Alex flinches at the last, and Mahiro wonders if this is the end of them, because now his anger at himself is tinged with the searing pain of betrayal. In all of his years as a Dominant, he never abused the trust placed in his hands by his submissives. What they do together is consensual, it must be, and Mahiro is crushed that Alex would believe otherwise. And yet, isn’t this exactly the outcome he was afraid of?
“I don’t…I don’t think that you’d do anything on purpose…” Alex starts.
“But my crazy obsession might be clouding my judgment, is that it?” If you’d only told him at the start, this all could have been avoided, his mind singsongs at him.
“Maybe! How would I know, since you never gave me the chance to figure it out for myself?”
And there it is. Mahiro clenches his eyes closed,
