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Chapter Five

 

 

Ethan

 

This girl is adorable.

I left her door unlocked for a reason. It would be easy to hold her captive, but that wouldn’t teach her anything. I wanted a reason to punish her sweet ass again and of course she gave me one. This is a game she’s not even aware she’s playing. She is trying the most obvious routes of escape, but all the obvious routes are traps I’ve designed with the aim of being able to punish her when she tries them. Eventually she’ll stop trying, and then she’ll be trained.

I was notified the moment she left my home. And of course she was followed. I didn’t even have to send an actual human to do it. There are cameras everywhere these days. Private and public, and both open to me if I want them to be.

I watched her attempted escape while negotiating a new deal on a batch of processors. She seemed so proud of herself too, especially once she got to the toxic wasteland that she seems to call home.

Maybe I should have had her picked up and brought back earlier, but it was amusing and instructive to see what she did and didn’t do. She didn’t blow the whistle on me, which was interesting. At least, it wasn’t the first thing she did. Her first instinct was to go to ground, because that’s what prey does. And now she’s freezing, just like prey does.

I lead her out of the bus station by the hand. She follows me quietly, choosing not to make a scene. Good girl.

I have a car waiting outside, one she gets into without any further argument. She’s actually quite compliant once I get hands-on with her. It’s when she’s alone and has time to think that the trouble starts.

Makes sense. She doesn’t know me yet. She doesn’t know how serious I am about owning her, or how far I’ll go to make sure she stays mine. Right now, she’s a petulant little captive still looking for a way out. But there are no ways out. I could tell her that, but it’s going to be far more instructive for her to learn it on her own.

“You knew that wasn’t going to work, didn’t you?” I ask the question as I slide in beside her. She’s so much smaller than me, but big trouble can come in small packages.

She shrugs. “Was worth a try.”

“You don’t know that yet.”

“What do you mean?”

“I mean there are consequences for disobedience, Casey.”

“Like what?”

“Like this will be the last time you sit down comfortably in a very long time.”

She looks at me, and I see the clockwork behind her eyes. I expect her to be angry and afraid. What I don’t expect, is what I get: a smile.

I know she’s mad. I know she’s upset. And she’s sitting there with a smile that isn’t forced at all. It’s genuine. And it’s because a part of her is enjoying this.

I don’t believe in accidents, and I don’t believe in mistakes. She’s here, right now, because she’s meant to be. She came to me. Walked into my lair. Is it the lion’s responsibility what happens when a sweet little sacrifice is thrown to him? She doesn’t know how restrained I’m being. She doesn’t know what I want to do to her really, how far I would go with her, given enough time and enough reason. Or maybe she does. And maybe that’s the reason she has the bravery to sit there and smile.

 

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Casey

 

His threats are supposed to scare me, but they’re only serving to excite me, because I’ve finally realized something that makes all these pieces fall into place: this is a game to him.

He let me leave his office last night and again today, because he’s proving a point. He could lock me up and that would be the end of it. But Ethan Keller is a man who likes a chase. He’s looking for an opponent. And he’s found one.

The first two rounds have gone to him. I paid for the first defeat and I know I’ll pay for this one too, but that’s okay. I’m coming from behind on this battle of wills, but I have resources too. I might be poor, but there’s more in this world than money. In the end, Ethan is going to pay for every single thing he puts me through.

“What are you smiling about? I just told you how much trouble you’re in.”

I shrug.

He leans in and murmurs into my ear in rich, husky tones.

“I am going to fuck that smile right off your face.”

The most delicious shiver runs through me. Ethan is capable of pleasuring me with just his voice in a way most men can’t with their entire bodies.

I hate him. Or at least, I want to. But my shock and dismay at being caught is turning into pure thrill.

I hate him. But I want to fuck him.

And he wants to fuck me. His pale gaze smolders as we pull away from the bus station. This is a large car, it has more than enough room to spread out on the back seat, and the driver is separated from us by a screen.

“Take those jeans off,” he growls. “I’m going to burn those things.”

