Old Wounds, New Love Ch. 05

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"So what?"

"He'll show the tapes to people."

"And I care why? I'm gay, I have a nice dick and I have nothing to hide."

Afton flinched, looking at Ethan with a surprised expression. He sounded so confident of his orientation and his stance. He was protecting Afton like he been unable to protect himself. Xavier had shattered him that badly.

"You're as sick as he is," Xavier spat.

"He loved you and you fucked him over. How do you live with yourself?" Ethan took a menacing step forward causing Xavier to scamper away as he had in the bar.

"He loves only the power and the money. Don't you, baby?" The old endearment made Afton flinch. "You dreamt about it every fucking moment of every fucking day," he was now speaking to a white faced Afton who stood near the door frozen. "You owe me. I helped you build your empire. You wouldn't be where you are now without my help."

"I am not under your control anymore. You saw my choice of lifestyle as a sick perversion for you to exploit. You did nothing for my career and all you did was to destroy any chance I could have at being happy."

"Until now," Ethan mumbled and earned a smile from Afton.

The comment seemed to give him courage. "I needed to purge my past, Xavier. I need to purge myself of you. That building reminded me of bad choices that I want to forget. Each day I held onto to that building was one more day I couldn't let go. I'm ready to forget. I finally have a reason to move on, so it's done, the escrow will close in three days – cash deal. When it is final, our contract is terminated. You won't get any profit from the sale and you can't collect the income from those apartments anymore. I hope you rot in hell."

"Fuck you Afton." He spat at Ethan next, "And fuck you and all your goddamn friends."

Ethan snorted, "Yes, I will fuck Afton and maybe some of his friends, thanks for the suggestion. Now go."

Xavier stared at Ethan a moment longer. None of Afton's friends had ever had the courage to stand up to him before. He saw a formidable man standing before who would. Ethan was not some weak, snivel gay man who could be pushed around. The only reason he had gotten a yoke around Afton was through his heart and his pants, but Ethan was a different matter. He'd have to use brawn and that was something Xavier didn't have. He was soft, he knew it. He chose to use manipulation to wrangle power, not brute strength.

"I will never forgive you for this, Afton." He wiped his bleeding nose again.

"I hope you never do," Afton said in his most arrogant voice. He had found the courage to be the bone chilling cold man he could be when making business deals. "Good-bye." He strode into the building and leaned against the wall just inside the door. He was trembling so badly he nearly fell.

Ethan caught him pinning him to the wall with his body. "Look at me," he demanded and kissed him when his face lifted. "I love you and he doesn't control you anymore. He's got to get through me first. Do you understand that?"

Afton's pale face nodded. "You defended me."

"I will defend you every day if I have to. I love you."

"I hate it that he makes me weak. I hate that me makes me tremble with fear." He held up his hand to show how badly he was shaken.

"He's gone. I know you pretty damn well, and this is not who you are. It's a reaction. Fight or flight. You chose flight." He kissed his quickly and then added, "I will be the fight from now on. Only when it comes to that asshole. You seem to handle yourself just fine with everyone else," he laughed and then kissed him more passionately, warring with his tongue in the hallway.

Greta tentatively approached, clearly worried. "Hey," she interrupted. "I left the others at the table, but I had to come. Is everything all right?"

Afton wrapped his arms around Ethan and held him in a hug, a huge smile at his friend from the embrace. "It's perfect. He's gone from my life and I feel free for the first time."

"You knew he'd come looking for you, Afton."

"Yes. I have found something that gave the courage to finally stand up to him," he squeezed Ethan. "It's time to move on."

A tear streaked down her face and she sobbed, rushing to her friend and her arms flew around the two of them in a fierce hug. "Oh thank God. I've been waiting ten years for you to say that!"

Afton cherished these two people the most in his life. Greta because she'd never once faltered in her loyalty, picking up the shattered pieces of Afton's soul each time Xavier tore him apart and Ethan solely because he held his heart. "Come on, desert is probably getting cold and Ethan, I want to get you some ice for that hand."

They all looked down at his right first and his knuckles were swollen and red. He may have broken it on that second punch. "It's fine."

"Liar. Come on," Afton shoved him off and hand in hand they made their way back into the restaurant. As he sat down at the table, he met the worried glances from each of his friends, Mary included and smiled. "It's done." It was time to finish their dinner and truly begin a new chapter in life – with Ethan.

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RichBauerRichBauerover 5 years ago
great story

what a terriffc read cant wait for more from this author

AnonymousAnonymousover 6 years ago
WOW

Oh my how I loved this story. Not only was the sex scenes of the chain but it also has a great story line. Its a shame when someone uses another vulnerable person for their own personal gain, in this instance it was money. I'm sure Xavier never expected this day to come and cut of the gravy train because he knew he could Manipulate Afton because he was once in love with Xavier (his first love). Afton may have been a savvy businessman but he did not have the brut strength to deal with Xavier thank goodness Ethan beat the hell out of his sorry ass . My thought is why try to be something you are not, as Mary told Ethan, if he had stayed in Illinois and taken over the family farm just to please his family he would not have been himself nor would he have been happy. You go big strong handsome cowboy and keep protecting your man. LOVE CAN HEAL ALL WOUNDS !!!

canndcanndabout 9 years ago

I enjoyed this quite a bit. I only thought that Ethan should have been a bit more upset at the way he was manipulated at the exhibit. I don't believe Afton didn't see that result coming and want it. I also think that the fact he'd make him have unprotected sex with all those men was sick. Aside from those details, and overall, the series was very good. I'd check out your other work.

AnonymousAnonymousalmost 10 years ago
I love it

I can see this series has gotten quite a few comments focussing on the criticism part of constructive criticism, but I really loved it; start to finish. Please keep up the good work!

AnonymousAnonymousover 10 years ago
HMMM, Jury's Out On This Story

I have issues with lovers who share one another physically, emotionally, or in any other intimate way with someone outside their relationship. So chapter 4 truly bothered me, if Afton loved Ethan so much how could he use him to re-pay a debt, allow men who where strangers to Ethan to fuck him in a room full of onlookers, and have it all taped and photographed? How can Afton profess to be hurt and threatened at seeing Mary touch Ethan, or at the thought of them having made love, after sharing him with those other men? There is also an aspect of Master/ Slave to this story that I don't like, as though these two men will never be equals, Ethan will dress as Afton wishes, allow himself to be used by other men at Aftons whim, and all because he loves him. How about proving that Afton loves and deserves Ethan? This story screams it's Aftons World and everything in it is his to command, Ethan is but a new chapter in his life, one which will end when a younger, more naive boy toy comes along relegating Ethan to what, his cock serving body guard? There were one or two glimmers of love and romance in your writing, but you really need to get better at bringing them out or if you continue to write this genre head the stories under bd/sm.

Oh and please work on character names, Afton? Gag me.

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