Never Kneel
by @indigomastNatali Reyes has a secret life as a domme, and her best friend Andrea Salazar just volunteered to join her in breaking Joshua Bennett's stubborn pride. After one drunken night turned her two favorite people into sworn enemies, Andrea's desperate offer becomes the perfect revenge: lure the arrogant contractor into Natali's hidden playroom and make him beg—on his knees—to end the beef. But Joshua's got a boxer's build and a jaw made to take a punch, and he won't submit easy.
MEET THE CHARACTERS
Natali Reyes
A 29-year-old Mexican-Dominican woman with warm bronze skin, sharp dark eyes, and a mouth that smiles sweetly right before it cuts. She wears her thick black hair in a sleek high ponytail that swings when she walks, and her curves in a sundress are a weapon she knows how to use. She moves through a room like she already owns it, collecting glances she'll never acknowledge, and the cruelest thing about her is how kind she can seem while deciding exactly how she'll break you.
Andrea Salazar
A 27-year-old Colombian firecracker with sun-kissed olive skin, wild wavy dark-brown hair that escapes every clip she tries, and a body built for dancing—full hips, strong thighs, a laugh that carries across a beach bar. She's the friend who starts the conga line and the fight, sometimes in the same hour, and there's a dimple in her cheek that makes you forgive her before you've finished being mad. Her fists are small and her pride is enormous.
Joshua Bennett
A 31-year-old contractor with sun-weathered bronze skin from long days on job sites, sandy-brown hair cropped close on the sides and just long enough on top to run frustrated fingers through, and a square jaw that clenches when he's swallowing pride. Built like a man who frames houses for a living—broad shoulders, thick forearms, a body that's more functional than gym-sculpted, with a faded scar across his left knuckle from a nail gun misfire. He dresses clean but unremarkable: dark jeans, boots that have seen real mud, a watch his father gave him. He's the kind of man who holds doors and means it, who laughs loud and forgives slow.
Marcus Webb
Joshua's 33-year-old best friend and business partner, a lanky Black man with a shaved head, a neatly trimmed goatee, and wire-rimmed glasses that fog up when he laughs. He's the calm to Joshua's storm—a former high school math teacher who quit to run the books for their contracting company, and he still dresses like a teacher: button-downs with the sleeves rolled, khakis, sensible shoes. There's a wedding band on his finger and a photo of his wife and daughter taped inside his truck's sun visor. He's the one Joshua calls at midnight when his pride is bleeding.
Camila Reyes
Natali's 26-year-old younger sister, a softer, rounder echo of Natali—same warm bronze skin, same sharp dark eyes, but where Natali's mouth cuts, Camila's pouts. She wears her hair in a messy bun that's always falling down, works as a pediatric nurse, and has the kind of gentle presence that makes people confess things. She's the only person Natali has ever been truly soft with. She knows her sister is 'intense' but has no idea about the domme life—though she's suspected something for years.
Rafael 'Rafa' Salazar
Andrea's 30-year-old older brother, a Colombian-American firefighter with the same wild curls as Andrea but cut short and tamed, the same olive skin but weathered by sun and smoke. He's built like a man who carries hoses and axes—thick neck, wide chest, a tattoo of a phoenix on his forearm that he got after his first big fire. He's the protective type, the one who shows up to family dinners with a six-pack and a story that makes everyone laugh. He knows Andrea's wild side and loves her for it, but he's also the one who'd break a man's jaw for hurting her.
EXPLORE CHAPTERS
Vacation Linkup
Natali is a 29 year old Mexican Dominican woman who plays it nice but has a mean streak. She dommes men and she doesnt care that ine of her best friend Andrea knows it. Andrea a 27 year old Colombian
The Slip Up
We fast forward 4 weeks later. Andrea and Natali sit in Natali bedroom tipsy after a paint and sip. Natalies eyes puffy and swollen from tears, Andrea with a bruisd lip from biting so much in anger
Bait N Switch
7 days had gone by frantically. Too quickly, Natali thought. She was queasy at the thought. The paint and sip wss a full week ago, last friday, and this was the last weelend before her im not supposed
Forgive but Never Forget
Relief, Andrea finally exhaled as she walked out of view of Joshua. He was fsr too charming for his own good, and she also hated the things she made him say. Yes it was sexy but she didnt mean a word
Big Little Badass
Andrea looks at Joshua lovingly on the ground. Not because he looked good (he did), nlt because his dick was hard (it was) but because a woman who typically takes no disrespect had taken it several ti