OWNERSHIP

A Dark MM Romance • by Jace Wilder

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Pairing: MM
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno
Tropes: Power Exchange, Size Difference, BDSM, Roommates to Lovers, Forced Proximity, Praise Kink, Bi Awakening, Morally Grey Hero, He Falls First, Hurt/Comfort

He bought my debt. He owns my body. And the cage isn’t even the worst part.

Jax Thorne is six foot four of golden retriever charm—star swimmer, campus legend, everyone’s favorite guy. He’s also $50,000 in debt to people who break kneecaps for a living. When his quiet, calculating roommate offers to pay it off, Jax doesn’t ask enough questions. He signs a contract. He surrenders control. He tells himself it’s just business.

It is not just business.

Leo Corver runs a premium cam platform from their shared loft. He’s been watching Jax for months—cataloging every tell, every crack in the performance, every moment the golden retriever mask slips. Now Jax performs on camera under Leo’s direction: anonymous, caged, completely under his control. The rules are clinical. The sessions are professional. The $50,000 will be repaid in six months.

The problem is that Leo’s spreadsheets didn’t account for what happens when the subject starts wanting it. When the cage becomes a comfort. When the commands become a language. When the man behind the camera stops being the director and starts being the only person who has ever seen the real Jax Thorne.

And when a teammate discovers a screenshot that could expose everything, they face an impossible choice: hide and lose each other, or show their faces to the world and lose everything else.

OWNERSHIP is a dark MM romance featuring cam work, power exchange, chastity, a size difference that matters, and a love story built on the ruins of two carefully constructed identities. It contains explicit content, morally grey dynamics, and a happily-ever-after that is earned through absolute devastation.

The cage was never the trap. The grin was. And the only person who ever saw through both is the one holding the key.

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The human body is a ledger.

Every choice writes itself into the architecture—the slope of a shoulder carrying too much weight, the micro-tremor of a hand that has been clenching all day, the way a jaw holds tension like a fault line waiting to slip. Most people cannot read these entries. Most people do not bother to look.

I always look.

Jaxon Thorne has been hemorrhaging for approximately six weeks. The signs are catalogued in a spreadsheet I keep on an encrypted drive—not because I need to remember them, but because precision requires documentation. On October 3rd, he stopped buying name-brand protein powder and switched to the bulk store garbage that tastes like drywall. On October 9th, he took a phone call in the bathroom at 2 a.m. with the shower running, which means he wanted noise cover, which means someone on the other end was yelling. On October 14th, he laughed too loud at a joke that was not funny, and the pitch was wrong—a half-tone sharp, stressed vocal cords—and I marked it in the spreadsheet as escalation noted.

He is sitting on the couch right now, and he has no idea I am taking him apart.

To be fair, Jax has no idea I exist in any meaningful capacity. I am the roommate. The quiet one. The guy whose name he forgets to include when he talks about the apartment. I have heard him describe me to his teammates exactly once: Yeah, there’s this other dude, like a computer nerd or something. He’s fine. Barely see him. He laughed. They laughed. I archived the audio clip and continued calibrating my ring light…

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