Going Down on the Farm (Hell Bent for Leather Book 5), page 1
Going Down on the Farm
Rain Carrington
Copyright © 2024 Rain Carrington
Cover Copyright © 2024 Rain Carrington
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
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Warning: This book contains scenes of sexual situations between two or more consenting men. There are also scenes of BDSM. Please to not attempt any of the activities in this book without knowing how to be safe.
Agreeing to read this book, please understand that it’s fiction. Not all acts will be spoken about on page, but it’s understood that each act is safe, sane and consensual.
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Trigger warnings: Bondage, spanking, guns, injury, hospital, blood, pain
Kinks: Bondage, spankings, pain, denial, toys.
Contents
Foreword
1. Chapter One
2. Chapter Two
3. Chapter Three
4. Chapter Four
5. Chapter Five
6. Chapter Six
7. Chapter Seven
8. Chapter Eight
9. Chapter Nine
10. Chapter Ten
11. Chapter Eleven
12. Chapter Twelve
13. Chapter Thirteen
14. Chapter Fourteen
15. Chapter Fifteen
16. Chapter Sixteen
17. Chapter Seventeen
18. Chapter Eighteen
19. Chapter Nineteen
20. Chapter Twenty
21. Chapter Twenty-One
22. Chapter Twenty-Two
23. Chapter Twenty-Three
24. Chapter Twenty-Four
25. Chapter Twenty-Five
26. Chapter Twenty-Six
27. Chapter Twenty-Seven
28. Epilogue
29. Also by Rain Carrington
30. About Rain Carrington
Foreword
This is not simply the last book in Hell Bent for Leather, but it’s also a prequel for Big Sky Cowpokes, my next cowboy kink series that will begin dropping in 2024.
So, it will be added to both series. There won’t be a need to read this to read Big Sky Cowpokes, but it’s here in case someone needs to see how these three men got together.
Thanks for your support and love,
Rain
Chapter One
Sitting on the small porch of the cabin, I, Jace Conroy, thought of the day I’d had. Three chicks were found in the small pen saved for roosting hens. Those were the first chicks of many that would be the next generation of workers that would produce the eggs the company, Belish Eggs, would sell.
I was hired a year ago to manage the farm. My employer, Kenrick Belish, was newly married, had a little boy that was four years old, and another that was just finishing his first year of college.
With so much going on personally, Rick hired me to take that burden from him. He’d also just given up his mayoral position. For him, his family came first. I admired that, though I had no family, no partner, to put before my work.
I’d been invited often to hang out with the Belish men and their friends. They’d taken me into their friend group with no question, and I felt for the first time in years that I belonged.
The only thing I hated about being with those men was the glaring reminder I was the odd man out, being I had no partner like they all did. That was rough for me most of the time. Seeing the absolute love between the men made it more obvious that I had no one.
I’d had plenty of fun at the club that three of the men owned in the area. Cowpokes was a BDSM club that had been built in a barn on the property of Damon Street, Burke Monteleone, and Joel Barnes. They open a couple of weekends a month. Their property was a resort for the men coming to play, inviting guests to walk the woods and fields, ride horses and enjoy the country. Then, at night, they’d walk into the club and realize their dirtiest fantasies. I’d had plenty of fun there with several men over the years , but no one stuck.
I’m not a braggart. I’ve never thought I was so great. As far as being a big guy, I was at six feet tall and muscled from working farms and ranches all my life. There, however, I felt dwarfed by the men that were my new friends. Hudson McCleod, or Hud to his friends, alone was six inches taller than me. Ryan Callahan was close to that, too. Burke was right on their heels, so I wasn’t the biggest man in the room any longer unless I was alone.
I was alone a lot. Well, except for the chickens.
Not that I’m complaining. I’ve had my share of relationships, and they were all pretty decent, though none meshed with me well enough to make me long for a partner. I enjoyed my privacy, but I missed waking up with someone.
That was down the line. For the moment, I was loving the new place. It was exactly where I wanted to be. The mountains alone reminded me of my Wyoming upbringing. Being so free to run in the wild, I was nearly feral. Those old feelings came up again, though it was nearly twenty years since I’d left the ranch at seventeen. Striking out on my own, I found out life wasn’t what it had been on that ranch.
I saw a car driving on the old dirt road that was barely that. It was more of two dust trails in the weeds, but there it went, and my defenses raised before I remembered. Chandler Belish was back from college and salivating to get his house built on the piece of land his father had given him for his going away gift. A gift that screamed please come home when you’re finished with schooling.
It was sweet, how Rick loved his boys. Kanan, too, had become a father to them since he and Rick had fallen for one another. They were all about their little family and their new marriage. Chandler had already stated he was coming home when he finished grad school, which was still years to come.
I got up and took the binoculars from the table just inside the door of the cabin. I wanted to make certain it was Chandler, so when my lenses focused and I saw another man there, with long, curly hair, I hurried to get to my truck and start heading there.
