The ice cream was a nice touch. Molly remembered him feeding her an ice cream cone...oh...ages ago. Two and a half years ago, just like this, only then she’d been on the tail end of a really difficult week of orgasm denial and speech restriction, implemented by Mephisto, of course. She’d hated it in the moment, but later, she’d thought of it time and time again, and in hindsight it was nothing but hot. Scorching.
Things were still hot between them. Growing hotter. Mephisto licked her lips as often as he licked the ice cream cone. He stared as she ran her tongue up the mountain of vanilla soft-serve, teasing him. She ended up with some on her nose and he licked that off too. An older lady walking by gave both of them an affronted glare.
He leaned close, brushing warm lips against her temple. “Messy little girl,” he said. “Where are your parents?”
Molly giggled. “They’re not watching. They, uh...let me wander off.”
“Did they?” He held the cone, urging her to take another lick. She could actually see his erection growing larger behind the fabric of his jeans. She swirled her tongue around the tip and waggled it at him. He sighed softly. “You’re a bad girl, aren’t you? They didn’t let you wander off. You ran away.”
Molly fluttered her eyes at him. “I’m not a bad girl. I’m a good girl. I’m a really good girl.”
Mephisto stifled a smile as she did more obscene things to the ice cream cone, then he took another broad lick himself. Ohh... It reminded her of things. Naughty things. He eyed her and pulled her into his lap.
“If you come home with me, little girl, I’ll give you candy.”
“Candy?” Molly put a finger to her bottom lip. “But I’m not supposed to take candy from strangers.”
“And toys. I can show you some toys you’ll really love.”
“You have toys?”
His gaze darkened. “I have lots of things for a good girl like you in my dungeo— At my house.”
“It is a nice house?”
“A nice house?” Mephisto squeezed her. “It’s made of gingerbread, with a candy roof.”
Molly laughed and buried her head against his neck. He smelled like fresh air and vanilla ice cream. “Do you have room for me at your gingerbread house?”
He forced her head back and dropped a kiss on her lips. “I have plenty of room for a lost little girl like you. You need a place to call home, and a Daddy to make you behave better.” His eyes glittered with a wicked spark. “I have a special cage with your name on it, and a pretty collar if you’re good.” He chuckled softly. “I had a chastity belt too, but a very bad girl I used to know shredded it and set it on fire.”
She feigned horror, gasping, and then she laughed. She and her old Master had seldom joked and played like this. Mephisto was different, but that was okay. She was having fun. She felt safe. She shifted closer on his lap, leaning into his broad chest, knowing she’d made the right decision. After so many months of turmoil and uncertainty, she felt relaxed at last in his arms. In his care. As they split the last few licks, excitement started to flare in her middle. When he crunched through the last of the cone and looked down at her, she shivered.
“I hope you don’t have any plans for the rest of the afternoon,” he murmured, sliding his erection against her hip.
“I’m supposed to spend every afternoon doing something to improve myself,” Molly said.
“Oh, I’ll be improving you, kitten,” he returned with a breathtaking smile. An alarming smile, really. The ride back home seemed to take a lot longer than the ride there. She was going to be his now. His to manipulate, to play with, to punish if he wished it. He’d so carefully adhered to her boundaries while she made her way through her confusion and sadness following her Master’s death. Now she’d taken those boundaries away.
Oh my God.
Oh, yes.
He stopped her just inside the door. “Clothes off. No more clothes in the house unless you’re told to wear them.” The corner of his mouth turned up slightly. “You’re used to that, yes?”
She smiled. “Yes, Master. But it’s been a while.” Wow, over half a year. It seemed longer and yet it seemed like only moments had gone by.
“It will feel normal again soon,” he said. “Go put your clothes in the bedroom, use the restroom, and return here.”
Molly shot a look around the play space. It was dark even during daylight hours, by design of course. By the time she returned, the darkness was replaced by the glow of what had to be twenty or thirty candles placed in various places around the room. It was scary and eerie but so beautiful in a way. Like him.
He stood beside a bondage rack, his shirt off, his hands open at his sides. She swallowed hard and tried to present herself to him without feeling ashamed. Without feeling fearful.
I trust him. I do.
