Chapter Four: The First Deal
The three young men were up, in the Sea Pearl, and out in the outer harbor, doing sail sprints from one end to the other, early the next morning. They raided the kitchen themselves for breakfast, no one else being up yet, and they all were dragging around as if they already were exhausted from exercise--which all three were.
They didn't stop to have sex during the morning sail. The wind was up and changing directions, which was good for their skills practice. But it was all they could manage to be able to manipulate the sails in the effort to beat their timing with each successive sweep of the harbor. They got back to The Rock in time only to shower and appear at lunch on the back porch.
The others were already seated when Hunter, Julio, and Rich arrived. There was a new guest, seated beside Susan--the New England Patriot team guard, Sonny Taggert. Howard Butler, seated at one end of the table, was massive. Taggert, seated to his right, overshadowed Butler in bulk, all of it pure, well-defined muscle. Susan looked as if she would melt in bubbling pleasure. At the end of the table opposite Howard, Alma reigned, cool as a cucumber and looking very pleased with herself. Rich was seated across from Taggert, and the two eyed each other wearily, signals of understanding exchanged between them. Taggert's look was unwavering, not unfriendly, but supremely confident. Rich acceded gracefully. He no longer needed Susan; he'd gone over her head. When it was apparent to Taggert that Rich wasn't going to be an adversary, his look changed to one of possible interest of a different nature. This wasn't lost on Rich.
Rich was initially surprised when he saw Taggert as he approached the table, but he was quick on the uptake, so he wasn't shocked. Now he knew what that urgent meeting between father and daughter last night had entailed--and the assured way in which Howard had come to him in the night. Howard had already arranged the change in the scenario.
"May I see you in the library after lunch, Rich?" Howard asked as they started to eat.
"Of course, Mr. Butler," Rich responded.
"And perhaps you could show Sonny around the place after we've eaten, Susan," the older man added.
"It would be my pleasure," Susan bubbled.
Of that I don't have the slightest doubt, Rich thought. He wasn't surprised that he didn't catch Susan looking in his direction throughout the meal. The conversation, of course, centered on professional football.
Taggert's table manners were impeccable. There wasn't a single misstep of etiquette or clumsiness by his broad, thick-fingered hands. Rich thought the young man's ringlets of blond hair draping to his shoulders were quite becoming and he wondered how his hair would look like that. Could he get Susan to look at him again the way she now was looking at Taggert if he let his hair grow? Did he really give a shit if she did?
No. Probably not. Rich was smart enough to know when he'd lost that particular battle. There were greater prizes to be had, though. He turned and gave Howard a smile, which was returned. Howard put a hand on Rich's knee below the surface of the table, applying enough pressure for Rich to wince, but not enough to erase the smile from the young man's face.
This new relationship with Howard was going to be quite demanding, Rich thought. But the newly acquired thoughts of a man dominating him fully as Howard had the night before opened a whole new avenue of arousal and sensuality for the pleasure-seeking American aristocrat.
It didn't improve Rich's financial situation, which had been the general idea when he'd been moving into a courting phase with Susan. But this line of thinking as lunch progressed moved into Rich wondering what the term would be for a male mistress--and what the financial benefits might be when it involved an owner of a string of clubs and restaurants who also owned a slice of a professional sports team and had the power to summon a star player from that team overnight to do his bidding--and a man who would make testing sexual demands that would go beyond what most kept men would tolerate.
And his own feelings about sex. He enjoyed topping both men and women. And now he had discovered he liked being fucked by men--by handsome hunks like Julio and even by men like Howard, with beer can dicks and dominating cruelty. He should feel guilty about that, shouldn't he? At being so hedonist that he could be aroused and come for men and woman alike, both by fucking them and being fucked by them? He should accept that as a taboo, shouldn't he?
And yet he didn't feel guilty. Sex was sex was sex. As long as he was desired--by men and woman alike, either on top or submissive, conventional or taxing, or controlling, why should he give a shit what anyone else thought was the wrong or right about that? As long as the consent was mutual, both were engaging in it with eyes wide open, why should he care what others thought?
He didn't. He moved his hand below the surface of the table to cover Howard's--to hold Howard's hand there, strongly, painfully gripping his knee. Signaling his surrender, his assent. Howard gave him another smile of recognition and Rich moved the man's hand to his basket. Rich had gone hard, and he wanted Howard to know he had.
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"I must admit that you took that well," Howard said. They were in the library after lunch, sitting on either side of a large mahogany desk, a barrier between them.
"As well as I took you last night?" Rich asked, wanting the man to know that he had leverage in this issue. "You drugged me unconscious, bound me, and fucked me without asking consent."
"And you wanted it; you'd signaled that you would take my cock. It wasn't nonconsent. You did everything but beg me to fuck you. I just made it a little more interesting than you anticipated it would be."
"Did I signal that I'd take it by force--or how thick it was?"
"Yes, that came as a bit of a surprise that you would accept it that way," Howard conceded. "I admit that I wanted to make a point, though--that you couldn't fuck around with my family without there being some consequences. All of them. Not just Hunter, which I understood when he invited you here this weekend. But my daughter, Susan, as well. And my wife. Yes, I know about that. And even my gardener. You're a randy one, aren't you?"
"They all wanted it."
"Yes, that's understandable. You're a fucking god. But you signaled you wanted it too, and I wanted to give you the best of me. I get harder when I am in total control. I admit that it was a surprise that you were as hungry to take cock as you were to give it."
They went silent at that point, both of them noticing for the first time the thumping noise coming from above them. Susan's bedroom was above the library. Rich looked into Howard's face to see if the older man realized what that meant, but Howard obviously did. There was a slight smile on his face.
"He's a heavy dude. I wouldn't expect him to fuck quietly," Howard said.
"You're sure Susan can take it?" Rich asked.
"She's having a ball being balled by a three-hundred-pound muscle god." He laughed then and abruptly changed the subject. "There's no question of you marrying Susan. I want you to understand that."
"I've gotten that message, thanks," Rich replied.
"It's not that I was against it--or that I even am now, as long as you submitted to me too. But Alma wouldn't have it. She was adamant that the one who marries her daughter isn't shipping it around. I hope you understand."
"I understand perfectly," Rich said. "I will pack up and be out this afternoon."
Rich didn't really think that Butler would leave it there, and the older man didn't. "I wish to make a deal with you," he said before Rich could leave the library. "I haven't found an Apollo--and I own a Chippendales-style club--who will take what I like like you did last night. That wasn't so horrible for you, was it?"
"No, no it wasn't," Rich admitted.