Editor's note: this submission contains scenes of non-consensual, dubiously consensual or reluctant sexual situations.
[Disclaimer: all characters portrayed in this story are over 18 years old. They are also fictional and a figment of my overactive imagination. Thanks for reading. Feedback is welcome.]
I awoke disoriented.
The room was dark and, after a few moments of blinking and familiar smells of vanilla and lavender, I could make out some recognizable shapes. Realizing I was in my bedroom and on my bed was, however, a momentary relief. It took a bit of struggling moving my arms, to register the restrains on my delicate wrists and ankles. My semi-conscious mind, now infused with panic regarding my safety, is jarred awake, sluggishly trying to piece together what's going on and happening to me. I struggle for a bit longer but can't find any slack in the binds. My hands are clasped as if in prayer and stretched high, with ropes keeping them together. Try as I might, I can't bring them down. My legs, splayed wide, are tightly tied to the posts of my bedframe.
My panic, now morphs into horror, as my fruitless struggles for freedom, along with my racing mind screech to a halt. I am buck ass naked. Lying on my back, on the 400-count thread lily white Egyptian cotton sheets my mom got me for my 24
th
birthday last month. I am fucking nude. My heart in my throat, I start hyperventilating.
"This can't be happening to me," I think out loud, anxiety and the beginnings of terror lacing every word. I hear a deep, amused snort from the left side of my bedroom and I freeze. My heart galloping wildly, I slowly turn my head in that direction.
"Who's there?" I try to quiet my breathing; try to force a sense of calm so I don't lose my shit before I can figure out how to get out of this.
"Honestly Via, did you really think I wouldn't be able to find you?" I feel chills running down my spine. Disbelief, horror, relief, and apprehension fight for dominance in my mind. I know this voice.
I thought I'd left this voice in New York City after the worst night of my life. I thought I'd never hear this voice again after running away and leaving everything and everyone behind. It sounded like honey and iron, deep and dark, velvety and unyielding. I always got the honeyed voice; never the iron. This voice promised pain; salvation would have to wait. After years of not hearing it, of missing and dreading it, I'm still surprised by the strength of the clench in my core, my body always betraying me when it comes to him. I'm surprised I can read my fate. I'm not going anywhere until he's satisfied.
"Liam," I croaked and hated myself for the nervousness I've just exposed. I take a deep breath as light floods into the room. Suddenly I want the darkness back as I blink furiously, trying to adjust to the golden glow bouncing off my lavender walls. My bedroom door, directly across the foot of the bed several feet away, is slightly ajar, showing a darkened world beyond. My vanity, nestled on the wall between my closed en-suite and walk-in closet doors, is on my right. The tiny rainbow lights dancing merrily along the sides of the oblong mirror seem from another world. My nightstands appear undisturbed, my mind flashing to my gun inside the bottom right drawer.
"There's no one else here to come to your rescue Via," Liam says, amused. "You really shouldn't have picked such a secluded home with no one around but you for miles."
"I didn't thinkβ"
"Look at me!" He thunders softly, interrupting what I'm sure would've been something stupid that won't help me now anyway.
My heart racing wildly, I finally turn my head in his direction and see the blackout curtains on my floor to ceiling glass wall tightly shut. He's sitting back in my ice gray accent chair; his long legs clad in dark jeans, crossed at the ankles. His hands resting on his black button down covered corrugated torso. His hair, not quite black, not quite brown, is longer than I remember ever seeing it, almost shoulder length. High cheekbones pronounced against a regal, aristocratic nose and forehead. An angelic face stubbled with a persistent looking 5'oclock shadow, another difference from when I knew him to like being clean shaven at all times. Gray eyes, framed with the thickest and longest lashes ever wasted on a man, look on with what seems to be indifference but, I know better. I thought I'd be spending the rest of my life alongside this man. The one who still makes my heart beat staccato from fear and excitement.
He looks like every woman's wet dream come to life. The rake from the harlequin book that'll love you hard and leave you used up and satiated.
"You were saying," he gestures for me to continue, one perfect eyebrow arched.
I sigh heavily, needing to ground myself.
