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My heart beat faster. “Vera… I’m not afraid of you.”

She scoffed. “You should be. Have you learned nothing?”

“I’ve learned that you keep me safe. No matter what happens.”

She whipped around to face me, and she backed me up against the piano, putting her hand on the piano body next to me. Her eyes smoldered this close, and I felt like they were piercing through to my soul.

“I don’t think you understand, Elaine,” she growled. “If you give me half an opportunity, I will break you. My body… has been aching for yours.”

My heart jumped. “Vera…”

“Do not say my name in that voice. Do you know how hard it is to restrain myself?” She caressed my jaw. “Maybe I shouldn’t. I’m the one who’s kept you alive. Maybe I should seek some repayment.”

My breath came faster now, my head warm and fuzzy. “I… I do want to be useful for you.”

She bit her lip, desire in her eyes as she looked me over. “You’re fast running out of chances to back out, Elaine. You are tinder kindling, and I am a fire you won’t escape from alive.”

“I’m stronger than you think,” I whispered.

She put her hands on my hips, and I gasped as she started to lift my dress, gripping handfuls of it. “Then do your part,” she murmured huskily. “I’ve built up so much tension that needs release… if you really think you can take it, then take it.” She bent in and pressed a kiss against my neck. “I’ll keep you as my personal relief. My toy. And we’ll see how long you go before you break.”

“Oh, God, Vera,” I whispered. My body responded to the touch, curving into her. Her personal relief. Kept on reserve to pleasure her, to satisfy her… my body burned with dark, forbidden desire.

She was asking to objectify me. To use me. And my body cried out wanting it.

“Do you think you could handle it?” she said, pulling my dress up to my waist, sliding her hands down my thighs, greedy, claiming. “Do you really think you’ll be able to satisfy me?”

I couldn’t do this. But I knew that she had her weakness… that she had her need for release. And it would keep me safer. To give me a useful purpose here.

My body responded for me anyway, as I rocked my hips against her hands. “I will,” I whispered. “I’ll do everything I can for you.”

“You won’t be my lover,” she whispered, pushing her hands up underneath my dress, roaming over my skin. “I’m not capable of love. But once this is over… you’ll be free to go find someone to love you. And for as long as we’re doing this, I’ll take what I want from you. From your body. Do you understand?”

“I understand.” I spoke in a trance, not knowing a single word except yes.

“Good. Then let’s put you to work.”

She crushed her lips against mine, slipping my dress up higher, over my breasts and up off of me, and my body felt like it would erupt.

I’d had sex, but I’d never done this. I’d gotten close to somebody I loved and cared for, and we’d touched one another to show that love.

But this? Vera’s touch wasn’t that of a lover.

It was the rough, claiming touch of someone who wanted to turn me into an obedient little fuck doll.

And I was going to let her.

Chapter 28

elaine

Vera stripped my dress off over my head, and I could already feel the way my underwear was getting soaked through. She touched my sides, diving down under the sides of my panties, and she teased them down and back up again, her eyes twinkling at the way I gasped.

“You make such a pretty little toy,” she growled. “I’m going to get such good use out of you.”

“A-anything… you want.”

She licked her lips. “Then get on your knees and show me.”