by M T Stone
“That’s understandable. What are you thinking?”
“I just watched the third video and after three sessions you have only given her a couple of taps with a cane and zapped one nipple. That’s not going to cut it and you know it. Right now the members are infatuated with her, but that will wear thin,” he scoffed.
“I told her that I’ve been too easy on her and things will have to intensify on Friday,” I explained.
“Things are going to intensify alright. I’m giving Sapphire a shot at her in full bondage.” His eyes narrowed and locked onto mine.
“Okay, so that means I’m cut out?” I was counting on a huge payoff.
“I gave her to you because I thought you could reel her in, but it seems that you have a soft spot for her or some shit.”
“You have to give me another shot at it. I’ll deliver, you know I always deliver.”
“The only thing I know is that Sapphire will deliver on Friday night,” he said, getting up and walking around to the front of the desk. “You get her all tied up and then you are going to trade with Sapphire. You can play with her friend Amber for the night.”
“Then I get her back?”
“We’ll see. It depends on how well everything goes. If you don’t get her back for level five, you’ll get another shot at level six. But if I see any more of this pussy-assed shit, I’m giving her to Blade,” he threatened, knowing how much that would piss me off.
“You won’t be giving her to Blade,” I countered, rising from my chair.
“You’re in control,” he said with a smart-ass grin. “By the way, I talked to Sapphire an hour ago and she’s pretty pissed as a result of the affection she has been seeing between you and Raven. You might want to warn her that Friday night is going to get a little rough.”
My blood was boiling by the time I left his office. The only reason he was doing this was to hurt Raven. He had an axe to grind with her because of the fact that she had rejected him nearly a decade ago. Petty bastard. He was going to use Sapphire’s jealousy to hurt Raven. Having been a sub to Sapphire in the past, I knew that Raven was in for one hell of a shoot on Friday night.
Raven
After a twenty minute tanning session and my first real workout in months, I hopped back into my car to pick up Hannah. I glanced at my phone and saw that I had two missed calls, both from Gunner. I love how excited he is about everything.
“What’s up, sir?” I asked facetiously as he answered my return call.
“I had my meeting with Carter this morning. He’s being a dick as usual,” he replied, sounding a little disappointed.
“Now what?” I knew I was going to regret being involved with that pervert.
“I knew that I was going too easy on you the past couple of sessions. He busted my ass and said that he’s going to switch things up on Friday.”
“Switch things up?”
“Yeah, he’s thinking of switching you and Amber around, so you will have a session with Sapphire.”
“Okay…”
“Sapphire is fun, but she can be tough as nails. Especially since it’s a level four gig,” he said with growing concern in his voice.
“It’s not like she’s going to actually hurt me… is she?”
“No. Not really. She just knows how to make you feel like you’re about to die. She has driven me right to the brink several times,” he admitted.
“So, what’s your advice?”
“Focus on your breathing and just know that you are going to walk away unscathed,” he assured me. “No one has ever been hurt on a set.”
“Hopefully I won’t be the first,” I replied, turning into the daycare parking lot. “I’ve gotta run. I’m picking up Hannah.”
“Give me a call tonight,” he said before hanging up.
The only thing that bothered me about the whole conversation was the fact that he seemed worried. He had known Sapphire for several years and he knew exactly what she was capable of doing. I’m not going to worry about it… that much.
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Later that night, I called Gunner back because I found myself feeling nervous about everything he had told me. It was the first of several conversations where we really got to know one another. Surprisingly, we had grown up just a few miles from one another. We had even graduated from the same high school, but he had graduated several years ahead of me. His parents still lived about five miles from where I grew up.
“So how do you deal with the fact that you’re a porn star?” I asked him teasingly.
“I don’t really view myself as a porn star,” he countered.
“So what would you call yourself?”
“An educator,” he immediately replied.
“Teaching people how to orgasm?” I laughed.
“You know it goes a little deeper than that. I’m not only helping people discover new things sexually, but I’m also helping them find their inner strength.”
“You have definitely given me an education. I’m not sure how you got me to do half of the things I’ve done.”
“Momentum. Once I got you rolling, you didn’t want to stop,” he surmised.
“You really did get me going, but knowing that these levels are going to get harder and nastier still scares me.”
“But you are still moving forward because you trust me,” he replied in that soothing masculine voice of his.
He was right. The more we talked, the more I began to see that Gunner was truly a character that Dalton played on the set. My gut told me that the real Dalton was a man I could trust. On the other hand, my gut knew that I couldn’t trust Carter. He had made it clear that he still carried a grudge, even though a decade had passed since our conflict. The fact that Carter was ultimately in charge of everything still made me leary of the road ahead.
