Selena Axel was surprised to see Nathan again so soon. Her first instinct was that he was a ghost, having been killed by the group she had contracted to take him out.
"Mistress, hope you're hungry!" Nate had a clipped way of speaking to her when she first took him in. Ragged and throaty and terrified back then four months ago in the presence of the young fitness model-looking blonde who enjoyed causing him pain. He just had a plain grey T-shirt and jeans on that hung loosely from his thin gaunt frame, his long black hair messily strewn about his shoulders.
"Hope I'm hungry?" Selena raised her brow. "You got some nerve boy, serving me my dinner two weeks late," she scolded as she removed her jacket. Selena was wearing a simple white t-shirt underneath, the shape of her breasts practically visible for the boy unused to seeing her wearing anything casual.
Mistress was always dressed elegantly. Even when she was hurting him, he rarely got to see her nude. He was usually bent over her knee and spanked like a toddler or tied across the horse with his bottom up high. Regular beatings were commonplace in her manor as she tried to mould him to her will instead of disposing of him, as per her original contract.
"I'm sorry mistress for the delay," Nathan gulped. He wasn't sure how to broach the subject of why he was here.
"Well rest assured that you will be punished severely for your lateness," Selena declared, walking to the dinner table and taking her seat. She eyed the steak, cooked to perfection as she had him taught in their months of captivity. "A long session with the switch should remind naughty boys to be punctual instead of going around meeting detectives."
Nathan took a deep breath. "I told them nothing," Nathan bowed his head. "Said that you are my girlfriend, that we eloped together and that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with you."
Selena raised her brow. *Interesting...*
"Was that why your Aunt and cousins sent assassins after me?" Selena sneered. "And I don't want to hear another word from you, boy. Strip completely nude and get on all fours."
He could still be wearing a wire, Selena realised. Odds were low for that particular scenario considering Ella would've made sure to give him a cavity check if she let him in the kitchen. Indeed her big burly Amazonian bodyguard was the only reason she did not immediately have a go at him. "A special guest has arrived," she had said as Selena got to her manor.
"I'm sorry mistress! I didn't think they'd try to hurt you! I'll accept any punishment-"
