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if you're calling this rape, did you even bother finishing the chapter? good lord. & some of y'all are really trying to twist & reach atp. there are better ways this could've panned out & they could've communicated properly - but it's clear they still have a lot to work on. & no, it's not only ash because quite frankly, i feel like ash ended up on the sexual route because of lyle's consistent & persistent history of evading qs. ash looked uncomfortable himself & he also immediately stopped once it was clear lyle REALLY looked uncomfortable. we're reading this from lyle's pov, so of course we'll "understand" (quotations because many of you seem to NOT understand lyle AT ALL) him more but ash has went through a lot himself with this relationship. to prove himself every single time lyle j evades everything, to slowly coax & teach lyle about sex outside of obligations, having to be firm in front of lyle's grandfather & his brother, asking for help from a man he's refused to see for decades, etc. y'all wanting to degrade him into a disgusting rapist is suuuch a reach
with that being said, a lil' thing about lyle: i actually fucking HATE how he talks about omegas. icb i've never seen anyone say this & maybe it's because everyone gives him grace because he's traumatised & presents himself as innocent & naive, so y'all coddle him. but his omegaphobia pisses me OFF. every single time he says it's humiliating/embarrassing to do things that omegas do/have done to them - like??? i GET it okay - that he's traumatised, but he cares so much for his younger brother, a dominant alpha, & understands & dislikes the prejudice that affects him, yet he turns around & does the same to omegas? ntm when he's the one fucking omegas to make babies out of responsibility - it j makes everything icky. like i get there's an objectification of both himself & the omega as baby making machines, but with how he feels everything akin to an omega is humiliating - ughhh. i love lyle & i get it, but this one thing j leaves a bad taste in my mouth & i wish he stopped mentioning it but i know he won't because mf's got a humiliation kink