sure he couldn’t hold back
another moment. When the women
brought him to his feet, he despised
the fact that he was forced to lean as
the blood pounded out of his head.
Worry and lust made him even more
unsteady.
How was he supposed to get a handle
on any of this, let alone the upper
hand?
Mouth stretched by the gag, arms
wrenched back to display his chest
and hold his muscles taut. Dona’s
collar on him. He was hard as a rock,
his body screaming for release, but
thankfully the harness would keep
him from losing control. He was
terrified to realize he felt like a true
slave. Completely out of control,
dependent on the whim and Will of
his Mistress. A state he’d rarely if
ever truly allowed a Mistress to
achieve with him.
There would be breathing time later.
Wouldn’t there? Time to get his
ducks in a row. Let them prepare him
for her pleasure now. He made
himself stand rigid, his jaw clenched
as Olivia brought that blade into play
on his face. When she made him lift
his chin, he could not help but glance
toward the banks, seeking Dona. She
sat now, her hands clasped around
her knees while she watched.
Carefully scrutinizing everything
being done to him.
Fiona looked toward the shore.
“What about his head? Take the hair
or wash it?”
She had the gel bottle in one hand and
another crystal bottle in the other,
perhaps shampoo.
24
Mistress of Redemption
Mistresses loved his hair, the thick
ash blond strands that they could coil
around their fingers, play with on his
nape. He’d never let it grow this
long, but these last few months he
hadn’t been interested in letting the
prison butchers who called
themselves barbers touch it. He’d
been looking forward to walking into
a men’s salon, having it artfully
styled the way he always liked it.
Short, layered on top, streaked with
some dark brown and cut close at his
nape, an expensive GQ -looking style.
Such a style was part of the whole
package that attracted the attention of
well-to-do Mistresses who liked a
man who knew how to put himself
together well. Who would look good
on their arm inside a club.
The idea of having another weapon
removed from his arsenal panicked
him. His ability to assert rights he
might not have anymore had been
taken from him with that gag. He
couldn’t employ his charm to coax
and cajole. Hell, Dona hadn’t even
given him a safe word, but he had the
distinct feeling they were in a
territory far beyond safe words. He
was a dumb bastard who had
allowed five years of self-denied
lust, his weak need to play at being a
submissive and the fact he somewhat
remembered this bitch to cloud his
judgment. He’d been so stupid,
giving in to something he felt when he
looked at her, some freaky emotional
reaction. A reaction that, damn him
three times over for an idiot, he still
felt every time he looked at her.
Like now, his panicked eyes locking
with hers for some type of
approbation as she sat on that bank.
Her expression said it clearly. He
was hers to do with as she wished
and it just made his cock get even
harder.
Maybe this was some weird
hallucination. While his mind howled
at the idea he might still be in the
prison, undergoing some bad trip on
something some bastard had slipped
in his slop that was called lunch, no
woman had ever had this kind of hold
on him.
Pulling away from Olivia, he tried to
get away from all of them. He
tripped, tumbled under the water. The
weeds reached for him, twining
around him from ankle to thigh. As he
twisted in mindless terror, he sunk
further. Tendrils soft as a woman’s
hair circled his throat under the
collar, holding him down below life,
air. He struggled, his lungs bursting.
A shadow brushed against him.
Feeling a clasp on his arm, he turned
his face in that direction, seeking
help. Instead, he saw a broad face,
the lips pulled back in what would
appear to most to be a maternal,
kindly look. Her