Page 41 of Vengeful Sins

Fear rises inside of me, dread swirling in my gut as the realization of what I signed up for settles in. What the fuck have I gotten myself into?

“Maya?” Lucian gets my attention when I don’t say anything for a long moment.

I clear my throat and sit up a little straighter. “I would like to know,” I say, making a final decision. I’d rather know what to expect, no matter how bad it might be. I have to know.

“Okay then.” Lucian leans back in his office chair across from me. “My client has a rather rare taste when it comes to his sexual encounters. He likes his partner to be incapacitated.”

Incapacitated?A million scenarios run through my head at the word. Me tied down, unable to move an inch, is high up on that list.

Okay… I can do that.I try to talk myself up. Desperate to find the strength to do this.

“So, I guess I will be tied down then?” I ask, my voice coming out shakier than I wanted to sound.

“Not quite,” Lucian explains. “My client will administer a drug that will incapacitate you to the fullest.”

My eyes go wide, and my mouth opens with a gasp. “He wants to drug me?”

“Yes, it will be given to you with a shot.”

I shake my head, sucking in a deep breath to calm the raging storm inside my mind.

“Don’t worry, Maya. We have a registered nurse on staff that will inject you with the toxin?—”

“Toxin?” I shriek, ready to jump up and run out of the place. My eyes flicker to the door as everything inside of me tells me to get out of here.

Lucian must be reading my mind. He shakes his head. “You already signed, Maya. The deal is done. There is no way out of here other than going through hell,” he warns.

My mind drifts to the seven-foot bouncers outside the door. I know he is right. There is no way out now. I sink back into the chair and let out a shaky breath.

“So I’ll be like passed out for most of it?”

“No, the toxin we are giving you won’t alter your mind. You will be wide awake and feel everything like normal, but your body will be paralyzed.”

Jesus fucking Christ.

I stare at Lucian, almost waiting for him to laugh and tell me this was a joke. Only he isn’t smiling. He is giving me time to process, I think, because for a minute, he says nothing. He simply looks at me with a somewhat pitiful expression.

“Are you ready?” He breaks the eerie silence.

I can’t make my tongue work, so I nod instead.

Lucian claps his hands together. “Great, go ahead and step outside. My staff will take you to the room your buyer has picked and give you further instructions.”

I nod again, before forcing my body to push up into a standing position. On shaky legs, I make my way out of the office without another word. What else is there to say?

One of the giant bouncers motions for me to follow him. He starts walking down the hallway, and I tag along like a lost little puppy. He leads me down a dark staircase, and I’m surprised that my legs are still carrying my weight since I feel like my feet weigh a thousand pounds.

The bouncer suddenly stops, and I almost run into him. “This is your room,” he says gruffly, opening the door for me.

I can’t bring myself to thank him or even force a smile. This doesn’t seem like the time for pleasantries, anyway. I walk into the well-lit room, my eyes bouncing from corner to corner, scanning the space for anything that could hurt me.

The room is simple, almost bare, besides a large king-sized bed in the center of it. The walls are gray, the ceiling black, and the floor dark red. There is a large shelving unit on the right side of the room, filled with an array of sex toys and bottles of what I assume is lube.

I gulp at the sight. There is a whole shelf with butt plugs, one of them so large I think it would tear me apart.

“Your buyer wants you naked on the bed,” the bouncer tells me with a bored tone. “The nurse will be right in with your shot.”

I can’t even muster up a nod anymore.

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