บททั้งหมดของ Love's Darkest Cage: บทที่ 71 - บทที่ 80

DoveThere was something about the way he kissed me.It was different from any other kisses I’ve had with him. This one was… hungry, and more than that. He was starving. Like he hadn’t kissed anyone in years. And it was hot. Possessive. Demanding. It sent shivers up my spine and it was making me whimper and strain harder against the ropes.When Elio finally pulled away, he took a moment to just stare at my face, and then he said, “Don’t cry, little bird.” His deep green eyes burned with something that made my stomach twist. And then he said the next part like it was a promise. “Don’t worry, I’m gonna take my time with you tonight.”I swallowed hard, and though I didn’t say a word, my face was excited at the prospect of that. I was suspended in the air with ropes and cuffs holding me up. I was probably six feet above the ground, with my face facing down. Elio went around me, he went to my sides and pulled both my arms together behind my back and secured them there with more bindings.

DoveI didn’t know there was more. After twelve days here, being used in all kinds of ways, and trying out things I’ve never tried before, I thought I’d seen it all. I thought I’ve felt it all. But he proved it to me now that I was only scratching the surface. There were still more pleasures to feel. More things to try. And so much, more pain to come.I screamed at the top of my lungs, like I had never screamed before. Pain and pleasure ripped through me as the vibrator in my core was buzzing and his length throbbed deep inside my ass hole. Yes, you saw that right. My asshole.I never thought it would come to this. The idea of it was so despicable. But in reality, what I was feeling told another story.It felt good. So freaking good that I almost blacked out again. And I was squirting all over the floor like an animal. I should be ashamed. I should feel indecent. But when Elio walked around me, stood in front of my face and looked at me with those hungry eyes, I could only feel one

DoveI came up out of the dark slowly, and the first thing I understood was that there was light.Real light. Lamplight, and the black of a real window somewhere off to my left, with real night behind it. Not the low gold and the sealed dark of the vault. I lay there a long moment blinking at a ceiling I hadn't seen in over a week and trying to work out where I was.My room. My old room, with the bed and the wardrobe and the bars, and the soft familiar smell of it.There was something taped to the inside of my elbow. I lifted my arm, and everything hurt. Everything felt strange. I felt some kind of dull pain all the way through my body, like I'd been taken apart and reassembled by someone in a hurry. And then I found the line attached to my arm, running up to a bag on a stand beside me.And in the chair by the window, folded into it badly with his head back against the frame, was Elio.He looked terrible. That was the first thought I had. He was unshaven, and his shirt was crumpled, u

DoveI looked up. Slow and afraid.And Professor Aldrich, who had sat through eleven performances without moving a single muscle in his face, he was looking at me, and there was something bright at the corner of his eye.One tear. That's all. It didn't even fall. He blinked it away almost immediately and made a note on his clipboard like nothing had happened.Then the room broke.They erupted. The whole hall, all at once, erupted with applause and shouting and someone whistling. Jessica was on her feet screaming my name, and Priya had both hands over her mouth. It rolled over me in a wave and I sat at that piano bench with my hands in my lap and let it hit me, and I thought I might come apart entirely.They liked it. God help me. They really liked it!And after the exam was over, I was mobbed by a group of students."That was insane, Dove—" "—the thing at the end, when it all dropped out—" "—Aldrich cried, do you understand what you did, Aldrich has never—" "Dove." Priya took both

Dove“You.” I swallowed hard. “You’re leaving me?”Elio’s lips curve into a smile. A bitter one.“We’ve had a good run.” He said. “Don’t you think?”My heart was cracking inside my ribcage. Suddenly, it was hard to breathe."No," I said. “No.”The jumper was still in my hands. I looked down at it and put it in the bag, very carefully, because my hands needed something to do."Dove—""We have a contract. Our run isn’t finished."I turned around."Ninety days. That's what it says. That's what I signed. And you said you’re a man of your words." My voice was shaking and I did not care. "I've done fifty-one of them, and I am not cutting it short, and you don't get to void just because you feel like it.""I’m not doing this because I feel like it—"“Then let me stay my full term. Tell your dad I’m just a hostage serving my time. You don’t even have to see me in that house. You can throw me in any room you want.” My voice didn’t even break and it shocked me too how strong I sounded. “I’m a w