Page 373 of The Life of Anna-Tenth Anniversary Edition: Act 1

At long last, he moaned loudly and throbbed inside of her. He pulled away and she curled into a ball, hugging the pillow to her face to keep her sobs muffled. Deep inside her belly, her muscles cramped and relaxed over and over again. She felt as if she were going to throw up.

He put his hand on her belly. “Ian will bring you up when it is time.” He stood and dressed in a white silk tunic and pants.

Anna looked up and then gasped in pain.

“Fear not. The pain will be gone soon.” He gave her another stern look. “Ian is right outside. Do not run away. I will find you if you do, and the pain Devin has given you in the past will feel like ecstasy compared to what I do to you.”

He raised his eyebrows until Anna gave a frightened nod, and then he disappeared through the closed curtains.

A few minutes later, Maggie walked into the pavilion to help her clean up. Anna struggled to stay upright as her belly continued to cramp. Maggie gently brushed her hair and washed her face and body. She cleaned up Anna’s cuts and dressed her in another white dress like the one she’d worn earlier, but it was longer and there was a slit up to the hip.

When Maggie finished, she sat on the bed and stared at the ground, her heart heavy. It would be over soon. Everything good would be over soon.

Alex will be home in a few days.

Anna smiled. No matter what Devin did to her, she still had Alex. He could never take him away from her.

Chapter 174

Devin’s voice reached Anna’s ears, but she couldn’t understand his words. She stood, wincing, and pushed the curtain aside to see what was going on. A smoky haze hung over the Gathering and the men sat on the grass, their attention locked on Devin. They smiled and nodded when he paused, and a few times, they applauded. The Elders, wearing their white robes, sat behind Devin on their thrones.

The dark-haired senator that had hurt her in Washington, D.C. sat in the center of the front row next to an older, white-haired man. Anna remembered something about an election. Had he become president, as Devin had predicted?

Jamie sat naked on her knees at the edge of the platform with her normal pleasant-but-vacant expression. The rest of the slave girls kneeled around the edge of the field, naked.

Anna could make out words now and then. Economics. Depression. Socialism. At the end of his speech, the men cheered and applauded loudly. Kaveh walked up onto the stage and spoke briefly about how much greatness the country would achieve with Devin leading the way.

Ian appeared next to Anna and motioned silently for her to follow him, and she did. Every few steps, the pain in her stomach flared and she bit back a groan. She did her best to focus on the ground in front of her to avoid stumbling. When she arrived at the side of the platform, she looked up to see that Jamie now stood quietly next to Devin in the center of the platform, a small table beside her.

Devin stroked Jamie’s cheek, “Jamie, my love.” She gazed up at him with adoring eyes. “You will do anything for me, won’t you?”

“Yes, Master,” she said, a smile playing at her lips.

“Then free yourself from the bonds of slavery.” He motioned to the side of the platform where a thick wooden pole had been erected. Thin chains hanging down sparkled in the firelight. Jamie walked to the pole and Devin positioned her a few inches away and clipped the different chains to her nipple rings, belly ring, and pussy ring. “Tear the symbols of your slavery from your body.”

Anna gasped as Jamie backed away from the pole until the chains were taut and her breasts stood out perpendicular to the ground. The chains were short enough that she could push herself away from the pole, and she moaned as she did so.

The men below watched with hungry eyes. Jamie jerked backward and her pussy lip stretched away from her body. She cried out in ecstasy as the ring tore from her body and the men cheered while blood ran down her legs. Next came her belly ring, and the men cheered again. Her breasts extended straight out and, with a final scream, her nipple rings came loose. The men shouted in approval. Some of them were stroking themselves and Anna swallowed back vomit and turned away.

Once the men had quieted, he spoke again. “I am no longer your Master, darling. Will you still do anything for me?”

“I will.”

“What will you do for me?”

“Whatever you want me to do.”

Anna looked up to see Devin motioning toward a table at the back of the stage. Several knives and other sharp objects lay on it. “Draw your blood.”

Anna squeezed her eyes shut once more.

“Will you cut off your nipples for me?”

Anna squeezed her eyes even tightener to keep from seeing whatever Devin was making Jamie do. Well, was he making her do it? He’d only asked her, and the shouts from the men made her assume she had done it.

Devin laughed and Anna hung her head as her eyes opened of their own accord. She didn’t want to see what was going on.

“What else shall she do for me?”

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