Maggie

 

“Don’t fight it,” he said again as he pressed me against the table. It was the same table I’d been tied to when I’d been put on the auction block, except this time, I was being pressed face first against it.

 

Two of his thugs walked around and tightened the straps around my wrists and ankles. I was secured against the hard surface. Once again, I found myself on display for the audience. In this case, the audience was Blade and Axel’s associates. I pulled against the restraints, but I knew there was no real way for me to get away on my own.

 

Axel grabbed me by my hair and leaned in to speak directly in my ear. “I know what you like,” he said. “I know how to please you. You think this man who can’t even protect you knows how to keep a woman like you happy?”

 

“Please, no,” I begged. “Don’t, Axel. Don’t do it.”

 

“It’s happening,” he threatened with a low laugh.

 

“Axel, let’s talk, buddy,” Blade said behind me. I could hear the panic in his normally calm voice. “Come on. I’m ready to talk about your proposition.”

 

“Oh, it’s too late now,” Axel said in my ear, almost ignoring Blade altogether.

 

He pressed himself against me, put all his weight against my back, and I could feel how excited he was at the prospect of having me again. I could feel his straining erection through his pants and my jeans. He pressed it hard against my ass, as if I hadn’t been able to feel it already. With every exaggerated thrust, his bulge grew angrier. Then, he started narrating to Blade what he was going to do to me.

 

“You want to know what I’m going to do to your sweet little tart, Blade?” he asked.

 

“Please, no,” Blade answered. I imagined him shaking his head.

 

“I’m going to reclaim what’s mine, and you can’t even stop me.” He held my head against the table by my hair while he taunted Blade.

 

“You don’t have to do this,” I told him. “Just shoot me. Please, Axel. Kill me so you don’t have to worry about what I’m doing anymore,” I begged.

 

He laughed. “No, dear, that’s too good for you.”

 

He let go of my hair, and his weight lifted off me. My whole body seemed to sigh in relief as his throbbing desire to humiliate me was pulled away from my ass. But I knew it wasn’t over, even as he stepped to the side.

 

“First, Blade, I’m going to tear off her shirt. Knife, please.”

 

I looked over my shoulder and saw him standing next to me, holding his hand out for one of his associates to hand him a knife. Of course, my friend in all black was the one to hand him a knife from his boot. Axel opened the knife in his hand and turned it over, showing the blade off to Blade, and presumably, everyone else in the room.

 

“Hold still,” he said to me. “I don’t want to cut you.”

 

Then, he grabbed my shirt and pulled it away from my skin. He pulled it taut, until it was choking me. I leaned my neck back to try to ease some of the pressure the collar was putting on me. The fabric jerked as he introduced the blade to it and started to slice downward, revealing my back to my audience.

 

“Look at how pretty this skin is, Blade. I bet you like to run your fingers down her soft, smooth back.” He ran a demanding hand up and down my back, grabbing me as he rubbed me. His fingers flicked the back strap on my bra, unhooking it.

 

I whimpered. It was all I could do, the only sound left in me. I closed my eyes tight and pressed my mouth shut. I braced myself against his touch.

 

“But that’s not the best part, is it, Blade?” Axel asked.

 

“Goddammit, Axel,” Blade growled behind me.

 

Beefcake laughed. “You’re not going anywhere, puny little man.”

 

“Leave her alone.” Blade’s voice rang out through the room.

 

Axel laughed. “Why should I? You couldn’t, could you? You couldn’t resist this sweet little ass when you saw it. Nobody can. Am I right, guys?”

 

The others laughed as if on cue. He gripped my ass in his hands and squeezed hard, pulling my cheeks apart through my jeans. A tear rolled down my face. I knew he wasn’t going to stop there. He didn’t know how to stop once he started something.

 

“I’ll tell you what, Blade. You tell me what your favorite part of her is, and I’ll be sure to violate that part first,” Axel offered.

 

“Go to hell.”

 

“Beefcake, make sure he watches this.”

 

“Yes, sir. Someone hold his head up for me.”

 

“Let go of me. What the hell are you doing?”

 

“Oh, quiet down. It’s only for a minute more. Then, he’ll be done with her, and you can make your final decision. Right, boss?”

 

“Right. I’ll give you one more chance to agree or face your own death after this, Blade.” He paused, and I imagined he was turning back around to face me. “Now, back to the task at hand. This little girl needs to be taught a lesson about selling her precious little ass on the black market. Speaking of that precious little ass—”

 

He grabbed my jeans and yanked them down. It felt like a layer of skin came off with them. He pulled them all the way down to my ankles, leaving me with my panties half way down my ass. He slapped my cheeks.

 

“That’s enough, Axel,” Blade said. “You’ve done enough. You’ve proven your point.”

 

“Have I? What is my point, Robert?”

 

“You’ve proven that you have power over us, that right now you control us. Now that you’ve established your dominance, you can let her go and handle our business. She’s done. There’s nothing else you can do to humiliate her.”

