TO BE READ AFTER *SING*This ten page story was sent free to the mailing list on 11/14/13. If you still want it free, another fan can loan it to you through "Manage Your Kindle." I'm not making it free because I already have two free books on Amazon, and that's enough.Get on the mailing list to avoid missing the next one - and thanks so much for reading.------------------------MONICAI missed two things.I missed my freedom, and I missed slavery.I got myself caught in a nether region where I couldn't come and go as I pleased, and I didn't feel protected.I was being unfair and I knew it. What man could be expected to keep up Jonathan's intensity for any length of time? No human could continue to be a raging lion after having their heart ripped out.So, though we burdened each other with many things, I never burdened him with my longing for my dominant Jonathan. That man was gone. I loved the man who replaced him. He was everything I almost lost in that nightmare of a hospital. He was funny and thoughtful. Gracious and wise. He was still the best lover I'd ever laid my hands on.But he wasn't the lion of a man he'd been, until today. The day my king returned....--------------------------------***Be advised this is the roughest scene of intimacy in the whole series.***