Break the Chains by Reis Asher

Author:Reis Asher [Asher, Reis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Gay, Bisexual, Contemporary, Science Fiction
Publisher: Less Than Three Press, LLC
Published: 2019-03-26T16:00:00+00:00

Avery

Trust.

Avery had learned quickly in the slave trade that trust was a rare gem, more valuable than diamonds or platinum. Masters lied more often than they ate hot dinners—to their slaves, to other Masters…probably to themselves.

He hadn't needed to hear the conversation to know Conrad wasn't working for Garth this time. He might have thought he was being sly, but it was clear he was searching for a way out of their horrible predicament.

With any other Master, he would have borne it in stride. With Conrad, Avery was both hurt and touched. Hurt that Conrad was thinking of giving him back to the life he wanted out of but touched that he wanted a solution that didn't involve killing him.

Avery knew how it would all turn out, but he went along with Conrad's plan, hoping that when it all came crashing down, the fragile trust he'd placed in the man wouldn't be broken. Conrad was too good a person to truly understand what being a slave meant, despite his rough exterior and grimy past. Even killing a man for money paled in the face of what he might see. Either way, if Avery was to take a measure of the man he'd fallen for, perhaps this was the best way to do it.

"What's on your mind, Ave?" Conrad asked, breaking through Avery's reverie as they drove through the gates of a country mansion. Gravel cracked beneath the tires of Conrad's old beater, and Avery almost laughed at the absurdity of it. Was Conrad truly so oblivious as to how out of place he was in the world of the Circle?

"You're not planning to leave me here, are you?" Avery asked.

"It's just a job. That's all." The car pulled up to the house and Conrad shut off the engine. A portly, red-faced man came out to greet them, his expression so open that even Avery was taken in for a second. He got out of the car and opened Conrad's door, kneeling at his feet and offering up his leash to his Master. It had been so long since he'd been a proper slave that it seemed strange and unnerving to fall back into the pattern. Conrad took his leash and Avery followed, keeping his eyes cast downwards according to protocol. Every now and then he dared himself to look. He saw a one-armed slave playing ball in the yard with a child. A slave with scars across his face cleaning a window. A blind slave woman being guided by another as they prepared vegetables in a kitchen the size of Conrad's entire ground floor.

"Quite a setup you have here," Conrad said. "What's the purpose of all these slaves? You appear to live alone. Is this a humanitarian project?"

The man laughed. "You're an odd Master. I looked through your file and I must say, you pique my curiosity a great deal, Mr. Fisher. You're not in the…financial range of most Masters. I'd love to hear the story of how you came to acquire this slave.

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