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Chapter 1: The Morning After the Hug
The train rattled south, away from Chicago’s gray skyline and into a countryside I’d almost convinced myself was a childhood dream. My phone buzzed with another rejected job application. Third one this week. Fifth this month. The severance from the marketing firm had dried up six weeks ago.
Mom’s voice on the phone had been careful. “Your grandmother needs help on the farm, honey. It’s not what you’re trained for, but—”
“I’ll take it.”
The word came out faster than pride could stop it.
Now, stepping off the dusty station platform with two oversized suitcases, I squinted against the late afternoon sun. The air smelled like hay and warm earth. And there she was.
Granny.
She stood beside a battered pickup truck, one hand shading her eyes. Late sixties, Mom had said, but the woman walking toward me moved with the rolling confidence of someone who’d spent decades throwing hay bales and wrestling livestock. Plump in all the ways that spoke of strength rather than softness. Her silver-streaked hair was pulled back in a practical braid. Her sundress clung to curves that belonged on a woman twenty years younger.
“Timmy!” Her voice carried across the platform—husky, slightly raspy, the kind of voice that settled somewhere low in my spine. “Lord, look at you.”
Before I could respond, her arms wrapped around me.
The hug crushed the air from my lungs. Her breasts pressed against my chest, soft and full, and I became suddenly, acutely aware that I was hugging my grandmother and noticing her breasts. She held on longer than casual greeting required.
“Can’t believe how old you’ve gotten,” she murmured. Her breath was warm against my neck. “I still remember the little nine-year-old who struggled with bed-wetting well past normal. I kept some diapers around, just in case that’s still an issue.”
She pulled back, eyes twinkling.
My face heated. “Granny.”
“Oh, hush. I’m teasing.” Her hand swung down and connected with my ass in a firm pat. “Get inside. I’ll show you around and explain the job.”
I gestured toward the bags. “My things—there’s probably too many boxes. I had to pack up the whole Chicago apartment and didn’t have anywhere to store anything.”
“Bernard will handle it.” She nodded toward the truck, where a tall man leaned against the driver’s door.
Bernard.
I recognized him immediately. He’d been working the farm since before my mother was born. Six-foot-six, broad-shouldered, with a weathered face that spoke of decades in the sun. He was Granny’s age, give or take, and staring at him now, something caught in my brain and snagged.
His eyes. The shape of his jaw.
They looked like my mother’s. Like my aunts’.
A strange thought surfaced—secret husband, kept quiet all these years—but Granny’s hand was on my elbow, steering me toward the house, and the thought scattered.
The mansion swallowed me whole.
That’s what it was, really. Not a farmhouse. A mansion. Long corridors stretched in both directions from the grand entrance hall, hardwood floors gleaming under chandeliers that probably cost more than my Chicago rent. Multiple kitchens. Multiple living rooms. The kind of place where you could lose someone for days.
“Thirty staff work the property,” Granny said, leading me through a sun-drenched hallway. “Maids, groundskeepers, farm hands for the animals. Your room’s on the first floor. I stay on the ground.”
She showed me the room quickly—four-poster bed, oak dresser, a window overlooking the east pasture—before tugging me back outside.
The old barn stood at the far edge of the property.
It listed slightly to the left, its red paint faded to a dusty pink. Holes peppered the walls like open wounds. Inside, hay bales stacked to the rafters and dust motes danced in the slanting light.
“This is what I need from you,” Granny said. Her voice echoed off the wooden beams. “Clean it out. Renovate it. Make it useful again.” She turned to face me, and the sunlight caught the silver in her hair. “You do well here, Timmy, and you can stay. Learn to run the farm. I’m going to need someone to take care of it eventually.”
Something swelled in my chest. Purpose. Maybe the first real purpose I’d felt since the layoff.
“I can do that.”
She smiled. “I know you can. Now, familiarize yourself with the place. I need to get your room ready.”
Dinner was a hearty stew, thick with beef and root vegetables, served at a long oak table that could seat twenty but held only me. The property bell had rung at sunset, a deep bronze note that vibrated through the walls. Staff appeared briefly—a young maid refilling my water glass, a farm hand nodding as he passed through—but I ate alone.
I was scraping the bowl when Granny walked in.
The satin night dress stopped my spoon mid-air.
