This chapter picks up where Chapter 3 left off. Bitsy's brother-in-law, the "real" Count Dracula makes an appearance here. Enjoy and please let me know what you think!
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Maria arrived shortly after, very subdued as she bathed Bitsy. She made no comment about the state of Bitsy's body, nor about the cum found beneath her; she simply cleaned her efficiently. When she made no move to dress Bitsy, simply to shackle her hands together, Bitsy mustered a protest.
"But I thought I was going downstairs to dinner," she stated hesitantly.
Her maid appeared unsure and, even worse, in possession of an awful secret. "What is it, Maria?"
"You are to eat downstairs, yes, in the grand dining room. But the king has ordered you to your place prepared just as this," Maria's whisper was one of misery.
Aghast at Stuart's gall, Bitsy seethed, "Naked? I am to appear at dinner, eat at dinner, naked?"
Maria nodded, her head bowed.
Bitsy knew enough of her Master to know that there had to be more. "What else is it, Maria?"
"He said that this was to be a continuation of your punishment, of helping you to learn your place."
"I certainly will at that." Bitsy seemed to gather up the old hauteur and disdain that she had worn as a cloak in her dealings with Tracy Bathory and company. "If he wants me down there in my place, such I will be. But he will never touch my soul again."
Maria seemed to think that this was unwise by the sideways glance that she threw Bitsy, but she knew better than to speak of it. Instead, she squeezed Bitsy's palm once in support and fled the room.
Resolutely, Bitsy walked from the bedchamber, proudly past an array of lecherous male servants who paused to gaze upon her submissive loveliness. Like a queen she strode, a modern day Lady Godiva, giving no pause to squeamishness even as she noted the bulges beneath the pants of each of the footmen and other manservants.
She was the Ice Bitch again, perfectly at ease and stoic as she entered the grand dining room to find Stuart at the head of the table. Not even seeing Chris, her brother-in-law, or Marcos seated at the table as well, made her falter.
Stuart gestured to a pillow at his side. "This is where you will dine, my pet."
Chris stood, scraping the heavy wooden chair across the marble floor with a loud screech to stand. With a snarl revealing his fangs, he growled, "She is not going to sit there naked at your feet begging for scraps of food. Stuart this has gone far enough!"
Bitsy raised one hand to stall his further comments and leveled an imperious stare at him. "Chris, it's okay." With her mental voice only so that he could hear and feel her emotions, she told him, I'm really okay. He has to have this show of his authority so that you would let Tracy Bathory know of his treatmentβat least I think that is his reason for this display. Things have not been that bad. She concentrated on thinking only of her conversation with Marcos over the phone and other innocuous details rather than let him see or experience the less innocent things that had occurred.
She knelt at Stuart's side locking her lime gaze with his, pretending that Chris and Marcos did not exist. Chris stood again. "I can't stay here and watch this. I'm sorry," he choked out, turning and walking out of the room.
To Stuart's delight, Bitsy paid Chris's declaration no mind; she merely gazed up at him through submissively lowered lashes, her head tilted up slightly. Her posture was straight, so that her bouncy full breasts rose and fell enticingly with each breath.