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Gabriel woke to the obliterating pressure of a cock already buried to the root inside his ass, and for a moment, three or four seconds, he could not remember what language he was supposed to think in.
His mouth opened behind the leather hood, a custom-molded piece of gear that sealed him in absolute black, and a string of drool unspooled from the corner of the mouth-opening to pool in the recessed seam of the mattress. He tried to inhale, but his throat was still raw from the irrumatio the night before, the tissues swollen and tinged with vomit. The smell of his own stomach acid was trapped inside the hood with him, humid and intimate. He coughed, a wet, ugly sound, and the massive, furnace-hot, pharmacologically enhanced body buried inside of him shifted its weight without withdrawing.
Calvin did not pull out. He had not pulled out since he had entered, some forty minutes prior, waking at 4:30 AM with his morning erection already insistent and the asset warm and compliant beside him. He was a man who despised waste, and the forty-five seconds it would have cost him to rouse Gabriel, to position him, to apply fresh lubricant, would have been an inefficiency. The boy had been stretched and opened the evening prior during a regular gaping session, and his asshole remained soft, a loosened sleeve that accepted Cal’s girth with minimal resistance. So Cal had simply parted the boy’s thighs, kept perpetually spread by the articulated posture bar locked to his ankles and the back of his collar, and pushed inside, using the residual silicone lubricant from the night before, plus the thin, natural slime of Gabriel’s own exhausted body.
Now, fully conscious, Gabriel made a noise that might have been assent or might have been distress. The distinction had eroded months ago. Cal had ensured that the pathways in Gabriel’s brain that differentiated desire from dread had been flooded with enough dopamine and denial that they short-circuited into a single, servile conductivity. The boy received more pleasure from being edged and denied than he ever could from cumming, or at least, Cal had told him this enough times, in enough varied chemical states, that Gabriel now believed it as a somatic truth. His body had no other reference point.
“Quiet,” Cal said.
His voice was low, carrying the slight rasp of trenbolone-accelerated vocal cord thickening. At forty-two, he was six foot three and two hundred and thirty pounds of engineered meat, a physique maintained through four weekly pharmaceutical injections and ten hours a week of iron work in the penthouse gym. His veins lay like topography across his forearms and shoulders, pulsing with blood pressure that stayed chronically elevated. He gripped Gabriel’s hips, his thumbs sinking into the sharp declivities above the iliac crests. 127.4 pounds. Cal had noted the number last night, feeling the bone structure beneath the skin as Gabriel stepped onto his smart scale. Up two pounds from Tuesday. Unacceptable. Gabriel was booked for a casting next week, an avant-garde show that required the stark, famine-chic look that European designers still paid absurd premiums for, and Cal did not tolerate aesthetic drift.
He rolled his pelvis forward, grinding deeper. Gabriel’s body tensed, his spine bowing under the posture collar, and a fresh rope of saliva swung from his lower lip to wet the Egyptian cotton. Cal watched the boy’s shoulder blades move beneath the skin like two sharp wings trying to detach. The testosterone Cal administered every Tuesday and Friday had done excellent work; no one in the industry had ever questioned that Gabriel had ever been anything other than male. His chest was flat, pristine, the result of a periareolar mastectomy performed by a private surgeon in Brussels six months after Cal had extracted him from the Sixth Arrondissement. A perfect, boyish torso that photographed as androgynous luxury, the kind of blank, consumable beauty that made buyers believe they were looking at something aspirational rather than a human just like them. But Cal knew what he had built.
Cal withdrew an inch, just an inch, and the boy’s asshole clung to his shaft with a wet, vulgar suction before yielding again as Cal drove back in. The sound was precise: not a slap, but a thick, meaty shluck, the sound of a thoroughly trained hole accepting its default state. Cal felt the resistance of the heavy plug seated in Gabriel’s cunt, pressing against the thin perineal wall that separated the two channels. The plug never came out. It was translucent glass, molded to fill the vaginal canal completely, rendering the organ null while allowing a view of the boy's insides. Cal had not entered Gabriel’s cunt in ten months, not since he had decided that the boy’s only sexual utility would be oral and anal, the two holes he could degrade rather than the one that implied any kind of reciprocity. The plug served as a constant reminder of Gabriel's anatomy while simultaneously denying him any pleasure from it. It ensured that Gabriel’s cunt remained a sealed, irrelevant pocket while his asshole did all the work.