When I don’t comply immediately, his hands go to my hips, flip me over on the seat. My body contorts to the car as his big hands grab the waistband and pull them down, the rough fabric scraping over the punished skin of my ass. I yelp, but I only feel it for a couple of seconds because Ethan has already ripped them off me with a growl of triumph.

When I am naked from the waist down, he spreads my legs and lifts me over his lap, making me straddle his hips. I can already feel the hard ridge of his cock pressing at the fabric of his pants. He wants me badly. I can see desire written on every line of his face.

“You’ve been a very bad girl, Casey,” he growls, his big hand sliding behind my head, grasping my hair, pulling me down to kiss him. His other hand is on my hip, his long fingers palming my ass as his tongue finds mine, lets me know that there was never any chance of getting away from him because I am his.

I kiss him back. I hate him, but that doesn’t matter, because he has captured my body and my mind. He’s handsome. He’s the kind of hot the devil is, for all the wrong reasons. His hand rubs my ass, the other one settling around the back of my neck, holding me in a full body possessive clasp.

“Very. Bad. Girl,” he growls against my mouth, his hand tapping my ass with each word, until the final one, where he slaps my ass hard enough to make me scream against his lips, my hips jerking forward against him, my pussy grinding over his cock in a reflexive motion that I can’t help but yield to, my hips dropping down so I am pressed against his hardness.

“Dammit, Casey,” he breathes, breaking the kiss. His hand slides from the back of my neck and finds my chin. He holds it in place, looking deep into my eyes. “You are such a naughty girl.”

It’s half lecture, half praise. He makes me feel naughty, even though I know he is the one who does wrong. He is a man who buys the law.

“You’re a bad man,” I accuse in return.

“Yes, I am,” he agrees, his voice husky as his lips part in an irreverent smile. He is still massaging my bottom, soothing away some of the ache he put there last night. I have tried to defy him. I have tried to escape. I still plan to expose him. And he must know that, but for this small moment, there is kindness.

And then another slap lands, hard enough to make me cry out again. It hurts, but there’s more than pain. My pussy is starting to leave a slick trail over the front of his pants. I’m aroused because I’m caught in his grasp, held by his powerful hands. I’m wet because I know how this is going to end. I know he’s going to fuck me. I know he’s going to punish me. I know he’s going to make me pay.

“This isn’t the punishment,” he grunts, slamming his cock inside my tight, wet hole. “That comes after.”

He surges into me, fills me over and over. I can hear his cock pushing inside me with every stroke, displacing the juices that are being churned to cream between us.

Every time he fucks me, I feel utterly depraved. I behave like an animal. There’s nothing civilized about the way I present my pussy, my hips arched to give him the access he wants to my soaked cunt.

He wraps a hand around the back of my neck and draws me down to kiss him, his tongue lashing mine.

Then I feel him pull out of my pussy. I haven’t come yet. Neither has he. What’s happening?

The answer to that becomes apparent when he pushes his fingers inside my pussy, swirls them around to gather all the juices he can, and then smears the liquid of my arousal over my tight little anus.

“No,” I gasp.

“Yes,” he leers, his fingers now toying with my sensitive little hole. The one I’ve never let anyone get close to. The feeling of him touching me there is difficult to process. I think it should feel bad, but it doesn’t feel bad. My anus is more sensitive than I realized, and now that my pussy has been left bereft of any touch, everything is about that little aperture.

“Ethan…”

He’s starting to push the tip of a finger inside me. Tightening my bottom only makes it hurt.

“Let me in, Casey,” he orders softly. “Let me fuck your bottom as punishment for being a naughty girl.”

I’ve never had anal sex before. And I’m about to have it in the back of a car going sixty down the highway with a driver who I know must be hearing at least some of this. Those partitions aren’t soundproof.

I let out a squeal of surprise as he yanks me off his lap and pushes me down on the long seat. Ethan handles me like I’m inanimate. Something to be moved around at his whim, put into position to suit his desire.

“Hold your cheeks open,” he commands.

