Page 16 of Dark Promises

“I was a kid and the baby, you were my older brother, and you should have understood. I understood about you being Father’s son.”

“I came first.”You dick,I wanted to tell him, but I didn’t because there were more important things I had to discuss, like who was purchasing the building and him replacing me tonight.

“We haven’t settled the matter of you showing up to take my place. So, I take your silence as ayesyou will be there tonight. You never know, you might like this guy. Like you said, it helps to have something in common with the man you’re fucking, even if it’s sharing a kink.”

“What kind of kink did you and Cole share?” He caught me off guard with that question and it took me back to that last night we were together. I had to drop my thoughts of Cole, because it became too painful, and focus on Sidney.

“Do you expect me to tell you about what we did in bed?” He hunched his shoulders. “Now that we’ve got that behind us, do you have everything you need for tonight?”

“I came here with nothing. My partner took all my things. I think he put them on eBay or one of those sites, and from what I saw, he made a lot of money selling my used underwear and each pair came with a date and some other shit I don’t care to mention—”

Shaking my head, I said, “Spare me the gory details. Now go to my playroom and get what you think you will need for tonight, and the spare bedroom is to your right. It has its own shower, and you do need one. And don’t worry, I won’t be selling anything you touch on eBay.”

“I like to bathe and lie in a warm tub for hours—”

“Well, you won’t be doing that here. If you need deodorant or anything else, there’s a closet full of new items Cole left behind.”

“I don’t use deodorant to play, some men love that musky odor—”

“And some don’t,” I explained to my wayward younger brother who had a lot to learn about men. Or maybe I had a lot to learn, because he’d been finding men and women to support his habits since I could remember. And he kept a job for as long as he could get a paycheck and then on to another job where someone would hire him.Go figure.

When Sidney ambled to the fridge and cabinet, my phone rang. I reached in the bowl and looked at Sidney. “Get yourself some breakfast because I have to take this.”

I headed to my bedroom and answered my phone before it went to text messages.Oh shit, it’s Ryan.I knew what that was about, and I dreaded answering it.

Chapter 10

Cole

“Idon’t think I cando this. Daniel is sure to recognize me, and I’m nervous,” Bryan said after I’d agreed to go along with his scheme. However, I knew just what he felt or thought. Daniel was a man who never deceived anyone, and for that he got plenty of it. And some from me. Well, a lot more than he deserved. Here it was I left him for a long time and didn’t say anything, and came back and wanted to start over where we left off. Either I was delusional, or had bad judgement, or Bryan was when he hatched this idea.

Daniel first approached me at his club, and when I saw him standing straight, wide shoulders lean and long legs, I thought I had walked into a dream, and it would never end.

Not knowing enough about my sexual desires and not acting on them, I came to this quiet beautiful mature man, and he freed me from all of my fears, all my worries and tensions when he brought me to his home, into his world that night.

He held my hand when he opened the door, and revealed his playroom, but all I thought about was this was a dungeon I’d heard about from friends and to beware. When I came out as gay, I heard stories about men like Daniel, but unlike him, he was handsome and kind, his voice soft belying all the horror stories I’d heard about men lying in wait for young men like me.

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