In the Heat of the Moment by Kim Dare

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The story caught me a bit unprepared since it plunged me in the middle of something happening between Brett and Shawn. They are not stranger, Shawn works for Brett, but now they are not at work, they are in a BDSM resort. They are not together, and the reader doesn’t know if Brett went there to stop Shawn to do a big mistake, or if he was there just by chance. What the reader knows is that Brett has his eyes on Shawn for months now, and he is not willing to let someone else snatch the boy from under his nose.

Brett is a dominant and he recognized in Shawn all the signs of a submissive; not only Shawn is little and pretty, he is also very willing to let someone else take the lead during lovemaking. But once the sex is finished, Shawn refuses to continue with the game, claiming that he is not a submissive. Actually I think that Shawn is for sure a submissive but he has not found the right dominant: Shawn is at the same time cute and bratty, he is like a kitten, ready to purr but easy to scratch the hand that is stroking him if he notices a lack of interest in the stroke. Shawn is not a submissive eager to please; he is a submissive eager to let someone else please him.

Shawn is exactly what you define an high-maintenance boy-toy, he is not for every man, only a very self-conscious dominant will be able to rein him. Only a dominant who doesn’t need to be reassured on his power can take in hand a submissive like Shawn, since Shawn will never reassure anyone, Shawn will ask, will pretend, but he will also surrender with grace.

I like the story, but I would have liked it more if it was not only a moment in time; I missed the preface, the little and continuous teasing of an unwilling Shawn (or maybe not so unwilling) during job hours, and I missed what it will be of them once they will leave the resort to go back to their everyday life. I wouldn’t have minded to have a bit of office affair romance spiced with naughtiness.

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Amazon Kindle: In the Heat of the Moment
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing (July 13, 2009)

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