He uses the weight of his body to force Daniel forward, up the steps and to the door, then presses him into the frame, a hand on his neck so he stays pinned while Liam gets the door unlocked one-handed. Daniel mewls, too weak to fight.

“This is your home, Daniel. You are to make yourself comfortable. Eat and drink what you want, go where you want, make yourself at home. This is yours. And you are mine.”

Daniel has no idea what to do with that.

“I think you’ll get the tour later. Let’s get your anxiety under control and get you feeling more like you should. Strip, Daniel.” He’s already helping, pulling Daniel’s shirt off, gaze fixated on his chest. “You did a good job, baby. You’re really swollen and aching for my touch, aren’t you?”

“Yes, Daddy. I’m wet, it’s not good.”

“Stop. No more. It is good. This is how you’re meant to be. Everything else was a lie. Obey.” Daniel undoes his pants and slips off his shoes, but then he just stands there.

“Let me,” Liam orders, and Daniel drops his hands to his side. He can feel Liam in front of him like a storm, smell the Dominant’s arousal curling around him, heavier and denser than air.

Liam’s pupils blow wide as he observes Daniel. “Yeah, this is what I want. What you need. You don’t think about anything else but me. Daddy will help you,” he rasps and shoves his hand down the back of Daniel’s pants, between his soaked cheeks. His fingers slide through the wet, slip inside his tight hole, then Liam brings his fingers out, sucks them into his mouth, and goes back for more.

Daniel cries out. It’s shocking. Confusing. Nothing like this has ever happened to him before. What is Daniel supposed to do? What does it mean that this man is acting like the worst things about him are good? He stands there frozen.

Prey.

The word echoes dimly in the back of his mind. Is this what he’s supposed to do? Get corralled and trapped by a Dominant he wants and then just let it happen?

Be whatever his Dominant needs? Does he get to allow the treatment and have it?

Maybe that’s the best word in the English language. Have. Daniel gets to have whatever his Dominant wants to give him. He whimpers at the idea.

“You taste sweet. Here, babydoll,” Liam orders and presses his slick-soaked fingers to Daniel’s mouth.

Daniel opens, tastes himself, becomes overwhelmed and sobs as he reaches for Liam.