When I don’t react immediately, he reaches for my hands and draws them back to my bottom, placing one on each cheek. “Open.”

I’m glad I’m face down in leather, because I couldn’t stand for him to be looking me in the eye as I do as I am told with less reluctance than I’d like. Ethan Keller is a terrible person. I have no reason to like him. But when he says he wants my holes, something inside me makes me want to give him whatever the hell he wants.

I do as I am told and for a long moment, he just looks. I can feel that cold gaze on me, taking my most intimate areas in as they lie on lewd display before him. This has to break a dozen laws. We’re not wearing seatbelts.

It’s the wrong time to be thinking about safety. I feel him grasp a thick handful of my hair and then he lowers his head down to my bottom. I feel his tongue there, hot and wet between my cheeks and then… on my anus itself. I gasp and clench, but my hands keep my cheeks from closing as Ethan Keller’s tongue bathes me in the last spot I ever thought he’d dare kiss.

This man is perverted. But this feels incredible. My eyes fly open wide as the tip of his tongue swirls around my bottom hole. I feel dirty. I feel perverse. I feel strangely cared for, a naughty runaway kitten being tended by a much bigger male.

No man I have ever been with would do this. I’ve been with guys who wouldn’t go down on my pussy at all. Ethan Keller just took charge and blew the memory of every single last one of them out of the water.

My pussy is responding jealously to the attention my ass is getting. I can feel my inner walls clenching, my lips starting to flower and swell with desire. But Ethan doesn’t give my sex even the lightest touch. It is all about my ass.

He teases that bud with the very tip of his tongue, makes me feel how sensitive it is. Little trickles of arousal are finding their way through my body at his urging. My breath condensates against the leather beneath me as he utters a growl and rears up above me. I hear something click. A cap maybe. And then the heat from his mouth is replaced with cool liquid drizzling down the crevice of my ass. It pools in the indentation of my anus, and continues to slither down across my lower lips down to the upholstery. We’re going to make a mess, one Ethan won’t be cleaning up.

He hasn’t said a word. Doesn’t need to. I’m saying them all to myself in my head. I am about to be fucked in the ass.

The head of his cock presses against the tightest part of me. I don’t think it can fit, but he makes it fit.

“Breathe,” he advises as I whimper.

It would hurt more if I wasn’t so horny, but even so it hurts enough. My ass is not used to this. The tight ring of my sphincter tries to resist the hard rod of his cock as he pushes it in.

“Put your hands back,” he says. “Hold your ass open.”

I do as he says, hoping it will make it easier on me. It does, a little, but it is also much more embarrassing to be fucked in the ass and be helping him to do it. This is a punishment, and I’m complicit in it.

The hard rod of his cock sinks deeper as my bottom gives way to him. I hear him grunting over the road noise of the car rumbling through city streets. The feeling of being impaled in my ass is like none I could ever have imagined. It’s very different from my pussy, harder to take, and without the same inner sensations. My bottom was not made for fucking, but he is going to fuck it anyway.

“Hold those cheeks open,” he reminds me gruffly, his cock sinking slowly into my spread asshole. It’s a slow intrusion and it comes with the rumbling beneath me as the car traverses the streets. This is shameful. This is filthy. My face is pressed against the car door, my arms are arched behind me, my hands spreading the cheeks he whipped with a belt yesterday.

And his cock is sinking inside me. His cock feels like hard, hot steel as he pushes past the tight ring of muscle that protects my tender bottom. He will leave me with no hole unused. He will fuck me and come in me and he will use me until he is satisfied.

I hear the pleasure of his groans as he pushes deeper still, making my muscle yield to him, using a part of me that was never intended for this purpose. There’s a tightness and a stretching. It hurts a little, but he doesn’t care that it hurts. He wants it to hurt. He wants to punish me.

With every inch he pushes inside me, he proves his dominion over me. “Next time, it won’t just be my cock,” he growls. “I can find a dozen things to push inside your little ass, stretch you out so wide you could take multiple men at once. Maybe that’s what I should do to you. Share you out among the people you’re trying to fuck over, and let them fuck you.”

