Page 22 of Darkest Descent

She screamed when I inserted the second needle on the other side, the thin metal clinking against the first. Blood beaded, and I resisted the urge to bend down and lick it, cutting my tongue and making our blood mix. I really didn’t want her to fester and die, but I would force feed her antibiotics if I had to.

One by one, I inserted the needles into her pussy, piercing her inner labia, her outer lips, and even the section across her pubic bone where hair sprouted. She looked like a fucking metal hedgehog; the needles mixing with red blood and dark curly hair. She sobbed and begged me throughout, her toes curling and her entire body coming up in shivers. And her brother only watched. I’d never heard sobs quite like it. I wanted to fuck her and make the sound louder.

“Two more,” I told her, voice soothing, stroking her thigh as I reached for the final needles, the last of sixteen. These two were fatter, hollow, so I could slide a permanent piece of jewelry in if I wanted to. We’d have to see how she handled her punishment.

She had to brace her legs apart, tricky with how little slack I’d given the ropes, so she was constantly yelping and battling to not drive the needles deeper into her cunt, or into the flesh of her thigh. She was a mess with it. I’d never been harder.

A bellow of pain and rage ripped through her when I pushed the hollow needle through her clit, pinching it first for better traction. And I couldn’t fucking resist the trickle of blood. I pressed my tongue to where the metal met her flesh and flickered it, sharp stings cutting into my entire lower face. Mmm. Like giving a porcupine a kiss.

“You taste fucking delicious. Your fear is potent down here, sweetheart,” I told her, and wanted Asher to have a lick too. The ultimate test for him. He was capable of observing. But could he participate?

As I reached for the second needle to join the first through her clit, swiping the blood now dripping from my face, a sudden pain rocketed through my head.

“Fuck you!” Alice yelled, donkey kicking me with both legs, slamming her feet into my skull again, fighting and screaming and shrieking as her actions tore her pussy to shreds. Her feeble strikes made little impact, pathetic, and I was on my feet before she’d even gained her steadiness again, racing towards her and grabbing her chin. Squeezing.

“You were so fucking close, too,” I growled, anger making me see red. The same red that now poured down her legs, dripping to the floor.

“Don’t kill him,” she begged, not dropping her eyes from mine, fighting me with just her gaze. “Please don’t kill him.”

I slapped her. She’d done exactly what I told her not to, and I hated not following through on my threats.

“Why?” she sobbed. “Why this….”

Nostrils flared, trying to control my anger. “You’ll learn soon enough.” I glared up at the camera, wanting to point, to talk and gloat about what I was doing to them. Instead, I tore my gaze away, thinking of how delicious it would be to send the footage later, and looked to Asher.

14

Alice

My body was nothing but pain. It settled over me with a strange numbness, the sensations so intense it was as if my brain couldn’t comprehend the sheer extremity of it. The needles through my vulva caused searing anguish like nothing I’d ever experienced before. I was ripped apart, shredded, and bleeding. My mind wouldn’t open to it, images and flashes of torment scattered behind my eyes, but I couldn’t grasp it. He had me sinking away, ready to let my mind and body separate, become his. Just so the pain would stop.

But then Hunter shot me a smug grin, letting me know he was winning, and that he was thrilled to fucking bits about it, and anger overtook that pain, that last ebb of my self-preservation, and I lashed out.

Making it so much worse.

I froze as he studied Asher, pleading with the universe for the bastard to leave my brother alone. Asher had told me in the shower he was switching off. It was something he’d always had the ability to do. When we went through hardship, when our parents argued or things got tough, he could sink away. At first, it made me angry. I yelled at him, begged him not to go, but then I saw it for what it was. An opportunity to save him. I stopped fighting with him, stopped trying to break through the window, and I accepted it.

I told him I’d take care of him while he was gone. After firing up, screaming at him to somehow bring me along, I promised him. And I had already fucking failed.

“Please Hunter, please…”

Hunter turned back to me and I blacked out in agony when he slammed his hand over my raw pussy, the needles no doubt piercing into his skin too, but his eyebrow only twitched. He didn’t even wince. He rubbed, full palm, grinding the needles into bone and ripping such an intense pain from me that the world went dark again. It would be too easy to let it sink away, but damn, I wanted to. Wanted to go. Not exist. Pain was everything. One of the needles snagged something inside my leg and I released a cry so guttural it disappeared, my throat unable to handle it. Just a desperate noise ebbing into nothing as hope burned out.

But one glance at Asher and I fought. I fought to stay awake through the torture, determined to see how it ended, what Hunter’s final plan for me was. Because this felt like the culmination of my life, so I should be a witness to it. Even if I screamed and cried, even if my entire body was alight with fire, the nerves so frayed they didn’t know where the pain was coming from. Misfiring brain, begging to switch off, skin on fire, genitalia shredded. He wasn’t getting my submission in passing out. Not for as long as I could manage.

Hunter thrust a finger into me, dodging needles to shove his way inside. “Mm, she’s wet,” he commented, looking over his shoulder at Asher, who was watching with a sort of forlorn vacancy. “Do you think it’s blood or pussy juices?” Asher didn’t reply. “Do you want to get in there with your tongue and find out?”

“No!” I whined. “No, no, no…”

When Hunter yanked his fingers away. He had to pull hard because of the obstructions, and some of the needles went with him, imbedded in his palm. He laughed at the sight, ripping each needle free one by one, before throwing them across the room and smearing his bloody hand all over my face, shoving his fingers into my mouth so deep I gagged.

My begging weakened, and it wasn’t only for Hunter, for my life, for the pain to stop. It was for Asher to return to me, for him to make a break for it or kill this bastard. I tried to catch his eye, to show him how deeply he was needed now, how much I depended on him to come back and fight with me. For me. But he still only observed, his breathing fast, but his body relaxed. Standing a few feet away with a passive face. How could he? How was that possible? How was it fair that I hadn’t gained that skill, too? Despite not wanting him to face this hell, doing it alone was beyond my capabilities.

“I need a piss,” Hunter said, returning my attention to him, stepping away from me and undoing his fly. He paused there though, then seemed to think better, pulling his shirt over his head and yanking his pants off altogether, so he was standing before me naked, his cock semi-hard, thick against his thigh. He gave himself a tug and walked closer, making me realize what he’d said with a jolt. My skin turned cold, my veins icy.

“No, please…” I started, but it was futile. Of course it was.

He shrugged. “Need to sterilize these wounds, pretty thing. Don’t want you to rot down here. And look at the mess you’ve made of yourself.” He looked down my body and shook his head, then grasped his cock in his hands and aimed at my destroyed pussy. He groaned as he let himself loose. The first drops of his piss on my skin had me screaming until my throat was raw. The stinging and aching pain had my legs scrambling to get away from him. It was fucking impossible though, and after struggling for a few seconds, I did nothing but allow it to happen, allow him to degrade me further. It couldn’t get much worse, anyway. I just sagged and waited it out. Maybe this was the moment my brain went poof?

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