After I pulled up to see the man more clearly, he looked terribly familiar. He looked over my way and gave a wave before heading to me as I exited the big blue truck I’d had for a decade. His smile was warm, and his hair blew back in the breeze.
Beautiful, yeah, he was. He had a pair of glasses that kept sliding down his nose, reminding me of a bookworm I’d known in high school. He had a tablet in his hand and was wearing casual business attire, button-down blue shirt and nice slacks. I thought quickly he’d chosen the wrong clothing for such a trip in the woods.
“Hey there!” He called, coming within feet of me. “You’re…Jace, right?”
“I am. You are?”
I hoped I didn’t sound too aggressive, but if he had no business there, I’d be much worse than that.
“Roland Brady,” he said, closing the rest of the space between us to hold out his hand to me. “Architect that will be here quite a bit, I’m sure.”
The architect that had designed Cowpokes. “Oh, hell, sorry, I just wasn’t sure you weren’t lost on private property.”
He flipped his hair over his shoulder before looking me up and down quickly. “I’ve seen you at Cowpokes,” he said, then blushed wildly over his nose and cheeks.
That’s where I knew him from. He looked quite different, though. The last time I’d noticed him, his hair was straighter and short. “Must be your hair.”
“I stopped fighting it and let it grow out some. I was surprised it darkened the minute it started growing.”
He’d been pretty blond, yeah, I remembered. “It looks good,” I said, then asked, “What are you doing here?”
“Oh, right, well, Burke called me when his friend, Rick Belish, was looking for an architect. Seems his son is looking to build a place here.”
Chandler. It made sense. “And you’ve got the job?”
As he laughed, he said, “Yes, after ten sketches and their arguing over the size of the place, I’m finally allowed to come and look it over to see exactly what both are talking about. I have to admit, I’d hate all the ones I did too, seeing this in person now. The pictures really didn’t make a dent in how beautiful it is.”
“I’d imagine. This place is…heaven. Well, I’ll leave you to look around then.”
He shook my hand again, and while our hands were interlocked, he asked shyly, “Will I see you around here while I’m working?”
“I’d imagine, as I work and live here,” I said, smiling a little shyly myself. That was strange, as I was rarely shy.
“And, maybe at…Cowpokes?”
The next open weekend was coming, and I had planned to go. “Yes, I’ll be there.”
“Good. I’ll see you there.”
I shook his hand again and smiled, a little less shyly. “Good,” I said simply, feeling a bit more myself.
I was a dominant, born and bred that way, as I figured. I always wanted to be in charge, make the calls and more than that, when I h
ad a man, I lived to take care of them. I’d seen Roland around and I knew he was submissive, and with his beauty, I could picture him bound to a pole awaiting whatever I had in store for him.
In fact, that was exactly what I did on the way back to my cabin. I pictured it, his small wrists bound in leather cuffs, arms above his curly head, sweet cherry lips parted as he waited for the pain I’d deal to him…
Yeah, bad timing that my phone went off at that precise moment, and after seeing the caller ID, the erection I was sporting left me quickly. “Hey boss,” I said as I sat in front of my cabin.
“Jace, hey, can you maybe come to the house? We’ve had some issues, and I’d like you to be part of the conversation.”
“Anything wrong?”
There was a pause, but then he said, “Yes. A man who’s been trying to kill Eli and Noah is out of prison. And…he’s coming.”
Chapter Two
I arrived at Rick’s log mansion, and yeah, I know how that sounds, but that’s what the house was. It had two stories and an immense attic with windows all around to catch every inch of the scenery. It just so happened to be made to look like a giant log cabin.
I liked my tiny one just fine.
There were a half dozen cars and pickups around the drive, like they were having a party instead of a meeting. I got to the front door and saw through the screen door Kanan coming to meet me. “Jace, hi, how are you?”
“I’ve been better,” I said as I entered the house.
Kanan shook my hand and lowered his voice to fill me in a little. “This man that has been plaguing Eli and Noah was released because of overcrowding. They think it’s because he’s still got a lot of money, and paid off the right people, but…”
“Did he actually try to kill them?”
“He did. He went to their ranch with a gun, but Joel chased him off,” Kanan said proudly of his friend.
After he led me through the foyer and to the left, we were in their dining room. There was a table that would seat twelve, of which I was the twelfth man there.
Around the table were Eli James-Oliver and his husband, Noah. To their right were Brett Lincoln, his husband, Ryan, and their boyfriends, the couple, Hud and Theo Grant.
Rick sat next to an empty chair I assumed to belong to Kanan, then Burke, Damon, and Joel were down from that. I nodded and greeted them all, then took a seat at the head of the table.
“I was just waiting for you,” Rick said as he stood once Kanan took his seat. “Thank you all for coming. Jace, I know you haven’t been involved in this, but Eli and Noah are worried about everyone that frequents Cowpokes that live and work in the area.”