“How sleek you look without your clothes on, kitten.” His voice was low and smooth, the voice of someone comfortable being in charge. He beckoned her and she crossed to him like she was caught in some dungeon-based tractor beam. When she was near enough, he reached for her. He slid an arm around her waist, snaking the other hand down to cup her mons. “Such a pretty kitty,” he murmured.
He parted her with his fingers. She stared at the line of his hard jaw as he probed and stroked between her slick pussy lips. It felt too good already. She wouldn’t be able to focus on pleasing him if he visited this kind of pleasure on her. She moaned softly as heat throbbed like a drum in her center. Candlelight flickered off his smooth bronze skin and reflected in his dark eyes as he looked at her.
“You can beg for what you’d like, kitten. It would turn me on to hear it.”
“Will you—
Ah...
” Her voice cut off as he finger fucked her even deeper. “Will you let me have the things I ask for, Master?” she asked shakily.
“Probably not. But I’ll enjoy hearing you beg and whimper when you don’t get your way.”
His words settled right there in her clit, right there beneath his fingers, teasing her, tormenting her.
“Please, Master.”
“‘Please’ is sweet but not specific enough. Tell me what you want.”
“Please keep touching me. Please let me come,” she burst out. “Please let me show you how much you’re turning me on.”
He chuckled. “Oh, I see. You’d be orgasming for my benefit, is that it?”
She shook her head, trying to concentrate over the building, rollicking hum between her legs. “I want whatever will bring you pleasure, Master.”
“What if it will bring me pleasure to tie you to this rack here and mark you all over with a Plexiglass cane?”
She swallowed hard and made herself meet his gaze. “Then...then that’s what I want.” Her voice kind of cracked on the last word. “I want to please you, Master. However I can.”
But please, please don’t do that to me.
She had to get good again at silencing the inner dialogue that kept her from connecting fully with her Master. She had to get good at finding her slave-space, where even pain and challenge brought comfort.
Suddenly his light caresses ceased and he was in motion. He pulled her arms over her head and pushed her against the rack, which was a kind of iron lattice structure. He made her hold on to the nearly-uppermost bar, so she had to either stretch out or go up on her toes.
“Whatever you do, don’t let go.”
Molly sucked in a breath, her heart banging in her chest. It was so cruel to not actually bind her, tie her down. If only he’d done that, she could have let the ropes do all the work of submission. The ropes would have kept her standing there, forced to accept whatever he did to her. Without rope or cuffs, Molly had to find the will to submit somewhere within herself. She’d have to summon the will to hold on when every impulse would scream to let go and run to safety. She tightened her fingers on the metal bars as her Master moved to the wall of the play space. Her whole body felt hypersensitive. Her skin ached from the threat of waiting for pain. She rested her forehead against the bars in front of her, realizing that her pussy was as warm with lust as her body was cold with dread.
Like her old Master, Mephisto didn’t give her any warnings, any explanation of what he’d do to her, how many strokes, with what.
I want whatever will bring you pleasure, Master.
She meant those words and she knew Mephisto understood they gave him the right to do just about anything to her. He returned and Molly didn’t look back. She just waited, his willing victim.
Crack!
The contact of the strap surprised her so much she almost let go. She’d expected the fire cut of the cane but instead got this intense, aching sting. It was a wide, thick strap and it fell twice more before the intensity of the ache really registered with her.
Whap, whap, whap
...more blows. Each time it connected with her ass, the pain burned more intensely. She made little cries and went up on her toes, trying to assuage the torment the only way she was allowed, by shifting and clenching her ass cheeks. If she moved any more she’d have to let go—
He snapped the strap hard against the top of her thighs and then she did let go, reaching back to rub the hot pain in shock for just a moment. “I’m sorry, Master,” she said at once, replacing her hands, but they both knew sorry wouldn’t be enough. He came to her and pulled her head back.
“What did I tell you, slave?”
“Don’t let go,” she breathed, panicking. “Master, you said, ‘Whatever you do, don’t let go.’”
“And what did you do?”
She burst into tears. “I let go. I’m sorry. Please forgive me.”
“Are you out of practice, girl? Did you forget how hard it can be to obey your Master?”
“Yes,” she sobbed. “Yes, I did. I’m sorry.”
