by Kitty Thomas
“And that posture. You can’t fake that posture,” Ivan said, clearly trying to diffuse the tension. “Though a lot of girls who get away from the barre start to slump.”
“My mom was a doctor. She treated people with back problems. It’s why she put me in ballet. She was insistent that I wouldn’t develop a slump.”
Anton was irritated that she should be telling Ivan things about herself that Anton didn’t know. Maybe irritated wasn’t the word. Maybe it was… jealous. Immediately his mind was flooded with fantasies of punishing her for sharing her private history with someone else before him.
He knew these thoughts were unhinged. After all, it wasn’t as though she’d been with him long. It was far too early to be taking her out of the house. If he didn’t like that she was sharing her life with others before him, then he shouldn’t have taken her out so soon before he’d learned everything he wanted to know. It had been his choice not to have a private honeymoon period.
A moment later, Katya made her way over. She smiled at Annette. A genuine smile. The one thing Anton could say about Katya was that no matter how much she wished she was his sub, she didn’t begrudge the woman he was actually with. She didn’t have a spiteful bone in her body, and that was perhaps her greatest quality.
Anton whistled loudly into the room. Everyone went quiet and turned toward him. He emptied his coat pockets of the tubes of arousal cream he’d brought from the house and tossed them onto a table in the middle of the room. “Party favors,” he said.
Sergio picked up one of the tubes. “What is it?”
“It’s magic, a potion to turn any woman into your willing slave.”
Sergio laughed. “Sure. What is it really?”
“Just read the instructions and try it. I’m telling you, it’s magic.”
More dancers from the company made their way over to the table to inspect the tubes.
“This stuff can’t possibly work,” said one of the guys.
“Would you like a demonstration?” Anton asked. He felt Annette tense beside him. Maybe it was pushing her too far too fast, but he knew once he got her revved up, she’d be up for anything. Plus he felt an irrational need to prove she was truly his. Whether this display was for himself or his audience, he couldn’t be sure.
Annette felt the color drain from her face, which was quite a change since she felt like she’d been blushing nonstop since the second half of the ballet. Up until now, her biggest worry at the party had been that someone would start asking her questions about the performance she hadn’t paid much attention to. Now she had larger concerns.
When she’d seen all the other people wearing collars, and the kneeling and titles and all of it, she’d begun to relax a little. The club she’d been brought to had looked seedy on the outside, but inside it was posh and clean with kinky equipment and furniture so nice that she almost forgot how wrong the whole thing was.
By the time Ivan had asked her if she wanted to play with him, she’d actually felt up to it, though she was a bit concerned by what he meant by the term ‘play’. Still, she was sure that everybody here wasn’t some hostage or prisoner. She very much doubted any other person calling someone master or mistress here was truly owned in the same way she was. After all, they could leave the party or their respective relationships at any time, whereas she only got small windows of opportunity to escape.
Windows she kept inexplicably slamming shut.
“I am very interested in this demonstration,” Ivan said, looking at her in the same dark intense way Sergio had.
Annette glanced around the room to find Sergio standing a few feet away, ready for his encore performance. Other party guests, most of whom had taken one of the tubes of arousal cream to test for themselves, also seemed interested.
“Where should we do it?” Anton asked.
“There is a large open space downstairs with a St. Andrew’s cross in the middle under a spotlight. Good view for everyone.”
Anton nodded and took Annette by the hand. They followed Ivan through the darkened club and down the stairs to the lower level.
Downstairs there were even more people. The play and activity seemed more intense below ground with a lot more kinky furniture being used. The sounds of begging both for more and for less came from a multitude of bound women alternately being flogged and pleasured with toys, fingers, and mouths.
The group from upstairs had followed them, eager for the demonstration.
Anton pulled her away from them and lowered his voice. “Are you going to be a good girl?”
“Are you mad at me?” He’d seemed to go cold toward her upstairs when they were talking to Ivan.
“Why would I be mad? Because I thought you’d lied to me again so soon after a punishment? Because you didn’t address me properly and took a smart ass tone with me in public? I should punish you publicly.”
Annette’s lip started to tremble. She must have had extreme fear on her face because he softened.
“I’m not going to punish you, but we are playing.”
“I promise I didn’t lie upstairs, and I’m sorry for the way I spoke. I was defensive and scared because you looked mad.”
Anton nodded. “It’s forgotten. Just be a good girl for me tonight.”
Things were moving too fast. “Last night you spared me, and tonight you’re throwing me to the lions?”
He’d led her to a far wall that was leather padded with shackles to chain someone up. He pressed her against the smooth leather.
“I can’t help myself, kiska. I want to bring you into my dark world of pleasure. Let yourself go. I won’t let anyone here hurt you… or fuck you.”
“But Sergio...”
“Sergio is one of my best friends. It’s different.”
“But Ivan...”
“Ivan just wants to play with you. Not fuck you. We’re talking toys and touching, a few orgasms, a little light spanking. Not sex with everyone. You can handle this. You just let Sergio fuck you under a staircase at a public venue filled with normal people.”
