3.5 stars

Unrealistic? Ha! Who cares reality?

Upping the rating after second read, eight years later. ( )

Apparently only a kinky novella, I think that Gay for Pay hides a more deep side. As in some of the best Cinderfella reverse romance, Ben Smith, high paid security man for a multibillionaire business man is sent to the rescue of the lost lamb, meaning the son of said multibillionaire business man, Nate. The barely 20 years old boy ran away from home to end on an auction in a BDSM private club, but it was not a mistake: Nate wants to know for a night and a day what it means being gay and above all being someone else property. Nate has this idyllic idea of being a submissive, for him it implies being cherished and cuddled by another man: see, Nate has always known that his best feature is being rich, and more or less everyone who approaches him wants more his money than his body. Being auctioned as an anonymous body for him means that the one who will buy him will be interested in him as a person and not as a padded wallet.

Problem is that Ben knows well that it’s not a bed of roses, and so he half decides to rescue Nate and half to teach him a lessons: for a night Nate will be Ben’s submissive, and the morning after the boy will have enough clues to decide if being a submissive is really his vocation.

When I said that there are hidden layers in this story, I was referring to Nate’s relationship with his father: there is not hate between them, and neither shame, on the contrary Nate’s father loves him very much and wants for his son only the best; being gay is a path of trouble, and he doesn’t want it for his son. Nate loves and respects so much his father, that he really tried to suppress his needs, but then they surface all of sudden and pretend to be satisfied. As Nate loves and respects his father, I think that he is projecting the same need on the man he wants in his bed, someone older, someone to whom he has to obey, someone who can told him what to do, knowing that the other man has his best interest in mind. And if someone thinks that it’s not right, that Nate should find his own path in life, I tell that not everyone has an independent streak, and letting the lamb among the wolves can be dangerous.

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