Author's note: Bland stuff. Not sexy, just moving story forward. Catfight, Matt's angry, he's a little cuddly, Mandy's in trouble. Apologies if my more wordy writing sneaks in, I try to keep these to the point and moving forward.
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Matt didn't stay long. He hissed curses then stormed from the room. Mandy was the one to come see to me. And her cruel smirk made me all the angrier. The grumble of my stomach made me feel all the more humiliated.
"After coming home to see that you tried to fuck everyone you could, you're going to be Ben's favorite."
I said nothing, but examined the bruises across my body and the outline over the red rings where teeth had clamped onto my nipples.
Maybe this was the beginning of my punishment for what had happened. Listening to her was a torture.
"Matt and I had so much fun on our trip. It'll be easy for him to be rid of you after everything he told me."
What was she doing? Goading me? Trying to get me to make a mistake too bad to come back from?
I got sick of her hate-filled delight at my suffering. I did just what would cause her to make the mistake. "Have him for all I care. He's just as abusive and evil as the rest of them. You'll still be such a dick-desperate slut you will fuck anyone in sight."
She came over and yanked me by the hair, teeth bared. I may not have had much energy, but there was enough to spin and knock her off balance into the large tub before holding her down into it. If anything, maybe she would do the same to me--which she easily overpowered me and tossed me in, holding my head under for long extents before letting me up to breathe.
Whatever threats she made, I couldn't hear. I came up for air, choking and taking water in my airpipe, shocked she had let me fall sideways.
I still hadn't stopped coughing when I saw Matt come in, glare bearing down on me. "Igor never shuts up about wanting to own you."
Dread filled me at the name and I crawled backward coughing. No. I'd rather die than that.
"I'll give you to him for free." But this time when I looked up, his anger was set on Mandy. I don't know when she fled the room, given I'd curled up still coughing through a pained throat.
Instead of the cruelty I flinched away from, Matt picked me up and carried me into his room. He lowered me onto his bed, but there was no way I'd let him have what he wanted easily, scooting away as he went into the bathroom. He returned with a towel in hand, but I scurried so fat and fast, I fell, landing on the thin rug that only offered mild protection from the hard, marble floor.
Even through my blurred vision, I fought his nearness. Even less will remained from my exhaustion and all-too-soon I collapsed against him.
It seemed the men around here had a way of taking me from consciousness, because my next moments awake were spent confused with a pounding head, cramping stomach and squinting from the bright. I had an IV that I struggled against keeping me in place.
"Don't remove that," Matt's deep voice held warning. But why did I care to obey stupid orders. What was the worst he could do?
He stepped into my line of sight. "I won't ask again.
Like a coward, I obeyed, turning away from him. "Only you could find joy in keeping me alive so you and everyone else can hurt me?"