Chapter 15
The cuff worked.
Sort of.
Stefan went home and slept for hours after he was thrown out. And when he woke, that terrifying, lost feeling was gone, replaced by the weight around his thigh and the aching dig of the bumps into the muscle. It felt like his master’s hand was on him, no matter where he was.
So he didn’t feel so empty and thin anymore.
But he did feel—strange. Stranger, even.
When he went out to the Jobcentre the following day, he felt almost seedy. Dirty. Like he had a secret, and everyone knew it just by looking at him. There goes a girl who has an owner, he imagined them saying. There goes someone who has to open her legs on command, he imagined the whispers.
Yet at the same time, he felt—
Aroused.
He felt like Daz could see him. Felt like he could just appe