Gabriel’s t-dick was hard. Cal could feel it, or rather, he noted its presence. The small, rigid nub of testosterone-enlarged clitoral flesh, swollen against the mattress but producing none of the clear, viscous evidence of real male arousal. Just a stiff little nerve bundle that Cal had trained Gabriel to ignore. It twitched now, reflexively, as Cal shifted his angle to press down against the plug from the other side, crushing the thin membrane between his cock and the glass obstruction. Gabriel sobbed, a high, broken noise, and his hands, cuffed to the front of the posture collar, trembled.
“You’re not cumming,” Cal informed him. “You don’t need to.”
And Gabriel didn’t. Cal had proven this through regimen. Sixteen months of edge sessions without release, of vibration applied to the t-dick until Gabriel shook with neurological overload, only to be stopped at the trembling brink. The boy’s pleasure centers had been recalibrated. Or perhaps destroyed. Cal found the ambiguity arousing. He liked not knowing whether Gabriel still experienced orgasm as a concept or if the need had been edited out entirely, like a line item removed from a budget. The Phenibut helped. The sleep deprivation (never more than six hours, often interrupted) helped more. And the diet, of course. Eight hundred calories on a generous day, administered in mostly liquid, always measured portions of protein isolate and ketogenic fiber, kept Gabriel’s blood sugar low enough that his cognitive function remained permanently impaired. He had spoken three languages when Cal found him outside that Paris showroom, a slightly chubby sixteen-year-old with dirt under his fingernails and a jawline that could cut glass. Now Gabriel struggled to conjugate French verbs. He stared at his phone when Cal allowed him to hold it, the screen’s light reflecting in his dilated pupils, his thumb hovering without comprehension over the icons.
Cal had not fucked him then. He was meticulous about liability. Instead his control had been financial, pharmacological, surgical. He had moved the boy into the Tribeca penthouse, enrolled him in a correspondence program he never completed, and planned out every gram of food, every milliliter of hormone, every minute of sleep. On Gabriel’s eighteenth birthday, Cal had taken him for the first time, using the asshole that had never been trained with so much as a plug, that was tight like an iron vice from the fear but, Cal overrode it through lube, his fingers, and sheer mechanical persistence. That first night, Gabriel had bled a little and cried until he vomited, and Cal had held him through both, stroking his hair, kissing his neck and calling him beautiful, comforting him through the same abuse he had just given.
Now, in the dark bedroom, Cal increased his pace. Not toward orgasm – he was on enough gear that his ejaculatory threshold sat somewhere in the stratosphere, and he preferred to fuck for hours, treating his own arousal as an endurance sport – but to re-establish rhythm. Gabriel’s body went slack, then rigid, then slack again, the neurological stutter of a nervous system that could no longer differentiate between pain and the expectation of pain. Cal reached forward and grabbed a fistful of Gabriel’s dark, shoulder-length hair, yanking his head back against the collar’s rigid arc. The boy’s neck exposed itself, tendons standing out like wires, and Cal observed the flutter of the carotid artery. Fast. Too fast. He loosened his grip marginally. He did not want cardiac strain before the casting.
Cal had read once that the ancient Greeks had not viewed their eromenoi as equals but as intermediate creatures, not boys, not men, something else entirely. He thought of this often. Gabriel was not a woman. Cal had no interest in women, their softness, their reproductive clutter. But he was not a man either, not like himself, anyway. He was a trans man, which to Cal meant a body that had required external intervention to even approach the baseline, and still failed. Something adjacent to masculinity, a taxonomical error that capital and chemistry had repurposed into a higher-value commodity. The testosterone Cal injected into Gabriel’s thigh every Tuesday did not make them equals. It made him Cal’s science project, a chemical easel, a hole with good bone structure.
Gabriel coughed again, and this time a thick rope of drool ejected from the hood’s mouth-opening, splattering the sheet. Cal watched it happen without slowing his thrusts. The boy’s body was producing messes that proved it was real. His suffering was not curated. The hood had absorbed enough sweat that it was darkening at the temples, and Gabriel’s hips were starting to bruise where Cal’s fingers pressed. The anal ring, so diligently stretched over the past year, was beginning to swell around Cal’s shaft, the tissue puffing into a puffy, prolapse lipped grip that Cal found aesthetically pleasing. He was close to achieving the permanent gape he wanted, the kind of asshole that stayed open when he pulled out, a dark, inviting void that signaled complete structural surrender. He had ordered a new speculum for this afternoon’s session, surgical steel, wider than the last.
