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  “I want to go home.” Cate tried to dig in her heels, but I pulled her along with me. The drug hadn’t worn off enough for her to put up a real fight … yet.

  My blood heated and my cock thickened at how she would struggle when the ritual began. That was the fun part, the highlight of my trip.

  Ten years ago, I’d brought another young, stupid secretary to Madame Vanth’s home. What happened that night was the only reason I shot to the top of the corporate world. From the COO of a shitty startup with zero potential to the man on the cover of Forbes—I had amazing good fortune. And all it took was a little sacrifice. The last girl was an easy loss. She was a shit secretary and an even worse fuck, but she bled out just fine. Cate was different, more alive somehow. I almost regretted how this evening would end for her, but not enough to change our path.

  “Sir.” The servant motioned us into the ballroom along the back of the house.

  We entered the room with soaring windows, black floors and walls, and a fire marshal’s worst nightmare of candles. Two others were already working on lashing their sacrifices to benches, beds, or the chains that hung from the high ceiling. Each cry and muffled scream sent a shot of adrenaline pumping through me.

  “I can’t wait for you to scream for me.” I grabbed the front of Cate’s shirt and ripped it apart.

  “Stop.” She slapped my hand, lost her balance, and fell back onto a deep emerald divan.

  I made quick work of her skirt even though she tried to kick me a few times. Her shoes fell off during the struggle. When she was completely bare, I lifted her and perched her on the leather horse. She fought, getting stronger by the second, but I strapped her hands and then her feet.

  “Let me go!” She yanked at the leather cuffs around her wrists, but she was held fast.

  I plucked a ball gag from the small table set up beside the divan.

  She shook her head. “No!”

  “Open.” I stood in front of her.

  She clamped her jaw shut and turned her head.

  “Do you want me to hurt you? Is that it?” I grabbed her hair and wrenched her head around to me. “Because I don’t have to, you know?” I trailed my hands around to her ass, her pussy on full display from the back. Running my fingers along her wet slit, I stroked her as she writhed and fought. But it didn’t take long until she was panting, her hips moving against my fingers. She couldn’t help herself. Fucking hot. I returned to her face and strapped the ball gag on as she stared at me through a haze of lust and fear.

  More people had arrived as I’d played with her pussy, the room set up for maybe half a dozen couples.

  “Fewer people this year,” I called to Caleb.

  “More good luck for us, I suppose.” He manhandled his girl—a fiery one with dark hair and angry eyes—onto a bed, strapping her wrists with leather cuffs.

  She screamed, but he hadn’t removed her gag. Still, she was loud and angry, and I couldn’t wait for my turn.

  Cate yanked at her restraints and turned her head to pierce me with a searing glare.

  “I thought you wanted to have some fun tonight.” I unbuttoned my shirt. “This is just part of it. Happy birthday, Cate.”

  She tried to bite down on the black ball gag, but her teeth slipped right off.

  “You’re going to have to stow those teeth, sweetheart.” I unbuttoned my pants and shucked them and my shorts to the floor. “I have something for you to suck on a little later. But if you bite me—” I slapped her ass hard, the resounding sting in my hand getting my blood pumping. “There’ll be consequences. Ugly ones.”

  She shook her cuffs again, but had zero chance of freeing herself. I’d forgotten how much I loved the power, the sheer domination of this place. Here, I was a fucking god, and Cate was nothing more than a plaything. More than domination, this was the complete overthrow of her will, replacing it with my own. Not some silly BDSM game where she had a safe word and a way out, this was real. I held her life in my hand, and I intended to squeeze every drop out of her before I was done.

  I gripped my cock, stroking myself slowly as I bent over to slide my tongue up her hot cunt. She jolted, but couldn’t escape me.

  Marie walked in, her dark-haired servants flanking her, and took her position at the head of the room. I gave Cate, her body now shaking, one more lick before walking around to stand beside her.

  Leaning down, I whispered in her ear. “I hope you’re ready.”

  The best part? I knew she wasn’t.

