CW: monster; non-consensual; punishment; anal; unsafe BDSM
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Part 1 - Naughty Or Nice
It's not that Holly
hated
Christmas. Not at all. Christmas was great! Time off work, an excuse to day-drink on the weekends, and - at least when she was younger - a deluge of presents would be waiting for her one morning, along with a pile of chocolate.
These days, the chocolate was still there - at least, what would be left of it by December 25th - but the presents mostly consisted of a book from her parents, something stupid from a friend or two, one or two self-gifted things she liked to wrap and have under the tree for 'appearances', and a sex toy from Liam.
Oh, and some jewelry from her fiance, Oliver.
Whoops.
Things with Liam always got weird around the holidays - twelve months of cheeky nights together after their shifts ended, while Liam was working nights as a Nurse in the local hospital, and all of a sudden Liam wanted to 'get serious'. Why wasn't the
mind-blowing
sex enough?
Because that's all it was, to Holly. Liam worked long hours, and he was usually too stressed to do anything
fun
, so once or twice a week she'd find Liam after work, they'd go back to his place, fuck like rabbits, and she'd be home before Liam was even half-way through his shift. Nobody was getting hurt. Oliver had no clue.
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The office of
Halter and Blatt
, a small circling-the-drain legal firm which had employed Holly (and Liam) for about four years now, was in the throes of it's last day of operation. December 23rd. The night before
freedom
.
'Back on the third, yeah?' Holly asked her boss, a dreary old fuck who likes to be called 'sir' but could never quite manage to summon the respect from people. Most people just called him 'Alan'.
'The second,' he corrected. 'Do I have to send out
another
memo?'
Holly smiled at him, bright and wide, showing off her perfect shit-eating grin. Oliver always said her smile was one of her best features. Oliver, however, said it was her lips. 'No! Understood, Alan. Have a good one!'
'You're not done yet?' he asked, shrugging a jacket on over his tight-fitting shirt that was struggling against the swell of his stomach. 'Not normal for you to stay late.'
'Liam's giving me a ride home,' she said, trying not to squirm at the thought of using 'Liam' and 'ride' in the same sentence in public.
'Ah,' Alan, without even a shred of pretence to care. 'Make sure he locks up.' As he was
technically
my superior, Liam was in charge of ensuring the building was locked up if no one above him was in to do so. Holly wasn't his secretary or anything, though, so there wasn't much of a chance of her 'reminding' him to do shit.
'Sure,' she smiled, and watched Alan grab his older-than-her briefcase and shuffle on out.
The office, which was a renovated house on a street of hairdressers, student-property managers and pizza delivery places, was cramped at the best of times, and they were stretched over three different floors. As such, Holly had to traipse around the office to find Liam on the top floor, just in the process of turning off his computer for the night.
'It's past six,' Holly told him. 'Everyone else is gone. What's the plan?'
'The plan's changed,' he said, not making eye contact. When he did, eventually, look up at her, his usually cool face, with that perfect facial hair and confident smirk, was a look of stress. 'I'll give you a ride - but that's it, tonight.'
'Oh,' Holly said, deflated. She'd been looking forward to this for a
while
. 'What's happened?'
'Nothing important,' he said, packing papers away and filing anything away that he'd been using through the day. 'My family have arrived early - I have to pick them up from the airport in an hour.'
'So,' Holly said, stepping in and pulling the door shut behind her. 'We have an hour.'
'It's a half hour drive,' he said, his tone dismissive.
Holly tried to push past it, still hoping there was a way for her to...
alleviate
her stress. 'So we have
half
an hour?'
'It's half an hour to yours,' he said. 'Unless you want to come with me to pick up my parents, we're already late.' He looked up at her, pausing for a moment. He wasn't heartless, after all. 'Come here,' he said.
Holly approached, the smart shirt on her stretching over her curves as she pushed her chest out a little. He took her waist in his arm, and kissed her so deeply that she felt it soak through her, thighs rubbing together and a moan escaping her.
