Gilded Cage (MM)
HabuFeeling slighted and taken for granted by David and feeling the sexual competition from another model, Jared, Alec turns to rich, mysterious, and strikingly handsome Pasha Rushdy Abazar—at first to invoke David’s jealously, but increasingly to attract the pasha himself. Abazar, who hosts the first photo shoot at his Giza villa across the Nile from Cairo, overlooking the great pyramids, does seem to be making moves on Alec when he personally flies Alec to the second photo shoot in Luxor and wines and subsequently dines him in style in Cairo.
But Abazar’s attentions do not quite meet Alec’s expectations and Alec’s narcissism requires “it all.” The question quickly emerges of whether Alec is going to be blind to the pasha’s own, separate, agenda until it is too late to save himself and to maintain control of his own life.