Page 29 of Dark Seduction

Chapter 17

Daniel

I’d never been a manwho manipulated other men. Well, not that I could remember, and perhaps I’d forgotten some things along the way driving fast through my thirty-something years. Not looking back to see the men I wanted to forget. And one person came to mind. Julian Page.

I’d forgotten many of the things I didn’t want to remember. And this might be one such moment where I’d found myself without Cole, without those brief wonderful recollections that could sustain me and give me hope for tomorrow.

The other memories being with Julian and that dark basement where I’d endured many nights of being reeducated about the role I would play with Julian as my Master.

Therefore, when it came to Charles, I didn’t see him coming.I’m a trusting kind of dude,I thought, and I didn’t recognize how a guy so young would be able to play two men against each other until it was too late.

For example, Cole walking in on me at the moment I raced to get a towel to cover Charles’s naked body. Had Cole opened the door moments earlier he would have seen me tugging up Charles’s pants, and not pulling them down. But thankfully he missed that bit of drama, or there would have been more theatrics than I was prepared to handle.

Charles had insisted that I look at his body, not because he thought it was God sent, but because he was worried about how it looked with all the bruises from last night. In that way he was the child mentally I saw him as. Yet he was playing a game Cole didn’t want to be a part of. At least that was my impression of what happened.

When he showed me the rope burns on his wrists, I became concerned that the rope marks may have caused an infection, along with my honest fear about him being in the cold on a dirty floor. It was a good thing which turned out bad when I headed to the restroom to find ointment to rub over the bruises, which appeared to blotch over his pale body which looked a bit serious, and he appeared honest in his concerns, and so was I.

In a helpless complaining voice and pointing to a large blue blotch on his thigh, he said, “See what they did to my skin,” Charlie murmured in a childish voice.

I leaned to get a better look, but I’d forgotten my eyeglasses, therefore, I had to get close to him.

Then he reached up and yanked me on the bed and kissed me. Before that stunt, I’d felt sorry for him because of his age and his innocent looking eyes, and the sound of his voice soft and trembling.

I’d forgotten Charlie was an actor and I projected him into my life when I first met Julian and what Julian had done to me, because I was vulnerable, and I thought Charlie was too. He might have been, and this could possibly be his way to cope, but it wiped away all the empathy I had for him in that one move.

“Don’t do that again. Cole could come in here anytime, and you should take a shower, because you have an odor I can’t tolerate.”

“I thought my odor would turn you on.”

“It doesn’t, it repulses me. Cole’s scent turns me on, not yours.” Pointing to the bathroom, “Everything is in there.” When I returned with the ointment intending to throw it on the bed, I came back to a sexy young man lying on the sheets with one leg propped up, and a wide grin covering his face. When I took a look at him I knew I’d been duped because he didn’t appear to be hurt or in pain as I first thought.

Sometimes young men like him craved physical pain of some kind, but I was the wrong man, and Julian was the wrong man for him to devote his young ass to. Nevertheless, I’d walked in on him tossing his borrowed pants to the floor with one hand and in the other his cock held tightly in his palm.

“Why did you do that?”

“These aren’t mine, and I don’t feel comfortable in them. I love being in the nude in my apartment doing what comes naturally—”What the fuck?

“This isn’t your apartment,” I barked.

I wasn’t thinking when I dashed into the restroom looking for a robe that wasn’t there. I found a large beach towel and on my return I met Cole leaning in the doorway, angry and huffing then mumbling, and by the look on his face he was ready to kick Charlie out of the apartment. I knew these were his intentions because I felt the same way.

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