"I know what they call me, Hartley, I'm not shocked. I've been called worse but I don't have the options a lot of people do. I mean what else am I going to do? Unless I want to get tangled with a gang or deal drugs, I'm kind of limited and at least this way, I can avoid the worst if I use a condom and say no to bondage." For the most part. Axel didn't always have great clients. There was the guy who handcuffed him to the bed and legitimately wouldn't let him go so he had to break himself out, there was the guy who beat the ever loving shit out of him because 'he was into it' and the one that tried to date him after and got kind of possessive over it. The list was just full of creepy freaks who'd done awful things but all of it still won out over joining a gang.

"I'll quit as soon as I pay off my debts." Axel said and would always say every time he had a talk like this with James but it just never happened. "I want to actually own a place of my own eventually."