The bittersweet tale of Bear and his Boy -- a BDSM Dom and his fledgling Sub -- who live “the life” in west central New Jersey, just north of Trenton. Donald K. Drummond is the Master of all he surveys -- a legend in commercial real estate in New Jersey by day and by night a Master Dom at the gay BDSM club, Indiscreet. What he couldn't find was a boy to call his own. That all changed when a nerd with taped glasses and worn Dockers barged into his office spilling his bottle of 1985 Bourdeau over his priceless Persian carpet. Brian Murphy came with a host of troubles, the least of which was his grasping aunt, his invalid mother, and his rather tenuous position in Donald's mail room. Can a Dom with issues of his own come to train and trust a needy boy from his own mailroom? It's all A Matter of Trust.

A Matter of Trust

“I’m sort of clumsy at communication, Sir. I guess they figured I would do less damage in the mailroom…I do try to follow um…rules to the letter, but my communication problems get in the way, Sir.”


“I don’t remember poor communication skills being a problem in Accounting. Sales maybe, but not Accounting.”


Donald laughed. Brian returned a weak smile.


“Well, what is considered clumsy communications skills may not pertain as much to what I do as it does to who and what I am, Sir,” Brian answered him. In an afterthought and in an effort at perfect honesty said, “Although I do babble when I’m nervous.”


Chapter 12