Chapter 25

"Help! Somebody, please…. help!" I cried out. I tried to scream louder as I tossed my body in, and out of the water.

I gasped for my life, and with every ounce in my body was fighting against the black-painted hand that held me under.

The shadow man. The bubbles and faded screams surrounded me, and the blood and water enveloping me, trying to take me to the place of the dead.

I twisted my body more than the last, and thrashed like an alligator would when attacking its prey. I tried prying at his grip, but what was the use? He was too strong for me. I could feel it… my life was draining away to nothing. My death was a virtue, he said he would, and he was delivering.

My heart slowed, and swirls of his black paint diminished through the water. I could see a black smoky haze surrounding me. I could see his face. His mask was gone, and blood trailed from his mouth. The shadow man was revealing his true self. A monster. He was rabid. It seemed as though he was consumed by whatever darkness had a hold of him.

Like how it happened in my nightmares. I faded to nothing, pumping the last beat of my heart as he let go of my body. I slowly descended away from him, sinking into the nothingness of the water. The viscera of death. The water"s belly just as he desired.

The shadow took my life.

Suddenly, I jolted upright with an almighty gasp. Darting my eyes around to find my surroundings, tears streamed from my eyes, trembling down my face. Sweat beaded down my body, I was soaked. Panting heavily with my hand against my chest. My heart was still beating, and I was the remnants of a trembling, haunted mess. What the fuck happened? Where was I? How was I alive?

I pursed my lips and caught my breath, coming back to the here and now. Tuning in, I could hear whispering male voices, and music. It wasn"t bright, so I was able to gather my surroundings without squinting. I looked down, seeing that I was naked, and chained by the ankle.

Fuck.I was in one of the cages in the sex room, or whatever it was called. I must have had a nightmare. But, that made no sense, because I remembered my last memory of the shadow man holding my head underwater. So how the fuck did I get here? Caine and Eli were transfixed on a girl who was stripping her clothes off for them, and another crawling to them with a small bottle of rum in her teeth.

They started to mutter between each other, so I wriggled back down and pretended I was still passed out so I could listen. The music was quiet enough that I could hear them, but only just.

"What the fuck is up with him anyway? He's got a bad case of fucking sundowning since she's been here." I could make out that it was Caine's voice. "It's a pity really. He hesitated on her last night, he's a fucking mess." Eli responded. I lifted my head slightly, seeing Eli taking a swig of the rum the girl had before continuing.

"She's the one… I'm sure of it. But he isn't getting the job done." Caine snatched the bottle, and skulled a few sips himself. He swallowed with a sigh, then grumbled another vexed reply.

"He would be stupid to fuck this all up now, for his sake. We've come this far, six years too long."

Eli scratched his head in frustration. "I know brother. I'm getting tired, and I didn't sign up for fucking babysitting duties either." Eli slapped one of the girls on the ass hard, and laughed.

"Good girl, now. Leave us." He scolded and she scurried off back to her cage, shutting it behind her. Tears flowed down her flushed cheeks, she glared at me with a solacing frown before curling herself into a ball. The other girl followed, closing the door behind her, then looked me up and down with a furrowed brow. I rubbed my throbbing head, and my mind wandered.

What the fuck happened in the shadow man"s bath? What did they mean by she's the one? What did they mean by he hesitated? Had he hesitated to kill me? Rage took charge, making me grit my teeth.

And I had the fucking audacity to of doted on him and his stupid scars, his stupid piano playing, his sad whimpers and sobs. Fuck that… that… fucking swine! I scoffed, and their voices fell quiet. Crap.

"Ahh, the diamond has awoken." Caine said softly. Eli scooted off the sofa chair, and scurried toward me with a devilish grin. I squirmed from the intrusion of his gaze as he stared at me. He was really attractive, especially under this lighting. The LEDs at the bar had been turned low and on red. The flutters in my belly started to charge between my thighs. Shit. Not again. Not now.

Gah!

Eli tutted and shook his head in disapproval. "Look at you. Even after he tried to kill you, you're still hungry and desperate." Guilt rippled through my veins, and I flushed. Was my desperation really that obvious? These men all took my virginity, and all I wanted was more. I couldn"t control what my body wanted.

