gray and brown hair
waved around her face.
Would you like some candy,
sweetie? They’re going to let you
come home with me. Poor little lost soul…such a pretty child…
No… He screamed uselessly against
the gag as the face got closer, the
lips. He was dying and this was what
was waiting for him. A cosmic
psychotic joke, for it was what he’d
spent a lifetime outwitting,
escaping… Other shadows moved in
and his subconscious knew them all,
knew enough about them to make him
fight like a berserker against what
could not be fought against.
25
Joey W. Hill
The bindings released. He was
rising, hands drawing him up. When
his head broke the water’s surface,
since his arms were still bound
behind his back by the manacles, he
fought desperately to find and keep
his balance, anything to stay up above
the waterline, away from what lay
below it.
Dona was here. In front of him, with
her hands on either side of his neck.
They were alone together in the
water. The other women sat on the
bank, completely dry as if he’d been
below the surface for an hour. He
blinked through liquid, his gaze
coming back to cling to her face.
When she removed his gag and
stroked his lips, he found himself
sucking the water off her fingertips
fervently, as if she’d saved him from
those awful shadows. Her eyes held
mysteries he could not fathom, but
she was touching him. All he could
figure out in his disoriented state was
that his sanity at the moment
depended on her not going away.
“What the hell are you doing to me?”
He said it hoarsely, resting his head
against hers, pressing his cheek
against the soft raven strands of her
hair. It was so long the ends floated
in the water around her hips. Looking
down in this position, he saw she
wore a black swimsuit now, so sheer
that her curves would be starkly
defined by the shadowing. Lifting his
head to confirm it, he saw her
luscious breasts were just above the
waterline, the dark circle of her
nipples visible behind the transparent
netting.
Pointed and sharp, as they would be
if she were cold. Or aroused.
He pushed his cock against her belly,
bending his knees to find the seam of
her thighs. Fuck finesse or charm.
He’d reverted to pure male animal,
needing to reassert who he was. No
better way to do that than fucking the
woman he wanted.
A sharp yank on his cock snapped his
legs back straight like the stock of a
rifle. He stifled a yelp, barely. The
tether was reattached and back in her
hand, wrapped around her wet
knuckles.
“Behave, or I’ll put you under again.”
She spoke reprovingly, but when she
reached up and brushed her fingertips
against his ear she had a gentle touch,
mixing up that hard-as-nails way of
yanking him in line with a sister-of-
mercy touch. She grazed his skull.
His bare skull.
“Oh, Jesus.” He closed his eyes,
shuddering. “Dona. Why…”
“Because you don’t need defenses
against me, Nathan. Because you’ll
only make things much worse if you
use them.”
As she continued to caress his bare
pate, he felt…vulnerable. He hadn’t
expected to feel that way from
something as simple as having his
head shaved. Each stimulus she
inflicted upon him elicited sensations
new to him. He was having a hard
time sorting it all out. Particularly
when he kept losing his anchor on
time and reality.
“When…”
“You blacked out a bit. Things will
get disorienting here. You need to
accept that.
Accept my dominance over you and
play no games.” Her hand went
below the water, her fingers rippling
along his cock, wrapping around him.
“Dona—”
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Mistress of Redemption
“I’m going to make you suffer.” Her
eyes held him, stilled the words in
his throat.
“You have no choice in that. I’ll
make it so much worse if you try to
fuck with my head.
Now…” She let him go and allowed
the tether to drop so he felt the weight
of it pull against his cock as the