Annette looked at the ground. She really had no explanation for how that had happened. Nor could she understand how even without an orgasm, it had been exciting and somehow still satisfying. She’d always thought her previous boredom with sex had been about the fact that her two other partners had found their pleasure and left her without, but that theory didn’t explain what had happened with Sergio under the stairs.
Anton lifted her chin so that their eyes met. “I will let you use a safe word here at the party. We all use a standard system. Say Yellow if you need things to slow down and Red if you need them to stop.”
“If I do that, will you be mad?”
“A little disappointed, but not mad. No one here is going to hurt you. I won’t let them. Okay?”
Annette nodded, feeling a bit better about things, though not by a lot. Her earlier arousal had all worn off and now all she felt was nervous about what was about to happen.
Anton leaned in and whispered in her ear, “I’ll blindfold you before I undress you and tie you up. It will be easier. Just know nobody here will judge you for anything. They’re all a bunch of deviants.”
This reassurance did make her feel marginally better. And she couldn’t deny that something about the whole situation felt so deliciously forbidden that if she could shut down the worried side of her and just let go, if no one else was going to actually fuck her… well…
Before she could reply, Anton had taken her hand and dragged her back into the center of the room. As promised, he pulled out a blindfold and covered her eyes with it before she got a chance to look around at the gathering crowd.
“Let me undress her.” The rumbling voice was Ivan’s.
“Be my guest,” Anton said.
Annette’s breath hitched in her throat as she felt large warm hands shove the straps of her dress off her shoulders. A small tug at the waist and the fabric was over her hips and fluttering to the floor. He took her hands in his.
“Step out, my dear.”
She allowed Ivan to lead her out of the tangle of fabric. Then he moved behind her and unhooked and removed the bra. With the blindfold and how quiet the room had gotten, it was easy to pretend it was just her and the ballet master. Or even better yet, just her and Anton.
“Lovely,” he said.
She could sense him circling her, taking in the full view. Then his hands were stroking her ass and thighs.
“I see someone has already been naughty today,” Ivan said.
Somehow she’d forgotten about the welts from Brian’s belt that had marked her earlier in the day even though the anxiety of the punishment itself had remained fresh on her mind. She’d forgotten evidence had been left behind on her skin. It seemed like it had happened so much longer than a mere few hours ago.
Two people led her a few steps in another direction, turned her around, and stretched her arms and legs out, binding them to the wooden frame of the X-shaped contraption she’d seen in the center of the room when they’d come downstairs. It was almost identical to the one down in the dungeon at the house which she’d been strapped to earlier for punishment.
This time there was a different sort of fear. Even if she couldn’t see them, she knew many sets of strange eyes could see every inch of her body: exposed breasts, spread legs. She knew as far as her legs were spread that nothing was left to the imagination of those who watched. No matter how shy she got, she couldn’t close her legs or reach down to cover herself. The only thing to do was surrender to the gazes she could feel burning through her skin.
Moments later, the cool slippery cream was being rubbed between her legs. She recognized Anton’s touch immediately.
“It takes a few minutes to start working,” he said to the gathered group.
“I think he’s just messing with us,” one of the observers said.
“I assure you, this is the most magical, potent cream on the market. In a few minutes, there will be very little she won’t do to come.”
Annette wanted to deny his words, even privately to herself. But she knew the truth of them. And now that the threat of death wasn’t mashed up against the fear of being fucked by multiple strangers, she knew it was likely her arousal would be stronger than any petty resistance she might otherwise entertain.
After all, a part of her wanted to fall into this dream and just feel—like Anton wanted her to. She wanted his attention to remain on her and not on the dark-haired ballerina.
Before her thoughts could stray much farther, Annette felt the cream beginning to work its horrible evil magic until the only part of her that felt real was between her legs. Without her conscious control, she began to writhe and struggle.
Without the immediate fears for her sister distracting her, the cream was even more potent than it had been the night before. The power of it was more primal and savage than she’d remembered.
In moments, hands began to stroke her. She couldn’t focus to count how many there were, and she wasn’t sure if Anton was one of the people touching her or if he stood back and observed. She was touched everywhere with a sort of entitlement—as though she were a plaything for all who wanted to partake. Breasts, belly, thighs, the curve of her neck, the side of her face as she leaned into the alien touches and whimpered.
But no one touched her in the one place she so desperately needed to be touched.
“That’s enough,” Anton said. All at once the hands were gone. So none of them had been Anton. What about Sergio? Or Ivan?
After a few minutes of squirming and need, the word “please” fell quiet and plaintive from her lips.
“I’m sorry, kiska, I didn’t hear you.”
“Master, please.” She wondered idly if somehow the cream was more intense each time it got used. She knew this was insane, and it only seemed stronger now because so much more fear had been competing with it the night before. But the thought that her sexual need and arousal could feel any stronger than this was absolutely terrifying.
“Does my little pet need to come?”
