Page 61 of Queen of Hell


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“B-but you said you were going to punish her,” I say with a small shake of my head still not understanding what he means.

“I love how innocent you are, Little One,” he says, leaning down to place a soft kiss on my lips before pulling back and looking over my head at Kenzi with a smirk. “Take off your clothes and go and sit on the bed, Kenzi.”

“Really, Xave?” She asks him.

“Now, Kenzi,” he tells her. “On the bed, clothes off. But keep your underwear on.”

I hear her mumble something as she walks towards the bed. Xave drops his gaze back to me once he is certain she’s doing as he said. He takes both my hands in his with a small smile and starts to walk further into the room.

“Do you remember what I told you the night we met?” He asks me, going back to our conversation. “It is my responsibility to keep you both safe, so when I tell either of you to do something it’s because not doing so could get you hurt. What Kenzi did tonight could have got her, and you, hurt if it had gone a different way. She needs to be punished for that, but that doesn’t mean that we are going to hurt her,” he looks over at her and smirks. “Well, not in a way she won’t enjoy.”

“I don’t understand,” I say as he pulls me to a stop by the side of the bed. I look over at Kenzi sitting on her knees in the middle of the bed in her black lace underwear, her skin glowing in the soft lighting, and my breath hitches. I take an unconscious step towards her, Xave’s hands on mine stopping me as he lets out a low chuckle.

“Not yet, Little One,” he squeezes my hands then lets go, turning and opening one of the drawers next to the bed. When he turns back to face me he has a pair of leather cuffs dangling from his fingers and hands them to me with a grin.

They are thick black leather with a buckle closure and have a chain connecting them that can be removed using the push closures at each end. I run my fingers around the soft black fur that covers the inside of the leather. Xave’s eyes are on me as I inspect the cuffs, watching my reactions. He must be pleased with what he sees on my face as I hand them back to him because he smiles down at me before turning to look at Kenzi.

“Up against the headboard, baby,” he tells her.

I turn so I’m facing the bed and watch as Kenzi crawls up the middle of the bed until she is sitting against the headboard, her eyes never leaving us.

“It’s good to see that you can actually follow instructions when you want to,” he says as he climbs up onto the bed and kneels next to her. He unbuckles the cuffs and starts to wrap them around Kenzi’s wrists before speaking again. “Bad girls may get punished, but good girls get rewarded, and I can’t think of a better way to punish our little troublemaker and teach her the error of her ways than to reward my good girl and make her watch what she’s missing out on for her bad behaviour,” he finishes buckling the cuffs and attaches them around one of the thick wooden bars of the headboard before smiling down at her and climbing off the bed, coming back to my side. “She will be able to watch but will not be allowed to join in, and with her hands cuffed she won’t be able to give in to her desire and touch herself either.”

I look over at Kenzi cuffed to the bed, her chest lifting as her breathing becomes heavier, a look of pure desire in her eyes, and I go over Xave’s words in my head. My eyes go wide and my head starts shaking from side to side when I realise what he means.

“Uh… I-I…” I stutter out, my own breaths becoming faster as thoughts start to circle in my head and I begin to panic.

There’s no way I can do this, I wouldn’t even know what to do or where to begin. It’s not like I’ve got any kind of experience with this kind of thing or, like, at all. Will they want me to undress?

No. I can’t do it. I can’t let them see me. I can’t show them the extent I went to in order to numb the pain. They will never look at me the same way again and I wouldn’t be able to bear that, not now.

I gasp and take a step back shaking my head, stopping only when Xave’s hands wrap around mine to prevent me from going any further. He looks down at me with worry etched into his features and pulls me towards him before bringing his hands up and placing them on either side of my head in order to get me to look at him.

“Hey, hey, hey. What just happened, Poppy? Where did you go?” He asks me quietly, his eyes full of concern as he searches mine for the answers to his questions.

“Xave, I-I can’t…” I say, still shaking my head as much as I can within his hands.

“Can’t what? I need you to use your words, Poppy. Tell me what’s going on in that head of yours,” he pleads.

“W-when you see. It’ll change everything,” I stutter as I feel tears once again start to well in my eyes.

“See what, Little one?”

“Me,” I sigh quietly as the tears finally start to fall.

His hands clench slightly against the sides of my face before he brings them round to wipe the tears that have fallen onto my cheeks.

“Oh, Little One,no,” he says as he brings his face to mine and places a soft kiss on my lips before pulling back so our lips are brushing when he speaks. “Nothing could make either of us look at you any differently, Poppy.Nothing.”

“No, you don’t understand-” I start, but he cuts me off, placing his lips on mine again.

“I understand, Poppy, I promise. And it is something we will talk about when you’re ready,” he says quietly, kissing me again softly. “Do you trust me?”

“Yes,” I say without hesitation as I look into his dark green eyes.

“Then let me show you, Little One,” he says softly.

Could I really do this? Could I be brave enough to be at my most vulnerable around them and trust them not to use it as a way to destroy me? Yes, I realise. I could. I didn’t even need to think about my answer when he asked me if I trusted him and even though I’ve only known the two of them for a short time I know I can trust them with this part of me. Even if it does scare the hell out of me to do so.

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