It’s a bullshit threat, but he’s an asshole for saying it. Is he trying to frighten me? Or is he testing me? Seeing if the threat of multiple men does anything for me. It doesn’t.

“You are such a fucking…” The rest of my sentence is lost in a low moaning growl as he reaches under me and pinches my clit between his thumb and forefinger, a punishingly tight grip that makes my pussy and ass clench. His cock throbs inside me, and I feel how much pleasure my resistance gives him.

He is playing me like an instrument, making me react just the way he wants me to. My body isn’t mine. It’s his. It responds to his commands, spoken and unspoken alike.

“I’m going to come inside you,” he growls. “I’m going to fill your naughty little ass right up.”

I didn’t know there was such a thing as an anal quickie, but Ethan educates me on that front as he fucks me to a swift climax just for him. His hips slam against my ass, pound me against the car until his roar of satisfaction heralds his cum filling my bottom hole all the way to the brim just in time for the car to slow and begin heading up the driveway to his mansion.

His cum is dripping out of my ass as he marches me up to the house. This is, without a doubt, worse than when he brought me back here as a sloppy mess yesterday. Yesterday I was whipped and fucked. Today only the fucking has happened and yet my ass is just as sore as last time.

The expression on his handsome face tells me that he has more in store. And now he’s come, there’s no urgency in it. He can take his time. It’s me who is throbbing between my legs. My pussy is tingling and aching with desire. He fucked my ass and he didn’t let me come. He is a sadist and he is not done with me. Won’t be done with me until I am broken.

He takes me to the room I left just a few hours ago and lets me go inside the door. I stand there, shaking slightly, not from fear but from the pure tension running through my body.

“Strip.”

I think about refusing, but it would be a token gesture at this point. Once you’ve held your cheeks open in the back of a car so a man can fuck your ass as punishment for trying to run away, you lose credibility.

That doesn’t mean I do what he wants in a way he wants me to do it. I pull my clothes from my body and leave them in a sullen heap at my feet, crossing my arms over my chest, under my breasts. No point hiding them. No point hiding anything.

Ethan’s power over me is shame. Maybe I’ll become shame resistant. Maybe I’ll become the girl who doesn’t even care that there’s a thick puddle of cum in the panties she just pushed off her ass and down her legs.

His eyes run over me slowly. “Beautiful,” he says, his voice husky not with desire, but appreciation. He looks at me as if I am one of the fine pieces of art that grace his home. I was feeling dirty, used, and cheap. His gaze transforms me into something sublime.

There is no faking the expression on his face. He loves the way I look. It’s hard for me to believe because the few times I actually bother to take any time to look at myself, I’m not impressed. But he is. Ethan’s genius has always been in seeing what other people can’t. He sees something in me. For a brief moment, I see myself reflected in his eyes, and a warmth flowers not in my sex, but in my heart.

The moment of tenderness is shattered when he steps forward and speaks.

“I’m tired of looking at you in these clothes,” he declares, kicking them away with a casual flick of his foot. “I want easy access to your ass and pussy.”

The words are crude and almost cold. He is in disciplinarian mode as he strides over to the closet and throws the door open. I find myself looking at rows of designer skirts, dresses, and blouses. They’re beautiful, but they’re not me. At least, not the me I used to be before Ethan Keller got his hands on me and started twisting everything I am.

I walk into the closet and stare. Someone has been busy obtaining a wide range of attire, all of which looks to be my size. There are rows upon rows of everything from formal attire to bedroom wear. I have never owned as many clothes in my life as are now displayed in front of me.

Leaving me amid the forest of finery, Ethan sits down in an armchair nearby and makes a generous gesture toward the clothing. “Show me what it looks like on you.”

“What?”

“Fashion show,” he smiles. “I want to see you in some of these things. Pick something you like.”

