(Chapter 44.) Liam's story.
(Liam's POV)
I woke up on the floor behind Jester Bar, and my head hurts. I am groggy. I sit up and look around.
There is a person lying on the floor next to me. It's Simon I move towards him and feel a strange sticky wetness on my leg. I look down and it is blood. There is a knife on the floor.
I roll the body over. Simon is dead. I can see it already.
I had never met Simon until earlier today. I was out walking and he came up to me. He told me there is a problem with my ceremony with Brett tomorrow. He lets me know he works on the admin team and mentions how someone is trying to sabotage my pairing session. He has this weird indirect way of talking and I start to get angry, but it is crowded. I am close to causing a scene a few times but he is jumpy. I don't know what to do. I don't want to scare him off.
He tells me he thinks he can help but there is a chance it could take weeks to sort out and there was a chance the ceremony with Brett might not take place at all. At some point I grab him. I tell Simon to stop fucking around and that if he just tells me what he knows I can sort this out. I mention who my father is, and he tells me he knows.
That is the problem he tells me. I ask if this has something to do with my father. He looks away saying nothing.
"What the fuck is going on?" I ask.
But we are in a public place and he is clearly not going to talk unless I beat it out of him. He let me know that there is a secluded spot behind the Jester bar. I have to come alone and we can meet and talk there.
It was cryptic at best, but it was Brett I was concerned about. I wondered if someone, maybe even my father, was planning to sabotage my bid for Brett to be my breeder partner. I spent the next few hours frantic with worry. My mind spun, my father wanted a breeder for me so it seemed unlikely he was behind whatever was going on.
More likely it was someone he had upset. A powerful man like my father has a lot of enemies in high and low places. Or perhaps it was just Simon blackmailing me. This couldn't be happening. But if some crazy person was going to put Brett and my future with him in jeopardy I wasn't going to risk it.
So I went to the meeting spot at 4:15 PM. just like he said. Nobody was there. Then a shock, a really sharp painful shock to my body.
Then another blast of that pain and then nothing. Everything just descended into blackness.
Now here I am. Simon's dead body feels so heavy in my arms.
Two guards walk slowly toward me and tell me to move away from the body and stand up with my hands in the air.
They call for a bot, and before I know it bots arrive and assess Simon for signs of life.
I stand up and I am shaky. One guard walks to me cautiously and asks, "What happened?"
"I don't know. I found him like this," I say a little confused and I ache all over. I see several more bots arrive. One begins to scan the scene and one picks up the knife.
I look down and my hands and body are coated in blood. More guards are called.
They ask my name, they ask about Simon. They ask me to go with them to the admin building. I am in a daze. I look around, and Simon's body is wrapped up in a body bag. I see two guards stand near the narrow entrance to the area effectively sealing it off. We walk to the admin building down some back walkways and corridors. We are hidden away from prying eyes down back areas I never really knew existed. I am still in shock.
I feel nothing my mind races but to no avail. They take me to a medical bay, and some of the blood is sampled.
They tell me my palm scan proved a match with that on the knife.
...
I am questioned by a big angry looking bull. Two breeder guards stand watching me. I look at him. The bull has a full thick beard and a long fat bull cock. His menacing and angry expression tells me he thinks I murdered Simon.
"What happened?" The big bull asks.
"I told you everything I know. Honestly," I say.
"We have the knife, your prints all over it. Nobody else came into or left that area, just you and Simon. We have witnesses who both saw you go in there. People saw you arguing with him earlier that day. We have visi footage of you grabbing him and shaking him. We have eye witness accounts to that effect as well. He was blackmaling you and you murdered him. Fuck just tell me." He is angry.
"He wasn't blackmailing me or maybe he was. I am not sure. I told you everything." I say.
.
"Fuck we are going around in circles here." The bull questioning me says.
I tell the bull my story over and over, and he has had enough.
"Liam Connor you are charged with murder."
Murder. I am held in a cell, and I can't really work out what happened.
......
The next afternoon I am sat in the admin building. One of the chamber rooms. It is almost 3:00 PM. I should be with Brett right now. I am a mess. The whole thing has been a sham. However, even I can see my case is hopeless. A dead body, I am there covered in blood. A knife with my palm signature on it.
