17. Rose

17

Rose

I gaped at Sebastian. “What?”

“You heard me. Drop that fucking blanket. Now.”

I shrank backward. “Please, no. I must remain pure for the Tetrad. Please .”

His smirk widened. “You’ll still be a virgin in all the ways that matter to your little Covenant, Rose.”

“I… I don’t understand.”

He stepped forward. “The toy is going in your ass. Unless you actually want it in your pussy, in which case I’m happy to oblige.”

“My… my ass?” I stared at him, eyes like saucers. Even saying those words felt skin-crawlingly dirty.

“Yes.” He lifted the so-called toy, eyes gleaming maliciously. “What do you think of it, Rosebud? Does it excite you?”

“N-no. Please. I don’t want it.”

“You don’t have a choice.” He cocked his head. “If you’re well-behaved during this, you can earn some clothes. I bet you’re tired of having nothing to wear, huh?”

“I don’t… I don’t think…”

Sebastian held up his hand. “You aren’t here to think, Rose. You’re here to submit to me. Now, either this toy is going up your ass, which you might actually enjoy in the end, or I’ll take you into the other room, string you up, and flog you. What’ll it be?”

There’s another room in this place? A tiny part of me wanted to see it, out of sheer curiosity, but the rest of me was desperate to stay out at all costs, given the threat of the flogging.

“I…”

“You have five seconds to make your choice.” He put down a finger. “Five, four, three—”

“The toy!” I cut in. “I… I’ll do it.”

The cruel smirk was back, twisting his handsome face. “Good. Now drop that blanket and get on your knees. I want to see that beautiful ass.”

Humiliation flooded my body in hot waves, but I shakily did as he said, letting the blanket fall to the floor as I got down on all fours.

“Spread your ass cheeks,” Sebastian commanded. “Show me that sweet little hole.”

I let out a strangled sob as I reached around to spread myself open for him. He’d seen my body many times in those stolen moments at the springs, but never like this. Never so vulnerable and exposed, with every inch of my most private part on full display.

He crouched behind me, and I jolted and winced as he spat on my ass and slid one finger up and down the crack, massaging the saliva into the area. “So pink and pretty,” he said. “Just begging to be fucked.”

I wasn’t begging for anything, but I knew better than to argue at a time like this. “Yes,” I murmured.

“Good girl.” He spat on me again, his finger lubricating my ass even more before the very tip slipped inside. I gasped at the sudden intrusion, and he chuckled. “Such a tight little asshole,” he murmured. “I’ll need this after all.”

‘This’ turned out to be the bottle of clear liquid he’d unpacked with the toy. He opened it and drizzled it all over my bare ass crack before using his fingers to massage it in. My hole was soaked now, and the tip of his finger went in easily this time.

My body flooded with molten shame as I realized it felt good in a wicked, twisted way. I’d never even considered having something go inside my ass, but the knowledge that I was partaking in such a dirty and forbidden act made my core heat the same way it did all those nights in the springs. I hated myself for wanting more, but that shame and hatred wasn’t enough to stop the desire from growing inside me anyway.

“Good girl,” Sebastian muttered. His finger moved away, and he pressed the toy up to my ass, twisting it as it slowly pushed inside me, inch after inch. My eyes widened, and my mouth fell open in a soundless gasp. I’d never felt so full before.

“Fuck,” Sebastian said in a low, hoarse voice, pushing the toy further in. “Look at you take it. I can’t wait until my cock is there instead.”

“Please,” I whimpered, eyes scrunching shut. My ass was stinging and burning now. I couldn’t take any more.

“Please what, baby girl? You want more?”

“No!” I cried. “I can’t… it’s too much.”

His free hand moved to my head, smoothing my hair. “Shh, sweetheart. Just relax.”

I heard him click something on the base of the toy, and it started to vibrate inside me, making me mewl from the shock. “Oh!” I gasped, eyes snapping open. “No!”

“No?” Sebastian laughed cruelly. “Don’t lie to me, Rose. You love it. Your cunt is fucking dripping from how much you love it. I can see it.”

I squirmed and whimpered, scrunching my eyes shut again. My ass still hurt, but the vibrations were forcing a familiar pressure to build and spread in my core. I just needed something to push me over the edge, something to cause that wonderful explosion inside me.

I dropped one of my hands to my front, giving into the temptation to touch myself for the very first time. Before my fingertips reached my clit, Sebastian growled low in the back of his throat and wrenched my hand behind my back again. “Did I give you permission to make yourself come, Rose?”

“I… no.” I gritted my teeth, back arching in desperate need. “Please… I need it.”

“I love it when you beg. It sounds so pretty coming from that sweet, innocent little mouth.”

As he spoke, he used one hand to hold both of my hands together behind my back while his other hand worked at his belt. He yanked it out of the loops and wrapped it around my wrists, keeping them pinned behind my back. There was a short clinking sound as he threaded the end of the belt through the buckle, and then he pulled on it tightly to secure it, making tears spring to my eyes as the skin on my wrists burned.

“No touching yourself without permission, baby girl,” he muttered, leaning close to my left ear. “If you want to come, you have to earn it.”

“How?” I whimpered.

He clicked something on the toy again, making the vibrations faster. “How what ?”

“How, Master?”

He rose to his feet and moved to stand in front of me. “Writing the words didn’t work. So you’ll say them instead.”

His eyes were dark with malevolent lust as he stared down at me on my knees, hands bound behind my back with the toy still lodged inside my ass. I was quaking with desperation, and he clearly loved the sight of it.

