Chapter 1
Emma
'Excellent,' chimed Alex, his joy sending another wave of terror down her spine. 'Then we have much to do to get you settled in.'
Walking to another darkened edge of the room, Emma watched as Alex retrieved a shiny object from a cupboard she hadn't noticed was hiding in the shadows. As the little draw of the dresser slid shut she heard the jingle of something solid and metal shaking in his palm. Glancing quickly at Val, Emma watched him step back towards her trembling figure. Although he kept his back to her at all times she could imagine the stoic look dressing his face, his body rippling with contained muscle as he watched Alex move into the middle of the room.
'Here.' Alex handed Val the shiny object and nodded towards Emma with a smile. 'It's your turn to play the bad guy this time. You know what I want you to do Val, come on don't be shy.'
Emma hunched further into the stale mattress as Val took the item and turned for the first time in what had felt like forever back to Emma.
'Come.' He demanded holding out his hand, a blank look in his eyes. 'I need to put these on you and get you ready for Alex's next punishment.'
The blood flowing through Emma's veins ran cold. Didn't she get a reprieve? A moment to think about her decision before they went on to the next game! Staring tearfully at the two men locked tightly with her inside the dark room, Emma knew she had no choice. If she refused one of them would just make her do it anyway, Alex with joy and Val because he would be forced to comply.
Delicately Emma placed her hand in Val's and felt herself dragged from the false safety of the mattress into the middle of the floor. Her heart melted with terror every step she took further into the thin shard of light that penetrated the centre of the room from the small window she could just make out overhead.
Without offering her a look, Val demanded she hold out her hands. As she splayed her trembling fingers in front of her naked body and looked to the floor to hide herself from their watchful eyes, she felt Val press a pair of shiny silver cuffs around her wrists and click them down tight. A fresh wave of panic seized her body and without considering her next actions Emma began to scream and fight. She kicked wildly at Val's poised form and shrieking into the small space, prising at the tough metal with her fingers. Oh my God. Panic assailed her lungs... no no no.
She could handle anything but physically being restrained right now. She had been vaguely prepared to take a punishment, suffer pain in this new task that Alex had decided to start but the moment Val had clicked a pair of cuffs and restrained her arms even one tiny bit, Emma couldn't help but freak out. 'No...no' She cried, struggling to free herself from Val as he grabbed her arms and swing her to pull her into his body tight.
'Stop...calm down,' he almost begged, pinning her arms to her side so she couldn't damage her or himself while she screamed and lost her shit.
'No Val please... I can take whatever you want me to without these holding me down. Please I don't want to be cuffed. Please Val' Emma screamed. As much as Emma could sense him wince behind her as he tried to steady her flailing body, he kept her hands firmly in chains, even reaching around to grasp both her wrists in one hand and dragging them above her head.
'I'm so sorry sweetheart,' he whispered, careful to keep his voice low enough to avoid Alex's ears. 'I have no choice.' With his broken explanation he drew her arms into the air and caught the chain between the cuffs with the palm of his hand. Looking up to follow his movements Emma noticed with a tremor that hanging from the ceiling was a thick metal chain, a sinister looking hook hung from the last link waiting to grasp hold of something, anything and never let it go. It reminded Emma horrifyingly of the hooks they used to hang dead carcasses in freezers, the meat just swinging lifelessly in the air pierced by the vicious point that dangled below the strong metal cord. As Val reached to loop the cuff link bound to her arms over it, Emma let out another ear piercing scream. She knew it was helpless to struggle, helpless to do anything at all but take whatever her next punishment would be for choosing to stay with Val in this hell but she couldn't bring herself not to fight.
She had had only seconds to consider her fate before she had been forced to choose between a life of abject terror or death and although losing her virginity on a mattress upon a cold dark floor had been horrifying, humiliating and painful at best, somehow it hadn't extinguished her hope of someday finding a way to escape.
To go on and live a normal life in the sun surrounded by all the things she wanted, needed. A loving husband who would touch her gently and lovingly in the night, children too cuddle and play with each day. Yes the constant ringing of Alex's and Val's voices telling her she wouldn't survive their prison buzzed in her head but she had managed to ignore the words long enough to clear her mind, drag herself from despair and agree to stay in their gloomy jail for a time only because she knew eventually she would get free. But now as they continued with her torture without any reprieve and Alex watched Val hang her from the ceiling like a piece of useless meat, the uncertainty in her future came flooding back, pouncing on her mind with a ferocity that screamed she would die chained to this prison, swinging on a hook like a pig and once Alex had had his fun he would throw her out or bury her somewhere underground for no one to find.
'I can't... I can't... please Val just kill...'
Val's hand shot to Emma's face covering her mouth before she could finish her words. 'No please Emma... no... stay with me don't give up alright. I will get you out.' As Alex turned to retrieve something else from the shadowed chest of draws to Emma's side, Val released a shaking breath that Emma realised he must have been hiding whilst Alex was around. 'I know you're scared. Every girl that I have ever done this too has been before but I promise I won't do anything you can't recover from when you're free. Trust me Emma please. I... I want to get you through this hell like I have never wanted anyone to make it through before. I know it's so much to ask from you and you don't know me at all but please trust that I can keep you alive and I will find a way out. Just... just give me time. Until then we are both stuck playing Alex's twisted games. Just let him have his fill of you now and I know he will leave us alone for the rest of the night.'
Emma stifled another scream edging its way up her throat. Part of the reason she had chosen to stay in hell and fight was because in her darkest moments on a dirty mattress in the corner of the cold floor she had heard Val's voice. Telling her that the pain would eventually subside. At the time she hadn't been sure if he was talking about the pain she felt when he'd penetrated her core and taken her virginity or if he was talking about the whole ordeal. Eventually when she was free from this prison and back in the normal world, living a normal life the pain would subside. All she needed to do was wait, wait until Alex had had his fill of her humiliation and shame. Wait until Val could find a way for them to escape and then she could start to rebuild her life again away from the shadows of her jail, back in the sun where she felt safe.
Chapter 2
Val
Val felt more than saw her eventual acceptance of being thrust up on the hook, as her body slumped into the handcuffs hold. Her arms hung above her head and her feet sunk heavily to the cold stone beneath. Val stifled back a shameful groan as he witnessed his unwilling hands positioning her legs shoulder width apart on the floor. From the angle he currently stood he could see down the entire length of her curvy body and the sight drew his chilled blood straight to his groin.
As with every other time that he'd placed a girl in the spot Emma found herself in now with her arms over the head and her body streamlined from the hook to the floor, he tried to resist his forced actions as Alex's thoughts guided his hands with a life of their own. When Alex had turned away to retrieve his next implement of humiliation and pain Val found himself doing something he had never done before. He had managed to angle close enough to Emma to offer her his apology and tried to sooth her with promises that he would find a way for her to go home. Of course in the past he had tried to be as gentle as he could with each virginal victim that had been subjected to pain but he had never found himself wishing he could kill Alex as he did right now. Val's mind had been so twisted by the darkness and the man in front of him over the years that sometimes he had found himself dutifully playing along with the torture, even though he had instinctually known everything that Alex commanded him to do was wrong.
At first he had even perversely enjoyed having another around to share some of the torment and the pain but over the years Val had become tired, haunted and guilt ridden for the dark role he played in bringing Alex's fantasies into reality and quickly he had realised that he was being tortured just as much as the female's Alex used every time he was forced to take part in the debauchery his captor demanded from him.