Not see-through, no. But it didn’t need to be. The fabric draped over her curves like it had been poured there, emphasizing the heavy swell of her breasts, the generous width of her hips. The neckline dipped low enough to show the crease where her cleavage began.
I forced my eyes up.
“Hope you liked dinner,” she said, gliding closer. “All your things have been moved in. I helped tidy up—the staff put away your belongings and cleaned anything that needed it.”
“Thank you. Really. You didn’t have to do all that.”
“Anything for you, Timmy.” She leaned down.
Her lips pressed to my forehead, warm and dry, and my face settled directly into the soft valley of her chest. The satin was cool against my flushed skin. Beneath it, I could feel the heat of her body, the give of flesh. My pulse jumped. Somewhere south of my belt, something stirred.
She pulled back.
A small smear of stew dotted the curve of her right breast. Brown against the pale satin.
My stomach dropped. “Sorry—I must have—”
“It’s fine.” She reached for the napkin in my lap.
Her fingers found it. Closed around it. And on the way, the back of her hand brushed against the front of my pants.
Right over my cock.
Not fully hard, but definitely not soft either. My breath caught. I stared straight ahead, praying she hadn’t noticed, hadn’t felt the half-chub pressing against my zipper.
Her eyes dropped to my lap. Just for a moment. Just long enough.
She smiled.
Innocently. Sweetly. The same smile she’d given me when I was nine and scraped my knee. Then she straightened, dabbing the satin with the napkin, wiping away the smear of stew.
“Good night, Timmy.”
She was gone before I could exhale.
The bedroom door clicked shut behind me. My room. My room, now. A flatscreen TV mounted on the wall. A desk with a desktop computer—decent specs, good for gaming, thank God, because I’d need something to do with my free time.
I went through the drawers first. Clothes folded neatly. Socks paired. The staff had been thorough.
The closet held my jackets and shoes, arranged with military precision.
Then I reached the bedside table.
A handwritten note lay on top, the paper cream-colored, the ink navy blue. Granny’s handwriting. Looping, elegant, the kind of cursive they don’t teach anymore.
Saw that everything was put away and tidied up. Hope you settle in well.
Everything was italicized. Underlined. Twice.
I stared at the word longer than it deserved.
Pulling open the drawer felt automatic. The box inside made my heart stop.
Cardboard. Unmarked. From last Christmas.
The office Secret Santa. Marcus, the guy from accounting, had cackled when I unwrapped it. Sex toys. Women’s underwear. And a chastity cage. All of it a gag, the kind of gift designed for maximum embarrassment at a holiday party where HR was present.
I’d never used any of it. Well—the dildos, once or twice, with my ex. Before she became my ex. The rest sat untouched, forgotten, buried in the back of a closet.
Until I’d packed my apartment in a panicked rush.
Until now.
Everything.
The word burned behind my eyes. Had she opened it? Had the staff? Someone had unpacked the box. Someone had seen the silicone, the lace, the little metal cage with its tiny padlock.
I swallowed. My throat clicked.
Shame crawled up my neck and settled in my cheeks. I shoved the box back into the drawer and slammed it shut.
Shower. Bed. Think about something else.
But under the hot water, my mind drifted. Granny’s arms around me. Her chest against my face. Her hand, brushing over my lap. The satin dress, clinging to those heavy breasts.
I got hard.
Frustrated, dripping, I wrapped a towel around my waist and sat at the computer. Old habits. A little porn, clear my head, go to sleep.
My fingers hesitated over the keyboard. Then typed.
Older woman.
The results flooded in. Thumbnails of silver-haired women, plump and confident, their eyes staring into the camera with a knowingness that made my stomach tighten. I clicked.
The video opened on a bedroom scene. A younger man, maybe twenty-five, kneeling on the floor. An older woman in a silk robe stood over him, one hand tangled in his hair. She didn’t rush. She dictated. Every move. Every breath.
Soft domme.
She played with him like an instrument. Stroked him until he begged. Flipped him over and worked his ass with practiced, patient fingers while he gasped into the mattress. Then she milked him—slow, deliberate, relentless—until he came with a sob.
I came too, harder than I had in months, my grandmother’s face swimming behind my closed eyelids.
The guilt didn’t hit until I was already half-asleep.
But it wasn’t strong enough to stop the dreams.