I trailed off, remembering an article I had read once, about bonding to the person you lost your virginity to. I curled my lip in disgust from the thought of being ‘bonded' to the shadow man. Eli pulled me from my musing.

"Are you hungry, little one?" Albeit his tone was riddled with seduction, but I wasn"t falling for it. Not this time.

I shook my head, because I knew for sure he didn't mean food. He pried at the buckle of his belt, and I drew my eyes to it unintentionally. Fucking hell. Someone had tried to kill me, you would think that it would have been enough to keep away my depraved sexual thoughts… but, it wasn"t. Eli tutted again. "Be a good girl, and answer me truthfully." I gulped, and shook again.

"No." I snapped. Liar.

Eli laughed mockingly, he could see right through me. Unease swam through my veins as Caine strutted over with a key. He unlocked the chain around my ankle, and gawked at me with a wicked smirk. He opened my enclosure, and waited. I didn't trust him a single inch, and as fucking handsome as he was, he was a slimy pig like the rest of them.

His blue doe eyes tugged at my heart strings, forcing a tear to shed from my eye without warning. I shuffled backward.

"Stay away from me!" I hissed. But his hand band around my arm, and I was yanked out, then shoved onto the sofa. I scrunched my legs up sideways to cover my pussy, in an attempt to keep some dignity. My head spun in circles just from walking over here. I"d had no idea how much blood I lost. Not enough to die obviously, but enough to know that I was very frail, and starved.

I hadn"t eaten in… days? Not since the shadow man caught me eating his meal. I trailed off, sobbing to the head fuck in my brain. My eyes widened.

Caine noticed my woe, and he dropped to his knees before me, planting his perfectly manicured hand over my thigh. A sympathetic glint in his eyes was genuine, and it threw me off guard. I needed answers. No more distractions… ask for answers. Eli smirked and scooted next to me. I gasped as Caine moved to the other side.

What were they up to? I squirmed, and that feeling of not having a voice started to wash through me. I felt small, worthless, and empty. My heart started pulsating. I gritted my teeth as Eli began to stroke my head like a lost puppy, his crystal blue eyes burning down on me, as though he was waiting for a reaction from me.

"What is your angle?" I snapped. He chuckled, before curling his hand around the nape of my neck, pulling me into his frame. "No angle. Just a pretty little toy. Ain't that right pretty boy?"

"Mhmm." Caine muttered his reply, and licked his lips. I clenched my jaw in frustration, keeping my eyes anywhere else but him, or Eli. I gasped when his grip forced my head to face him. I trembled into a fit of tears. The feeling of weakness hurt, and was almost unbearable. I was too tired, too weak, and too hungry for whatever fiasco they had planned for me.

I just wanted to go home. He held me with a tight clasp, and his tongue slid along the burning cries that were trailing down my cheek. Eli was tasting my sad, defenseless saltiness, and I shuddered, then revolt kicked up a notch and cracked through me like a spark of lightning. He swallowed.

"I love it when they cry."

I jolted my head away. "Don"t touch me!" I snarled, crossing my arms. Caine grabbed my chin softly, and a genuine, apologetic glint burned into my eyes. "Trust us, little diamond. Relax… we aren't the ones that are trying to kill you." Caine comforted warmly, before continuing.

"We just want… a little more of you." He brushed the side of my cheek with his hand, caressing his thumb along the area Eli had rolled his tongue over.

I exhaled breathlessly, and the flutter in my stomach returned. A little spark lightened my core. Caine danced his brows and dove into my mouth with his tongue, leaving me no choice but to lose myself. The sensation of craving, wanting more, and hunger began boil. For fuck"s sake. I really had no fucking control.

I gasped from Eli's big hand abruptly prying my thighs apart with force. He shifted, tugging at his loose sweatpants, and freeing his impressive cock. He teased the sensitive flesh around the arc of my pelvis.

I moaned, but Caine's tongue muted me, keeping me calm… to a degree. Eli's index finger found my clit, and swirled a delicious momentum. My cheeks glowed in a bashful crimson, I was wet. Eli purred against my ear.

