The Bonding
Anya
By ten that morning Michael, my master, was $200,000 richer, and I had a spot of blood on my favorite shoes. I'm not allowed shoes often, and comfortable shoes are a special treat.
Still things had gone amazingly well. The criminals we'd robbed, though apparently very important men, had only brought one bodyguard each, which made this the easiest job we'd done in some time.
Michael was so pleased that he took me to a park on the way home. He even bought me ice cream. I'd only had ice cream once before, but it was as delicious as I remembered.
He held my hand as we walked, which drew a few second looks because of the age difference, but no one called insults at us, or told us we had to leave. It seemed strange after living through slavery and segregation. Of course, I am still a slave, but no one that day knew it. It was... nice.
Suddenly he pulled me to a stop near a tennis court where four teenage girls were playing. However, my master wasn't watching the girls, he was watching an old man in thick glasses sitting on a bench with a newspaper. The man was watching the girls, and occasionally rubbing his crotch behind his paper.
"Go to him," he told me. "Sit next to him, don't speak. Put your hand inside his pants and stroke him til he cums. Lick it from your hand, and thank him politely. Then come back to me."
I have been a slave to a sexual sadist for over 200 years. I should have grown immune to humiliation. I have not. The bond I share with Michael ensures that I never will. Every humiliation, every pain is as sharp as the very first. I am the eternal innocent, the eternal virgin.
My hands were shaking when I sat on the bench. My heart was racing, and I could feel my face flush. I was trying very hard not to cry. The man stared at me as I scooted close to him. When I reached for his crotch he jumped, then quickly held the paper to block what I was doing as I unzipped his pants.
I could feel Michael watching me, enjoying my shame. He knew how much I hated these random sexual acts with strangers. This is not what my life should have been.
"I don't have any money, kid, if that's what you want," the old man said, his voice full of his need.
I shrugged and slid my shaking hand into his pants. His cock was smallish, very hard and oozing pre-cum. I fought down a wave of nausea and felt Michael smile inside my mind. This was only mild amusement for him, but if I went to my knees, took the old man in my mouth, right here in front of these young girls... that would bring his passion to flame.
The thought brought on another wave of nausea and deeper shame. To even think such a thing! But I knew what pleased my master, and pleasing him was life. Luckily his instructions had been specific, or I may have acted on my wicked thoughts. It will be shame, I have often thought, that kills me in the end.
The old man never moved or tried to touch me, but he lasted much longer than I would have thought, given the circumstances. He grunted softly as he shot his load into my hand.
I licked the thick mess from my palm and fingers and said, "Thank you very much, sir."
"Oh god," he moaned. "Look kid, come back tomorrow. You can blow me in my car. I'll give you 50 bucks."
I shrugged and stood up. He grabbed my arm.
"How old are you, kid?" he asked.
"Sorry, I'm no kid." I freed my arm, and walked away.
Michael
I'm not sure why I had Anya jerk off the old man on the park bench. Maybe because she had seemed so happy and innocent moments before. Also, I find beauty in contrasts. Light and shadow, hope and despair. A young girl with an old man.
I have to admit I enjoyed watching her happy face crumble into shame. The fact that after all this time, I can still catch her off guard is just amazing. Her suffering is always so exquisite. It's the most precious thing in the world to me.
I really do love her. As much as a man like me can love. When I found her I was a very bad man, quickly on my way to becoming a monster. I was 39 years old, which was far from young in those days, and a mercenary. I had killed more men than I could remember. I had tortured. But I had never raped. Until her.
I had witnessed plenty of rape, had allowed it from my soldiers. But I had hopes of being a gentleman. I daydreamed of weeping women, but I held myself in check. It was my last claim to being a civilized man.
And then I saw her. I pulled her from her palanquin thinking to strip her of any jewels and leave her for the men. Instead I threw away all humanity and ravaged her like a beast.
It wasn't just her beauty that captured me, though she was the most lovely creature I'd ever seen. It was the way her fear played across her features, enhancing every lovely line of her face. The way pain lit her eyes, and shame made her whole body tremble. It was as if she had been made just for me.
And the bond made all of that forever. More, it let me FEEL her suffer.
I haven't hurt another woman since, or tortured another man. I have killed, though only the worst of men. I have Anya to hurt now. Now and forever.
"What did the old man say to you?" I asked as we drove from the park.
"He asked me to come back tomorrow, sir," she answered, blushing prettily. "He... said he'd give me 50 dollars to blow him in his car."
I laughed. "Something to think about. Anyway I need you to begin packing my things. I've been in California too long. Our new I.D.'s can be ready in a day or so, and the house in Tennessee is all finished. I'm ready for a new life. I think I'll make you my wife this time."
"Wife?!"
"Why not?" I laughed at her shock. "I've bought up a few small factories in the area. I'll be a big fish in a very small pond. A much too young trophy wife is just perfect."
Anya
Wife. I was Michael's wife, at least in this time and place. We had never done anything like this in all our time together. At first, I had needed no cover. I was his slave. Later, I was a servant, occasionally a ward, often a nameless whore. I was seen by his friends for an hour or a day, as long as a week perhaps, and then I was secreted away again, to be enjoyed when he was alone.
I didn't know how to live a life in the open as a free person. To be seen, known by others as a WIFE. It sounded like a fairy tale. I now had a real closet filled with pretty new clothes, a cell phone, even a car! Of course all these things belonged to Michael, not me. But there were so many new things to experience.
I had been a killer and a con artist for centuries, cars and cell phones I knew. But I'd never been inside a supermarket, never been to a hairdresser. I hadn't had a casual conversation with another woman in over a hundred years. I found myself exhilarated by all the possibilities.
The movers were still unloading Michael's things when the only close neighbors paid their customary visit. This was a very rural area, and theirs was the only other house within a mile.