“Your ass is getting loose,” Cal murmured, leaning down to speak directly into the hood’s ear panel. His breath, hot and chemical-sweet, fogged the leather. “By December I’ll be able to fit my fist without warming you up. You want that, don’t you?”
Gabriel tried to respond, to say yes, but producing coherent speech at that very moment was hard for him. He hoped that Cal would understand what his garbled moan meant.
Cal closed his eyes and felt the specific, lovely texture of Gabriel’s insides. The hot, clutching tube of the rectum, the slight intestinal pulse that quickened when Cal pressed down hard on the plug in Gabriel’s cunt. He fucked into that pulse, slow and intense, his heavy balls slapping with a dull rhythm against the back of Gabriel’s thighs. The posture bar kept the boy’s legs spread at a perfect ninety-degree angle, his knees bent, his feet pointed, the position of a toy designed for display. Cal had installed mirrors on the ceiling specifically for this view, but he did not look up now. He preferred the tactile audit, the inventory by feel.
He thought about the day ahead. The casting at 2:00 PM, where Gabriel would stand in his underwear while the designer circled him, perhaps touching his ribs, perhaps commenting on his weight in French. Cal would watch. Then the gaping session at 4:00, the new speculum, the measurement of the dilation with a tailor’s tape. Then the throat conditioning at 6:00, because Cal had developed an erotic interest in the precise volume of Gabriel’s stomach contents, in timing his deepthroat thrusts to trigger the gag reflex at mathematically repeatable intervals. Last night Gabriel had emptied himself completely after the fourth pass of Cal’s cock into his esophagus, and Cal had held him there, sheathed in that spasming, vomiting channel, until the convulsions stopped. The boy’s throat had been so tight around him, the cartilage of the larynx fluttering against his shaft, that Cal had nearly come. He hadn’t. He liked to save it.
Gabriel’s breathing changed. It shifted from the shallow, turned-on pant that Cal had conditioned into him, the aspirate soundtrack of a masochist floating on endorphins, into something ragged and ugly. The sound of lungs trying to keep up with a body that had stopped cooperating. Cal recognized the transition. The chemicals had stopped coming. The asshole that had been warm and receptive was now just hurting, a raw, abraded ache that radiated up Gabriel’s spine. The plug in his cunt had gone from a dull pressure to a grinding, bone-adjacent misery. Gabriel was no longer flying. He was enduring. Cal felt this shift in the tension of the boy’s back muscles, in the way his hands clenched into fists inside the cuffs, in the sudden, involuntary tremor that rattled his teeth against the hood’s mouth guard.
Cal kept fucking him. He was not interested in the good zone. He was interested in the moment after, the pure misery, the suffering that made Gabriel’s body produce its most honest responses. He drove in harder, grinding against the stretched, swollen rim, feeling the tissue yield and burn. Gabriel made a sound like a dying animal, a broken uh-uh-uh that bubbled through the saliva clogging his throat, and his hips tried to squirm away, a reflex that the posture bar arrested immediately.
“You want to stop?” Cal asked, his voice conversational, almost kind.
Gabriel shook his head, a frantic, trembling motion. He knew better. Stopping was not an option. Stopping meant worse things: denial of the meager food ration, denial of the sleep he was already starved for, electrostimulation applied to his inner thighs until he wept. Gabriel had learned that enduring was the only currency he had left, and he spent it blindly.
“Good,” Cal said, though he did not mean it as praise. It was an operational acknowledgment. “Then take it.”
He settled his weight more fully over Gabriel’s smaller frame, his torso casting a shadow even in the dark room, and resumed the deep, annihilating strokes. He moved inside the boy with the patience of a man who owned not just the body beneath him but the entire blueprint of its reduction. Gabriel’s cunt stayed plugged, ignored, a null space. His asshole did all the work. His mind, what remained of it, floated in the black leather dark, wet and open and waiting for whatever Cal decided to do next.