Page 211 of Hunger


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Oh crap. Is it too late to back out?

Whack!

All breath leaves my body.

Okay… So now I think I know what it’s like to be bitten on the ass by a highly organized army of enraged fire ants.

But despite the now ice-cold sting of my flesh, I know he didn’t use his full force. In fact, I know from the sound of the crop breaking through the air and the strength and speed with which he hit me, that he took pity on me compared to the first two.

I close my eyes but not quickly enough to stop a traitorous tear from falling to the floor.

Grey reaches under me, lifting my torso back upright as I breathe through pain mixed with pleasure that feels new, that feels like a door opening… not to submission, but to safety, a concept I can’t even fully explain to myself.

He forces my chin up and I blink fast to stop any more tears from giving me away.

He inspects my flushed face, leaning in to study it further. Before I know it, his hand is threaded into the back of my loose hair and his tongue is licking a single errant tear from just under my eye.

“You took your punishment very bravely.”

“Thank you, but I refuse to call it a punishment, seeing as I’ve done nothing wrong.”

“How about we call it part of your training, instead?”

“My training to be your submissive?”

“How about,” he suggests, “we call it part ofourtraining? Training how to… be together.”

I search his eyes.

“Okay.”

“Stay here.”

He returns a few minutes later, carrying some new clothes which he places on a table nearby and a bottle of something. He pours what looks like some lotion into his hand and makes me turn around so that he can very gently apply it to my ass. It cools and soothes as it touches the skin and I revel as the worst of the sting subsides beneath his careful caress.

“So beautiful,” he whispers.

It takes him several minutes to finish and put the cap back on the clear plastic bottle.

“Better?” he asks.

“Better.” My mouth opens as if to speak.

“What?” he asks when I hold myself back.

“I could feel how hard you were. Don’t you…”

“Want to fuck you?” he finishes and I nod. “Yes, I do, Indigo. All day long as it happens. But I want to learn more about you so that fucking feels more powerful. And I want to learn to control myself around you because all I want to do when you’re near me is to let myself turn into an animal who ties you up and ravages you over and over and over again.”

“Okay… That’s pretty clear.”

“Good. Now, are you hungry?” he asks and I nod.

He picks up the clothes he brought downstairs and hands them to me before picking me up, and carrying me out of the room in silence.

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Indigo

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