Page 172 of Ashes of Sin and Stardust

Chapter 40

Ring gags were probablyone of the most effective weapons I had in my arsenal. You could still talk around a small ball gag, but rings were impossible. Coupled with Alice’s current predicament of being splayed out for me, I thought the irony of being as open as possible was fitting.

“I don’t really care what you said this morning, Alice,” I smiled down at her in condescension. “But you refusing to tell me is a problem. So, we’re going to reinforce rule two before we talk about rule eight. You will be open and honest with me, and when I ask you to tell me something,you’re going to fucking tell me.”

Her eyes widened in horror as she saw the tawse I was holding. It was a thin, lightweight tool, but was still going to hurt like hell.Oh yes, sweetheart. You should have tip-toed a little more carefully with the attitude.

She whimpered as I neared her, and squeezed her eyes shut in anticipation, her chest heaving as she braced herself for the impact. I stood still, waiting until she cracked an eye open.

Thwack. I gave her a nice stripe right on her panty line. She howled at the first strike, both eyes shooting wide. She pulled at her restraints, but there was no way those were going anywhere. By the time she let herself relax back onto the bondage table, I’d struck her again on the other side. She screamed and her eyes watered.

Stunning. The look in her eyes, the cry coming from her mouth, and that pretty red mark starting to blossom...I will paint you with beauty and pain, little girl.

“I know how much you love pain, Alice. Here, have another one.”Thwack!She howled. “Not quite as fun without the warmup, is it?” I gave her a few more strokes on her mons, leaving painful red marks in the wake of the leather strip.

“Breathe and take your punishment, you goblin. Such a naughty girl deserves some nice bright marks. That’s what you whined about earlier, isn’t it? That you didn’t have any marks?”Thwack! “Here. Have another.”

She had tears running down her cheeks, her eyes wide from the pain, and she panted around the ring gag. She was trying to say something around it, attempting to beg or plead, or maybe tell me whatever it was she’d lied about earlier.

“Oh, eager to talk now, huh? Too bad, I’m not done punishing your cunt.” I struck her again, this time right across her splayed open pussy.

She screamed, and the sound was bright and desperate. Louder than her other cries, and it felt like her voice was filling my body with white hot power. A flash of heat and excitement went through me and my mouth watered. I was so aroused I was throbbing in my pants.

Another strike, and I watched her muscles grip and quiver, a juxtaposition to her wails of pain. She breathed it in, surrendered to it, letting it burn through her.

Don’t lose your head,I told myself, but I was on the edge already. The Beast was pounding his fists on the door to the cage in the back of my head, desperate to have his way with her. Another few strikes along the outside of her cunt and inner thighs, and another across her pussy, and I felt myself start to glow. It was like an explosion of the tension I held within me suddenly seeping out every cell of my body, and I could see and feel everything around me in perfect detail. Every sound she made, every flash of her eyes, every tear that ran down her cheek. And the bright red that bloomed under that leather strap?Perfection.

Fuck I missed this.For a few moments, the sounds of her screams and the beauty of her eyes and her soaking wet cunt made me feel like myself again.

I bit my tongue before I could fall all the way back into that space.She’s not ready for that. Get it together.

I checked her hands. She was still gripping the metal Ben Wa ball I’d put in her hand like her life depended on it. Her face and neck were flushed, and her nipples were hard as a rock.

If I wasn’t careful, she’d have her release much earlier than I wanted her to.

I would have struck her again, but she was far too close.Not yet, little goblin princess. That’s not for a while. You can take so much more for me.

I struck the front of her thighs, then her calves, then her plump little ass. She was crying fully now, her chest heaving, sweat starting to pool on her skin. My breath caught as I watched her.Am I really here? Is this really happening? Do I really have my girl, splayed open and crying at my hand?She still fisted her hand tightly against the little metal ball. After every strike, her eyes flew open and she met mine, wordlessly begging me for more. The way she looked at me, I felt like I was stripped bare, even though I was still fully clothed.

After another few rounds of intense strikes across her poor pussy, Alice was staring up at the ceiling, her eyes half-closed, breathing hard, tears running down her face leaving black marks from her makeup. She was trying to speak, but it came out sounding like crying because of the gag.

“You ready to tell me?” I panted.

She attempted to nod her head, and I set the tawse down across her breasts, unbuckling the gag from her lips.

As soon as it was out of her mouth, she licked her lips and spoke, trying to catch her breath around her words. “I said... you can take... your twenty percent... and shove it up your ass.”

I burst out laughing. “Very good, little goblin. Very good. Try telling me to shove something up my ass some other time and see what happens to you. That’s theonewarning you’ll get.” I could feel my lips stretching from the tension of my smile.When was the last time I felt this high?

She opened her eyes and looked at me, looking like she was halfway high. “Sounds like fun. I’ll keep that in mind.” Her eyes closed and she released the tension she’d been holding against the restraints, a fresh burst of tears escaping with the breath she was holding.

I pried her fingers open and removed the metal Ben Wa ball from her fist, setting it aside, then I put a hand against her face, smearing the tear and the makeup from her mascara across her cheek, then dragging it down across her breasts and down her belly. She whimpered at my touch and I felt another surge of pleasure and a deep tug in my gut at her reaction.

“Check in,” I whispered.

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