Page 82 of Harper’s Renegades

“Hmm, she sounds cool,” Prim commented as she cracked open the door.

Miming my urge to wring her neck, I took a deep breath and pulled myself together. “There was only one man at the entrance, but he’s one scary motherfucker.”

“Oh good, my favorite kind,” Prim announced with a smile tugging at her lips. “Stick close and try to keep up.”

Without warning, she flung the door open and raced down the hall, sticking to the shadows. I absolutely did not have the ability to do that, but I was supposed to be here. She wasn’t. I clasped my empty tray to my chest and ambled down the hall. The guard turned as he heard my heels. His eyes betrayed how much he wanted to touch, but I had a feeling Slava didn’t allow that.

He grabbed the curtain and pulled it back for me, but he froze as he spotted Prim behind me. Taking my tray, I slammed it into his face catching him off guard. Prim bolted out of the hall into the main room with one more wallop on the big guy’s head to keep him off-kilter. I backed out of the hall when a hand grabbed me, yanking me backward to the point I almost fell over. I wanted to shout, but a hand clamped over my mouth, causing me to fight, thrashing like a mad woman.

“Be still, doll,” Magnus ordered.

My whole body went limp hearing his voice.

I was saved!

“I think it’s best we get going, don’t you?” he whispered, removing his hand.

“What about Prim?” I asked, turning in his arms to face him.

Magnus gestured with his chin toward the exit. “The other two caught her making a run for it. They’ll make sure she gets out and understands how things are going to work from here on out.”

“She’s a handful, that one,” I said, resting my head against his chest. “Can we please go home now?”

“Yes, doll, we can go home now,” he answered, taking my hand and leading me in the opposite direction the others had.

I didn’t argue. I knew he would get us out, and we’d be on the journey back to the States, where things might be a little less chaotic. Magnus tugged me behind another curtain, and a man halted us, demanding something from Magnus, who handed him a wad of money, then was given a room key in return. The man at the door leered at me, wagging his eyebrows, making a provocative motion with his hands, and laughing.

“What the hell is going on?” I whispered harshly.

“I told you if you disobeyed, there would be consequences you won’t like,” Magnus stated. “We need to give the others some time to get a vehicle and come back for us, so I’ve about fifteen minutes left to keep you safe and out of other people’s hands. Four dead bodies for one evening is a lot, even for me. Let’s not add to the list.”

“You killed four people!” I gasped as he pulled me into a room with a round bed in the middle. On the walls were various tools to be used during any kind of sex one could desire.

Magnus turned on me, gripping my throat with his hand in a firm grip. “Do you see what you’re wearing? I should kill everyone in this place for daring to see you like that. You are ours, Harper. No one gets to see your body but us.“ He kissed me roughly, nothing about it tender and loving.

Breaking the kiss, he released my throat and brought me over to a wall covered with various places to tie someone to it. Taking my hands, he bound them in leather cuffs, then raised them to be hooked to a chain above my head. I wasn’t quite on my tippy toes, but it was close.

“Magnus, what are we doing?” I asked, a quiver in my voice.

He picked up a wide leather paddle and tested it on his hand before giving me his attention. “I told you, doll, the repercussions of breaking the rules weren’t going to be something you enjoyed. Would you rather my hand or a paddle? I will give you that choice.”

“Umm, I choose neither,” I shot back.

“I’m sorry, doll, but you need to understand what could have happened here tonight. I know this doesn’t make sense and seems like I don’t love you by treating you this way, but choices have consequences,” Magnus explained as he brushed the back of his finger along my cheek. “There will only be two marks left on your ass tonight, but I need you to remember the cost of your actions.”

“This doesn’t make sense,” I argued. “They dragged me down here and forced me into this outfit. I even managed to find Prim. How can you be so angry?”

“Because what you should have done is hidden and let us find you. Instead, you paraded around in this, letting others see what is for us alone as your husbands-to-be. We knew where Prim was and would have had her out, but then you went back there, drawing the attention of one man we can’t afford to cross right now. Harper, you put yourself in far more danger than you ever needed to, and that is why I’m upset,” Magnus said, his last words ending in a whisper as his face betrayed just how scared he’d been.

“I can’t lose you. If anything had happened, I would have burned this whole place down with me in it. Without you by my side, there is nothing to live for. So even if it might make you hate me or you feel betrayed by this action, I can live with that because you will be alive to feel those emotions.”

He stepped back and lifted my dress, exposing my ass to him. I took a deep breath as the first hit landed. It stung but in no way did I feel he was using his full strength. I knew that wasn’t the point. He wasn’t doing this to hurt me but to own up to the choices I’d made tonight. It was true. I could have hidden in the shadows and waited for them to find me. Instead, I thought I knew best and put myself in danger. The second impact fell on my other ass cheek, making it smart, but soon it was rubbed away with a caress of his hand.

The whisper of a zipper being undone told me what was coming next, and I widened my legs for him. He thrust into me all at once as he reached through my dress to cup my breasts. “This body belongs to us,” he murmured against the back of my neck as he thrust into me. “No one gets to hear your moans or see the face you make when we play with your nipples. These are moments meant for us between husband and wife.”

Magnus fucked me hard and fast as he kissed every part of my body, whispering sweet words of undying love. I let it all wash over me, knowing that I’d disappointed them all, but they loved me enough to forgive me as well as make me face the choice I’d made. They would love me completely, and doing so meant they wouldn’t let me become a person I didn’t want to be. Tonight I’d tried to be like Dax, to run with the big dogs, but that wasn’t what I wanted to be, not really. Eventually, I would find my place, but this wasn’t it, and he helped me realize that.

We came together with a shout, his cum filling me as I squeezed him tightly, pulling everything he had to give me out of his body. Our heavy breathing was the only sound in the room as I could feel his heartbeat in time with mine. These men were right, I was theirs, and they were mine in every way that mattered. Magnus released me, and I took a moment to clean up in the small bathroom they had attached. When I came back out, Magnus tossed me my white dress.