He looks at me as if he expects me to be grateful or impressed. But I’m not either of those things. He didn’t get this for me because he thought I wanted it. He got all this for me because how I was isn’t good enough. I need to be augmented. I need to be clad in fine cloth, because that will make this somehow better. That will make him less a kidnapper, and me less a captive. Except it won’t, and it can’t.

I am a doll to him. Something to dress up and use. Something to play with. I know what boys do to dolls in the end though, they always end up broken.

“I should take a shower first,” I say. “I don’t want to make these messy…”

He smirks and nods. “Five minutes,” he says. “And then I want your sweet ass out here. I’ll pick something for you.”

The shower is only a brief reprieve, but it is a reprieve. The hot water washes away his cum, but none of the shame. I emerge four minutes and fifty-nine seconds after I went in, pink and steamy and knowing that he will not let me keep the towel I have clutched around my body on for very long.

Ethan is waiting. And what he has in his hand is not what I expected. I figured he’d pick one of the slutty, skimpy lingerie items. I imagined he’d make me parade in front of him like the cheap whore I feel when he uses me.

But that’s not what he has chosen.

It’s a cocktail dress. Red silk, looks like it is going to be form fitting.

“Here,” he says. “Put it on.”

I’ve never worn anything like it in my life, but it’s better than being naked and vulnerable in front of him, so I do as I’m told. The dress slides up my calves and thighs like a cool caress, and then it fits snugly around my hips and unravels up over my stomach and hugs my breasts.

Ethan glides around me, does the zipper up with a practiced touch.

“Yes,” he says, looking me up and down. “Very nice.”

The insides of the doors are mirrored, so I can see my reflection on both sides, repeated to infinity. This dress has transformed me. My normal clothes are comfortable, but they don’t do anything for my figure. This dress takes every curve and accentuates it. My ass is round in the rear, my hips have a feminine, sensual sway. My waist looks smaller than I thought it was, and my breasts look bigger.

“This isn’t a dress,” I mumble to myself. “This is a magic trick.”

“No trickery here,” Ethan chuckles softly. “This is how you look, Casey. This is how beautiful you are.”

I don’t feel beautiful, but the woman in the mirror is undoubtedly attractive. She’s also me. This is weird. It’s nice, but it feels very strange to see myself as one of the women who can easily grace Ethan’s world.

I have to be careful not to be sucked into this. These fine clothes, this dress that makes my ass look incredible—they’re all a trap. As long as Ethan has to whip me into submission, it’s not really submission. But if he can get what he wants by bribing me with clothes, then I’m selling myself out and might as well have taken his offer of employment in the first place. I have to keep resisting.

“Here,” he says, producing a pair of shoes. They’re red too. They match the dress, and they have a heel that isn’t astoundingly high, but I tend to keep my heels on the ground, so it’s high enough.

“Those aren’t a pair of shoes,” I snort. “Those are foot torture devices. Ankle breakers. You want me in these clothes so I can’t run away as fast.”

“Mhm,” he smirks, his eyes gleaming with humor. “Female fashion is all a patriarchal attempt to make you easier to catch.”

I can tell he doesn’t believe what he’s saying. I don’t believe it either. The second I slide the shoes on, out of curiosity more than anything, my ass is lifted, my legs look longer, and I seem taller. Another layer to the illusion. Another lie.

“You look amazing,” he compliments me.

“Thanks.”

I do look good, but that’s because I haven’t tried to take a step yet. I tried heels out when I was a teenager. Once. That didn’t go so well then, and I have a feeling it’s not going to go so well now.

“Come over here.”

He extends a hand to me. I take unsure, wobbling steps like Bambi in his wake. I don’t care what they say about these shoes; on my feet, in this room, I might as well be wearing a couple of shackles on my ankles. I’m not going anywhere in these, and my feet already ache at the strange weight distribution.

“You’ll get used to them,” he says when I shoot him a look.

I won’t get used to them, because I’m not going to let him turn me into whatever this is. My body is displayed in this dress in a way I don’t feel completely comfortable with. Yes, I look good, but at what cost? I can barely move. There are no pockets to hold my phone, or push my hands into when I get nervous. This dress exposes me, puts me on display. Of course he likes how I look in it. I’m basically naked.

