Rescue Dogs: Chapter Nine
Cecil takes Valorous apart as best he can.
Cecil Hobbes, an ex-PE teacher disgraced and looked down on in his hometown, has a new partner: Sir Valorous King, a knight of the realm, once a child of prophecy, and Cecil’s stalker.
A few months into their relationship, Cecil finally convinces Valorous to see a therapist, on the condition that Cecil attend one himself.
Chapter One | Chapter Two | Chapter Three | Chapter Four | Chapter Five | Chapter Six | Chapter Seven | Chapter Eight | Chapter Nine
Content warnings in this chapter include self-esteem problems, undernegotiated kink, power dynamics. There’s a bit of kink in this chapter, with flogging, spanking, figging, dirty talk, Daddy kink.
Valorous wasn’t working today, and that was for the best — Cecil was meant to be on the afternoon shift, but as soon as he woke up, he knew he wasn’t actually going to go in, had suspected as much last night. His shoulders fucking ached, not to mention his hips, but it wasn’t because of that — it was because when he blearily opened his eyes, Valorous was on his feet and obsessively dusting the bookshelves that Cecil knew he’d dusted yesterday, because he’d watched him.
On the phone, he hoarsened his voice and coughed intermittently, muttering, “Sorry, Chaz…
