can
use in the summer and can or dehydrate my extras to use the rest of
the year. We can use some in tonight's dinner if you like.”
Blake paused to unlock his door. Up until a couple of years back,
he didn't even bother to lock it most of the time but since lots of
the local houses had gone up for sale or been foreclosed on, he no
longer knew a lot of the people living around him and thought it
safer to keep it locked all the time.
“And here is my home, since you haven't run I'm guessing
that you're prepared to back up your story?”
“I'm looking forward to it actually, if you want me to back
it up the way I'm hoping you do.”
Blake escorted her into his home. He took his own coat off and
hung it up. Despite the chilly late winter weather Courtney hadn't
had a coat with her. Taking her duffel bag, he escorted her into the
living room of his house. He placed her duffel on the coffee table
and turned to look at her:
“You don't mind if I look inside your bag, do you?”
“Go right ahead, since it's mine and I'm yours, it is yours
by extension.”
Blake shook his head again when she claimed him as her owner but
opened the bag up. Inside it contained two full changes of clothing,
a toothbrush, some toothpaste, a hair brush, a small cosmetics kit, a
few other hygienic items, and not much else except for a single book.
The lone book in the bag reinforced to Blake that Courtney was a
person, not a belonging. Her actions, however, indicated that she
believed otherwise. Idly he picked up the book and scanned the title,
it was 'The Hobbit', one of Tolkien's classics. He had a copy of it
himself on the shelf in his library upstairs.
“Do you read much Courtney?”
“I love to read when I have access to books.”
“Do I have a surprise for you then. I'll show you later on.”
“Thank you, I think. I may thank you again later depending
on what the surprise is. I know you wanted to test me now but do you
have a shower I could use? Raymond hadn't let me shower in a couple
of days and I feel really grungy.”
“Certainly you can use the shower. I'm sorry I didn't show
you where things were already, let me give you the nickel tour then
the shower is all yours. I'll show you the downstairs later on, the
basement is unfinished but I still use it some.”
Blake took Courtney through the upper stories of the house,
showing her where things were. He specifically left off the library
for his surprise later on. Once he had showed her around he took her
to the second floor bathroom, which had the shower he used himself
and was the cleanest one in the house, and told her to help herself
to anything she might need. Within a minute of closing the door he
heard the shower start running.
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Chapter
5 – The Test
Blake had settled into the couch in the living room, book in hand.
He only had part of his mind on the book, the rest was on how he
should test Courtney. So far he had decided on ordering her to strip
since he figured if her story was true she shouldn't have a problem
with that. If the story wasn't true he couldn't see her willingly
stripping in front of a stranger. Beyond that he figured he could
order her to give him head and he'd know if she was as good as she
claimed. He hadn't given it any thought beyond that yet. None of it
would prove her story beyond a doubt but he couldn't figure out a way
that he could test her completely in a quick fashion. Time would
tell, but there was no fast way to test it that he could think of.
He was really puzzled though since if the story wasn't true he
couldn't think of a reason anyone would set up something this
elaborate with himself as the target. Yeah, he'd bounced a few guys
but most of them knew it was coming and more often than not the next
time he saw them they'd apologize for their behavior. Not always, and
there were a few that he had bounced with extreme prejudice, but he
just couldn't see any of them setting this up or how it would benefit
them.
When Blake realized