  Chapter Five

  Cate

  “Welcome.” The woman at the front of the room raised both her hands, her black robe draping around her. “This year’s ceremony is a bit more intimate than those that have come before.” Her low voice was almost hypnotic, but her eyes burned a trail around the room.

  She paused for only a moment as she looked at me, then moved along to another helpless victim. “This ceremony is far more special than the others. Great power lies in all of you, and to make the most of it, we needed to bring only the strongest.”

  I glanced at Ted. He smirked slightly, her words caressing his ego. Dark ink spread along his chest. I’d never seen him stripped like this, his muscled body inked with a thick, dark cross from his chest to his navel. Green snakes curled around the emblem, their red eyes seeming to focus on me.

  The woman gestured to the men at her side. They walked to the back of the room and returned with a large black goblet, sized for a giant, and placed it on the floor in front of her.

  “Communion, my friends. It is the one sacrament that binds us all, that draws us here, that combines the power of the group into a potent wine.” She pulled a silver dagger from her sleeve and pierced her wrist, then held it over the goblet. Blood dribbled into it, and a faint green light emanated from the center of the black cup.

  Goosebumps broke out all along my skin as I watched her sway, her dark hair luminous and her eyes flashing bright green.”

  “This is the beginning of the blood rite. Do what you must to satisfy the needs of your flesh. Once that is finished, you will give your sacrifices to God, Lucifer, and all the gods in-between.” She stowed the knife and pulled her wrist back to her side. “What you do here tonight is between you and the gods, all of them. Satisfy yourselves, return to your basest needs, for you were formed in their image, and every action you take tonight brings more glory to them.”

  The candles in the room burned higher, like torches, then settled down again as the woman retreated into the shadowy rear of the room.

  “That’s my cue.” Ted ran a hand through my hair.

  A cry ripped through the room.

  I turned my head as far to the right as I could.

  A nude woman was strapped to a black X a few yards away, her hands bound, her light brown body shaking as a man used a flogger on her. She wasn’t gagged, her full-throated screams echoing around the room as the man swung hard, leaving red welts along her ass and back.

  “Aren’t you glad that’s not you?” Ted whispered in my ear.

  I yanked on my restraints again, but the black leather didn’t even hint at giving way.

  “Don’t be like that.” He trailed a hand down my back as he walked behind me. “This doesn’t have to be unenjoyable for you.”

  A woman’s breathy moan careened around me. I tried to crane my head to the left and find where the sound came from. All I could make out was a large man pumping his hips into a bound woman, her ass in the air, her face hidden.

  I jolted when Ted slid his finger along my sex again.

  “For being so sweet and innocent, your pussy sure does like what’s going on here.” He pressed a finger inside me. “Wet doesn’t lie, Cate. And you’ve been wet since the car.”

  He pressed a kiss to the top of my ass, his finger pulsing inside me. When he bore down with his teeth, I screamed against the gag.

  “Just a love nip, Cate.” He pulled his finger out and pressed something much thicker to my entrance. I turned and glared at him.

/>   The moans grew, skin slapping on skin, and more than one woman was screaming.

  He gripped my waist. “I’ve been wanting this since you came in for your interview.”

  I shook my head, my hair flying as my muscle tightened and I tried to cringe away from him.

  “Shh.” He smoothed his hands up my sides and gripped my breasts, his cock pressing into me so slightly. “You’re going to enjoy it. I can tell.”

  A cry stuck in my throat as he pushed inside me.

  “Fuck.” He squeezed my breasts, his big hands barely containing them. “You’re tight.” Thrusting harder, he seated himself fully inside me.

  I breathed in hard through my nose as the sensation of fullness washed through me. I was impaled, unable to do anything except take what he was giving me. Trapped by my restraints and his body, I clenched my eyes shut and tried to concentrate on my breathing.

  But when he pinched my nipples between his thumbs and forefingers, my mind came back online, bursts of heat coursing through my veins at his rough touches.