"I knew it. She"s fucking soaked." Caine scooted off the couch, and knelt on the floor before me once more, then planted both his hands on my knees. And without warning, he pried them apart, and plummeted his mouth between my slit. I cried out from the immense amount of pleasure that hit me, but Eli hurried his mouth against mine. I entwined tongues with him as I melted like butter to Caine's twirls of his tongue on my clit.

Caine lapped up all of my secretions, and my body made more from him faster than he could swallow. Was this normal? Or was I just a sinful slut?

"Fuck…ing, hell. Our little toy has delicious diamonds, Eli." Caine groaned in disbelief. I tore my lips from Eli's to let out a back-arching moan. There was no way, that I could kiss someone, and have my pussy licked at the same time. I needed to catch my breath back. I pursed my lips to focus on a breath, catching sight of the hostages at the other end of the room, watching us. Eli tittered.

"Don"t worry about them." He finished the last part of that sentence like they were just a number, a nobody. Eli"s breath shredded through my mouth again with such desperation, and I became limp to his forceful kiss. He was a passionate kisser, as far as kisses go. Caine"s tongue found my sensitive little bud again, and his rhythm fastened. I rose my pelvis for more, panting under the heavenly sensations crashing through me.

"Oh my god!" I whimpered. The two worked together to build my orgasm, bringing it high before dropping it again, exactly like the shadow man had done. Eli broke away and cleared his throat, then finally a wicked grin burnt his face. I gulped, this can't be good.

He shifted slightly, and Caine's hand reached up, making contact with Eli's cock. He gripped it firmly, Eli"s piercing shining above Caine"s hand as he began to stroke it before tugging at his pants. He gathered his own cock into his palm, and repeated the same pace on his as he was on Eli"s. Fuck.

They both built their orgasms, and I found myself somehow even more turned on than before. Wasn"t this… gay? I didn't know, but it was fucking hot. The heat was becoming intense, but I was still not granted an orgasm, no matter how close to the edge I was. Finally, they both adjusted themselves, moving to another position.

Eli scooped me up, and I wrapped my legs behind me as he began to lower me with ease. My chain snagged on something, but Caine freed it, then Eli lowered me a little further. I was facing Caine, with my back to Eli. His face was drowned in hot, steamy, and hungry sweats.

Suddenly, Eli shoved me onto his cock. I cried out, wincing from his girth as he filled my still wounded pussy from the shadow man. Fuck it hurt, but I rolled my hip further into the pleasure and pain, letting it consume me. Caine dived hungrily into my mouth as Eli thrust, hard. He tasted heavenly. I tasted heavenly. He was a fantastic kisser, though, how could I forget? Caine was my first kiss.

I trailed off, thinking about the night it had all begun, and why the shadow man didn't kill me, among other things but it was hard to focus. It made no sense, he had so many fucking chances to take my life, but he didn"t.

Damnit. The fucking question was overpowering my want to orgasm, I needed to get my answers, otherwise, I was never going to enjoy… this. I pulled away from Caine, and sighed. "Wait. Please." I begged quickly. Eli stopped, and knotted his fingers in my hair, then tugged hard. I gasped from the force of my back landing against his sweaty chest.

He pulled my hair so that my head tilted, and his mouth was at my ear. "This better be good, little one. What is it?" he roared, sending an illicit shiver down my spit.

I grimaced, sitting like this pushed his cock further into my pussy, right on that sweet spot. I blew a rapid breath to compose myself before finally responding. "I need to know. Please. Why did he bring me in here?"

He hesitated with a wry chuckle. "If you're a good girl, we will tell you after you've finished."

I frowned. "Finished… what?" I muttered. Eli dug his grip around my waist, pulling me in tighter against him. The dull ache of his cock hounded my core, the sensation reminding me of gagging bile. Eli swirled my clit, and thrust his cock hard, eliciting a breathy moan. "Us." Caine chuckled at Eli's bluntness. I hesitated, then nodded my head in agreeance.

