Prologue
I was lonely. I looked around the big house and thought about how happy my parents and grandparents had been here. My mother had attracted my father with her good looks and sweet nature, but had held him with her knowledge of how to gently dominate him. He had been more than willing to go along with her, and they had loved one another deeply. He had died before I'd been born, and my mother had been devastated. She had never gotten over his death, and had passed away before my fifteenth birthday, when she had finally decided she couldn't live without him.
Joyce just held me. We'd been together since we'd both been sixteen, and all alone in the world. I was just recovering from my grandmother's death, and she had been running from a domineering mother. I'd found her living on the streets and brought her into my home, and we'd become best friends. She had brought her own special knowledge to my little family, and I'd given her the time, opportunities, and attention she hadn't had in her mother's house.
We'd finished high school and gone through college, she in accounting and I in history, and now had come back to my hometown to make my family's house a home once more. With us, we'd brought baby, Joyce's lover and often times submissive. He was a man who had been blessed with many abilities and an abundance of good sense. Older than us by almost four years, he served our household as housekeeper, occasionally chef, and adviser.
The only problem was that I hadn't found someone I could love and take care of like Joyce and baby. There was only one way I knew of to remedy that. I'd seen the man I wanted, and now I just had to acquire him.
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Jason was confused by what was happening, but eager for the fun to begin. He hadn't known who the author of the note had been, but he'd been noticing the pretty redhead following him around all week, and wanted to know why.
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Chapter One
He was tied to an iron bed with the scrolled bars on the headboard and footboard. The canopy itself was sheer and black and the sheets, black satin trimmed with a thin ribbon of red. The red pillowcases had a thin ribbon of black. We'd dispensed with the blankets since we had a tendency to end up tangled in them. The floor was of mahogany stained hardwood, with matching cupboards around the room, and a black stained Saint Andrew's cross in the corner with leather cuffs hanging from it by chains. Shiny handcuffs, freshly polished, hung from all four of the posts of the bed. The man had been dressed in a black lace baby doll nightie, much to his humiliation, and cuffed to the head and foot of the bed. He'd fought against his bonds and his wrists were getting slightly raw and bloody from them. I felt bad about that, knowing it was my fault he was here. Our job was to make him forget that we were holding him as our prisoner and help him relax into our dungeon. The captive looked to Joyce for sympathy.
"Help me." His sad brown eyes pleaded with her for assistance she would not give.