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

“As for fidelity, no O’Shea has ever betrayed their fated mate once they met. Even if their destined love belonged to another whom they refused to leave, an O’Shea would be faithful to them until death and beyond. My own mother, widowed while she was still a young woman of thirty-two, never looked at another man.


“Infidelity is not in our make-up. I thought it would be different for me. As a Murphy and my father’s son, I did not expect to inherit as much of the O’Shea as I did. Yet, some of the traits showed themselves as soon as my father passed. Even so, as a gay man, I did not look for or expect to find the one love. Nevertheless, yesterday, when I first laid eyes on you, Sir, it struck.


Chapter 63