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clanged shut behind hi in to his side he crouched and swivelled, cracking his head on the unforgiving bars, trying to find a position with so about it was hard And he had no idea how long he ht be left alone

‘Master, you don’t have to do this I s, share the e used to I’ve uess you have too It hasn’t been the same since’

He was talking to thin air

Secrets

Richard felt good It had been a while since he had felt so good Suddenly he felt truly Master again, back in control of his own hos the more he came to realise that he had been taken for a fool Shadoasn’t stupid They had been friends for many years, but always there had been this need, this untapped source of energy within his friend to dominate, but also to be submissive

He was a conundrus, to hold them in check But Richard had found him out It had happened quite by chance

They met at university They had known of each other in their school years as they’d played on opposing teaether to ood Money came in like there was no torew and flourished And of course there was the acquisition and developton Hall, where he now had an experienced tea bridges of wellbeing between hi able to send Pandora there in the beginning to prepare her

Shadow, in his own professional field within the medical fraternity in those early years, had becoeon Often they would spend weekends away together with their wives But h the week they found Sheila and Beth had been feeding their own perverse pleasures, sowing the seeds of visiting a swingers party, ‘just to look’ Then one evening over dinner together plans were hatched, and they found themselves in the house of a wealthy businessman in the middle of the countryside

It had been dark when they arrived, but the blazing lights and sound of laughter and es clustered likea peculiar st thelasses in hand topped up at intervals by a transvestite maid, they became a part of the scene It was a roups, and the owners made such athe same course of action as an investment

They becaular attendees, but then more and more Shadow crept upstairs while his wife Sheila was involved usually with Dave, a favourite One day Richard followed him, curious, and in a room at the top of the stairs a , feet spread, arms stretched, crucified and yet with such a look of ecstasy and devotion it was easy to tell he was savouring the experience Opposite, through a doorway, a girl rode bareback, a hood covering her head, ar hair to yank her forward and then twitched a short wooden handle to send a whip lashing across her buttocks He’d stayed awhile, fascinated by the co pale flesh The need within hiht take him

Shadow had been in the farthest rooed by a tall bronzed Donised him as one who used to bully his friend at school It was shocking, especially as Shadohole demeanour was about authority and control, and yet at the sa Standing to one side of the doorway he reht, and yet able to see every bit of the scene being played out in front of hi Shadow knelt before the Dominant as if it was the most natural position in the world

It wasn’t the only tiain Richard discovered him in all manner of submissive positions, and not alith the sa hi this secret side of himself Richard decided then that, rather than reveal the fact he knew, he would keep this newfound infor

Then came the car crash The suddenness of it all still h hi him with the same sense of acute loss and panic and dread he experienced at the time It seemed Sheila and Beth had discovered a new venue They were checking it out when the car skidded out of control They swerved to avoid another car on the road, drove over the edge, and far below in the ravine the vehicle caught fire Al was recovered At least, that’s what he’d been told He’d been overseas, about to close the deal on a new invest had to be put on hold while he travelled back He didn’t remember the journey Only the words; brutal words which cut deep,to have ever happened to him Beth

He missed her Oh, how he missed her! She would have been so proud of him, his success And then there was the island They had drea somewhere like this, completely cut off from the outside world, theirs to open and shut the door to depending on who they chose Wishes, drea still he woke to stretch out his arms, devastated not to find her at his side Pandora res With her he was certain he could have the saain

Pandora