"Why did you tie me up Liam?" I hold his burning gaze, apprehensively feeling goosebumps erupt all over my body. My nipples pebble and the throbbing in my pussy intensify. I know I'm getting wet and, as if he can sense my emotional whirlwind, he flashes me that wolfish smile that never reaches his eyes. The smile he reserves for those who always come to feel his wrath. His left hand rub his top lip as if he's thinking about what to say but, again, I know better. Despite my body's reaction to his proximity, I'm on high alert and afraid.
He unfolds himself from the low chair, all grace and lithe like a panther. His tall and wide frame fills the space he's occupying, owning it, gravity be damned. He owns every movement he makes, no step wasted, no gesture overdone. He looks bigger than the last time I saw him; his chest and arms straining against the simple black shirt as he moves closer. His long legs eating up the few feet between the chair and the foot of my bed; bare feet soundless on the plush carpeted floor. I used to love his control; I made it my mission to try to shatter it at every chance I could get. I was the one who ended up broken to a million pieces though, so much so that I'm still an unfinished mosaic, trying to pick up the pieces of my life.
My eyes widen slightly as I get my first close up at his face, the light throwing his face in sharper relief. His full mouth looked all the more cruel, his eyes never straying from mine, the intensity undoing me. Undoing all these fucking years on the run. I've nowhere to go now.
"It's been three years Via. I've forgotten how beautiful you are, angel," his left index finger is trailing from my left calf up. Slowly. Agonizingly slow. My breath catches as I stifle the moan that almost left my throat. The pulse between my legs intensifies. "I thought you as a blonde was devasting but, whoever convinced you to become a redhead has my undying gratitude." His finger is now tracing up my flat middle, dipping into the valley of my belly button, detouring for the swoops and dips of my waist. He grazes the underside of my breasts, passes across my sternum and lingers on the small scar on my left clavicle. It's a new imperfection on my body he's not familiar with and his eyes burn with curiosity. I stare back stubbornly, trying not to squirm. He smirks; fingering the pulsing vein in my neck. Finally, he lifts his hand and touches the top of my head, fingering my waist length hair and freeing a lock from the messy bun I put it in before falling asleep. Snippets of memories from last night finally filter in; I remember the sleeping pills I washed down with the bottle of red wine I shouldn't have drank. No wonder I didn't hear him come in or feel him tying me up. My stupidity has made his job all the easier.
"So fucking beautiful," he muses softly.
"Liam," I sound breathless and needy as his name leave my lips. He stops looking at my copper red hair and slams his gray gaze on me. My words dry up and I swallow audibly, caught in the dynamism he always exudes. That, I don't think can ever change about him. He releases my hair and ghosts his thumb over my bow shaped lips, back and forth. Back and forth. The raging pulsing has become an unbearable inferno now.
"You didn't answer my question Via." His thumb slips between my lips and my tongue instinctively licks the invading digit before I can stop myself. His eyes flare with dark promises I crave and abjure simultaneously.
"Which quest... ahhhh," I moan, unable to keep the sound locked up when he spreads the wetness from his thumb on my left nipple and pinches like he knows I love.
"Did you think I wouldn't be able to find you?" He lets go, and moves away from me to walk towards my vanity; like he needs to get away from me. The only sounds are the rustling of his clothes and my panting breath, harsh and loud in the otherwise quiet room and even quieter house. I need to figure out how to make him free me. I can't give in. I won't give in. I try to muster as much of my shattered confidence and glare at him.
"Untie me Liam. This is not how we should talk after all this time apart; after all that's happened."
He chuckles softly. "You know how to make me stop, Via." One word flashes in my head in bright red. I should say it. He would stop if I utter the word. I want to say it but the word seems stuck in my throat, unable to be vocalized. "Now you want to talk?" he says, "We could've talked three years ago. Last year; hell, last month on our birthday." I gasp. His face is blank as his indifference bleeds into the room. "Yes," He smirks. " I know about
our
birthday, so no, now you don't get what you want, angel. Now you get to answer my questions. You get to do what I want. I won't ask again Olivia." His honey voice is smooth and calm, never betraying the fury I can see blazing in his eyes.