Page 74 of His Obsession

“I’m sorry,” I say. “I don’t know why I’m crying.”

“Baby, this is the first time you have consented to sex since the rapes,” he says. “It’s overwhelming and emotional. You are not expected to be okay, Elise. It is a process, and I am more than happy to navigate this with you.”

“Being close to you… Not having to think… It helps,” I say. “Knowing that I can trust you with my mind, body, and future helps.”

“I vow to you right now and for the rest of our lives, I will always put you, your comfort, your needs, and your happiness first,” he says. “I love you with everything that I am, and I am so blessed to have found you.”

“I love you too,” I sniffle. “I’m sorry I keep biting you.”

“It’s okay,” he laughs. “I kinda like it.”

“I’ll say,” I remark with a smile. “You moan every time I do it.”

“Mmmm. I do, don’t I,” he grins.

“Mhmm. How about a nap before dinner? I prepaid,” I say, and he laughs.

“Yeah, I think you might have overpaid. We will have to go get some frozen yogurt after,” he says, kissing me again. “You rest, and I’ll get you cleaned up.”

“Mmkay,” I say with a sigh as I close my eyes. Lucian cleans me before returning to lying in bed. I snuggle against his chest and fall asleep to the sound of his heart beating.

I have faith and hope for the future. The pain and suffering I endured are unbearable at times, but I have to think that it is for a reason. I have to believe that there is a silver lining to the heinous things that have been done to me. I know that no matter what, I have Lucian. I have our people. In the beginning, I was his obsession, but now we share and embrace the obsession. We take everything around us and use it to further solidify our bond as our destiny is tangled together into a pleasurable hell. I could have run when I first met Lucian, and maybe I should have, but why run from the Devil when I look so good on my knees for him?

Epilogue

Elise

Eight Months Later

It’s time to playa game, and the rules are simple. You run… You hide… You Pray. You pray that when you are captured, you get passed around like a joint at a Bob Marley concert. That’s the whole point, right? The prey know what the goal is when they consent. They know if a predator finds them, they will stick their dick in them. Over… and over… and over again. No one gives a fuck if you are single, engaged, married, or widowed. If you consent, they will make it their goal to fuck you into a stupor before sending you off to be captured again. This year? Well… This year is different. This year we are stepping away from the norm and creating new memories.

The last eight months have been healing in a way I cannot describe. That doesn’t mean that I don’t think about what has happened to me, because I do. It still makes me just as angry. Lucian has been a massive part of my healing process and has supported me unconditionally. I was encouraged to find what brings me solace and lean into it. The day that Lucian and I had sex for the first time since the rapes, I realized pain brought me that solace. It allowed me to escape to a different reality for a while. The pain I desire, only Lucian can fulfill. He is the only one capable of making my thoughts drift away. We experimented with many things until we landed on flogging.

Before we took a deep dive into things, Lucian had me use the flogger on him. This was important to him because he wanted to understand what exactly I was feeling. He didn’t want to do something without understanding just how much pain it brought. He always tells me that the most important thing that a Dom must understand is that there is always room for improvement for both the Dom and the sub. He says it is his responsibility to understand my thoughts and feelings because he feels as though you cannot properly dominate someone without leveling with them.

Today, I will be branding my husband with my initials and the wheel of destiny in the same place that he will be covering Jake’s brand with the same wheel and his initials. After, he requested that I cut him six times, three on each forearm, to remind him that it is his duty to protect me. I was cut six times, so he wants to match everything to understand what I went through. After that, he will brand me. Together, we have decided that I will be restrained the exact same way I was before, only I will be supported by everyone. Laura will be at my head, comforting me, while Lucian is going to fuck me. When we come, he willbrand me. From there, I will be showered with support from anyone who wishes to provide it. There will be no limitations on how that is provided. The importance of this is that I am given a chance to be supported while I simultaneously rewrite those memories with ones that don’t make my blood boil when I think about it. Once I am calm, everyone will come together for one giant orgy.

This will be heavily influenced by the original hunt, so the prey are still being used. It will just be contained to the community center. The predators will be the ones to decide who fucks their prey and how they are used. There were no red roses given this year, since Laura and Bradley got married shortly after my kidnapping. Bradley was going to do it at Halloween, but together they decided that they wanted to get married in the summer.

I am incredibly nervous to be branded again, but I’m excited that Lucian will be the one to do it. He says he is looking forward to taking care of me, like he doesn’t dote on me day and night anyhow. We both are always taking care of each other. We focus so much on the other that we would neglect ourselves if the other wasn’t doing the same thing. We are perfect together and that is just one of many reasons why.

I am opting to wear a white silk robe this evening. Laura finishes putting my hair into a tight bun before we walk, hand in hand, to the community center. Neither of us has it in us to talk. I am mentally exhausted already, but I’m ready to have Jake’s brand covered.

Jake and the mass murder that took place in February went down as a mass suicide. Detective Clark Bishop easily came upwith the story that they branded and killed Jake for what he had them do to me and then killed themselves. More or less, they felt tricked and ended up regretting what they had done. I don’t care what the story is, because all of the women are happy, healthy, and thriving.

A few women ended up in intensive inpatient care for mental health, but have since been released once regulated on medication. A large amount of them ended up in Maple Falls. They wanted to talk to me, so I invited them to the community center. I told them everything about me, my trauma, and my community. Almost all of them grew interested, but some opted to disappear for a while and work on themselves in other ways. They were told they were always welcome to visit and they seemed excited about that. The ones who decided to stay were provided a place to live, as we had many volunteers who wanted to host them. All of the women, including those who moved elsewhere, are attending today. They look at me as a leader of sorts, so I felt that it was important that they see my healing journey.

It was an interesting decision, but I invited my bosses, Robert and Alan, as well as Detective Clark Bishop and Sheriff Donaldson, to witness my rebrand. They played a big part in my rescue and recovery, so I wanted to share this with them. Everything was communicated as to what to expect, and they were all happy to join. I am unsure as of yet if they’re participating in any capacity, but they were told that they were welcome to join. Robert and Alan are already in going through the process with their wives to join, so they will be a part of this soon anyhow.

When we get into the community center, everyone is wearing their ceremonial robes, but no one has a mask on. Lucian is standing by where the altar used to sit. It has temporarily been replaced with the same type of bench that Jake used. There is also a small unit that has the two brands with it. It’s already being heated. Tears well up in my eyes, but I push forward to get to my husband.

“You look beautiful,” he says before kissing me. “Ready?”

“Yeah,” I whisper. Lucian nods and faces our people.

“Thank you for joining us today,” Lucian says. “Today, we rewrite memories and heal as a community. Today, I will take on the marks that my wife bears as a reminder of my responsibilities to her and everyone a part of the Luxe Fortuna and the people of Maple Falls. I ask that you remain silent until the point that Elise receives her new brand. We do have a few visitors, so be mindful of that for the activities to follow her branding. They are not wearing the ceremonial robes unless they wish to participate. If they are not wearing a robe, you are not to touch them for any reason.”

Lucian removes his robe and sits on the bench, facing everyone. I am so shaky that I can’t function, so I go to Lucian and he hugs me. “Cuts first, then branding. Okay?” he says softly.

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