Before I could respond, I looked to Eli, who was usually one of the most beautiful men I’d ever seen. He was model pretty, built well and always smiling, so happy he was with Noah. But that day, he was pale, drawn, and looked years older than his thirty-five years.
Noah saw me staring. “He’s been through hell with the motherfucker. If he comes near here, you all call me first. I’m gonna kill him.”
“If I don’t git ta ‘im first,” Joel declared. “I should’a shot ‘im dead that day I saw ‘im.”
“You saved my life and Noah’s, Joel,” Eli assured.
I held up my hand. “I’ve heard bits and pieces about this, but what’s the complete story with this guy?”
Noah started, “He’s a fucking prick,” but Eli stopped him by placing his fingers over Noah’s lips.
“You get too riled up, babe.”
“I got every right to be!”
Burke stepped in to say, “I’ll tell it.” I then nodded to Noah. “You’ve got the right idea, brother. Any of us that sees him first, we will not stop ourselves from killing him.” To me, he explained, “Harvey is Eli’s ex. When Eli left him, he went a little crazy. I think he thought he had Eli trapped. He didn’t allow Eli to work or have his own money. What Eli did was take a watch from him. That was all the excuse he needed to get the cops after Eli, but instead of it being considered a theft, the police figured it was a domestic dispute.”
“After that bombed to get Eli into trouble, he tried to come and kill Noah and frame Eli for it. Joel kicked that idea fast when Harvey saw he wasn’t the only one with a gun in the place. That landed him in trouble and, once caught, he was convicted of attempted murder. He was given twenty years. Even in prison, he’s tried to hire people to kill Eli and Noah, but Theo had those…low connections, let’s just say, and he found out about it. Again, we stopped it. Now, he’s out, and the cellmate he had before he got out got word to Theo’s friends, who’d had the prison wired for that kind of talk from Harvey.”
“We were trying to get ahead of the next plan,” Theo said as he nodded along with everything Burke said.
“Sure, yeah, we wanted to know beforehand this time. Well, the night before his release, he spilled everything to his cellmate. So now, we need to batten down the hatches and get prepared.”
Rick said to me, “He threatened Eli and Noah, of course, but he’s also threatened everyone that knows them. That’s all of us in this room, and of course, you know us. You’re a part of our little family here, Jace, and you work on our property. If he can’t hurt us, he could want to hurt our businesses. Kill Hud’s and Theo’s pigs, for example, or Eli’s and Noah’s horses and cattle.”
“I get it,” I hurried to say. “I’ll be on watch, or anything you all need. You know that.”
Eli sighed, like relief flooded him. “Thank you, Jace.”
Damon blustered, “If he gets near Cowpokes, he’s going to be really sorry.”
“Maybe you should cancel the weekend,” Eli whispered. “What if…?”
Burke said to his best friend, “Honey, don’t you worry about that. You and Noah, you go, have a vacation far from here. Maybe if he doesn’t see you both here, he’ll leave.”
“Not a chance,” Noah started. “Eli is going, but I’m not leavin’ my place to that crazy fuck.”
Joel nodded, rose from the table, and started for the door. “I’m doin’ me some huntin’.”
Theo shouted at him, “I’ll ready the pigs!”
“Hold the fuck on, all of you,” Burke hollered. “Ever heard of premeditated murder? That is exactly what you all sound like right now! We cannot hunt him down.”
“What do you suggest?” I asked cautiously.
“Well, we keep vigilant. We get more of the townspeople informed. Cowpokes is covered . I’ll hire special security for the weekend. We’re making a ton of money from the place, so protecting it must come on the heels of protecting Eli.”
“I’m not leaving you all to fight my battles,” Eli said, and when Noah tried to argue, he fought harder. “This is my fight, Noah. I brought him into everyone’s life because I was a coward and left him without telling him.”
Everyone argued with Eli except for Joel, who ran to him, dropping to his knees by Eli’s chair. “Not a damn word o’ that! Ya ain’t no danged coward!”
I spoke then. “He’s right. You got out for your own physical and mental health, Eli. It sounds like he’s the coward. I’ll volunteer for security duty, Burke, Damon. Extend my membership a bit, save me a few bucks, but I’ll be happy to watch over the place. I’ve done security before.”
“Sign me up too, former and future boss,” Hud said to Burke, then to me said, “I used to work for Burke, getting sent out on gigs for the rich and powerful.”
“Thanks, both of you.”
“I’m in,” Ryan said, too.
“Well, the three of us alone will deter most from so much as coming close,” I teased.
“What we’re worried about the most is Harvey sending in someone that we don’t know. We’ve gone over the new members for six months, even though he didn’t know then he’d be released. So far, they all check out with their references, but we’re keeping a special eye on those we don’t know well, regardless. As part of security, you’ll see everyone’s passes on the computer, their faces and everything.”
I nodded to him as Ryan said, “We’ll make sure no one who isn’t on your list gets close. The thing is, everyone, well, I hate to say it, but I doubt he’d hit with all these men around, security or not. It’s going to be when Eli and Noah are alone.”