I shook my head, hating how much satisfaction I was bringing this evil man. “No,” I whispered. “Don’t make me say it. Please.”

“You’re not coming until those words leave your mouth, Rose.”

“Please! This is… it’s…” I couldn’t form a coherent sentence now. The mix of pain and pleasure was too great, the pressure inside me building to an intolerable level.

“Torture?”

“Yes!”

“That’s your fault. You had your chance to submit willingly, but you refused. Now you must be forced,” he said, lips twisting in a cold smile. “You understand how this was all your decision, don’t you?”

“I… yes, Master,” I panted. I’d say anything right now. Agree with anything. Just as long as he finally allowed me to come. “It’s my fault. My decision.”

“You know the deal, baby girl. I’ll let you come. But you have to say the words.”

Tears sprang to my eyes again. Anything but that. It was the one thing I couldn’t do. I couldn’t say it.

I squirmed again, trying to rub my thighs together. Sebastian chuckled as he watched my wanton desperation. “The words, Rose. They need to be in your mouth in the next ten seconds, or my cock will be there instead. What’ll it be?”

This time, I didn’t hesitate. “Your cock, Master,” I gasped.

It was wrong, I knew that, but I would still be a virgin afterwards. The Entity would understand that I was simply doing what I had to do in order to get what I needed while preserving my purity.

“So eager,” Sebastian muttered, smirking as he unzipped his pants.

He freed his cock, gripping the base of it with one hand. I’d seen plenty during ritual festivities, but never up this close, and never any this size. He was big, in both length and girth, and my jaw preemptively ached from the mere thought of taking it in my mouth.

“Open,” he commanded, voice low and gravelly.

I obeyed, eyes still focusing on his face as he brushed my lips with his cock. “I don’t need to ask if you’ve ever done this before,” he said with a wicked smile. “I know you haven’t. My sweet little virgin.”

He finally pressed the head of his cock past my lips, and he wasn’t gentle just because I was new to this. He thrust deeply inside me, mercilessly using my mouth as one hand threaded in my hair, holding my head in place. The taste of him on my tongue was intoxicating, and I moaned around his hard flesh, wanting more even when he hit the back of my throat, making my eyes sting with tears.

“Fuck, baby girl,” he muttered. “You take my cock so well. Ah… fuck. ”

Even though I hated him, the idea that I was pleasing him so much stirred something inside me, making the intense arousal flooding my body blaze even hotter. I moaned again, and when he groaned in response, I realized he enjoyed the vibrations my mouth made around his cock.

I did it again, and he grunted and thrust even harder and faster. “Jesus, Rosamund,” he grunted. “You’re a fucking natural.”

He hit the back of my throat again, and then he stilled, body shuddering slightly. His salty release flooded out, and with his cock still buried in my mouth, I had no choice but to swallow it.

He finally pulled out, and I gasped for breath, wishing I could reach up and wipe the drool that had leaked over my chin. My body was uncontrollably trembling from the toy that was still vibrating in my ass, and my knees felt raw from the concrete.

The pain was threatening to overwhelm the pleasure that had built in me, and I looked pleadingly up at Sebastian. “Please, let me come now.”

“That wasn’t the deal, baby girl,” he said, rubbing my hair like I was a pet.

My eyes widened. “Yes, it was!”

“No. I said the words I want to hear will be in your mouth, or my cock will be there instead. I didn’t say anything about you coming, did I? That was a separate conversation.”

I cast my mind back to that exact moment, and a mix of hatred and hopelessness bubbled up inside me all over again. He was right. He hadn’t promised me an orgasm at all. He’d tricked me.

“Please!” I whimpered, writhing in my spot again. “Please let me come!”

“You know what you have to do, sweetheart.”

I couldn’t take it anymore. Simply couldn’t. Not for one more second. I looked up at him, eyes filling with tears, and gave in. “The Entity isn’t real,” I whispered. “I do not belong to it. I belong to… to you.”

Sebastian’s lips curved in another satisfied smile. “Close enough, baby girl,” he muttered, dropping to one knee in front of me. He clicked something on the toy in my ass, making it buzz even faster, and then he brought his hand around to my front, expertly rubbing my clit.

An instant hot rush tingled through me, all the way to my fingers and toes. I bucked and screamed as the pleasure tore through my core, legs shaking violently. I’d never come so hard. Never felt so alive. I’d also never felt such crushing guilt and shame. Tears slipped down my cheeks, and I scrunched my eyes shut yet again, pressing my lips together to try and stop myself from sobbing.

Sebastian untied my wrists and slowly pulled the toy out of me. Then he came back around to my front and gripped my chin, forcing it upward. “Open your eyes,” he said. “Look at me.”

I obeyed, biting my lip to stop another cry from slipping out. “You see, baby girl?” he said. “Nothing has really changed after what you just did. The world hasn’t ended. No god or entity has struck you down to punish you.”

He was wrong. My world had ended, the second he took me out of Alderwood and forced me into this cage. This was my punishment for giving into the temptation of the flesh during all those long, forbidden nights in the hot springs.

“I know you didn’t mean what you said, Rose,” Sebastian went on. His voice was softer now, yet no less dangerous. “You don’t really believe you belong to me. Not yet.”

I swallowed hard and stared up at him, refusing to speak or even nod. I didn’t dare to deny him, but he could obviously see the hatred simmering in my eyes.

“But you will. It’s only a matter of time until you’re mine, Rose. Every single piece of you.” He smirked again and slapped my bare ass, making me yelp. “ Mine. And I’m never letting you go. Never, never, never .”