She was facing the wall, face and chest flush against the smooth wooden boards. It felt cool against her skin, comparative to the warm air being breathed down her neck.
"Don't pretend you don't know what's happening, Vee." the menacing presence holding her in place whispered. His tone was gentle, completely at odds with the strength of his grip around her wrists, binding her tightly with her hands above her head. If she curled her fingers, she could scratch at the wooden planks.
"Tell me what is happening Mal. What are you doing?" Vera got the words out. Her cheek was pressed into the wall, she felt the hard wood even more acutely as she worked her jaw. Mal nuzzled his nose in hear hair, behind her ear.
"Only what you've been wanting this whole time." Mal bundled her two hands together in one of his, and she felt his other hand fall gently on her waist. "I know I'm not him. Not the one you've wasted all your efforts to return. But we both know damn well that I'm the closest you'll ever get." He bit the words out, bitterness seeping in.
Not for the first time, Vera noted the scent of him. It was hard not to detect, pressed as he was against her. But his words dislodged a perception she had tucked away in the very corners of her mind. His scent was earthy, not like dirt but like the forest. Just like his brother's had been. Just like Yun's.
"I don't want you." Vera said simply. She didn't let any of the venom she was feeling into her voice, for fear that he would become more violent. Despite her efforts, Mal pressed her harder to the wall. She grimaced with the abrupt and unexpected force.
At her waist, the hand that had been caressing gently suddenly became fierce, first gripping her flesh through her skirt, then tearing at the fabric, jolting it higher until her bare skin was exposed. Vera gasped as he brought a forceful hand slapping down upon her rear. As she was processing the stinging assault, she felt the offending hand jerk her undergarments aside and reach down between her legs.
"No Vee, contrary to what your mouth says, your body tells a whole other story."
A jostle at her feet, Mal's boots knocked her stance wider. Vera tried her best to squeeze her thighs together but they only barely touched now, and Mal's hand easily forced its way. Another grimace, another gasp as she felt his rough, dry fingers drag over her labia, then through her slit.
Mercifully, he didn't repeat the motion. But Vera's relief was short lived. Mal's hand still restrained her own against the wall above her head, and his face pressed hard against hers, cheek to cheek. So when Mal brought his free hand to his face to examine, Vera saw what he saw.
"See that?" he breathed into her ear. He held up two fingers in front of her face, not dry as she had felt, but slick now. Mal rubbed the secretions between his thumb and forefingers, demonstrating the lubrication for her. "That is you, wanting this." He punctuated the last word by thrusting his hips forward, squeezing her between the wooden wall and his own body.
Vera let out a whine. She felt the man's mouth close over her ear lobe, and his teeth as he nibbled gently. If it were Yun, Vera would have already been on her knees, begging for the opportunity to please him. But this wasn't her Yun. It was his brother.
"I'm not him, Vee, and you know it. But it doesn't stop your body from wanting it. In fact, I would bet a pretty penny that you like it a bit rough." As if to emphasise, Mal tightened his hold on her hands, and pressed his body more firmly against her own. At her rear, Vera could feel the bulge at his groin.
"I don't-" She began before Mal cut her off.
"Shut up! Taste this and tell me your body doesn't get off on being handled like a whore!" Mal forced his slickened fingers past Vera's pursed lips.
Bite them! Draw his blood!
His hand was strong though, and now that he had a grip on her lower jaw, Vera found it difficult to put up a fight. He swirled his digits around her tongue, ensuring she could properly taste her own fluids. She felt a blush growing in her cheeks. If she was honest, this was exactly the sort of thing that Yun would do with her. But it was Mal.
"You can taste your own arousal, see. Oh but Vee, You're not getting off tonight. I'm sure that son-of-a-bitch brother of mine would have ensured your needs were met. I myself am not so concerned."
Vera's mind spun with the possibilities of what he was implying. She felt his fingers retreat from her mouth, and tried to turn her head to gauge his expression. She had only turned a fraction of a degree when his hand slammed her face once more against the wall. She was sure that she would have a sizeable bruise there come tomorrow morning.
"You don't get to turn around, don't get to look!" His voice had gone quiet again, but no less menacing.
Vera understood. When the pressure of his hand on her face reduced and disappeared entirely, she didn't budge an inch, keeping her head in place on the wooden wall panel. She felt the hand fumbling near her exposed behind, then the unmistakable sensation of a rigid cock, bare skin hot against her own.
Squeezing her eyes shut, doing her best to contain the anxiety and panic thrumming in her chest, Vera heard Mal spit into his hand, and imagined he spread it along the length of himself. Her suspicions were confirmed when she felt the heat of his member glide beneath her buttocks, between her legs. Its passage eased by his own saliva, and though she hated to think of it, her own ample secretions.
"Oh god! You're even wetter than I thought!" Mal's shrill laugh sent a spike of ice through Vera's heart. "You whore! You slut!" He taunted her as he thrust his cock between her legs.
He wasn't wrong. Vera's core was pulsing, blood rushing, engorged and swollen. It ached to be touched, to be fucked. But she also had the most acute desire to turn on her heel and punch the throat of the man behind her. Even better if she had a dagger to hand. His palm encompassed her wrists, and his strength was absolute. His other hand was clawing at her backside, spreading her cheek wider for him and using her as an anchor for him to better pull and push his cock between her thighs. Vera refocused her mind from thoughts of violence against Mal, to how much she might enjoy something like this with her beloved. She thought of Yun's hands on her, Yun's appendage teasing her between her legs.
Like a splinter of lighting, Mal's voice intruded upon her thoughts before they could become fantasy.
"You had better not be thinking of him right now." His breath was still steady and hot, his thrusting taking no physical toll on his body that Vera could detect. The fact frustrated her, that he should find assaulting her so effortless. Frustrated her more than his interruption of her daydreaming had. "Say my name, so I know you're not." He commanded in a low, gravelly voice, lips on her earlobe.
Vera sneered at him, trying to turn her face more into the wall so he wouldn't see. It only seemed to anger him. She felt his hand leave her backside and suddenly his fist was in her hair, pulling savagely at her scalp. He wrenched her head backwards, eliciting a sharp gasp from her, holding her in such a way that all she could see was the ceiling, high above. She noticed the cornices needed dusting as cobwebs were beginning to form, and the paint of the overhead mural in one section had begun to peel.
"Say it!" He hissed, and she felt Mal's lips near her cheek, near her own mouth. Vera closed her lips and swallowed. Her mouth felt dry.
She growled through clenched teeth. "Mal."
"Hmpf" was his only reply.