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The timer dinged in the living room, and Jonah held a finger up as he stepped into the other room.

“Put your boxers on and come join us, Billy, and I’ll introduce you to our guests.”

Billy walked into the room a few seconds later, subdued, but smiling. He was maybe five foot six inches tall, and slim, perhaps one hundred and twenty-five pounds. He had blond hair that was fashioned a lot like Heather’s, short in the back and longer in the front, but his was swooped across his forehead.

Marcus reached for Heather and pulled her to his front, possessively wrapping his arms around her while Jonah handled the introductions. “Marcus, Heather, this is Billy. Billy, this is Marcus and Heather. They are both Dominants and you will show them respect.”

“Permission to speak, Sir?”

“You’re under formal speech restrictions tonight, but you do not have to ask permission to speak. You may talk or ask questions at will, just make sure you show respect.”

“Thank you, Master J.” He looked at Marcus and Heather. “Hello Sir, Ma’am. Miss Heather, I’ve seen you at the T-wall before, haven’t I? Oh, and you made it into the finals at Castle Rock last year, and you kicked The Big E’s ass, right? Ma’am?”

She smiled. “I did. You climb?”

“Yes, Ma’am. I work at Vertical Fitness.”

She looked at Jonah. “Did you know this?”

“Well, yeah, but I hadn’t thought about it.”

“Have you taken him back on the property any?”

Jonah shook his head in the negative, and she decided to let it drop and not mention her own climbing wall. Instead she looked back at Billy and started asking him questions about which routes he preferred at Castle Rock and the T-wall, trying to get an idea of how good he might be.

As they began to eat, the conversation drifted around, and Heather decided she liked Billy. Also, he seemed knowledgeable about climbing equipment, safety, and about the best climbing spots within a two hour drive. He seemed a little excitable, but he kept up with the conversation through a number of topics.

At one point he bashfully asked, “So, the two of you... you’re a couple? Can I ask how that works, Ma’am, Sir? With both of you Dominant?”

He was looking at Heather when he asked, and she was quiet a moment while she decided how much she wanted to share. Billy took that to mean he was out of line with the question. “I’m sorry if it’s none of my business, Ma’am. That’s okay, forget I—”

Heather interrupted him. “No, it’s a valid question, I was just trying to figure out how to answer. I appear to be something of an anomaly — I’m a dominant masochist. So, Marcus gives me the pain I need, but he does it as my equal, not as someone Dominant to me. We say please and thank you to each other, and we work hard to not treat each other as we’d treat a submissive. I have a boyfriend who submits to me, and Marcus is still on the lookout for the perfect submissive or slave.”

“What Heather is trying to say,” Marcus told him, “is that we’re currently a threesome, looking for our fourth. Since you and Heather apparently run in the same circles, I trust you’ll keep that to yourself. If Heather wants someone to know, she’ll tell them.”

“Of course, Sir, just as I assume she’ll keep the nature of my relationship with Master Craig to herself. Most people know I’m gay, but no one in the climbing world knows I’m submissive, Sir.”

Marcus nodded. “Perfect. How long have you been with your Master?”

“We’ve known each other five years, and I’ve lived with him for three, Sir.”

“Since you started with the personal questions, can I ask a few?” Heather asked. “I don’t want you to feel obligated to answer — if they’re too personal, it’s fine to decline to answer.”

“Ma’am, you may ask anything you wish. I will answer any question my Master won’t have a problem with me sharing.”

She looked at Jonah and then back to Billy. “I’m curious about the idea of being owned to the extent you can be loaned out. Is that your kink, or your Master’s? Or something both of you want?”

“My Master is fifty-eight years old, and we love each other very much, but my sex drive is a great deal more...active... than his. He worries I’ll grow tired of him, that I’ll want more, so he makes sure I get it. I was kind of well-known for being a slut before we got together. I was also great at topping from the bottom, but my Master won’t have any of that. I can’t manipulate him atall. I don’t mind belonging to him completely, and I trust that he’ll only loan me out to people and situations he trusts. I’m his. Completely his. It’s just the way it is.”

Marcus put his fork down and reached for Heather’s hand. “How does your Master feel about your climbing? Has he ever kept you from doing something he deemed too dangerous? Does he worry about you?”

“You worry about Miss Heather, Sir? I understand that, just as I understand that my Master worries about me, but he trusts me to be safe — trusts that I’ll come home to him. He pays for me to go places I’d never be able to afford on my own. I know it’s hard for him to watch me, and I see him blanch when he looks at some of the pictures, but he’s very supportive.”

“And he’s got abs like Heather,” Jonah said with a chuckle. “Doesn’t hurt that cliff climbing gives him an incredible physique.”

Marcus laughed. “Heather invited me to go on a trail run with her, and she damn near killed me. I thought I was in good shape, but next to her, I’m a sloth.”

“Where did you run, Sir?”

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