"You cannot be submissive if I do not earn your submission. You can't reach surrender, unless I wring that surrender out of you. You cannot be what I am asking unless I am what I say I am. Do you see?...

Mr. Reevesworth leaned down, kissing his forehead. "I have you, Collin. Every humiliation, every submission, every surrender I ask of you means you are mine. You are safe. You are wanted. You are treasured." Collin...

"I want to be wanted." Collin rasped out the words. "I don't think anything you do that tells me I'm wanted is going to be a problem, sir." Mr. Reevesworth leaned down to kiss him. "So dangerous, Collin." The...

Collin pulled away, staying on his knees. "Please, sir. I need to know. I thought, perhaps I was wrong, but I thought…" He reached for words, but how did one put into words looks, gestures, touches, the...

"I think we're a little early in this relationship for you to be using 'sir' this often, though I must admit, I like the sound of the title on your lips, Collin." Mr. Reevesworth smiled a little. "Have...