 

“Oh, but there is,” Axel argued. “And it will humiliate both of you. This bitch thinks she’s something special because some overpaid bouncer paid good money to pull her ass out of a lineup. She looks younger than she is. Her skin is nice and tender. And she tastes sweet as candy. But she needs to learn her place.”

 

He grabbed my hair again and pressed himself against my bare skin. His lips brushed my ear as he breathed on my neck. I could feel him struggling to contain his desire. He licked his lips. “You don’t run from me, bitch. I tell you when you can leave, and I never told you that you could go, now did I?” he said in my ear.

 

“No, you didn’t,” I answered. My body shook as I spoke. I was afraid of what he was going to do if I said the wrong thing, or worse, nothing at all.

 

“God, it feels so good to have you again,” he moaned behind me. He had grown even harder. He rubbed himself between my cheeks and breathed heavily in my ear. I tensed up and felt him shudder behind me.

 

“Careful, Axel, or you might just finish early in your pants,” Blade said.

 

He moved off me again. “You think you’re funny, don’t you?”

 

I relaxed and breathed onto the table, grateful Blade had once again distracted Axel. I knew it was only a matter of time before he tried again. I pulled against my restraints to no avail.

 

“Your precious little Maggie looks pretty good like this, doesn’t she? I can’t wait to get another piece of that again.” He slapped my ass again and grabbed me with an eager, greedy hand.

 

Then, he grabbed my panties, pulling them the rest of the way off. I was almost completely exposed to everyone behind me. My legs were spread. My jeans were down as far as they would go, and I felt Axel ripping the fabric of my underwear to pull it off me completely.

 

“Look at her,” Axel said. “Look at her. Tell me she’s sexy. Tell me you wouldn’t do everything you could to protect her.”

 

Blade didn’t say anything. I imagined Axel’s men were still holding him so he had to watch.

 

“Tell me she doesn’t make your mouth water,” Axel hissed at him. “Tell me you don’t want to touch her.”

 

“Just do it,” I blurted out.

 

Silence fell behind me. I imagined all eyes were on me. They were probably all as shocked as I was that I’d said it.

 

“Do it. Get it over with. I’m tired of listening to you go on and on about it. Just fucking do it,” I demanded. As sick as I was of hearing about it, I hoped hearing me demand it, as if I wanted it, Axel would suddenly find that he wanted it less.

 

“You see that? She knows who she belongs to,” he boasted.

 

He grabbed my hair again and pressed himself against me again, harder. A sharp pain filled my breasts as they were flattened against the table. My hips ached with his weight. I could feel him through his pants now. I could feel the shape and texture of his erection through his clothes.

 

My body tensed against his touch. I shuddered as he thrust himself against me, running himself up and down my crack. I squeezed my hands into fists as I braced myself against him again.

 

“Tense up, baby,” he said in my ear. “It just makes every bit of you tighter, sweeter to the touch.”

 

He ran his hands down my arms and forced them around in front of me. My skin pinched against the table as he forced his fingers between my body and the hard surface. He continued to press hard against me.

 

“You know you like it,” he breathed into my ear.

 

I didn’t say anything. From the way his body shook, it wasn’t going to be long before he finished. If he did manage to hold it together long enough to get in me, it wasn’t going to take him long.

 

He let up and finally slid his hands in front of me. He groped my breasts, those familiar fingers squeezing and rubbing. I closed my eyes and tried to imagine I wasn’t there. I tried to put myself somewhere else, anywhere else. I heard sounds of struggle behind me and imagined Blade trying again to get away from the giant strongman holding him back. I heard Axel’s breath in my ear and felt his weight against me as he continued to dry hump me.

 

His teeth nipped my earlobe, bringing me back with a jerk of my head. I looked him right in the eye and he laughed at me.

 

“I knew that would bring you back,” he said. “You can’t drift off to your happy place, Maggie, not when your real man is going to give you what you’ve been missing. This is what I should have done to you that night you tried to run off. I should have forced you down and put you in your place then.”

 

He’d hit me and forced me to take him so many times. I had vowed never again when I left, but I should have known he never would have allowed me to get away from him for long. Even when I was trying to sleep on the street, I had been under his watch. I had been in his control the whole time.

 

He unzipped his pants, and I heard his sick little laugh as he pulled himself out. I gritted my teeth, knowing what was coming next. He put a hand on my back, between my shoulder blades, resting his weight on me. I figured he was holding himself in the other, preparing to enter me.

 

The world stood still. He repositioned his hand a couple of times as his weight shifted. I held my breath in anticipation of feeling him enter me. I kept waiting, wondering what was taking so long.

 

Then, a gunshot rang out. Axel slumped against me and slid down my back to the floor, lifeless and heavy. There was commotion behind me, but I couldn’t tell what was going on. I gasped, trying to catch my breath after holding it for so long, and I jerked my head back and forth trying to see over my shoulder, but whatever was happening was out of my line of sight.