His hand runs up behind my leg, finds the inside of my thigh. My bare pussy is exposed just a couple of inches above the hem of the dress. He doesn’t just have easy access, he has me unable to move as his fingertips brush the soft lips of my sex in a casual caress.

“You look incredible, Casey,” he murmurs in my ear. “And you feel it too, I can tell.”

“You don’t know how I feel.”

“Yes, I do,” he says. “It’s written on your face. You give everything away, girl. You’re standing taller.”

“That’s the heels.”

“No, it isn’t,” he purrs, rubbing his fingers over my pussy again. “It’s you, starting to feel what you are. You’re not just a programmer, Casey. You’re a woman. And you have a woman’s needs.”

“I didn’t know women needed to be wrapped in silk and put on stilts,” I bite back sarcastically. “You should go to deprived countries and hand these things out.”

His palm meets my ass sharply. “Hierarchy of needs,” he lectures as my butt stings. Of course the dress offers close to no protection whatsoever from his hand. I might as well be wearing a single layer of plastic wrap. “You hide from what you are, Casey. You don’t know what you’re capable of.”

“Like taking it in the ass?”

He’s chuckling as he spanks me again, one of his hands steadying me so I don’t fall off the heels, the other making my ass burn with punitive fire.

“That’s part of it,” he says, his hand smoothing over my soon to be very sore cheeks. “Fucking your ass feels amazing for me, and it teaches you a valuable lesson.”

“What is that?”

He fists his hand in my hair and pulls my ear up to his mouth, speaking in a husky drawl that sends a decadent tingle to every part of my body. “That I always win. And that losing can feel very, very good.”

It’s not fair. It’s not fair that he can do this to me. It’s not fair that I am at his mercy. Least of all, it’s not fair that he is right. Losing to Ethan gives me more pleasure than anything I have ever experienced in my life.

He walks me toward the window and bends me forward, my forearms resting on the windowsill, my ass up high thanks to these treacherous shoes that make me naturally arch my back and stand on my tiptoes.

“Stay there,” he orders. “Don’t move an inch.”

He leaves and goes to the bathroom. I could kick these heels off. I could take the dress off and pull my jeans and hoodie back on. I could run downstairs, throw myself into the wilds around his house, and try another escape.

But I don’t. I stand there with this fine dress hiking itself up over my ass, leaving me on lewd display. And I wait for him to come back and take me. My anus is still tender from the rough thrusts in the car, but my pussy is yet to get what it wants—what I want. It’s so easy to separate myself from my body. Tell myself that this is all physical. But he hasn’t tied me in place. I am here, waiting. He is starting to get inside my head. Starting to break me down, and right now, I am too aroused to care.

Is he right? Is this what a woman wants? To be kept and dressed and fucked, to never have any kind of job, to be owned completely? No. This is just a fantasy. But it’s one I’m living right now.

I let out a soft moan of defeat as he pushes in, that thick cock spearing slowly inside me. He takes his time, works it into my wet pussy with a languid thrust. He knows my body is aching with need. He can feel the way my wet walls grip him. But he’s not going to give me everything I want. Not yet.

He fucks me against the window, makes me look out at his world as his cock sluices my wet slit. He fucked my ass, came in my ass, and now my pussy is getting some much delayed reward because I submitted to being dressed up like a doll.

I feel his hand slip around my neck, grasp me lightly by the throat as he pulls me up, still unsteady on those heels. He holds my wobbling form in place against his hard muscular body, arched against him as he surges into me over and over, drawing cries of desire and outrage and need and impending climax.

When Ethan fucks me, there is nothing else in the world. There is only him, his cock plunging inside me over and over, taking me to the verge of orgasm and sanity alike. The hand not at my neck slides between my legs, his fingers rub against my clit as his cock slams in and out of me.