"Good girl. Now, open up for Caine". Eli commanded. Caine stood, and I opened my mouth wide, into an O shape. I rolled my eyes, and he lingered his impressively clean, tidy length at my lips with an eager gaze. But he didn't push into my mouth like I was expecting. It was almost as though he was waiting for my permission.

I raised a brow at him, an immediate prompt for him to shove straight in. I had the motive to get this the fuck over and done with so I could find out why the fuck I was in here. I was getting sick of arousal getting in the way of answers. Despite my coherent thoughts, I couldn"t deny that I was enjoying Caine and Eli"s pleasures.

I swirled my tongue around Caine"s cock, letting it poke, and prod the furthest area of my mouth with ease. I had been told that not having a gag reflex was a good thing, I didn"t know that it would have been this good. I also didn"t realise that I was taking charge, and swaying my hips a little faster, and deeper. Eli stirred with a blow of air.

"Little one, clenching hard on my cock will only make me cum." He breathed, and then tilted his head to face Caine before continuing. "She obviously likes your dick in her mouth, pretty boy." I tuned out, pulling my focus on Caine, he was so clean and smooth, not a single hair or piercing.

He drew in sharply through his teeth, pulling his head back as he pushed all of himself into my throat and pulling back all the way out again, slowly repeating the momentum. Each time Caine hit the back of my throat, Eli hit the tender spot of my pussy. I moaned as Caine threaded his fingers through my hair, controlling the pumps a little easier.

"I can't wait to fill that deadly mouth of yours." Caine whispered, and then Eli pushed deeper inside me, I shuddered from the bitter-sweet pressure. But, Eli was nothing compared to how the shadow man fucked me, nothing would be close to it.

A stray noise broke my attention, but I pushed it away, pulling my attention back onto the brothers. Brothers. The word tickled that part of my brain again.

You know this is wrong… very wrong, Esme. And yet, I gladly pushed down with each thrust, and my climax finally peeked. Caine pulled out slightly, and I cried out.

"Oh, my fuck… I'm going to…" I howled, and ecstasy flooded my veins. I lost myself in the moment.

My juices poured around Eli's cock as my pussy pulsated tight around it from my climax. Eli shivered, and groaned loudly. "Fuck. That's it, good little slut." He hissed the words down my spine, and then slowed his pace, allowing me to come back to reality. I shuddered, trying to pull myself into the here and now, but then Caine shoved back between my teeth.

I moaned at another climax stirring behind the last, but I tore my faded vision to a moving shadow. It couldn"t have been Caine, or Eli, and I was certain that the girls were stowed away in the cages behind us. I blinked, and then jolted. The shadow man was sitting on the chair in front of us. He seemed cool, calm, and collected with his legs pried apart, and slouched back.

I gasped, then wriggled, trying to break away, but Eli pinned me firmly in place.

Eli chuckled with exhilaration. "Don't worry about him, little one. You"re not done yet." His tone was provoking as he glared at the shadow man. I winced. Fuck, how long had he been there? I fell into a sob, and a rush of emotions ran over me. Terror was the one most highlightable, it rippled through my veins with great force.

I had been so very naive to say that this man didn"t scare me, because he certainly did now. All good feelings that I had were long fucking gone. The shadow man shifted, enough to adjust his cock. Almost as though, to allow me to see that he had a throbbing erection. He enjoyed sharing me with his brothers.

Caine startled me, pulling me off Eli. I stood, and then he guided me back onto the couch. I pivoted to my knees, and he pinned my hands onto the sofa"s arm. Another sex position… how great. And in front of the shadow man? I guess, I had fucked in front of the hostages… but this was… well, him. Eli sauntered to the other side of the sofa's arm, and faced toward me.

Without hesitating he shoved into my mouth. I coughed at his brute force and a lone tear escaped my eye. Eli turned a heinous grin toward Caine. "Let"s put on a show for him." he coaxed, with another pump into my mouth.

Caine followed his demand, moving behind me and onto his knees. The shadow man strummed his fingers at the edges of the armchair, his expression seemed only ambiguous. The shadow man"s body reacted to mine as I winced to Caine's grip around my waist, seeing his chest rising and falling deeply, as if to calm himself. Caine dug his fingers into the arc of my pelvis, and I gulped.

