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.Feeling infinitely better than he had when he d woken up thatday, Ellis let William take care of him in a way no one ever had.* * *For the next week, Ellis worked hard to be the perfect slave.Helearned very quickly from Harte what the master s preferences andrules were, and he followed them implicitly.William hadn t wanted to use him again, and for that Ellis feltboth disappointment and relief.The reason for both was becauseno one had ever made him feel that way.Even enjoying sex wasdangerous for a slave; it gave the master something to use againstthe slave, turning his reactions into something sordid and tawdry.Not that he really thought William would do this, but there wereflashes of hardness and even meanness in William from time totime, mostly regarding his employees or colleagues, but sometimesdirected at Harte and to a lesser extent, Ellis himself.Harte took itin stride as he did everything, though, and Ellis tried not to thinkabout it.Harte teaching him law was painful, irritating, and exciting.He d never had the opportunity to really work before, and fromwhat Harte alluded, his old master hadn t exactly been focused onthe teaching portion of slavery, either.Harte was like a sponge hesoaked everything up with room left over, but he also hadsurprising patience, so that when Ellis needed a second or thirdexplanation, he was able to give it.That was the only thing Harte expressed any sort of restraint in. When it came to sex, Harte was needy, demanding, and eager butalways fair.Ellis found his bed full of Harte more often than not,and sometimes Harte convinced him to come to his room instead.Ellis soon learned this was because Harte had restraints built intohis bed, and he liked Ellis to use them on him.Which Ellis did, alittle nervously, though Harte had assured him the master hadgiven his approval.It wasn t even so much that he trusted Hartenot to push the master s limits when it came to Ellis.No, hesometimes felt all wrong doing things with Harte when the otherboy was tied up.Like he was playing the wrong role in a moviehe had auditioned for Harte s part.But he couldn t express this unfamiliar urge to William whenhe didn t even understand it himself.And more than that, it wasn tand would never be his place to ask William to do things a certainway.William had Harte to do the rougher things to, and he knewhis slave liked it.Why bother with learning what Ellis wanted?When Harte wasn t making obvious demands on Ellis orsubtler ones on his master, he liked to watch the television.Thefirst time Ellis had seen it, he d frozen in place.He d heard ofthem of course, but growing up, his family hadn t had the moneyor inclination to own such a thing, and his previous master thoughtthey were abominations of science.Given the rest of thetechnology in his old master s house, Ellis had never understoodthe sentiment, but William didn t have any such qualms.Williamhimself didn t seem to watch it very often, preferring to retire tohis study to work if it happened to be on, but Harte adored it andblamed Ellis for making him miss almost a week of his favouriteshow.While Harte watched episodes from what must have been thefiftieth year of some low-budget drama, Ellis would open his books and try to catch up.Harte seemed to have much more than ayear s head start on what Ellis knew, but he surprised himself withhow much he managed to pick up in a short time.Hearing Williamtalk in those terms all the time really helped, and when hementioned this, William took to letting him sit in the study whilehe made phone calls to clients, judges, and other lawyers.Ellispicked up on the language much more quickly this way, andWilliam called him an audio learner and vowed to get him sometapes that would encourage his learning.But it only took one night to bring Ellis crashing back down.His mantra of remember your place, be a good slave had slowlyfaded into background noise as he became more comfortable.Hestill sought not to break any rules and be obedient and good, butreminding himself that he didn t belong had become less necessaryas he was almost seamlessly fitting into his new albeittemporary life.And so when he fell asleep in Harte s bed after some lazymutual masturbation, he was surprised to wake up feeling far fromrested.But the reason for this became clear when he heard a moanbeside him
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