Saxon’s cock. One rough stroke. Two. Three— Saxon came with a hoarse cry, head thrown back, eyes shut tight, body trembling. Cain kissed him once more. Soft this time. Then walked away again. “Tomorrow,” he said over his shoulder. “You’ll learn to ask better.”Chapter 4 No Going BackThe second shoot ran into the afternoon the next day, though no one seemed to mind. There was a different rhythm to the studio today. As opposed to the subdued air of yesterday, it was…lighter. The assistants noticed it first as they wheeled racks past with less clatter, less clumsiness. Someone dimmed the side lights without being asked. Even the makeup artist, usually chattering through the touch-up just to fill the tense mood yesterday, worked in silence on Cole’s face. And there was Benjamin who gave directions without frightening anyone with the clipped edge from before. Honestly, they could all do without it. Whatever was up his ass had been taken out. Cole took every direction, letting himself be drawn to the lens the way he had the first time. And he loved it. He especially loved staring deeply into the lens as though trying to communicate to the man behind it the many things he couldn’t say out loud. Not yet at least. Benjamin noticed of cou
Chapter 3 The space betweenThe rain had stopped by the time Benjamin found himself outside Cole’s building, though he couldn’t have said precisely when he’d decided to come.Or maybe he knew. Maybe he was just trying to deny that he felt guilty for the way he’d treated Cole yesterday and a few hours ago during the morning shoot. He sighed. Camille was right. He was an idiot. He stood on the pavement for a moment longer, his coat collar turned up against the residual chill. The buzzer waited while he stared at it like it could offer him an excuse to jet out of there. What was worse? Standing out there like a statue for Cole’s neighbors to tag him a stalker and call the police, or just get the damn apology over with so he could get home fast.“You can do this, Benji,” he whispered under his breath. He pressed the buzzer before he could reconsider, Camille’s words from the studio needling at him. ‘…hardheaded self is still single at 38…’Cole’s wary voice from inside broke into
Chapter 2Fight Benjamin was startled. Cole stood in the doorway, a paper bag of take-away coffee balanced on one arm, hair tousled from the wind.“I forgot my sketchbook,” he said, gesturing to a table near the props. “Camille said you’d be gone.”“I was,” Benjamin replied, minimizing the image window. “Apparently I wasn’t… really gone.”Cole smiled faintly and crossed the room. “You work late.”“I try not to, but inspiration’s inconvenient.”He tried to sound detached but it didn’t work.Cole placed one of the coffees beside him. “For the inconvenience.”Benjamin’s first instinct was to refuse, but the warmth of the cup and the sincerity in Cole’s eyes disarmed him. “You bribed your photographer.”“Maybe I’m bribing the man who forgot to eat dinner.”Benjamin laughed quietly. It was the first real sound between them that wasn’t an instruction or a shutter click.They sat opposite each other, the glow from the monitor painting them in blue light. For a while, the only sound was the
Chapter 1: The ShootThe Rue des Écoles was still slick from a morning drizzle when Benjamin Carter stepped out of the cab, camera case in one hand, coffee in the other. Paris smelled of wet stone and espresso, an intoxicating mix he’d never quite shaken.Inside the studio, the assistants were already humming through their checklist. Lighting rigs warming up, fans testing their soft whir, racks of couture shimmering like captive stars. Benjamin moved through the space with quiet precision, eyes sharp and taking note of everything. It was his first campaign since his hiatus, and though he’d photographed icons and royals, this job felt different. He needed it to work.“Model’s running ten minutes late,” murmured Camille, his long-time producer. “Newcomer from Barcelona. Cole Reyes.”“Newcomer?” Benjamin arched a brow. “For this campaign?”Camille shrugged. “The designer insisted. Said he has the kind of face that makes you forget the concept.”Benjamin muttered something about unpredict
Chapter Nine Possession Grant’s weight pressed him down, the full length of his body grinding over Daniel’s, pinning him in place like prey. Every shift of muscle sent sparks of agony-pleasure through Daniel’s nerves until he was trembling, clawing at the carpet.“Beg louder,” Grant murmured, his voice a low growl against Daniel’s throat.Daniel could barely breathe, but the words spilled anyway. “Please, please don’t stop, please take me, I’ll do anything—”Grant’s mouth crashed onto his, swallowing the desperation, his tongue merciless and claiming. Daniel arched upward into him, gasping when Grant’s thigh shoved harder between his legs, grinding deep into the aching bulge.Grant’s hand slipped beneath the waistband of Daniel’s jeans, his progress deliberately slow and Daniel nearly sobbed. The touch was maddening—barely there, cruelly teasing, dragging over damp skin without relief.“You’re soaked,” Grant whispered, his lips brushing Daniel’s ear. “All this just from begging. You
Chapter EightFirst TasteThe weight of Dr. Lawson’s hand in Ethan’s hair was devastating.After weeks of denial, the simple touch shattered him. His body collapsed forward, cheek pressed against Dr. Lawson’s thigh, his moan muffled and raw. It felt obscene to tremble like this from nothing more than fingers tangling in his hair, but his cock throbbed like it was about to burst, dampness spreading hot through his jeans.Dr. Lawson didn’t move for a long moment. He just let Daniel kneel there, clutching fistfuls of his own thighs, panting like a sinner kneeling before God.Then, with a controlled tug, he lifted his head. Their eyes locked, and Daniel thought he might combust.“Pathetic,” Dr. Lawson murmured. “One touch and you’re undone.”Daniel swallowed hard, his voice cracking. “I—I can’t help it.”“You can,” Dr. Lawson corrected coldly. “You just won’t. That’s the difference. You’ve chosen this weakness. You’ve chosen to let me reduce you.”Dan