'After Christmas,' he said, his voice low. 'I'm going to fuck you so good you won't be able to sit down.'
Holly let the thrill roll through her, even though her mind caught on a couple of his words. '
After
Christmas?'
'And,' he said, with a teasing smirk. 'If you're... a
good girl
for me, I'll bet that orgasm will be-'
At that moment, Liam's phone began ringing, breaking that delicious tension in an instant. Liam turned, and Holly saw his screen showing
Mum
. With a quick, apologetic look to Holly, he answered.
'Mum! Hi!'
Holly sighed, and bit her lip. She knew what he wanted of her - being a
good girl
was their cue for her not fucking Oliver between their sessions. Liam liked the idea that he was getting more of her than the men she was living with, and planning to marry. Admittedly, she found it hot, too - even though she knew it was cruel to deny Oliver sex when he worked so hard to provide for her. Somehow, Liam seemed to be able to tell when she
had
fucked Oliver, as well, like she wore it on her sleeve or something. Which she
also
found was a massive turn-on - he was able to tell when she fucked her fiance, but her fiance had no idea she was cheating. It was all backwards, and she kind of loved it.
Holly knew it was wrong, but she loved it anyway.
She turned, heading back downstairs as Liam talked to his mother, and just had to accept that she wasn't going to get anything from him until after Christmas. In fact, seeing as he wanted her to be
good
, she probably wasn't going to be getting
any
until after Christmas.
And that was just... sad.
It would be hot once she was with him again,
breaking
that fast - but for now she just felt frustrated.
She packed up her own things for the holidays, grabbing her mug from the cupboards in the kitchen and remembering to bag up the snacks she'd collected in her drawer, and packing up her laptop so it was all away and safe, ready for January. Then, as she shrugged on her own jacket, a full fifteen minutes after everyone else had left, Liam clambered down the stairs, flashing her a smile as he found her in the lobby.
'Sorry about this,' he said. 'I
will
make it up to you.'
'You better,' Holly said, unable to resist him, before following him out into the winter chill. The sky was almost black, and while they hadn't had any snow yet, the sleet was like tiny daggers across Holly's fair cheeks, getting caught in her mahogany-brown hair as she waited for Liam to lock up and set the alarm on the office door.
Quick enough, he let her into his car, and less than a minute later they were warm and safe from the weather, pulling out into the streets as he took her home.
There was an odd sort of tension in the air; more than once, they had fucked in this car - the boundaries between them were... lacking, to say the least. But, right now, it was as though there were a wall between the two of them. They sat, silent and awkward, as the radio played Christmas hits from thirty years ago.
'I'm not leaving you
completely
alone,' Liam said eventually.
'Oh?' Holly answered, surprising herself with how annoyed with him she sounded.
'Glovebox,' he said. 'This year's present.'
Holly frowned at him, and waited a second or two to save her dignity, and then immediately gave it up and opened the glove box.
'You told me,' Liam said slowly, concentrating on the road, 'that you and Oliver like to use toys in the bedroom, when you could get him. Well, that gave me an idea.'
She found the box, wrapped in almost
comical
red-and-green striped wrapping paper, and pulled it out, shutting the glovebox with a harsh
clack
.
'What is it?' she asked, unamused.
'Open it,' he said. 'You'll want to do it now - you don't want your fiance watching you open that on Christmas morning.' His smile had a twist to it that made Holly's insides twist. She hated how much he enjoyed fucking another man's fiance, nevermind a subordinate at work.
God
he was hot.
So, Holly did as she was told, and opened the paper, and then pulled open the cardboard box inside.
From it, she pulled a dildo - realistic, if not for the fact that it was charcoal-black in colour. The veining and shape of the curve half-way up were
too
realistic, in a way. Never mind the length - almost seven inches.
She knew it
all too well
.