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You’re Still Mine 23:11 P.M. Cain’s voice cut sharp through the radio, “Status check—patrol four, respond.” Static. Cain’s jaw flexed. The estate’s east wing should’ve checked in three minutes ago. The cameras in that section had been glitchy since the rain started, but silence wasn’t just a delay—it was a warning. He didn’t wait. He ran. — 23:13 P.M. The corridor smelled off—like ozone, sweat, and copper. Cain moved in silence, gun drawn, heart pounding in his throat. As he neared the stairwell, he heard the scuff of boots. A low grunt. Then—Saxon’s voice. Muffled. Strained. No. Cain hit the door and shoved through with full force. Saxon was on the floor. Kneeling. Hands gripping a decorative sculpture from the side table, blood at his lip, shirt torn at the collar. And behind him—a man with a blade, black mask, arm already in mid-swing. Cain didn’t think. Didn’t aim. Bang. The bullet tore through the attacker’s shoulder, sending him flying backward into the wall. Saxon fell forward, gasping. Cain didn’t pause. He crossed the room in two seconds flat, kicked the weapon away, and slammed the man’s head into the marble so hard it cracked. Once. Twice. Again. “Cain—” Saxon croaked behind him. But Cain didn’t stop. Red mist clouded his vision. His boot found the attacker’s ribs. Over and over. This wasn’t a kill. This was a message. Mine. “You touch him again,” Cain snarled, voice shaking, “I’ll rip your fucking throat out and make you choke on it.” A whimper. Blood. Silence. Cain stood, chest heaving, eyes wild. And turned. Saxon was still on the floor, trembling, palms scraped from catching himself. But those eyes… They weren’t afraid. They were dark. Wet. Hungry. — 23:20 P.M. Cain dragged the body away, ordered cleanup, and locked the corridor down. Every guard was doubled. Every camera checked. Reinforcements called. But when he returned to the bedroom— Saxon was already naked, sitting on the edge of the bed, lip still bleeding, cock half-hard, hands resting on his thighs like he was offering himself up. Cain froze in the doorway. “You were going to kill him,” Saxon whispered. Cain said nothing. Saxon looked up. “For me.” Cain stepped inside, locked the door behind him, and walked forward slowly—like approaching a wild animal. Saxon didn’t move. “I would’ve done worse,” Cain said finally. “If you’d let me.” Saxon’s breath hitched. “I wanted you to.” Cain grabbed him by the throat and shoved him down onto the bed, straddling his hips, cock pressed to his belly, fists gripping the sheets. “You want to be punished that badly?” Cain rasped. Saxon’s voice cracked. “I want to be fucked that badly.” Cain kissed him—hard. Brutal. Deep. Tongue and teeth, no mercy. He bit Saxon’s lip again, tasted copper, licked it clean. Then he flipped him—rough, fast—grabbing the lube from the drawer, slicking his fingers, pushing one inside without warning. Saxon gasped, back arching. “More—don’t stop—” Cain gave him two, then three—fast, hard, unrelenting, until Saxon was grinding into the bed, panting, moaning like a fucking whore. “You like watching me lose control?” Cain hissed. Saxon groaned. “I love it. I love when you break for me—” Cain lined up his cock, shoved in with one violent thrust that had Saxon choking on his own cry. He didn’t wait. He grabbed Saxon’s hips and fucked him like a savage. No rhythm. No gentleness. Just pure, punishing possession. “You’re mine,” Cain growled with every thrust. “Say it.” Saxon gasped, drooling on the sheets, legs trembling. “I’m yours—I’ve always been yours—” Cain yanked him up by the hair and bit into his shoulder, hard enough to mark. Saxon came without being touched—screaming, shuddering, whole body twitching. Cain didn’t stop. He pounded deeper, hips slapping against the curve of Saxon’s ass, until his own orgasm hit—hot, loud, shaking, with a groan that sounded more like a snarl. They collapsed in a tangled heap, breathless. Sweaty, shaking and silent. — 23:47 P.M. Cain lay on his back, arm thrown over his eyes, chest rising and falling like he’d just fought a war. Because he had. Saxon curled beside him—still marked, still raw, but softer now. Less armor, more truth. He traced the scar near Cain’s ribs. “I remember this.” Cain didn’t move. “You gave it to me.” “You let me.” “You were crying,” Cain said flatly. “I didn’t stop you.” Saxon swallowed. “I thought you were leaving me.” “I was.” Silence. Then Saxon whispered, “But you came back.” Cain turned his head. Their eyes met. Cain reached out, brushing a thumb across Saxon’s cheek. “I never stopped watching you,” he admitted. “Even when I was gone. Especially then.” Saxon exhaled. “You still feel like mine.” Cain leaned in. Kissed him. Soft. Slow. Unforgiving. “I never stopped being yours.” — 00:15 A.M. Outside the estate, a shadow moved. A phone call was made. A voice answered. Cold. Clean. “He’s protecting him again.” “Good. Then it’ll hurt more when we rip him apart.” —— 03:08 A.M. Cain sat on the edge of the bed, knees apart, a medical kit open on the floor between his boots. Saxon lay face-down, breath steady now but soft. Quiet. His back was a map of bruises—some old, some fresh, some beautiful in how they bloomed beneath Cain’s fingers. But the cut above his lip and the abrasion on his shoulder needed cleaning. Cain had already taken care of the worst. Now came the part that hurt more. The silence. “You could’ve let me handle him,” Saxon mumbled into the pillow. Cain dipped the gauze in antiseptic. “You hesitated.” “I wasn’t scared.” “I didn’t say you were,” Cain said, pressing the pad to Saxon’s scraped skin. Saxon hissed. Cain paused, softened the pressure, but didn’t apologize. Saxon didn’t want gentle. Not really. “You think I’m weak,” Saxon said. Cain’s eyes flicked to his. “No,” he said quietly. “I think you’re reckless. Impulsive. Addicted to pain. But not weak.” Saxon turned his head just enough to meet Cain’s gaze. “Then why’d you leave?”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