  He pulled out, then slammed back, my body rocking as he started a hard fuck. Grasping my hips, he leveraged himself deep into me, taking every last bit of space I had to give. Our bodies slapped together, my skin stinging, my pussy aching. Each thrust was punctuated by his masculine sounds—grunts and groans—and his fingers dug into me.

  “Such good pussy, Jesus.” He pressed his forehead to my back and kept rocking into me, his pace slowing a little. “I want this to last, little Cate.”

  “Save some for me.” Caleb’s voice cut through the screams and moans.

  “Get some.” Ted pulled out.

  My muscles relaxed, and I let my head hang. Caleb’s girl was spread eagle on a bed behind me, her body covered in pink bite marks and her pussy swollen and red. A flogger lay to the side. Her eyes bored into mine. She boiled with rage while I’d given up. Why couldn’t I be more like her?

  Ted walked around to my front and pulled my ball gag free. “There’s no point screaming. No one will care.” He stroked my cheek. “Some would probably enjoy hearing it, to be honest.”

  “You can’t do this.” I wet my parched lips with my tongue.

  “I can do whatever I want with you, sweet Cate.” He laughed and fisted his cock, pressing the tip to my mouth. “Now suck me off.”

  I bared my teeth.

  “I wouldn’t.” He tsked and grabbed a handful of my hair, squeezing until all the pain receptors on my scalp lit up like a Christmas tree. “I can do much, much worse than anything you’ve seen so far. I promise you.” His glare sent a chill through me, his blue eyes icy and dark. “Now open.”

  With a shaking chin, I opened my mouth.

  “Better.” His grip on my hair relaxed as he slid his cock against my tongue.

  I tasted myself and a hint of salt from his pre-come.

  “Suck.” He pressed one palm to my cheek and kept the other hand in my hair.

  Sealing my lips around him, I sucked on his head and stared at the snakes on his abs that seemed to hiss back at me.

  When another hand landed on my ass, I tried to pull away from Ted, but his grip hardened on my hair, and he pushed his cock deeper into my mouth.

  “Yours got a tight cunt?” Ted asked over my head.

  “Very.” Caleb massaged my ass with both hands. “But I like to play the field a little. Then I’ll blow my load inside her. The grand finale will have to wait, though, because the night is young.”

  “As long as I get my turn.”

  “Sure thing. You tried her ass?” Caleb dipped a finger in my pussy and pulled the wetness to the tight hole between my cheeks.

  “Not yet.” Ted pushed farther, his cock tickling the back of my throat.

  I gagged a little.

  He pulled out, then returned harder, choking me. “I’ll let you have first dibs on that.”

  “Thank you, my good sir.” Caleb massaged my asshole, spreading more wetness along my puckered skin.

  When he sank a finger into me, I tried to shake my head.

  Ted gripped my hair with both hands and started fucking my mouth, his balls slapping against my chin as his cock slid along my tongue. I gagged, but Ted didn’t let up this time. He pushed past my tongue, the head of his cock lodging in my throat.

  I dug my nails into the leather horse and tried to breathe through my nose as panic welled inside me. My air was cut off, and Ted held me in place as Caleb pushed a finger into my asshole.

  “I bet she’s a virgin.” Caleb pressed around the edges of hole, then added another finger.

  “Her pussy took my cock like a champ, so I doubt it. Her ass, though.” Ted finally pulled back, and I gasped in air. “Maybe.” He pulled my head up to him, spit dripping down my chin. “Have you ever been fucked in the ass before?”

  Caleb pushed his fingers in deeper, the feeling alien and nearing on pain.

  “N-no.”

  “Didn’t think so.” Ted pushed my head back down and shoved his cock into my mouth.

  “Good.” Caleb pulled his fingers out, then spit on my hole. “I like being first.”

  “Makes me jealous.” Ted pulled his cock out and slapped it on my cheek. “But I hate to give up this mouth.”

  I winced as Caleb used his thumbs to spread my cheeks, then pressed his cock against my asshole.

  “It won’t fit.” I tried to surge forward, but was met with Ted’s cock. He pushed it into my mouth and rocked his hips.

  “Suck me. I want to feel your tongue on my balls, pretty Cate.”

