How He Broke Me

Linden Cross is twenty-two, finishing his communications degree at a nowhere college in Ontario, and running out of money fast. He's got about two months before he's choosing between calling his parents or maxing out a credit card he can't pay off. He's not special. Not ugly, not handsome. Just a guy with brown hair and a smooth body who shelves books at the library for fourteen seventy-five an hour.

When he downloads the dating app, he's looking for women. Someone to talk to. Maybe get laid. Take his mind off the fact that his bank account is a ticking clock.

Then he matches with Vanessa.

She's thirty-six, gorgeous, out of his league in every possible way. Dark hair, green eyes, photos that make his throat tight. And she messages him first. Asks him questions. Makes him feel like he's interesting. Tells him she's into younger guys. Into domination. Into tying boys down and making them scream.

Linden has never done anything like that before. But he's curious. And broke. And when Vanessa offers to meet at her place, he says yes.

Except Vanessa isn't a woman.

The person who opens the door is a man. Late fifties, balding, thick around the middle, completely naked. And before Linden can process what's happening, before he can run, the man is telling him to look. To stay. To sit on Daddy's lap.

Linden runs. Gets in his car. Drives home with his hands shaking and his heart pounding and his dick half hard in a way that makes him want to throw his phone out the window.

Then the messages start.

Photos. Videos. Threats. And an offer Linden can't refuse because his rent is due in six days and he's got three hundred dollars to his name.

Three thousand dollars. Just for a handjob. In and out. No fucking. Nothing gay. Just one orgasm and Linden walks away with more money than he makes in three months.

He goes back.

What happens on that table destroys every story Linden has ever told himself about who he is. 

A brutal, explicit, psychological erotica about a straight college boy who got catfished by an old man, and discovered that sometimes the person you become is the person you were supposed to be all along.