Page 15 of The Easter Hunt


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BRIAN

I’ve gotten the dungeon sprayed down and bleached, the tarp folded, the bodies chopped up, and everything that remains from two men is in about thirty heavy duty garbage bags. It’s almost like the inventors of these bags made them with body disposal in mind because I’ve been a satisfied customer for well over a decade now. Opaque. No leaks. Sturdy.

It’s always a bad sign—for the captive—when there’s a drain in the floor of the dungeon. That means someone plans for someone to bleed. This feature did make clean-up neater though.

I glance up to find Mina standing in the doorway, her hair still wet from the shower. She’s wearing black leather pants and a black corset with dark red lace overlaid.

I swallow hard against the sudden dryness in my throat. I didn’t realize she had a change of clothes. She always planned to walk away from this. I gesture to the lingerie Matsumoto made her wear. “I assume you want those burned?” I ask.

“Keep them. I want to remember today.”

She wants a trophy. That’s my girl.

I just nod. “I assume you drove here?”

“The gold sedan.”

She’s been paying attention. I nod and start hauling the garbage bags out to the car. Mina surprises me by picking up one of the lighter weight ones.

“Oh my god, what do you have in these bags? A body?”

I laugh out loud at this. I’ve known since Japan she was becoming more like me, that something irrevocable changed for her there, but I didn’t realize she’d also taken on my twisted sense of humor during this transformation.

Our dynamic has changed. She still calls me Master in the bedroom, and upstairs in front of the other girls, as though she understands we must keep up these appearances. But she doesn’t do it outside of those contexts, and I haven’t called her on it because it feels artificial to maintain such formality between us. After all, there’s no question who she belongs to. What we have outside the bedroom is something different, and nowhere is that more clear than what happened today.

A slave does not blaze in and save the day. She doesn’t get revenge. She doesn’t enact violence so unflinchingly. She certainly doesn’t straddle and ride her master of her own volition right in front of the monster she’s in the process of killing.

When we finish loading the car with her things and my bags and tarp, I shut the trunk and open her door for her.

She pauses and really looks at me. “Brian? Are you okay?”

Brian. She has never uttered my first name. There is no woman at the house brave enough to call me by my first name. It’s Sir to everyone else and Master to Mina. Officially in the kink world, this signifies a deeper relationship between us and not that she’s of some lower rank than everyone else at the house. She belongs to me and that comes with certain privileges and protection.

I nod, just staring at her. I level that hard look on her that so many before her have shrank and cringed from. This look alone has sent women to their knees sobbing and begging for my mercy—as though I have such a thing to give out.

But Mina stands there under the power of my stare, unflinching.

I grip the back of her neck and pull her close, my mouth at her ear. “When we get home to the dungeon and your punishment, you’ll be offering me a title.”

She shudders under me, but I know it’s arousal, not fear. I lick the side of her throat then pull back and practically growl, “Get in the car.”

Her gaze is filled with lust, as she slides into the seat.

The ride home is silent. She doesn’t ask about the bodies in the trunk. There are times when it feels safer to dispose of the evidence in the incinerator in the dungeon rather than leave it out in the wild somewhere to be dug up by coyotes or pulled in by a fisherman’s net.

I haven’t had a proper meal in a few days so I stop at a drive thru and get us some burgers and fries and chocolate shakes. We sit in the parking lot and eat. I don’t have any words for what happened today. And Mina seems to be equally empty of the desire to communicate.

Any other couple—and in our own fucked-up way, that’s what we are—would talk for days about this event, and their feelings, and how they planned to move forward, and how grateful they were to still have each other. They’d wring their hands about their monsters and demons as their subconscious mind took a turn at tormenting them and the nightmares came.

But Mina and I don’t deal with things like that. Probably the biggest talk about my feelings I ever had with her was on the plane back from Japan, when I declared probably the closest thing to love I’m capable of.

When we get back on the road, I finally speak. “What happened down there can never happen again,” I say.

I’m not sure if she knows what I mean. Surely she doesn’t think I think she’s going to be rescuing me and killing our enemies as a running theme. Not if I can help it.

But I decide to clarify. “You know we can’t fuck.”

We’ve had this discussion before. I’m not able to make love with a woman or even have sex with a woman. If I fuck you, it’s violent and dark and obscene. And I don’t want Mina at the other side of that rage. It’s not even the fun dark kinky kind of fucking. It’s just pure fury. I can’t do that to her.

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