Adrienne vowed to herselfthat she would take everything they gave her with the aloofness of a worldly, sophisticated woman who didn’t just come utterly undone in the presence of three men who confused both her body and her mind in equal measure.
It also never occurred to her to use her safe word.She remembered what it was—obsidian—not something she would forget when that had been the name of theircompanyand through which they’d pay the sum of the bid.She still couldn’t wrap her head around that.
And now wasn’t the time to do so either.
Emerson moved in behind her next to Darien.Austin started to lazily flick his tongue across her labia, avoiding her clit completely.
Darien inserted the ginger root into her ass after he’d meticulously sculpted it into the shape of a butt plug.The extraordinary passage into what she had considered her most private and forbidden place shocked her to her core.The deeper he pushed, the more intense the sensation became until she was hanging onto only a thread of her sanity.
Austin wasn’t making it any easier.He’d spread apart her labia and seemed to be looking inside her.
Dear god, who were these men?
“Why?”She screeched when the burn of being stretched collided with the burn of being stretched with a damn root vegetable in an explosive union that made tears spill from her eyes.“Why are you doing this?”
“Well, I mean, I could have used the cucumber I found in your fridge,” Darien said conversationally.“But where would the fun be in that?”She could hear the grin in his voice, and again, she just wanted to bite him.
She hissed and sobbed as Darien inserted the entire length of the ginger root into her until the base of the root pressed against her ass cheek.She refused to breathe; certain it would trigger the tumultuous burn in her flesh.But she couldn’t hold her breath for long, and soon, she was sobbing like a baby all over again.
So much for handling this with her usual nonchalance.
Emerson laid his hand on her lower back, scalding her skin with his touch the same way she was burning up on the inside.
She couldn’t take it anymore.
“Ready, pretty lady.”Emerson didn’t state it as a question.It was more of a warning.
The first strike of his belt unseated her from reality.She was so shocked and shaken that she couldn’t form words in her mind for her mouth to speak.
Determined to remain in charge of her body and her responses, Adrienne braced herself for the second strike and the third, but she was falling apart and disintegrating quicker than her panting breaths.
His lashings kept her tethered in midair, unsure of whether she should cry and beg him to stop or just crumble into the oblivion that beckoned to her.She couldn’t withstand another second of it.
Every whack of Emerson’s belt on her ass released the stunning stinging sensation of the ginger root.And with every flog of the leather and every sear of her flesh from the root vegetable in her ass, Austin dipped his tongue into her core, then enveloped the whole of her pussy into his mouth, sucking on her without mercy.
The chaos in her body spread to her mind, and she didn’t know what to do, how to be, or who she was anymore.
Adrienne couldn’t understand that she, someone who knew herself inside and out, would find dark, deviant pleasure attached to the salacious tormenting of her body.
But she couldn’t allow it.She had to hold on.She had to stop her body from entering a realm where she’d give over her control to them.
They would end up hurting her.She knew that with such certainty, it scared her.Were they really who they said they were?What if they’d duped Peter?What if—
“Let go, Adrienne,” Emerson said behind her, gently despite the fact that he punctuated his words with a tight whip to her flesh.
She gasped out loud but shook her head.
“Fuck.Let go, pretty lady, and come in my mouth,” Austin said.She continued to shake her head.She would never let herself feel that level of vulnerability again with them.
Panicked beyond reason, her body rattling with arousal, pain, and confusion, she couldn’t stop the tears from dripping down her face.
“Let go, and we swear to you, we’ll be there to catch you, Adrienne.”Darien stood by her side now.He cupped her cheek and tilted her face toward him.
“Let go, and Emerson will be there to catch you.Austin will be there to catch you.I’ll be here to catch you.”
She couldn’t—
But the chaos stilled.All that remained was Darien’s ginger root in her asshole.Emerson’s belt on her flesh.Austin’s mouth on her pussy.