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“I was only going to make you wear them, but now, for your punishment, I’ll make you rip them off,” he whispered in my ear.
Rip them off? My weight sank into the balls of my feet and he held me up, his arm around my stomach, and kissed my neck. Then the sharp bite of pain nicked into my nipple. The rubber buffers had been removed; it was the metal teeth directly on my skin. I closed my eyes, clenching my jaw, then the other clamp pinched tight. Then he played with my breasts, massaging them, his cock pulsing against me every time his hands skimmed the metal clamps. Every time I thought the pain had stopped, he’d play with those clamps, shifting them around, making me moan.
Pressure dipped the chain between the clamps lower. I opened my eyes; he had hung a weight on the chain.
“Fuck,” I moaned. I shouldn’t have liked this. I had never seen my stepdad dothisto my mother, but he would have, and because of that, I knew it shouldn’t have been okay. I shouldn’t have liked this.
Close your eyes, my mother had said.It’s a dream.
But this time, it was different. It didn’t feel like a dream. I didn’t want to wake up. I wanted to soak in Derek’s smell, the way he pressed tightly against me, his hand enveloping me in eucalyptus. He slipped a palm into my panties, his fingers slipping over my wet folds. He moaned at the touch and a wave of heat crashed through me, leaving my skin damp. I didn’t have time to be embarrassed. To think about why this was wrong. It felt too damn good. Too painful. Too intense.
“Take the chain in your mouth and rip them off, my little slut,” he murmured. I couldn’t let myself think about it. With the metal links between my teeth, I yanked them up as hard as I could, cringing at the pain, and he fingered me, rubbing my clit as I did. They had pulled down on my skin, but not enough to actually come off of my nipples. They were still hanging by the tip. “Again,” he growled. He picked up speed with his fingers inside of me, and yet his movement on my clit stayed achingly slow.
I pulled them off this time, crying out, and he flipped me around, making me face him as he leaned down to take a breast in his mouth and kept fingering me until it was too much. I looked out that front window. Anyone could walk in and see me like this. This… degraded. Derek was still clothed, using me exactly as he wanted me.
I couldn’t do this. Shouldn’t do this. Especially with him. And I hated it and loved it and couldn’t figure out how to breathe and think and—
The orgasm crashed through me, the books rattling on the shelves as Derek fucked me with his hands, taking my swollen breasts in his mouth.
Once I cooled, he let my breasts hang, then his eyes locked with mine.
“I need to take care of this,” he said, motioning at the body. I nodded, too overwhelmed to speak. I would leave soon, but an instinct told me Derek wasn’t finished talking to me yet. I froze in place.
He cast his dark gaze on me. “But from now on, you will trust me to know what’s best,” he said. “And if that means taking you like this, you’ll let me.” I nodded. How could I tell him ‘no’ when it felt like this? When the sensations were so intense that I hardly had any willpower left? “I’ll protect you, Mads. With my life. And in return, I own you.”
CHAPTER 8
Maddie
A few days later, after a drive to Pebble Garden and back, I came to the Adler House and found Derek, Axe, and Demi in the study. I held my breath. If Axe was meeting Derek in private—at least, semi-private—it meant something bad had happened. Someone was going to die.
Axe acknowledged my presence, and Derek shifted.
“We’ll head to Brackston after I take care of business,” Derek said.
“What business?” I asked.
Axe glanced at Derek, waiting to see what he did. This time, he waited, debating my status. Derek was serious about me earning his trust, then.
“Uncle Ray,” Derek finally said.
My heart sank. I didn’t know Uncle Ray, but I had a feeling I knew where he was coming from. He had been a fixture in the Adler business, but never a major player, like the accented wallpaper to an expertly designed house. It was hard for me to imagine someone from within the family switching sides, especially someone who shared blood with Gerard. Uncle Ray had to have a reason. It wouldn’t excuse his behavior, but it would explain it.
Wouldn’t it?
“What did he do?” I asked.
“Axe tracked him going back and forth between here and Brackston. Pebble Garden too,” he said. “He’s our rat.”
He narrowed his eyes at that word.Rat.
“And you’re going to get rid of him?” I asked. Axe nodded deeply. I took a deep breath. “Driving around doesn’t seem like enough cause to execute him.”
“I’m with Maddie on this one. He’s just driving around, right?” Demi said. Axe shot her a look, and she lifted her hands in defense. “But you two are the bosses. Not us.”
Axe’s expression communicated more than I thought; he must have felt personally wronged by Uncle Ray. Axe turned back to Derek.
“We’ll torture him first. Get him to talk,” Derek said, “then Axe or myself will take care of the rest.”