He swiveled my hips into position, and his wet tip pressed my now swollen entrance. I glanced at the shadow man, his glare fuelling my impulse to push back for Caine. He hissed in pleasure as I let him dive into my pussy. I moaned, and eagerly watched the shadow man"s every breath.

He didn't move an inch, other than the drum of his fingers along his legs, and his chest rising and falling, heavily. Thankfully, he was staying put on that chair. The fuck away from me. Caine was thicker than Eli, so he made it harder to concentrate.

He needed to push a little harder than Eli to thrust through my clenches, but the more the shadow man watched, the more I clamped down and was turned on. Fuck. "God, fucking damn. She"s tiight." Caine groaned, and pounded with force. I cried out, blowing a rapid breath to ease the dull ache.

The shadow man puffed his chest. "My little swallowtail. Filthy is a good look on you, and so are my brothers." he declaimed, arousal laced his voice. Filthy? I shuddered, letting the word darken my core. Filthy. Brothers… shit. This was so fucking wrong.

The way he said my lingered in my thoughts like a droplet of venom. It stung, leaving a sour taste in my mouth. I didn't belong to that fucking psychopathic killer. I was not his fucking pet, though I had the uneasy feeling that he had said it that way as a stern warning that I was his toy, and not theirs.

Was I going to be in trouble?

Revolt curled my lip but was suddenly abruptly interrupted, Caine band his arm around me, and found my clit. He didn"t hesitate, he swirled with anticipation, and his warm breath sent a shiver down my spine, directly to my pussy. I muttered my moaned around Eli"s cock, they were bringing my orgasm up again.

My body jolted aggressively from their thrusts, and I couldn"t hide how much I was succumbing to the idea of climaxing in front of people.

Only now just remembering there were now five pairs of eyes burning into me, the thought tugged my climax closer, it wasn't far away. Eli held the back of my head and pushed me into his thrusts to the back of my throat, and the more Eli pushed, the more I fell into Caine. They both dove into me with a primal, competitive like hunger. Eli pulled himself together, slowing slightly.

"Little one? I want you to cum. Cum for him." Eli commanded in a growl, tilting his head toward the shadow man.

And as if his words were like fucking magic, he pushed my orgasm over the edge. I thundered into an intense climax, clenching around Caine as I kept both eyes on the shadow man. The strength of my orgasm almost pushed him out of my pussy entirely. "Oh, fuck." Caine groaned, pulling his length from me.

His hot liquid spouted all around the lips of my pussy, and my ass. Then Eli rolled his eyes back, and let go in unison. I choked down his liquid as it pumped through my throat. We panted heavily, our bodies dripping in every bodily fluid possible.

Stars floated around in my brain, and both Eli and Caine tucked themselves back into their pants, leaving me spent on the couch. Hollow and dizzy. I rubbed my forehead, trying to rid the confusion. I jolted, suddenly seeing the shadow man standing before me. His breath had picked up the pace, was he mad? I gulped.

"Filthy little pet." He snarled, rage embedded in his tone. Without warning he jerked me up off the couch to my feet. Terror galloped through my veins as he tugged me away by the arm. I stomped my feet, and dropped myself as dead weight in protest, but it did nothing. Had he come back for me to finish the job?

"No! Get off me!" I yelped, but nothing came of it.

"Oh, H? One more thing before you take your… little pet." Eli called out wryly. The shadow man planted his feet vexingly into the floor like concrete. He waited, and Eli scooted beside him. I gasped from his speed. Eli"s bright blue eyes shaded to a murderous black in a trice, and then glowered at the shadow man.

"Pay the debt damnit. It needs to be done." Eli said sparingly, as though withholding disappointment, or disapproval. I couldn"t be sure exactly, but it made me shudder.

My eyes widened as the shadow man growled at him. Eli threw his hands up in defeat, and with one last tug of my arm, we were out the door, the rattles of my chain around my ankle echoed through the hallway with each step. What debt? What needs to be done?

Wait. Was it… my death?