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

His boy now had a protector. He barreled through the narrow streets of Trenton’s older and seedier neighborhoods, he even rode the shoulder. There was a building revival near the ballpark and the capitol, but it had not made it to Clinton. He leaned on the horn, passed on the right, and it felt like it took forever, but he arrived. What met his eyes was like a hammer to his gut.


His Brian was in the center of what looked like a street gang. Time distorted. In slow motion, Donald down shifted and popped the curb as his eyes took in the three James brothers surrounding Brian with baseball bats and tire irons behind their backs. The boy was tied to a hook hammered into the pole of a streetlight to keep him upright. The harsh rays of a late summer afternoon reflected on a long sharp shiv. Egged on by an old woman in ragged plush bunny slippers and pink sponge rollers, they were cornering Brian.


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