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All characters engaged in sexual activities are at least 18 years old.
Max Bruhner, ace investigator for the Daily Gossip, was in trouble.
One minute he was following up on what could possibly be THE story of his career – Where Does Minister X Disappear to Every Weekend? – and the next...
It all started when he'd happened to see the famous politician/family man wrap a scarf around the lower half of his face and duck into a taxi. Max had hopped on his motorcycle and followed. When the taxi stopped, the Minister had practically sprinted to the doorstep of an oversized building – Max would have mistaken it for a warehouse, except Rose Street was nowhere near the mercantile district – brandished a small card at the doorframe and zipped inside; all in the time it took Max to cut his engine and drop the kickstand.
In the next four hours Max watched the place, over 3 dozen men – all in expensive suits, mostly on their own, although some arrived in small groups – made their way into the building. Max had caught a glimpse of an aging, well known movie star; three high-ranking politicians; and someone who might have been a famous media-empire mogul, though he couldn't be sure. Almost all the men had obscured their face right up until they reached the doorway and displayed their little cards.
You didn't have to be an experienced muck-raker to realize something big was in that building, just waiting for a crack reporter to blow it wide open. And Max had spent over twenty years – from high-school gossip columnist to yellow-mag reporter – making sure that one person's secret became everybody's business.
He took his time, scouting the building by day to find the back-door – the fresh-produce truck arriving at noon would have made anyone sit up and take notice, since everyone knew restaurants always get supplies in the wee-hours of the morning; the influx of hansom men in the late afternoon who didn't leave again till the following morning. He watched it all, taking notes, deciding on his best way in, while at the same time feeling the tick-tock of his approaching weekly deadline.
So, after two days of intensive, sleep-depriving study, Max took a whole day off to sleep in order to come back refreshed. But visions of what could possibly be waiting in that building – and the scandalous headlines that would result – kept dancing inside his closed eyelids and exciting him to the point where he'd been obliged to pull down his pajama bottoms and stroke his semi-hard cock – the excitement of possible notoriety always got Max's balls buzzing – and beat off his 6.5 inch handful of veined meat for a solid ten minutes before the resulting orgasm relaxed him enough for sleep to claim him.
Fat lot of good resting did him!
Max had timed his arrival to coincide with the produce truck. Nothing like the old "I'm just a delivery guy" routine for getting into any place with catering! Seriously, who looks at a carton-carrier's face?
Apparently these guys did. Max had carried a box of carrots five steps into the building – just far enough not to be seen from the outside, in fact – when he found himself surrounded by what seemed like a wall of solid muscle. A black bag over his head. Then nothing.
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"Mister! Hey, mister! Wake up!" a soft hand and a slightly rough tenor voice were the first things Max was aware of. The next thing was that his naked back and ass were pressed against a hard, cold floor.
Opening his eyes didn't show much at first – the light was so dim the young man shaking him awake was barely more than a shadow. But as his head cleared and his eyes adjusted to the gloom, Max could see his companion was a young blond with wide, dark eyes, and who was just as naked as Max himself.
At first he wasn't too worried – his body didn't ache, so obviously Max hadn't been beaten; and while being nude in public was embarrassing, he'd been through worse. But then his eyes completely adjusted to the minimal lighting, and Max realized he and the young man weren't in some back ally somewhere – they were inside a stone building, in a cell!
With a shout that sent the young man scuttling back in fear, Max jumped up and ran to the bars of their cell, shaking them and shouting to be let out. When he paused for breath between shouts, Max became aware of a soft voice saying "No, no, don't! Please, mister, don't attract their attention!"
He turned around to see the young man huddled in a far corner, and for the first time it occurred to Max that he might want to find out a little more about the situation before their jailors came back for him or the boy.
Moving slowly and carefully, Max squatted down near the young man, close enough to touch, but not yet reaching out to the cringing boy.