High Control (Poison Apple Duet Book 2) by Michaela Jackson

Author:Michaela Jackson [Jackson, Michaela]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2025-03-11T00:00:00+00:00

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Landon isn’t particularly avoiding me. To avoid me, we’d have to frequently be in the same spaces together. But the only time we’re generally in the same place is when we have brunch with his mother. Otherwise, Landon is living in his own home where he lives with Caleb as his “roommate.”

Roommates is the perfect cover in a cult like the Sovereignty, with more or less strict gender rules that they assume everyone conforms to, and if they don’t, it is only an aberration because of some outside enemy’s influence. They would never even begin to think that Landon and Caleb are a lot more than just roommates, let alone suspect it. Even if they did, they’d never accuse the Oracle’s youngest son of it. Accusing him of being gay would be worse than accusing him of being a rapist. They’d likely even forgive him for the latter.

Either way, I don’t go out of my way to seek him out or try to talk to him about what I saw. When we have brunch with Lilah or see each other at dinner, I act like nothing is afoot and nothing has changed. Because it is nothing. I get that it is something because the Sovereignty has made a big deal of hating people like Landon for hundreds of years. But also, it’s nothing because there’s nothing wrong with him being gay. So there’s nothing for me to tell anyone anyway.

Even if I were concerned, I’d be too busy with High Demand to think about it.

After Abigail finally read through and listened to everything I told her to, she’s decided that she wants to help. I don’t like the idea. Not because I don’t trust her, but because for the longest time, High Demand has solely been my baby. Started on a whim because I needed a cathartic way to process my own story, and telling other people’s stories helped with that. I pick the interviewees. I interview them. I edit the interviews. I post them. I reply to comments. I do everything.

But realistically, I can’t do it all anymore. I can’t just log into my admin side to delete hateful comments, answer clarifying comments, and, in a few rare cases, make statements that the views of those interviewed aren’t my own because there is no perfect cult survivor, and the harm it causes a person and the harm it causes a person to do to others is something that takes a lifetime to unpack.

Thus, I accept Abigail’s help.

Interviews drop on Saturday morning as they always have, and that’s luckily a time that I’m busy with processing classes for my rites. But also, it means that I can’t be there to watch live and monitor and respond to comments.

That’s where Abigail comes in. She spends an absorbent amount of time, more than I imagine she ever would have, reading my responses and comments and listening to my interviews so that she can capture my voice and intentions. Then, while I’m in processing on Saturday mornings, she takes it upon herself to log in and answer or delete comments.

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