Nathan behind me, his breath on my neck, the moist tip of his stiffened cock pushing between my buttock cheeks.
Near hysterical. I shook my head frantically, roaring a useless refusal into my gag. The more I protested, the higher they hauled me. I kicked my bare legs, twisted and thrashed. They hoisted me higher and his lips pressed against my rump, his tongue an insistent parasite determined to find a home.
My eyes implored Daddy for mercy, and he came to me and stooped at my feet, reached out and stroked my calves and kissed my painted toes. I thought it a reprieve, him paying me homage.
Daddy stood up straight, turned to the rope-holders and told them to lower me, and so I once more touched the ground. Awareness of Nathan faded. There was just daddy now. My saviour. I would always love him.
Daddy studied me with the air of a disappointed father. "Oh, slave, you've gone all precious on me, haven't you? I never expected that. All the promise you were showing. All gone." He snapped his fingers. "Just like that!"
He came closer, his breath on my cheek as he hissed, "Now listen to me you stupid fucking girl, you either do as I say or fuck-off back to your pathetic hovel, stay there and rot. Your choice. If the latter, then you'll never see us again. Is that what you want, to go back home to that sad excuse for a man you landed yourself with? Would you be willing to settle for that after everything we've shared?
My mind in chaos, I tried to organise my thoughts as they tumbled about my skull. I constructed a winning combination, told myself. Daddy was bluffing, that my refusal would mean nothing to him, that he would soon cut me down and we would carry on to the party as before. No, he would never dump me because of something so trivial, so understandable, as not allowing a creep such as Nathan to have me.
Darling Girl came to me too, and with wet-wipes from her bag, she set about cleaning away Kal's cum from between my legs, nursing me with tender, attentive strokes. As she wiped my labia, and then the inside of my thighs, she talked as if I were a co-conspirator, affecting a quiet seriousness which I had never seen before.
"Listen, Cassie: you must do what he says. If you don't, he will never forgive you for spoiling his evening. And if that happens, he will not allow the memory of you to trouble him again, and I will never see you again. Do you really want your life to be one long ache of regret?"
She kissed my cheek gently like the friend she had always been.
Before stepping away, she said, " I know Nathan looks unappetising, but he's only a man, just another cock. If I can . . . You were always the brave one."
Her words became depth charges that exploded the long-held the illusions of my life. I thought about a life without Daddy and Darling Girl, imagined having to go back to the dull ache of my nine-to-five; days upon days of mediocrity, an existence without any promise of excitement and fun β even the hope of it. I thought of that old life of mine, all those evenings on the sofa watching soaps, a ready meal for one on my knee while Ian played on his PlayStation in the back room; my only treat a curry from the local takeaway on a Friday night. And if I was fortunate, a night down the local with Ian's sister and husband; Kath and Aiden.
What was it about Nathan that so repulsed me? I thought and thought. It wasn't just his dissolute shabbiness, his uncouth nastiness. That alone was not enough to arouse such loathing in me. No, something else. Then it came to me. It was the cruel glee I sensed in him having me as his captive, that him snatching me was a practice run and that he could take a girl and keep her for himself, not be answerable for his actions to a Daddy or a Hendrix.
A vein of unmistakable sadism was present, the need to inflict grievous pain on a person barely in check. Had I judged him right or were such thoughts just my imagination? I thought and thought and it came to me: the real reason I despised Nathan was because he reminded me of Uncle Peter. A scouser too, he had been a boyfriend of Mum's for a while, lived with us for six dark months until I could stand it no more, then I told Mum the truth about those things he had me do.
I pushed the image of Nathan and Uncle Peter down, assured myself I could go through with this. Nathan would be behind me, which meant I would not have to look into his eyes. I would do as Becky did; make him into him just one more bloke. Mere cock. Get it over with, Cassie, then you can put it behind you and never give it a second thought.
If you can just get through this, in a couple of hours you will be attending a party where everyone will be rich or famous. Move on. You have a future, a new life to live. Get a grip, girl.
I took a deep breath and tried to show my surrender, display acquiescence by relaxing my entire body, letting the men on the ropes shoulder the strain of my weight, even though I could stand by myself. Finally, I nodded my head as I held Daddy's eyes, shone willingness from my brimming eyes.
He saw and understood, held my gaze as he said to Nathan, "She's all your's, mate. No rush. In your own time. You're going to find this one oh-so-sweet. But remember, I want you to teach" βand here he notched up the intensity with which he held my " the teasing little slut her manners."
Jerked up suddenly by the rope and left to hang again. I was only inches from the ground, but it was enough. My shoulders were hardly able to take the strain, and a fire raged in my muscles as I waited for Nathan to begin. Once again Nathan approached me from behind. His breath a promise, chilling the nape of my neck, his large hands reaching and taking hold of me, securing the flanks of my bare hips, He manoeuvred me with sweaty palms until he had me just so, held me in place as he assumed a stance.
But it was such a shock to feel his limp cock against my butt. I had expected granite. How quickly his lust for me had ebbed. But still, at first contact with my buttocks, a new purpose filled his softened cock. He pushed it against my backside, and I sensed its stirring. He pulled me into him with insistent hands splayed across over my abdomen. His cock became fully swollen as he pressed it along the length of my butt-crack, while to the front his fingers moved downwards and strafed my pubes with nails much too long for a bloke. Back and forth, side to side, up and down they went, then scoring their way into the tender tissue enfolded by my labia lips. Then a brutal twist, his fingers curled and pushed into me. The sounds they made on finding the mire of and Kal's cum disgusted me. Three crooked fingers that worked me relentlessly while behind me his cock filled my butt-crack.
He worked me frantically, and despite my repulsion, I became aroused. I tried to shut out the reality of him, imagined instead that it was Daddy. Then those fingers were gone, his cock too. For a moment I was left to hang alone.
I attempted to twist my head to see where he was, but Daddy stepped forward and thrashed my thighs three times with his cane, saying, "Eyes front, slave".
Then those same fingers returned, this time jammed immediately into the crack of my butt. They were greased now, slipped between my cheeks like a dessert spoon into blancmange, wormed their way to my anus. That is when I moaned into my gag again, gave profound, guttural plea of despair.
But I did not shake my head this time. I valued my future.
"Sssh," Daddy hissed.