COMPLETED | Take Me Down The Rabbit Hole (BDSM | 18+)

LVII (A/N at the end!)

"Now, lose the dress shirt."
Spencer hadn't even looked up from the little display on his camera.
"What?" Aspen asked, shaking out the cuffs of his jacket.
"Shirt," Spencer repeated. "Off."
"Why?" Aspen asked again.
"Because I say so. Just do it. I want to show you something."
Aspen laughed. "I hired you to take professional portraits of me for my website, Spencer."
Spencer huffed. "And I'm hiring myself to take spicy pictures of you because I want to. My god, how are you single?"
Aspen stopped short. "Are you telling me you think I'm attractive?"
Spencer nodded. "Hmh," he hummed. "If I was remotely interested in polyamory — which I'm not, sorry in advance — I would have asked Alan to call off the wedding and you could have stayed here with us forever. But alas, I'm getting married, and you're intruding on all my childhood dreams."
Aspen chuckled. "I'm beginning to think I'm also intruding on my childhood dreams. BDSM wasn't really a part of that."
Spencer let the camera drop down gently so it hung by the strap around his neck and came closer to help Aspen out of his jacket. "I know Alan wants you to carry on this weird mentor legacy he has because of Leopold, and Thea might like you to come join the team at Aphrodite, but I hope you know you can take this past year at face value and take it for what it is: Education. You don't have to come out of this a dominant or whatever else you think you might have to be."
Spencer took a step back and waited until Aspen had stripped out of his shirt. "Okay. Jacket back on. Trust me. I am a somewhat professional spicy photographer. I know how this works."
Aspen rolled his eyes. "Okay, big boy."
As soon as the jacket had found its way back on, Spencer reached up and tugged the hair tie from Aspen's hair.
"Yeah," he breathed. "I am telling you you're attractive." Again, Spencer stepped back and Aspen could feel the younger man seize him up.
"This color is great on you, by the way. I thought all lawyers wear grey all the time."
Aspen blew a strand of hair out of his face.
Click.
"No—"
"Oops. Candid photo time," Spencer mumbled. "I like burgundy. Granted, it's probably not perceived as the most professional color, and it is perhaps a bit at odds with my profession as a divorce lawyer, but it's not like the ties I wear have hearts on them."
Spencer looked up. "But do you have one with hearts on it?"
"Let me guess: I can lie and say no and then you'll tell me Alan has one that we can just borrow, huh?"
"Something like that," Spencer agreed, an impish grin on his lips. "But first—" Again, he took a step closer and positioned one of Aspen's hands on his jacket and the other behind his neck. "Okay. Look to the side and down— Wonderful. Just like I wanted. You look hot as fuck."
Aspen naturally preferred the benefit of the doubt, but then he realized that this must have been one of less than five times that Spencer had seen him in any state of undress.
"You should have asked me for a boudoir shoot instead," Spencer complained.
"So you can stare at my dick after telling me you're getting married to Alan?" Aspen joked. "Nah, I think not."
Spencer rolled his eyes. "No, not because of that. It's because people like other people who are aware of their potential, and nothing goes over sex appeal."
Spencer lowered the camera again and his eyes fell on a chair in the corner of the living room that had sat untouched since Aspen had first set foot into this apartment months ago.
"Sit in that," he said, pointing at it.
"Has anyone ever sat in it?"
Spencer flushed the color of a tomato. "Alan sits in it on the nights you're with Thea," he breathed and then shook his head. "It's his little throne of sadism if you get what I'm saying. But he won't mind."
Aspen narrowed his eyes. "You're going to show these to him and he will get mad if I sit in his chair."
Spencer huffed. "Is nimpwimble an insult, Aspen?"
"It sounds like gibberish, so no."
"Right. But if I call you a nimpwimble because you did something I didn't like it's an insult. That chair is just a chair. What makes it a throne of sadism is the fact that Alan gets to sit in it with his clothes on while I'm in my underwear at his feet. So yes, you can sit in the chair, and no, Alan won't get upset at you."

Unfortunately, Spencer was right about the dang chair. Aspen had just sunk into the seat and like every so often, a switch had flicked inside him.
"These are all amazing," Spencer gushed and then pulled up a specific photo in which Aspen's face was barely visible behind a curtain of dirty blond hair.
"This in black and white on the wall in Thea's office."
"Thea is not gonna put that up. I'm wearing clothes."
Aspen could hear Spencer inhale sharply. "Thea has put up every single of my photos I've ever given to her, and she's definitely going to hang this one because it's of you, and you look incredible. I'm printing it. You can't stop me."
Aspen tutted. "What about the right to my own picture? Hm?"
But it was too late.
Spencer had already pressed the buttons and a dull hum coming from Alan's office confirmed that Aspen's very saucy portrait was indeed currently being printed.
Immediately, Spencer jumped up and did a little dance that Aspen struggled to find the words for. It looked silly to see Spencer, who was at least 6 feet tall and very thin, hop across the living room, excited for the final product. "Are you happy?" Aspen asked.
"Oh yes! Very! Thea is absolutely going to love it!" Spencer replied instantaneously, clapping his hands after every word. "And the fact that you look very distraught at having your picture hung up in your domme's office makes it even better."

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A/N:
Hello everyone!
it's time for that time of the year when I announce that unfortunately, due to personal and private circumstances, I'm changing the update schedule for Take Me Down the Rabbit Hole back to once a month. That means that the next update will be on Nov. 12, 2023.

If you're celebrating Halloween this year, I wish you a safe and candy-filled holiday. I make no promises, but I might have time for a little spooky holiday special.

Thank you for reading and see you soon!

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