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Chapter One

When the shop bells over the store entrance rang, Tho a wood chipper for repair and Celeste was out front to handle visitors But when he heard the custo in hiht, alert

It was a ible as her response, but so in his lower belly Godda wooden farmhouse and barn which his father had turned into a hardware store supplying this part of rural North Carolina area was hell and gone fro to who he thought it did

Tho sned to feel like the faro He'd always loved that about it, the quiet, powerful aura of permanence, stability It blended with the landscape and served as a land past It had beco area fenced off beside the barn as well as a large paddock and grazing field with a pony, goats, chickens and a pack of pigs that roamed and rooted

There was even one gentle-eyed ancient cow Thohterhouse An ironic coularly sat down to beef stew, but he'd seen the calf bawling for her one up the chute He'd purchased the baby and brought her horuff way, the old man hadn't called the female calf that "She's your responsibility from here on, Thomas You have to take care of her " A responsibility he'd eut the way the responsibility of being back here some twenty years later did, despite his attachment to the place

An ache that was being intensified by a voice Thomas knew too well Daht and he hadn't finished breakfast He'd just keep checking out the chipper, because it wasn't who he thought it was If soht Zone reality existed and it was him, it was better for Thomas to stay back here anyway

But Tho on sootten s to life that he'd buried six feet under his heart well over a year ago

Aover his hair as he drifted off to sleep Waking to that sa hiers as he was filled deep and hard from behind

Come for your Master

His "collar" had been a sliold waist chain he wore beneath his clothes A relief, since he wasn't co jewelry that didn't fit the masculine stereotype, but then he'd discovered discretion hadn't been the intent The chain rode low on his hips, keeping him hyperaware of every shift of his ass The three-inch double tail of excess chain beneath the joining point had a way of working its way around to brush his pubic area, keeping him semi-erect most of the time

When they lay in bed in theand he wasn't quite awake, his Master would slide the strands so they were at the small of his back, in order to tease the crease between his buttocks He'd ered hand fro erection

The fastener had been a locked disk with one printed word Mine Even the press of that ly belonged to another, kept him hard

Jesus, as he doing? He yanked his hand fro the heel of it on the erection rising fast and hard under his jeans, giving himself some relief with the mild abrasion He wished whoever the customer ould leave That voice was too et

Even as he thought it, he firot hi to that voice in his head, the re control, taking everything and giving backpleasure in return

When Celeste giggled, he froze An austere, never-flustered and entirely too serious girl for her twenty-one years, Les did not giggle or titter She ht her in an unguardedhile