The Chase (Dangerous Games #3)

Here's "The Chase" by Rina Saint. It's the third book in the Dangerous Games series.

["Elias
I don’t know what’s wrong with me to want something like this. To pay money for something like this. But I love it, even in my terror, even with tears streaming down my face as I race through the dark. What’s happening is my fantasy, isn’t it? Not some random person chasing me? The uncertainty adds to my panic.
But when he catches me and throws me down, when his powerful body dominates mine, I know it’s him. The one who’s been instructing me via text. The one I need.
The problem is, once won’t be enough. But this one brutal, blissful moment is all I can afford.

Andre
I’ve never gotten obsessed with someone whose fantasy I fulfilled. That’s the point. It’s a moment spent, a role played. When it’s over, it’s over. But Elias …
I can’t stop thinking about him, and not just that night. Other times. Little things. Yes, I’m stalking him.
I need to stop, but instead I find myself approaching him, again and again. He doesn’t know who I am, that I’m the one who chased him. So when I offer him a job with the kind of income that could fund another of his dark fantasies? He doesn’t realize that I’ll be fulfilling a fantasy of my own. I’ll be toying with him. Playing two roles.
It’s a bad idea, of course. Everything depends on my control, on keeping things in their own, separate boxes. I tell myself I can do it. But something about Elias—the way he needs me, the way he responds to me—turns this fantasy into a very dangerous game … for both of us."]

These two were…complicated. Elias was all in from the beginning, ready to jump into so many unknowns just to be not lonely anymore. Then again, he felt that comfort and safety and feeling of rightness from the beginning, and it didn’t scare it. It scared the fuck out of Andre though, took him forever to process what he was feeling let alone accept it all (let alone allow himself to want it).

Of course, the past came back for both of them. And not in a good way (is it ever in a good way?). 

I always forget about the Island, each new book I forget about it and have to relive that. At least these men are still getting their HEAs.

Trigger Warnings: con noncon, dubcon. lack of aftercare, stalking (in-person, online, and via cameras), drugging, abduction, masochism (including mild self-harm), mention of suicide, past childhood sexual abuse, past childhood neglect, and more.

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