Rase needs to be hurt, he is a full blown masochist and Gabriel is a true sadist. This is hard core! Readers beware! There are no safe words, no polite negotiations. And this is where the story really builds up steam! His shame about what he really wants and needs runs so deep that he cant even masturbate and he despises everything about himself.Ī chance encounter with a stock boy with a chip on his shoulder, Gabriel, leaves Rase with a bloodied lip, a raging hard on and an obsession with said stock boy and his handcuffs. Now in his late forties he really is nothing but an empty shell. He has spent a lifetime repressing everything that he is in order to please his father – a challenge he never won. He is a multimillionaire business tycoon with a private jet, chauffeur driven limousines, a beautiful trophy wife and people at his beck and call twentyfour seven. I still may not completely understand, but perhaps I’m a bit more willing to learn.Īlternative-Read.From the outside Rase Illion has it all. And yet his willingness to take the time to pursue a friendship before a relationship with Gabriel says more of his character than perhaps anything else.

The utter and total despair of Rase at his lowest is perhaps the most stunning piece of this story.

To make me understand that this is not something of their choosing. What he doesn’t realize is that the encounter following his lashing out at Rase is the start of a beginning he can’t control for when a man of Rase’s caliber decides to fulfill his heart he’ll do whatever it takes, for as long as it takes, to convince Gabriel they belong together.Īlthough I repeatedly say I can’t understand this need for the things that fulfill these people, Anah Crow has managed to do one thing that most other authors have failed at. Gabriel knows what it is to be used and tossed aside and recognizes Rase’s type the second he sees him.

Now all he has to do is completely reorder his entire life to the whole world and make the other half of his heart want to stay. That’s something Rase Illion is finding out since his father died and his freedom is starting to shine from beneath the old man’s shadow. A man can have money and everything it can buy, but if he doesn’t have his soul, he has nothing.

Uneven by anah crow