  My breath stopped as he lodged himself in my throat. I kept gagging, but couldn’t expel him.

  He pushed deeper. “Tongue out.”

  I eased my tongue over my lips, the tip tracing the skin of his balls.

  He jerked back, then forward again. At least I could take a breath. But it was quickly erased by the searing pain in my ass.

  “Jesus.” Caleb spread me even wider. “Her ass is tighter than anything I’ve ever felt.”

  Tears came to my eyes as his cock entered me, then pushed slowly deeper.

  I can’t take it. I screamed, but the sound ended on Ted’s cock as he kept my head still and face fucked me.

  My ass burned, and my lips ached, but I couldn’t stop what was happening. There was no way out for me.

  When Caleb reached around my thigh and found my clit, I fought his touch. But arching my back only sent him deeper, his cock like a piston in and out of my ass. And when I tried to bow my back instead, Caleb pressed two fingers inside my pussy.

  My eyes rolled back, the heat in my ass and the fullness in my pussy overwhelming me.

  “She likes it.” Ted grabbed my chin and pulled my gaze to his as his cock slid against my tongue. “Don’t you, Cate? You like being treated like this.”

  I shook my head, a weak protest as Caleb’s fingers returned to my clit.

  “Fuck, you trying to make me blow on your pretty face?” Ted gripped his cock. “Stick your tongue out.”

  I obeyed. He slapped his cock head on my tongue, then rubbed it back and forth, smearing wetness on my lips and chin.

  I panted as Caleb fingered my clit, his cock a thick intruder in my ass.

  “You want to come again?” Ted teased his cock around my lips. “I know you do.” He reached down and unstrapped one wrist, then the other.

  I sat up and tried to swing at Ted, but Caleb pulled my arms behind me and slipped his arm through my elbows. He pulled me tight against him, his cock still in my ass, and my ankles trapped in the leather straps.

  Ted eased onto the horse in front of me, then grabbed a handful of my hair and pulled my head back. Caleb’s mouth found mine, his tongue invading me in the same brutal strokes of his cock. Ted’s hot mouth circled one nipple, and he snaked a hand to my pussy.

  “No,” I cried into Caleb’s mouth.

  He thrust inside me and increased the pressure on my arms, forcing my back to arch so he could slide deeper.

  Ted grabbed
my chin and turned my face to his, taking my mouth in a scorching kiss as he pushed two fingers inside me and used the palm of his hand to massage my clit.

  Pressed between them like a flower in the pages of a book, I had no escape. Caleb kept fucking my ass, each stroke pain and pleasure mixed. Ted’s fingers played me, continually stoking the heat that pooled between my legs and drenched my hot skin. His mouth was just as wicked, his tongue teasing me and stealing my breath. Keeping one hand at my throat, Ted squeezed, stopping my breath until my lungs burned. When he let go, euphoria cascaded through my blood.

  He constricted my breath again, and everything inside me wound tight, my legs trembling as he continued working my clit. Each stroke from Caleb’s thick cock had my eyes fluttering closed, the lack of oxygen making the edges of my vision go dark.

  But when Ted let go, my release exploded inside me. I gasped as the pleasure sliced through me, cutting away my protests and drowning me. I moaned loudly as Ted bit down on my nipple, Caleb’s grip hardening on my hips as my pussy pulsed.

  “Aww, fuck.” Caleb pounded me a few more times. “I can’t last with her ass squeezing me like this.” He pulled out as my orgasm finally began to dim, the aftershocks shuddering through me.

  “Weak.” Ted laughed and brought his fingers to his lips, licking my taste from them.

  “Shut up, man.” Caleb bit my shoulder, his teeth burning into my skin as Ted cupped my breasts.

  I tried to catch my breath, to recover from the wrongness of the situation, but my head spun.

  Ted leaned close, his dark eyes still hungry. “I know you liked that.”

  Another series of screams erupted from behind me, but I couldn’t turn to look, not when I had predators so close on either side.

  “Are you done? Can I go?” My voice quavered.