Chokehold

A chase game turns into Cole's anonymous claim on Blaise

Cole Carter, twenty years old and numb inside a loveless relationship, attends a party at his friend Samson's woodland property with his girlfriend Allie.

A chase game turns into Cole's anonymous claim on Blaise

Cole Carter, twenty years old and numb inside a loveless relationship, attends a party at his friend Samson's woodland property with his girlfriend Allie. His stepbrother Blaise is there too — they've despised each other since their parents married years ago. When Samson proposes a masked chase game through the forest — white masks for chasers, black for runners — Cole splits into the trees hoping to land his fists on someone, preferably Blaise. He catches a tall figure, tackles them face-down into the dirt, and feels something unexpected: arousal. When he lifts the runner's mask, he finds Blaise's green eyes staring up at him. What follows is anonymous and brutal — Cole forces himself into Blaise's mouth, finishes, then punches him unconscious. He leaves Blaise in the dirt, but the taste of him refuses to wash out.

Cole weaponizes Blaise's desire through anonymous texts and blackmail

Blaise wakes obsessed, replaying the encounter in the shower while his girlfriend Mia fails to arouse him. He doesn't know whose cock he choked on — he suspects Jackson, a bisexual friend of Cole's. Meanwhile, Cole buys a second phone and texts Blaise anonymously, taunting him about the night, demanding explicit videos. Blaise, aroused and trapped, complies — filming himself and sending it to a stranger. Cole watches the footage in his parked car and tells himself it's about control, about blackmail leverage. He demands Blaise break up with Mia or their parents will see everything. But the video makes Cole's hands shake for reasons that have nothing to do with power. At the family breakfast table, their eyes lock while Mia's hand works Blaise under the tablecloth, and Cole can't look away.

Drugged drinks and swapped masks turn a party into blackmail material Blaise refuses to be owned. He buys pills from a campus dealer and plots his counter-move at Samson's Venetian-themed birthday party in a rented castle. He crushes the drugs into three beers — one for Cole, one for Mia, one for Allie — and swaps his gold mask for Cole's half-black, half-white one. The plan detonates perfectly: a drugged, glassy-eyed Cole has sex with Mia on a four-poster bed while Blaise gets Allie on her knees, ordering her to call him Cole. He records everything for counter-blackmail. Then, with all three incapacitated, Blaise kisses Cole's unconscious mouth and tastes something far more dangerous than victory. He carries Mia out and leaves the destruction behind him,…