“Yes, please please please.” She knew the way she thrust her pussy toward any hand that might wait to touch it was lewd and obscene, but she couldn’t stop the mindless clawing need. She felt like an animal in heat, and the only thing that mattered in her life was to be touched and to have release.
Her inhibitions seemed to melt with each second she was left unsatisfied.
“All right. Let’s play a game.”
She tensed, thinking of Brian’s earlier game, but quickly shook it off. Anton wasn’t Brian.
“I’ll ask you if you will allow something to be done to you. A yes means you have to go through with what you agreed to, and we continue until I decide you deserve to come and allow you pleasure. A no means the game ends and you are left to suffer through your arousal for the next hour until the cream wears off. Then I’ll apply it again and tie you up and leave you to suffer without orgasm until it wears off again. Do you understand these terms?”
Annette shuddered. The idea of having this level of need with no satisfaction for two excruciating hours was more than she wanted to think about. “Yes, Master.”
“Will you let me take the blindfold off?”
Of course that would be the first thing to go. He played such dirty pool. At the same time, being able to see him was better in its way.
“Yes, Master.”
A moment later, the blindfold came off. A quick glance around showed about ten very intrigued male observers circling her, watching. Who knew where their own pets, slaves, or however they referred to them were. This demonstration was something of the most immediate interest to those intending to use the cream to torment their own toys.
“Good girl. It only gets harder from here. Will you crawl to Ivan?” Anton pointed a few feet away to where the ballet master sat in a nearby chair, watching with interest.
“Yes, Master.”
Anton unlocked the shackles around her ankles and wrists and helped her steady herself. “Go to him.”
Annette was sure that if it weren’t for the intense arousal blocking out all rational thought that she wouldn’t have the bravery to do any of this. If reason were playing any part, she could rationalize that the need for an orgasm was never so strong as to override other faculties. She could simply touch herself later. She could wait one hour for this to wear off. But the throbbing insanity between her legs wouldn’t let up. And even the thought of a second hour as punishment seemed unbearable.
And it wasn’t just intense arousal, she had grown increasingly wet in just the past few minutes.
“Kiska? Go to him.”
She tried to not think about how badly she needed to come and instead to focus on Anton’s list of questions and demands. She got on her hands and knees and crawled to Ivan’s chair.
“Good girl. Will you let him fondle your breasts?”
She felt the blush creeping up her neck. Somehow having to verbally agree to every single thing was even more perverse than silently allowing it to happen.
“Yes, Master.”
A breathy whimper escaped her mouth as Ivan’s hands roamed freely over her breasts. He left no bit of skin unexplored, no nerve ending unconquered. He groped and rubbed, and pinched her nipples until she cried out, the pain inexplicably sending a sharper bolt of desire between her legs.
“Will you lie across his lap and allow him to spank you?”
She hesitated a moment, tempted to start asking questions like, how hard? How long? How many? But at Anton’s raised eyebrow she simply said, “Yes, Master.”
Ivan helped her position herself over his lap.
“Anton, come hold her hands out of the way,” he said.
“Will you let me restrain you?” Anton asked.
“Yes, Master.”
She held her hands out and he gripped her wrists. Then Ivan started to spank her. If spanking were the only thing happening, it might have hurt. Ivan was certainly not weak about it. The sting was int
ense enough to bring tears to her eyes, and yet, still, the most pressing concern was the mindless driving madness between her legs.
After five or six strikes, Ivan stopped and rubbed her heated flesh. One hand moved between her legs, resting there for a moment, driving her even more crazy.
“She’s unbelievably wet. My God I would love to fuck that. Anton?”
“Sorry, no. I promised no one else would fuck her tonight.”
“Master, please,” Annette begged, because Ivan fucking her sounded like about the best thing in the world right about then. Even though she’d been scared about the possibility of being passed around, now, with arousal shortcircuiting her fears, she would have let them all have their turn with her. She imagined Ivan large and thick and hard pushing inside her with so many eyes on her, letting him pound her into oblivion while she bucked like a wild animal beneath him.
“Oh, you want him to fuck you?” Anton asked, amused.
“Anything. Please, I’ll do anything. I need to come. Please.”
“Perhaps. But we aren’t done with our game yet.” Anton glanced at the watch on his wrist. “You know, it’s only been twenty minutes since we started. Can you stand forty more of this?”
The tears began to flow quickly down her cheeks. She couldn’t help it. The idea that he might allow this torture to go on for forty more minutes was more than she could cope with.
Anton helped her off Ivan’s lap, Ivan stood, and then Anton took his seat.
“We aren’t finished. Will you get down on your knees and beg me to let you come?”
“Yes, Master.” She got on her knees in front of him and said, “Please let me come.”
“No points for creativity, but this is a demonstration of obedience, so I’ll accept it. Will you suck my cock in front of everyone here?”
“Yes, Master.” Annette was beginning to wonder if there actually was anything she would say no to if the end of the game promised release.
“Will you let strangers touch you while you do it?”