Title: Relearning the Ropes
Author: DC Juris
Publisher: Torquere Press
Cover Artist: Kristin Norris
Release Date: 7/6/16
Heat Level: 5
Pairing: Male/Male
Length: 10,485 words
Genre: M/M Romance, BDSM, Kink
Synopsis
When his good friend Julius dies unexpectedly,
Marcus finds himself saddled with a new submissive–Charlie. But Charlie comes
with a history, and a whole host of issues and problems that Marcus has never
really dealt with. Marcus knows he loves Charlie, and Charlie loves him, but
he'll have to set aside his old theories about BDSM and relearn the ropes, so
to speak, if he wants to be the Dom Charlie needs him to be. Previously
published by Breathless Press.
Excerpt
Marcus rolled over to stare at the clock. 3:25
AM. A month ago, at precisely that moment, his phone had rung. He'd answered
it, expecting it to be the only person who ever called him that late, his
friend Julius, but instead it was Julius' lawyer. The man apologized for waking
Marcus, but Julius was dead -- condolences, of course -- and Julius left
the care of his sub, Charlie, to Marcus, and could Marcus please go over to
Julius' house and fetch Charlie?
At 3:45 AM that morning Marcus went and picked
Charlie up, and, for the past month, Charlie slept in the spare bedroom across
the hall. Marcus hadn't slept since. Not that he didn't like or want Charlie.
He did, on both counts. Loved Charlie, was quite in love with
Charlie. But if Marcus had wanted a live-in sub -- which he hadn't, his life
was far too busy and complicated, and he was entirely too set in his ways -- he
wouldn't have chosen one like Charlie. Charlie was a complex little creature:
delicate and high-maintenance. He took everything Marcus knew about how to
treat a sub and turned it upside down.
He thought back, remembering how, a little
over two years ago, Julius had phoned him in the middle of the night, music
blaring in the background so loudly that Marcus could barely hear himself
speaking, let alone Julius. Julius had gone down to his favorite club, spotted
Charlie, and Marcus had ended up loaning him five hundred thousand dollars to
buy the battered and bruised sub out of the sex slave ring he'd been held
captive in. Charlie had come such a long way since then, learning to live as a sub
instead of a slave, and finding a niche in the working world. Marcus
didn't want to do anything to set him back.
Marcus groaned and flipped over onto his other
side, putting the mocking glare of the clock's bright red numbers behind him.
Aside from Charlie, Marcus had never dominated a man he'd loved. He had no clue
how to reconcile the two. Charlie needed clear boundaries, a clear definition
of their relationship, but how was he supposed to define their relationship to
Charlie if he couldn't define it to himself? He tried to treat Charlie like any
other sub, but the fact of the matter was Charlie wasn't just
any other sub. Sold into sexual slavery at fifteen, Charlie had been dragged
all across the country before he'd landed in Julius' hands.
Marcus was all business when he served as a
Dom at Anton's BDSM playhouse, clinical, almost; for most of the men he played
with, that was enough -- the domination, the control. But Charlie, Charlie
needed more. The only question, was could he give it? He sighed and squeezed
his eyes shut, trying to force himself back to sleep.
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Meet
the Author
Romance author, sci-fi fan club Captain,
cosplayer, reigning Queen of Monkeyland, and random menace. Yep, we're talking
about DC Juris. She’s a cupcake-making, football-watching,
rubber-duck-collecting, drag-show loving, full-of-fabulous-with-a-capital-F kinda
gal. She's also an ordained minister and an amateur photographer. She lives in
Upstate New York with her husband, three dogs, and three cats. When she's not
writing, you can find her in her favorite chair watching Star Trek and Supernatural repeats
on Netflix, or surfing the web for porn. Er…research. Surfing the web
for research. She may speak softly but she lives and loves loudly.
Just ask the neighbors. ::wink::
@dcjuris on Instagram and Periscope
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