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uh "
"His ass. We get it. Go on," Damian interrupted as Nick
floundered around, flustered for a moment.
"It would provide separation from the shadows in the
background," Nick finished.
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Damian studied the frame and turned to look at the set.
"I'd have to cut a hole in the backdrop."
"Not if you had a small slave," Nick pointed out.
Ashley was looking back and forth between them as if at a
tennis match, his mouth hanging open, but at that comment,
he burst into laughter. "Would that small slave be you,
Nicholas?"
Nick flushed angrily, but Damian ignored the interjection.
"That's exactly what this needs. Nick, you know where I keep
the small lights?"
Nick nodded, already moving. He thrust the cane into
Ashley's hand as he passed him, causing the older man to
laugh even harder.
"So now I'm to be a model as well?" he asked. "What shall
I wear?"
Nick called back over his shoulder, "Just what you have on.
Markie is naked, but your dark suit and white shirt will lend a
contrast that should give it "
"Erotic tension," Damian finished for him. He dragged
Ashley to the set. "If you stand just here, most of you will be
out of frame. We'll see only your arm. I'll add a spot so that
your hand, the cane, and the stripes on Markie's ass are the
focus of the shot, highlighting the product and the desired
end result."
Loving the pun, Ashley started laughing again, while
allowing Damian to push him into position. "Fancy that. I'm
going to be featured in my own catalog, after all these years!"
"Think of it as a cameo, like Hitchcock," Damian
suggested.
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Nick carried the small light onto the set, carefully
positioning it where Markie's legs would hide it, making
Damian consider the practicality of always having his
assistant dressed that way while he worked.
"Get a C-stand, Nick," Damian called out, uncoiling the
cord on another small light with barn doors. Together they set
up the spot and tested to make sure the slave light went off
at the same time as the other lights.
Nick stood behind Damian as he verbally guided Ashley
into the proper position. Damian was acutely aware of the
younger man's scent and warmth, but his attention was
focused mostly on his shot. He clicked the shutter and the
image came up briefly on the screen on the camera. In that
split second, Damian saw that he'd captured what he'd
envisioned.
"Okay, Ashley, stay right where you are. Nicholas, the
other camera!"
Damian started shooting, directing Ashley's arm to be
angled several different ways before he let out a satisfied
sigh. "Got it."
Ashley let his arm down and sighed with relief. The way
he'd had to stand, with his body out of the shot but leaning
forward so that his arm was in the frame, had strained his
back a bit. Suddenly he had a whole different slant on how
painful it could be to model. "You all right, Markie?"
"Mmmph," the blond said around the ball gag.
"I'll take that to mean 'I'd like to get up off this bench, if I
could'," Ashley said sympathetically. "Let me just check with
Damian. Oi, Ian! Can I let Markie up?"
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"Sure," Damian said. "We'll get set up for the next shot."
He turned to look at Nick, who was standing slightly behind
him and to the right. "Can you stay after work for a bit?"
Nick nodded, his lips parted and stars in his eyes.
* * * *
The models were gone, Gabe was packing up, and Ashley
was speaking with Damian when Nick emerged from the
bathroom, clad once again in his own clothes. He found some
busy work to do, wanting to look occupied with something
rather than slavering for Damian's attention when Ashley
went to leave.
Ashley kept going to the door and coming back to say one
last thing to Damian, but finally he made it out the door,
holding it open for Gabe to pass through.
"Everyone gone?" Damian asked.
"I'll check." Nick made a sweep of all the rooms and came
back to report. "All clear."
"Good. Lock the door. Go to my office and wait for me,
pet."
"Yes, sir," Nick said quietly, but his heart started pounding
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