“Sorry doesn’t really help me, but maybe some more practice will help you. I wasn’t going to mark the back of your thighs, but now I think I will, so you can practice your control.”
“Tha—Thank you, Master.”
He ran a hand down over her hot ass cheeks, down to her sopping wet pussy. “And know this. If you let go again without permission, this hungry, horny little pussy is going to go unsatisfied. Master will take his pleasure and leave his little kitten in pain.”
She flinched at the hardness in his eyes. Oh, God, if he didn’t let her come after all this...that would be the most painful thing of all. “I won’t let go, Master.”
She sighed as he buried his face in her neck and nibbled softly at her pulse. “See that you don’t,” he muttered as he pulled away.
Molly held the bars in a death grip. She would have given anything to be restrained. This was a test. He was letting her know that if she wanted to be his slave, she had to submit—without coercion or restraint—to his pain. But the reward if she was successful... She shivered a little, thinking of Mephisto taking her with his hard cock, claiming her, proving his mastery over her.
Whack! Whack! Whack!
Molly stood fast and held on for dear life. The backs of her thighs had always been the most sensitive part of her. Her old Master had figured that out and punished her there when he was most angry. Master Mephisto had to be figuring it out too. She wailed with each horrible searing stroke, praying it would be the last. She could have pleaded, begged for mercy, but it would have been pointless. Her shoulders ached and her fingers grew numb from holding on so tight. Molly let her body sag against the bars, let the hard metal hold her and soothe her against the pain from behind.
At last he stopped. Molly stood trembling. Dreading. He walked away, returned again. “Just a little more practice. Don’t let go.”
Molly braced, and now...now the cane came. The first stroke of fire across the backs of her thighs brought a soundless gape of her mouth. The second stroke, a piercing scream. Her entire body tensed with the effort to stand still, to not let go. Another stroke, another scream, and stuttering, halting breaths choking her throat. He tapped her ass with the wicked implement.
“Breathe. Deep breaths. I’m almost finished.”
“Almost finished” ended up being three more strokes, delivered with maximum delay in between, so Molly had to wait, shaking and shuddering. She was almost to the point of begging for each stroke just to get them over with. When they would come, the whistling sound, the rustle of his movement had a nightmarish quality. After the last stroke, he put a hand at the middle of her back and rubbed lightly.
“Okay, you can let go for a minute, but don’t move.”
Molly released the bar and put her hands over her face, wiping away tears.
“No,” he said. “Don’t brush them away. I like to see them. Put your hands at your sides.”
That made her cry more. She made fists at her sides, her palms sweaty and sore, but not as sore as the backs of her legs. Her Master still rubbed her back, watching her face.
“I like that you’ll hurt for a while, every time you sit down. You have some pretty marks on the backs of your thighs. Some nice bruises, some lovely cane tracks. But I think before we finish, I should even you out a little. Make your ass hurt as bad as your legs. That would please me.”
Molly sniffled and nodded. “Yes, Master.” Punishment on her ass would feel like nothing after this. At his sign, she reached above her to grasp the bar again. It felt clammy and cold now. When the pain came, it was the strap again. She whimpered and tensed her ass cheeks. With a rush of breath, he dropped the strap and came to her. He pinched one of her nipples until she whined and then groped her mons again. She arched into his touch, desperate for pleasure. Desperate to be filled, taken.
“You’re so wet,” he sighed. “You love when Master hurts you, don’t you?”
She nodded, tears still streaming down her face. She wasn’t sure though, if they were tears of pain or tears of emotion.
“No nodding. Answer me,” he said.
“Yes, Master, I love when you hurt me.”
“Here. Let go.” He pried away her death grip on the bars and then slapped the back of one tender thigh. “Part your legs. Wider.” He made Molly spread her legs until he was satisfied, until she felt open and vulnerable and exposed, and then he pushed her hands back against the rack, to a lower bar this time. “Hold on. Don’t let go.”
Molly was dying of arousal. It was bad enough to stand and be punished, to be his body to decorate with marks. Now she was a sexual plaything, her legs spread at his command. Now, she couldn’t pretend this wasn’t about sex, about her being as turned on as him. She stood there, open, waiting, wet as a river. Empty and dying to be filled with Master’s cock.