"Liam Connor, you are found guilty of murder. You are sentenced to live out your days as a marked breeder whore at a pleasure house of the Academy's choosing. The sentence and processing will begin today and shall be complete within seven days. The victim's family can provide a bull to inseminate you if they choose."
Counsel Alderton stands. "Warden Borodino please, we have a lead which could prove the boy's innocence. Senator Connor is a respected man, give us just one week on sentencing," he pleads on my behalf.
"The senator may be respected, but he already has one son convicted of murder serving a sentence. Seems to be a family trait. No disrespect to the Senator. I would also remind the Senator that the Academy council is independent in it's governance, finance and actions. This seems to be a clear cut and very sad matter, so with respect I will have the sentence commuted for 24 hours. But no longer. Dismissed," the Warden says and people begin to disperse.
The remark about Tom, my father's son, was unnecessary, but everyone knew that the Connors were crooks, my father is probably the biggest. But to hear the words 'guilty'. My future seemed so sure and now I will join Brett as a breeder. Not just a breeder but a whore. I curse this country and my decision to come here but then it gave me Brett, even if it was just for a few months. It gave me him. I wept.
The trial was over just after 3:00 PM. I had my father with me and his counsel, Alderton. They got me the 24 hour stay but it seemed hopeless. I was supposed to be bonding with Brett and now this.
.....
I am held in a cell overnight. I wait and hope that nothing has happened to Brett. He will be upset. But not as upset as I am the next morning when I get to see Counsel Alderton and he tells me about Brett and Jonas. They are now a breeder pair. They had their bonding ceremony yesterday afternoon and my heart breaks.
That bastard he will have butt fucked my man. He will have poured his seed out of his maggot dick into Bretts lovely breeder butt cunt. Soon they will be living together. I weep.
I watch and wait and hear nothing.
I pray to any one of the thousands of gods I don't believe in for a miracle. Praying that I can get out of here. Praying that someone, anyone saw something and that I can walk out of here and claim Brett and hold him.
He is a breeder now, and that is what he wanted for me. In hours that is all I will be, a fucking breeder for him to rub clits with. Not even a full breeder, a fucking whore.
A cut tiny clit, not my bull dick. I need that for Brett. I would have changed places with him if I could. I would have done anything to reverse our roles. I would have that day on the stage, seeing him looking up at me as I looked down on him. I would have swapped with him in an instant. I knew then I needed to be the best bull possible for Brett but I think I knew that I was always going to have to do that.
That other night when he told me how he feels, his shame and pain, I wanted to squeeze the shame away. I wanted to tell him I love him, not his cock or his pussy. I love him, not a part of him, but I didn't and now he would never believe me anyway. Those words would ring shrill and hollow in his ears coming from a breeder whore.
The hours pass and I piss and look at my 4.5 inches of fuck meat and pine for how I would have fucked him. Every fuck a torment me trying so hard to be the bull he was meant to be. The bull he could have been. I wonder if he is better off without me. I would have had to try hard to be a bull to match the bull of a man he already was when I met him.
I roll the skin of my cock back before I push it forward over my head. I should jerk while I still can, but I have no desire for that. None. I don't care about that anymore.
I already hated how our lives would have been, how we can love in this country but never as equals, never be a true couple, a real partnership. Now even that sliver of hope, of escaping this country and restoring him. The vain hope of a treatment like my mother's. He is restored now, such treatments are wildly expensive but my mother has the credit he would help. Such thoughts are dreams.
That was my dream. An escape with Brett to a place where he could choose his life. Maybe he would restore himself or maybe he would keep his cunt. But he could choose.
In another country another time, I would have let him fuck me in the pussy, I would be his breeder gladly. Now I will just be a whore in some backwater pleasure house doing god knows what. Getting pissed on, tied up and spanked, beaten. Those places are bad.
They come at last, and I see they are taking me to the med bay. All hope is lost.
....
The doctor smiles at me. I see the almost upright table in the middle of the room, the medical equipment and the scalpel they will use to cut me. I look at the doctor. It is Doctor Anderson. I met him before, he is the one who gave me the growth powder.