And maybe, now, she was.
Kenny clipped the leash back on and tugged her toward the living room. Back to the rug, soft beneath her raw knees.
A rope dangled from the heavy support beam overhead, both ends hanging loose, ready to loop through the suspension cuffs Kenny carried. He crouched, took the mitts off, and buckled the cuffs onto her wrists, the padded leather thick enough to bite deep without cutting circulation.
Then the men lifted her, connected her cuffs to the two ends of the rope, and let her body down.
Her toes barely touched the rug. Her wrists bearing most of her weight, her body stretched long and trembling, chest heaving.
They stepped back, leaving her swaying slightly at the center of the cleared space, her body strung up on display.
The silence pressed heavy. They’d set her like meat on a hook, suspended and waiting, and all three of them just stood there, watching.
She knew whatever came next would be bad.
Chapter 21
They circled her like wolves, quiet and deliberate, feet whispering against the rug. The rope above creaked, her body swaying, her toes barely grazing the fibers. She tried to follow them with her eyes, but they shifted places, stepped behind her, crossed paths, blurred into shadows. She couldn’t keep track. Couldn’t predict. That was the point.
The first strike landed across her ribs, the loopy Johnny biting in a long, dragging sting that lit her chest aflame. She jerked, gasped, arms wrenching in the cuffs. She hadn’t caught her breath before the second came, deep and blunt into her ass. Boone’s sap, heavy as a fist, punching muscle until she arched with the throb. Then a hiss and crack, Silas’s antenna snapping across the side of her thigh in a sharp slice of fire.
At first they gave her time — long stretches between blows, twenty seconds where all she had was dread. Her pulse pounded in her ears, eyes darting, waiting. Then another landed. Hip, belly, ribs, upper thigh. They circled slower than her heart could track, fear flooding every vein. She was prey strung up and waiting, surrounded by wolves who didn’t want to devour her, only to break her, one strike at a time.
And then they overlapped the impact, compounding the torment. The loopy bit into her flank, searing over the welt leftby the antenna. The sap followed, deep and bruising, directly across the same marks. She tried to twist away but there was noaway, and then another line seared across her breast, catching the nipple. Her body arched hard, shoulders taking her full weight as her legs kicked uselessly beneath her, a silent scream trapped in her chest as pain swallowed the world.
They took turns lifting a foot, striking her sole with the antenna until her toes curled. Her ass lit up under Boone’s strap, sharp arcs that overlapped the sap’s bruises, making the pain go deeper, hotter, heavier. The loopy wrapped high around her thigh, the tail licking across her cunt mound until she shook so hard the rope swung.
They circled her like wolves around game. Prey. Sometimes she heard feet scuff close behind her and braced for it, only to get struck from the front instead. Sometimes two landed so close together she couldn’t separate which weapon cut which way. Her world was only heat, burn, throb, all piling on itself. She lost track of time, lost track of her body except where it hurt, and it hurt everywhere.
Minutes stretched. Strikes rained. Her body became a map of pain — every rib marked, breasts striped, thighs welted front and back, ass covered in red and purple. Each new blow set fire to the last: loopy stinging across a welt left raw by the antenna; sap bruising deep into muscle already burning from leather; antenna slashing over the ache of a loopy strike until she couldn’t tell one pain from the next.
The pace quickened. Ten seconds between. Then five. The rope creaked and swayed with her jerks, her soundless screams. Her chest heaved, sweat cutting tracks through the welts. She tried to track them, but there was no pattern. Kenny’s precision landed at her ribs, Boone’s sap bruised her thighs, Silas’s antenna hissed across her nipples, sharp enough to tear a cry out of her lungs though no sound came.
Wolves circling prey have no pattern, only hunger and dominance, and she was theirs. The ritual savagery of it pushed her deeper than thought, deeper than fear, into surrender so raw it felt elemental. Terror blurred with surrender until she couldn’t separate one from the other, body alight with pain and yet sinking into it deeper, because she was theirs to break.
And still they circled. Still they struck. Until she couldn’t remember a world without the sound of leather cutting air, metal cracking skin, feet pacing around her dangling body. Until her universe was nothing but the creak of rope, the slap of impact, the endless layering of pain on pain. Until every breath, every heartbeat, was just another mark in the rhythm of whistles, blows, and fire.
Time blurred into eternity. Wolves at the kill, circling, striking, carving her body into stripes of fire. She dangled in their storm, no longer a woman, no longer even prey — just flesh hanging from a rope, every nerve screaming, her tears mixing with sweat as her body sagged against the cuffs, head hanging forward, every muscle trembling. Rope creaked overhead as the men moved around her, boots scuffing against the rug. She barely registered the thump of the playroom mat dragged across the floor, or the air stirring when the black microfiber sheet spread over it. All she knew was air, rope, pain, until the cuffs loosened and she dropped into waiting hands and was settled on the mat.
And then rough hands spread her legs open again.
She could see the clock on the mantle. It was a little after one — too late for mercy, too early for an end.
Kenny took her first. Boone and Silas each held a leg up and out.
Kenny didn’t bother with her cunt, not when her ass was raw from hours of use. He slicked himself and shoved in hard, thick cock rending her open again until her body bowed against themat. Her scream tore her throat raw, but they still couldn’t hear it. All they saw was the arch of her back, the convulsions that shook her legs as he slammed deeper and deeper, no buildup, no care.
He fucked her like it was his right, because it was. He didn’t stop until he emptied himself in her, cock buried to the root.
Kenny took one of her legs, and Silas moved below her. Cruel smile, sharp thrust — he drove into her ass like he meant to tear it wider than Kenny had, rutting fast and merciless. She thrashed against the mat, body caught between agony and the humiliating clutch of another orgasm forced from her wrecked body. He didn’t pause, didn’t soften, just hammered her until he spilled inside her too.
Boone went last, broad and steady. He rolled her over, spread her legs, and his cock pushed into her ass with an inevitability that broke her down more than brutality — no rush, no pause, just a relentless pressure until he was hilt deep. His weight pinned her hips, his thrusts were heavy and thorough, each one grinding her clit against the mat until another orgasm shook through her body. He grunted once, twice, and then filled her ass.
Kenny again, and he tried to fist her ass instead of fucking it, slicking his hand and working two fingers, then three, then four. She shook her head, tears leaking silent, but his jaw stayed set. For ten long minutes he pried at her, stretching, twisting, driving deeper, but he couldn’t breach the final lock of muscle, couldn’t get his fist completely inside her. When someone’s phone chimed, he roughly yanked free, leaving her raw and trembling.
Silas approached her with a glint in his eye, crouched at her ass, slicked his hand, and shoved starting with four fingers. Kenny had done the prep for him, softened her for the violation. Silas pushed harder, crueler, until the muscles gave with a brutal, yielding stretch. His fist disappeared inside her ass, herbody arching off the mat as if she’d been split in half. The orgasm hit her like a detonation, raw and explosive, wracking her body so violently Kenny put his hand on her upper back to hold her in place.
Silas laughed, fist pumping in and out with obscene pressure until she was nothing but shuddering, collapsing spasms, her hole spread around him like a sleeve.
