TEL’ANNASThe shrill sound of a siren blared throughout the room I’d now renamed my personalised torture chamber. Ever since Blaze had walked out, the hits had kept coming. I don’t know how many times the sirens had sounded, but it seemed every time I’d start to drift off, they echoed around the room, jolting me from whatever escape I needed to pass the time.The assholes were trying to use sleep deprivation to try and break me, and that meant that they either had an infinite amount of time to pull this off or they were shit out of ideas and had resorted to trying anything and everything they could possibly think of. Sleep deprivation being one of them.I groaned as I tried to stretch, realizing too late I was still strapped to the vault like contraption from earlier. My back and stomach ached from being bent over for so long, my arms had gone numb due to lack of blood flow and movement. And I was starving. It had been like three days or more since I’d actually eaten something of sub
DANEEverything had started to fall into place, once our little meet and greet with Blaze had ended more of the pieces had started to come together. Turns out that our initial suspicions were correct. Blaze was in fact a double agent. Undercover for the FBI working on shutting down the Trafficking side of the Lords of Salem. Although he couldn’t give us too much information he had told us that he was aware of who Tel’annas was and the importance of her family.By the end, we had an ironclad agreement he would try to get my Princess out before the tournament was due to start, however, if that couldn’t be achieved he’d make sure it never went past the first round and that he’d have the information we needed to get her out. He’d been working on this since before the incident with Phoenix and had hoped they’d have closed it by then but our rescue had hampered their investigation.They had come across the case just days before Phee had arrived in the States, and had spent months building
TEL’ANNASThe wind whipped around us as Dane and I made our way to the beach, we’d spent the day together just chilling. It had been great, we didn’t get many moments to steal away with each other now that Phoenix was home, but when they arose we took every opportunity.He’d just taken me out for dinner at a local food truck festival. It was incredible, so many different choices and which meant there would be no arguing about what each other wanted like there always was at the beach house. We had been enjoying our time when he looked up and saw my cousin and the boys walk through the main gate.We’d been keeping what we had a secret, not wanting to cause a stir or trouble while Phee had been recovering, plus if I was being honest I didn’t want to deal with the shit my cousin would spew. I’d already had one fight with him about not understanding his viewpoint because I didn’t have anyone special. I didn’t need him expanding on that and adding I’d be fucking up his friendship if he fou
I should have heeded the warning Eric had given me before the dinner but the longer I sat there, listening and watching as they treated the other females in the room like mere possessions, the harder it became for me. I drew the line at being made to kneel beside his chair and treated like a dog waiting for its master to sneak it food.That was my mistake, which resulted with me being dragged off to a room, lined wall to wall with whips, chains, and other devices that in the hands of someone that had compassion would use them for both pleasure and pain, but not in his.Now I was in a room strapped to some fucking torture device from the middle ages. My arms and legs out to the side, bent over from my waist, if it weren’t for my clothes I’d be on full display. What made it all the worse was the audience. This was part of their overall plan to try and break me and I’d played right into their hands. The depravity they could and would inflict was to achieve that exact goal. The humiliatio
DANEAfter what seemed like hours, I’d finally called it a day and headed back to the motel that had now become our base. Every muscle within my body ached, I needed a distraction for sure but nothing helped for long. My mind would always run back to the moments that Tel’annas and I would steal. Every knowing side glance, the secret dates. Time and I were not friends.Tel’annas’s feisty attitude, at first, had really gotten on my nerves. The way she acted at times, had me wanting to throw her over my knee. The more time we spent together, the more she grew on me. I can’t remember when everything started to change but I do remember the night that cemented the way I felt about this girl, and from that point forward we couldn’t get enough of each other.“When I get you back Princess, everyone is gonna know who you belong to,” I muttered to myself, frustrated as the anger crept back in. I was fueled by anger, and it wasn’t helped by the constant dull ache that now resided in my heart.Th
TEL’ANNASIt had been two days since Blaze had come clean about who he was, two days of us arguing back and forth. I understood why he tried to keep it a secret, and why he finally told me, but at the same time it infuriated me. Blaze had told me that it was strongly suggested that I go ahead with his plan by everyone. However, I was still skeptical which led us where we were currently. Both holed up in his room , the music blaring, having one of our stare offs.“I don’t see why you’re still trying to fight me on this Tel’annas,” Blaze let out a resigned sigh. By now it was clear we were at an impasse. There was a part of me that wanted to comply if only to make my stay here a little easier, but the fighter in me was telling me to stay on my path. “What is it gonna take for you to fall in line?”Wait, what? Did I just hear him correctly? I took a second to study him. He was sitting in his desk chair, his hands folded in front of him just staring at me. Gone was the irritation he’d be
DANEIt was one of the hardest things I’d ever had to do, telling the girl I’d caught feelings for, that she should do whatever it took to keep herself safe and get herself out of all this. My imagination was in overdrive just thinking of what she would have to do, the only thing that made it somewhat palatable was the understanding that none of the Ducanes or any other sick fuck would be touching her.Blaze had made it known that he would be in charge of her from this point on, but it still didn’t help with the knowledge that she would still have to do things that would place her in compromising situations. Then there was the tone I’d initially taken with her. I told myself that I’d keep the anger in check, but when I heard her melodic voice come over the phone I couldn’t help it.It pained me as much as it did her, but she’d ghosted me, and made me question everything. I’d been closed off to making myself vulnerable to another person, and had fought within myself when it came to he
TEL’ANNASIt was time to put my game face on, it had been a week since I’d spoke with Dane. Blaze had spent that time telling me what he expected me to do, showing me how he wanted me to act, how I was to answer him and letting me know what I could expect in the lead up to the tournament.Blaze was getting ready to introduce the “new” more obedient me to the others, to show that he’d made progress. After all the discussion we’d had, it was agreed that he’d made a breakthrough with the training. Alexander had planned a dinner party with some of his more nefarious business partners, and part of it was to show off the prize he had to offer to the fighters.As part of the plan, Blaze and I agreed that I would follow along with most things he would request of me. This dinner party would be much like the first one I’d been forced to go to, I’d be made to sit by his side on the floor, let him feed me something I was not a huge fan of, but would go along with if it meant I didn’t draw unwant