At around 3 a.m., I felt someone's arms slip under me and pick me up out of bed. Still half-dreaming, I thought nothing of it until I heard Liam's voice say, "Wake up,
sweetie
. You're being punished."
I gasped and my eyes opened and absorbed the darkness of my room. Liam held me to him firmly enough, but without thinking I wrapped my arms around his neck as he carried me out and down the hall.
I knew where he was taking me. I begged him, pled with him not to punish me, told him how sorry I was for treating him that way, said I didn't know what came over me, that I would never do it again. I begged the whole way to the dungeon.
"You're damn right you won't do it again," he said as kicked open the dungeon door. "I'll make sure of that."
In the cage where I'd slept what seemed like an age ago was Mindy. She was naked, and her skin glistened with cum from her shift. She looked up at me apologetically as Liam carried me to the table where he'd tortured me before, and set me upon it.
"Get on your hands and knees."
I did so, and heard him taking off his belt.
I gasped, "No! Sir! Please don't use the belt on me!"
But down it came, across my ass, stinging my flesh. I screamed and looked up to the ceiling. He smacked it against the backs of my thighs, and the pain seared through my legs and throbbed through my cunt. Then he smacked it against my ass again. I was quivering, my blood was hot, I was nauseated and feared that I would vomit all over the table. But he altered his force, and came down on me a bit lighter several times, before working up to heavier blows that made me scream and beg and tear up. I felt as though I were splitting apart, being tenderized by his rage. I lurched each time the belt made contact with me. His deep disappointment and anger were marking me, filling me with fear and regret and a sudden longing to weep in his arms. I didn't know what was happening to me. It was as though a vague apparition had appeared on the distant horizon and was rapidly approaching. I cowered in fear of it, clinging to the semblance of anything I could remember to ward it off. John. There was John. There was-
And then he stopped. I felt his hand slide up my pussy and he laughed.
"You crazy bitch! You are wet. Too bad I ain't gonna let you cum tonight."
I sobbed, "I'm so sorry, Sir! Please, please forgive me!"
"Nope. This is just the beginning of your punishment."
My mind scrambled for any tactic I could use. I was afraid of what else he had planned for me, feared that Mindy would be part of my torture. I imagined he'd fuck her instead of me, and punish me with jealousy and longing. Because the truth was, at that moment, I needed to be fucked. I needed the balance to the pain I'd received. But I really just wanted to nullify all feeling entirely, physical or emotional. None of it was doing me any good.
Liam took Mindy out of the cage and carried her to the table. He set her facing me, and she silently mirrored my position. I wondered if he'd done this to her before.
"Kiss," Liam ordered.
I started to protest but Mindy shut me up with her mouth as she planted it firmly on mine and kissed me deeply. For a few moments I forgot the pain that reverberated through my body and lost myself in her soft lips and her wet tongue. I wanted to swallow her, bury myself in her. I felt feral. I was a kaleidoscope of throbbing pain, surging fear, burning regret, seething anger, and shameless lust being twisted and turned and watched.
"Kneel. Play with each other's titties."
We knelt up and drew close to each other. I groaned as my muscles tensed beneath my raw skin. We continued kissing and I reached out and pinched Mindy's nipples, slid my hands over her soft flesh. She felt so good in my hands, like silk. She did the same to me and we moaned into each other's mouths and writhed against each other as we played. I got lost in it, spun in the pleasure β until Liam hit my calves with his belt, shattering my pleasure into shards of stinging pain.
"Now, Mindy, I have to teach Vivienne a lesson. Unfortunately, she's gonna be learnin' it on you. Get on your hands and knees. Vivienne, get off the table."
Liam held out his arms to help me off the table. The gesture surprised me and I hesitated, because I wasn't sure if he'd yank me off the table and let my body smack down on the hard floor. But he said, "I'm not gonna bite. Don't make me change my mind."
I put my arms around his neck and held onto him as he set me down on my feet gently, though I still winced and moaned from the movement. As my body pressed against his, I could feel his hardness. And all I could think of was how I wanted it.
But I wouldn't get it. Not tonight.
Liam held out his belt and said, "You like bein' a sadistic bitch? Here. Use this on your friend."
I froze. This was not what I'd expected. This wasn't even on my list of expectations. I couldn't hurt Mindy β cute, pixieish Mindy, who I believed was my only oasis in this place. No, I couldn't do it. I bit my lip and shook my head. "Please don't make me . . ." I begged.
"But I thought you liked causing suffering. Look at how you treated me β after I'd put myself on the line for you! You thrilled at my punishment! You joined in it! You rubbed it in like a little, ungrateful cocktease!"
"I'm sorry!" I pled anxiously. "Please, please- I can't! I'm sorry for making you suffer! Please don't make me hurt her!"
He shook his head. "You've got two choices: you either do this here, now, or I give you to Drew and he becomes your Master."
"No!" I cried, my mouth agape. Not Drew. Not after hearing what he'd done to Pam. And then I wondered if Liam would ever do that to me. But it didn't matter. Whatever Drew and Fred did to their girls, I did not want done to me. I didn't even want to know if I was just as susceptible as they were to that sort of mind control. I shuddered at the thought.
Liam shoved the belt at me and I automatically grabbed it before it fell to the floor.
I looked at Mindy. Her head was down, I couldn't see her eyes. I didn't want to hurt her β she'd done nothing wrong. But Liam, Liam had abducted me. Liam had tortured me.
And then he'd slithered under my wet skin in the shower and given me something I liked, something I didn't know I wanted, something I probably wouldn't have gotten from anyone else there. Something he shouldn't have. I thought about it, about how I enjoyed it. And how he broke the rules, most likely knowing he'd be punished. And now, Mindy was about to be punished by me for my actions. It was unfair to her. I couldn't be unfair to her. . . . But I'd been unfair to Liam.
And that's how he was punishing me. He was making me taste just how unfair it was.
My being here against my will wasn't fair either. But I couldn't use that logic with him β or even myself at this point β because here I was, and things were what they were. That was now a different battle in a different war. I was learning my place here, now, with Liam.
I squeezed the tough leather in my hand and begged one last time, quietly, "Please, Sir . . . do anything to me . . . anything else. Don't make me make this choice."
Liam just replied coldly, "Do it."
Mindy's head was still down. I said, "I'm so sorry, Mindy."
She didn't reply. I hated that I couldn't see the look in her eyes. I was hoping I'd see excitement instead of fear. But I had a feeling that wasn't the case.
I flicked my arm so that the leather hit her lightly. She barely uttered a sound. I tried a little more force, and she moaned.