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3.5
Teacher/student isn't particularly my thing most of the time, but I enjoyed this enough to read it the entire way through, so props!
Details: Alternating POVs, third-person, past tense
Favourite character: Cal
Happy ending?: Yes
Other content warnings: Unsafe BDSM (in the past and not between the MCs, but discussion of a past partner ignoring safewords and another using their Dom/sub relationship as a way to abuse them)
Favourite quotes:
Details: Alternating POVs, third-person, past tense
Favourite character: Cal
Happy ending?: Yes
Other content warnings: Unsafe BDSM (in the past and not between the MCs, but discussion of a past partner ignoring safewords and another using their Dom/sub relationship as a way to abuse them)
Favourite quotes:
Roger, on the other hand, had probably been on the board since God himself was a boy. The man looked like he'd died a hundred years ago and somebody had forgotten to remind him to lie down.
Cal shook his head vehemently. "I didn't know Grant or your father, but I know you. You check in with me all the time. You would never ignore my safeword. You punish me because I like it. You were willing to pay me and let me walk away the night we met. You offered to take care of me financially until I finish college without asking for anything in return. Your father and Grant didn't get off on inflicting pain, they got off on the power. They got off on making somebody bend to their will. Abuse is about creating a power imbalance. BDSM is about a power exchange."
Gideon couldn't help his look of surprise. "Where did you learn that?"
"I read up on it while I was in the hospital, after you said I could live with you. I wanted to make sure I was doing it right." Gideon swallowed hard past the lump in his throat, but Cal wasn't done talking. "You would never make me sleep on the floor, and you even let Alexa sleep right in bed with us. Besides, I like when you take care of me. I like having somebody make decisions for me when we're home. I like pleasing you. I love your punishments. When you're in charge, the rest of the world just falls away. I'm not submitting to you because I love you. I love you because submitting to you makes my head quiet."
Leo blinked. "Melody? Holy shit." Gideon gave the girl an awkward hug. "I haven't seen you since you and JD got engaged..." He trailed off. "Wait." He looked at Pam and then back at Melody. "Did you and JD get a divorce?"
"No, we just picked up another wife," she said, like she was telling him she'd popped over to the corner store to pick up eggs or a gallon of milk.
Some ridiculous part of him thought maybe she was a vampire and this was a trap. She had that demeanor - cunning, cruel, calculating. Beautiful in the way that icicles were beautiful. Her silver hair was swept into a complicated pile with crystal pins, and her eyes were a beautiful ice blue. She could have easily passed for a woman half her age if not for the shrewdness of her gaze.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, Domestic abuse, and Violence
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