And then he adds another layer of humiliation and pain to the mix—he starts spanking my pussy while he fucks it. He thrusts in, pulls out, smacks my pussy hard enough to make me yelp, and then pushes his cock back in all the way. The hand at my throat keeps my head pinned back against his shoulder as he repeats this treatment over and over, fuck, spank, fuck, spank. My cunt is getting tender and sore and so fucking close to coming, but he won’t let me, not yet. He’s not done showing me all that he can do to me, all he can make me feel.

Finally he buries his cock deep inside my writhing sex and rubs my clit hard. I scream up to the ceiling as I burst into an orgasm that makes it impossible to stand. He has to shift his grip to hold me on his cock, his hands on my hips, driving me up and down that hard shaft as I scream with release. I am a mess. A wet, cum-stained, ass-fucked, pussy-spanked mess. And I am his.

“How long are you going to keep me here like this?” I ask the question when I have had a moment to catch my breath. I am still standing with him, his cock has slid from me and his cum is slipping down my thighs, a thick load of pure domination.

“As long as it takes,” he says, slapping my ass lightly.

“Takes for what?”

“For you to settle down and understand what’s happening here. You’re mine, Casey.”

I’m not his. I am going to prove it too. My first attempt was at escape. But maybe there isn’t any escaping him. That doesn’t mean I can’t take him down. And it doesn’t mean I won’t.

“Come and eat,” he says. “You can clean up and put some underwear on first.”

I bite back a sarcastic retort. This is actually a very generous offer from Ethan. Usually he makes me wallow in his cum. I excuse myself to the bathroom, taking short, unbalanced little steps. With every one of them, I feel slick seed slipping down my inner thighs.

It’s much easier to clean up though, when you’re wearing a skirt. Usually being left wearing his cum means being a mess. This time, a warm wet cloth takes care of most of it in seconds, and then I emerge and find myself some underwear. It’s all silk and satin, of course, none of the simple cuts and colors I usually prefer, but I pick a pair that is relatively full cut, a devil red bikini that settles into place against my well used ass and pussy with a gentle touch. These panties are going to be excellent for wearing after he’s spanked me, I think to myself. Then I realize I am now planning my attire around the fact that Ethan Keller gets to whip my ass whenever he feels I deserve it. This world he has built around me is changing me, and there’s nothing I can do about it.

Ethan leads me down into the house proper, and for the first time I see the dining room. One of the dining rooms, he says. It’s beautiful, set out on a balcony that juts out over the forest below, and with the lights of the city in the distance.

Again I am reminded of how much Ethan is like a king. A medieval liege would have had views like this over his lands, but unlike his older counterparts, Ethan’s influence of power stretches far wider than the eye can see. His is a global dominion. This man helping me into a mercifully padded chair is almost certainly one of the most powerful people on the planet right now.

And he wants me. That is perhaps, the thing I find hardest to believe in all of this. This man has no doubt been approached by the most beautiful women in the world. He could have anyone. But he’s holding me captive. Fucking me. It’s not a compliment, at least, not in anything other than an incredibly twisted way, but seen through that warped lens, I do have to wonder why he is taking so much interest in me.

“Why are you doing this?”

“You know why I’m doing this,” he says calmly.

“But I mean, this is a lot of effort to go to just to keep one person quiet. And you know… that I’m not going to stop.”

“I know,” he chuckles.

Forsyth slides into the room like a dark shadow. I feel his presence before I see him. An obsequious gloom follows him everywhere he goes. I shut my mouth. I don’t want him to overhear this conversation, which is essentially me expressing my unworthiness as a captive.

“Dinner, sir?”

“Yes, Forsyth. Instruct the kitchen to prepare two servings of my favorite.”

“Very good, sir.”

The man glides away so smoothly I almost suspect he has rollers in his shoes. I am left alone with Ethan again, his masterful form starting to become silhouetted against the sky as we lose the light of day.

“I was asking why you’re bothering,” I say, finding the courage to address the subject again. “Are you just bored, or…”

“Bored?”

“I mean, you have an international corporation to run, but you’ve spent most of the last twenty-four hours dealing with me. There must be more important things for you to do.”

“More important? No.”