Finders, Keepers (Tales of Rainbow Alley) by Jaime Samms

Author:Jaime Samms [Samms, Jaime]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing
Published: 2011-01-31T06:00:00+00:00

Gabe

My own feelings aside, I knew Rory was going to be more work than I was used to. He was just that much more damaged than any sub I’d yet taken on, Jimmy included.

Although, Jimmy was a different animal altogether. He had never really healed completely from all the abuse he’d endured in his life. He’d only learned how to live with it. I was never the guy who was going to make Jimmy put it aside and really trust.

Thinking back over the tempest that had been my months with the big man, the relationship that had developed when I realised he was not just any guy looking for a job at Rolly’s, it hurt all over again. I’d gotten too close, wanted too badly to fix him. His leaving—it had been necessary for him, but it had killed me. I took too long to get over him, and I guess, really, I never completely had. I’d never fully let him go, and that, obviously, had been bad for both of us.

I hoped he’d left for good this time. Not because I didn’t want him around, but because I knew I was holding him back from finding what he needed. That wasn’t me. I was just clinging to a dream of something we’d never had. Maybe I’d been hanging onto to the idea I could still fix him; if I could just figure out how.

I sighed, flopped into my desk chair, and brooded. I had to let go. I was no good to Rory while still burning a torch for Jimmy, however pointless. And if I was honest, I had to admit my feelings were all about me and not really about Jimmy at all.

“God.” I thumped my elbows painfully against the desk top as I leant forward and dropped my head into my hands. “Get the fuck over yourself.” I had no guarantee that once Rory was straightened out he’d stay either. I had to make sure he didn’t know how I felt. He had to be free to choose to leave, but more important, he had to feel free to leave when the time came, or I would tie him up in the same sort of knots I’d done Jimmy. Not fair to any of us.

“This is pointless.”

I straightened, snatched up the phone, and dialled. I had work to do. I needed first to talk to my old friend, Peter, and find out if his cop partner, Adam, knew anything that could help me. If Adam couldn’t share what he knew, Peter might know something. He had his ear to the ground in just about every fetish bar in and out of the Alley. He’s the one who had brought Jimmy to my attention it the first place, hearing he’d been wandering the clubs looking for any Dom who’d use him, and not caring how badly he was hurt. Peter had put a quick stop to that, and a lot of fucked-up individuals were put on notice they were not welcome in the Community because of it.

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