This is a revised and extended version of an earlier story here - 'The Next Morning' - and there is more to come.
Waking the next morning, unaccustomed dull fires reminding her of outrage, of cruel abuse of her most intimate places, she knows that something has changed inside her, that she has lost something.
It's hearbreaking.
The heartbreak is not, though, for lost innocence, for the bright promise of her relationship with him now violently shifted into a new, unknown territory, terrible hurts though both of these are. The heartbreak is over something worse, something deeper --- driven by the new knowledge of what is inside her.
From all the vivid, shocking, appalling flashes of memory --- of the red and black infamy of the previous night; so full of firsts, of impossible humiliations, of enforced violations, of casual, debasing cruelties large and small, of ignominy, fear, suffering, and --- terrible to recall --- unlooked for but devastating sexual intensity, one moment stands out as the moment from which this change stems.
The moment at which she had peeled back her blouse to show them her breasts --- so shyly, yet so completely; had so fully exposed herself to these grinning, greedy strangers --- the men she knew had been invited to violate her. The moment at which she had been consumed by the intensity of feeling that claimed her.
That she knows she will need again.
He had told her this day would come --- weeks and weeks ago.
She had laughed at him, teased him at first --- it was a ridiculous joke, and in terribly poor taste, too; but he had been unabashed, had repeated himself, calmly, steadily, without doing more than smile a little, and in the end she had got cross with him --- been shockingly rude; sulked at him, shouted at him, ignored him, flounced out (only to return, embarrassed and --- truthfully --- shocked and unsettled at how little she could cope with the idea of truly leaving).
Through it all he had remained calm, amused, tolerant, friendly, understanding --- so infuriatingly understanding --- waiting until she had worn her mood out, resuming normal relations until she, unable to let it lie, asked to him to repeat what he had said --- demanded it, so that it could be dealt with --- put to bed, closed down, finished.
He would smile at her, genuinely, warmly, almost sadly --- for a long while. If she got huffy, made a face, she didn't get an answer.
This sequence had happened several times.
If she waited, if she persisted, if she kept calm, he would eventually say, patiently;
"Very well, I'll repeat myself. Shortly --- in the next few weeks --- we'll have visitors --- a few of them. Men --- you won't know them. Over dinner, I will tell them that I'm making you available to them, that evening, and for the remainder of their stay --- as a whore."
"I'll tell them that they must not hold back with you --- that they should take the chance to do to you anything they have ever dreamed of doing to a woman --- no matter what --- that they are to consider you as nothing more than a plaything; a warm and willing sex toy --- and if you're not willing, that they should feel free to force you --- with violence, if need be. With cruelty, if they wish --- if it will entertain them to see you suffer."
And she would stand, or sit, open-mouthed, chest heaving, heart pounding, transfixed, trembling, until at last, after minutes --- many minutes perhaps, she would muster from somewhere the energy to make some proper show of outrage, of resistance, of disgust...
Somehow, this got harder and harder to carry off, until one day she had just stopped, mid flow, and burst into tears, stumbled brokenly towards him and begged him to hold her, tight, his strong arms around her...
And, after this had led to one of the most torrid and frankly glorious sexual interludes she could remember, and after she had dozed on his chest, sated, she had drowsily lifted herself from his belly and looked up at him, voice soft but urgent, and very, very sincere;
"Please. Please --- don't tease me. This.. this awful thing you tell me you are going to do.."
She falters, and he helps her;
"Whoring you out, you mean?"
She is all but undone, tears in her eyes;
"Please.... Please, don't.... don't do this to.. to me?"
He lets the silence grow, playing gently with her hair in a way that they both like, until at last he lifts her chin with a lazy finger so that he can look into her eyes;
"Silly girl. I'll do what I want with you, and you'll be surprised how little resistance you'll put up. This has been your fate since about an hour after we first met. It's been fun playing at boyfriend, but it's time to move you on."