As an ex-Marine and a bookstore owner, Alex Kitteridge is not the kind of guy to lose his cool. At least, not until he meets Roderick Levine, a high-powered lawyer with an attitude and a passion for blaring his vehicle horn. When he makes the mistake of taking his anger out on Alex, Roderick finds he has messed with the wrong guy.<br><br>What starts as a grocery store argument soon explodes into a passionate night in steamy showers, moving vans, and locker rooms, with a sexual tension neither man can deny.<br><br>But what happens when it's all over? Could the jackass from the grocery store turn out to be something more, or was Alex just held captive?

Captive

“Ow!” Roderick mumbled, as the belt hit


“Do you want this to stop?” Alex asked,


pulling his hand back and preparing for another blow. “If you do,


you need to invoke your safety word.”


“No. I don’t want this to stop,” Rod said,


tensing and moving his lower body a little more as the belt hit his


“Then answer my fucking question,” Alex


yelled, using both hands to swing the belt and smack Roderick’s


“Because I want you to desire me,” Roderick


“But why this?” Alex asked, allowing the


belt to just rest in his hand. “There are lots of types of desire.


“Because I’ve been reading up on it, and I


thought it might be fun with the right person,” Roderick said.


“Now that was the sort of detailed answer I


would expect from a man who has been to law school,” Alex


responded, moving closer to Roderick and speaking over his


shoulder, then pulling back and swatting him lightly on the left


Chapter 9