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I watched the tension drain out of his body. "You're mine, and I take care of what's mine. I have invested in you, Annie Knox."
Invested?
"I care about what happens to you."
I let out the shaking breath I'd been holding. It wobbled as hard as it had going in.
"You're going to be raped going into this. You understand that. It's as inevitable as night and day."
I put one hand hard over my mouth, trying not to vomit up the fish I'd managed to force down. "This is what I can do."
I stared at him, feeling my eyes were doing deer in the headlights. Feeling my head was spinning out of control with fear and humiliation and excitement. Half wishing he'd take me off the table and spank me until I sobbed.
Half wishing he'd take me off the table and fuck me until I did the same.
Instead, he met my eyes. "Lie. Back. Down. Spread your legs."
And I did.
He was thorough. He was slow. He was, whatever he'd said, still making me endure it. When he finished, he pulled me to my feet and turned me around and bent me over the table. I felt all the fight go out of me as he snapped into a new pair of gloves. I heard the lid to the lube open. I felt his finger probing before it slid in, the digital exam of whatever it is doctors look for. I bit my lip, silent tears, saw him in the mirrors opposite the table, watching me as he slid his fingers in and out and I slammed my eyes closed tight.
Opened them again when he dragged my hips back to him, forced my back down and ass up, separated the cheeks and pulled on a different sort of protection than the gloves.
"No," I said. "No, don't."
He paused. Our eyes met in the mirror. They held for a long minute.
Then I cradled my head in my hands and felt him spread my ass cheeks wide before he thrust himself inside me.
36
Cole
I made her sleep beside me that night, chained to the bed. Plugged and spanked before I allowed her to disappear into sleep, hiding there.
She slept.
I didn't.
There was no point in waiting. Every day we didn't act more women disappeared. More were sold into situations that I'd already been fighting. Things that made my worst dreams, those things I never did, seem like child's play.
This was what I'd been raising money for. To fight the insidious evil that trafficking was. It was worldwide. I knew that. This would be a tiny section of it, roped off and stopped, however that ended up going down.
I didn't think Emily had ever fallen into anything like that. My sister's story had been drugs and prostitution but I thought even through that horror she’d still maintained herself, decided what she would and wouldn't accept.
There was nothing about prostitution I was against when it was done right. Brothels that were clean and tested for STD's, I believed in that. Some girls were there against their will. Others weren't. I'd hired plenty of prostitutes over the years but it was the girls who weren't professionals who usually allowed the most intense BDSM experiences. That had to do with consent, or having the free will to agree to dispense with free will.
I'd known too many women hurt by trafficking, by illegal prostitution. Shit, include Chloe in the mix - hurt by a relationship that started off lifestyle and ended up abuse.
Whatever I'd done, I rationalized the majority of it. That thought made me smile to myself. I knew I went too far sometimes. Never with a partner who didn't at least start out willing, even if she’d signed a contract because I had something she couldn't get any other way.
Most of the time, that wasn't just money or rainforest opiate cures. Most of the time it was the freedom to explore dark desires. If I took it too far –
But I broke off there. If I took it too far, I was still holding a letter of agreement or a contract that stated the girl in question had stepped into the event with her eyes open.
It was the times I slipped up knowing I could get away with it that I hated about myself.
Annie was sleeping beside me, still chained to the bed. Her lips were parted, her lashes brushing her cheeks. Her breasts were exposed, the sheet fallen down, and I pulled it back up, covering her.
