Falling Apart

"Control. Discipline. Be Strong. Be Good. My mantra. I can do it. I have done it for years now. I need to do it, it's my job. But damn if those two intriguing lords have me faltering, willing to disobey my Master to help them."

For the sake of his parents, Kye accepted a 'service contract' several years ago under Marquis Barrett. He thought, as service contracts usually proclaimed, that he'd be learning a trade, a skill that he'd be able to use when his contract was over when he became of age at 17. He didn't know then what it would entail, but his mother needed medicine and the family farm was failing. They needed the money Lord Barrett would pay for his services.

But Lord Barrett never intended for Kye to learn to be anything but his pet--his amorato, lover, to polite society, but his slave in private. And Kye learned. He learned to be strong, to be good... he learned control and discipline. He learned to obey, or suffer the consequences.

But Kye finds his control slipping when the Sterling brothers arrive accusing his master of thievery and treason. When faced with a choice, to obey his master or save Lord Sterling, Kye has to make a choice that might cost him his life.