Chapter 16
Friday Afternoon
Gunner
By the time Friday came around, the dynamics had changed quite a bit. Raven and I had been talking nearly every night and our relationship was moving past the superficial stage. We were even using our real names whenever we had personal conversations outside of the dungeon. Based on everything I had told her about Sapphire, she was mentally prepared for whatever was about to come her way. On the business front, our third video had been released and she had already netted over sixteen thousand dollars on it. Based on the pre-bookings for Friday’s live session, her total take was going to be well over sixty thousand. In the past three years, no other video launch had ever come close to those numbers.
I sent her a text about three in the afternoon telling her to submit her resignation.
Me: You will be well over sixty grand. Give your two weeks.
Raven: What am I going to do with all of my free time?
Me: Whatever you want.
Raven: Let me think about it until Monday.
That was the response that I had anticipated. Quitting a stable job wasn’t easy for someone who had been raising a child on her own. I don’t blame her for being a little hesitant.
Raven
I had mixed feelings walking out of the office that Friday afternoon. I actually enjoyed working in real estate, which was the whole reason I got into it in the first place. I also loved the idea of making thousands of dollars for doing hour-long sessions with Gunner, but I knew that wasn’t going to last forever. I wouldn’t want to do it forever, even if I could somehow defy aging. Maybe I can do real estate part-time.
After stopping home for a quick change of clothes, I picked up Hannah and went straight over to Amber’s place. It was crazy to think about how much our weekend agenda had changed over the past three weeks. We still ordered pizza for the kids and the babysitter, but it was going to be another crazy night for the mamas after that. I’m still having a hard time believing what we are doing.
“Have you been tanning?” Amber asked as she adjusted the strap of my dress.
“Yeah, I was so white. I went an extra five minutes last night and got a little burnt.”<
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“I don’t even bother,” my fair-skinned friend replied. “Tanning just brings out my freckles.”
“You’re cute as hell even without a tan,” I assured her. “Where should we stop for a cocktail?”
“Let’s go to that place where we went with Polly. That’s right on the way.”
“Whatever happened to Polly? I haven’t seen her at the coffee shop ever since.”
“Yeah, I tried the number she gave me, but it just keeps ringing and no one ever answers,” Amber replied with a puzzled look.
“That’s too weird.” Maybe Amber just entered it wrong.
Gunner
When the girls arrived for the shoot, it was obvious that they had been drinking. They weren’t drunk, but there was a very distinct smell of alcohol. I completely understand why they would want to deaden their senses a bit, but Sapphire hates it when subs do anything like that prior to a shoot.
“Go rinse your mouth with mouthwash and chew on a piece of gum,” I instructed Raven as soon as Jasmine finished applying her makeup.
“I feel like I’m in high school again,” Raven scoffed and rolled her eyes.
Honestly, I just wanted to make sure that Raven didn’t give Sapphire an additional reason to be hard on her. She was already in for more abuse than she could possibly imagine.
“Amber, good to see you,” Sapphire smiled, giving her a big hug. “Are you ready to take things to the next level?”
“I think so. I had a really good time last time,” she replied with an appreciative look in her eyes.
“Well then, let’s go get you uncomfortable.” She giggled taking her by the hand. “Have you girls been drinking?”
Oh great! Amber will tell her the truth because she seems so fun and harmless. I thought back to how I had misjudged her when we first met. The old saying that “looks can be deceiving” had never rang truer.
“I’m ready for my breath inspection,” Raven teased as she snuck up behind me.
“Alright, bitch,” I glared at her. “Are you ready to feel some real pain?”
“You always freak me out when you turn nasty like that.” She ran her fingers along my shoulder and down my arm.
“I’m not pretending. This is your first live show and it has to be for real,” I replied in a serious tone. “I don’t want Carter to break us up.”
“Well then… let’s do it!” she said, releasing the straps of her dress.
“Shit, are you sunburned?”
“A little bit,” she admitted with a growing look of concern.
“Fuck, that’s not good. If this was a recorded session I would postpone it, but this is totally live.”
“Is it that big of a deal?” Her eyes widened with fear.
“Oh, baby, it’s going to hurt like hell. Your ass cheeks are bright red and we haven’t even started!”
“I’m sorry, I just didn’t like being so pasty white,” she tried to explain.
“You were gorgeous just the way you were. Besides it’s nearly dark in there.” What the fuck?
Raven
Oh shit. I felt an impending sense of doom as I gauged Gunner’s reaction to my sunburn. I can’t believe I was so stupid. I should have stopped after the first tanning session. The members loved my first two videos, why couldn’t I just leave things alone?
“I’m going to have to tie you a little differently than I had planned,” Gunner said as he grabbed me by the hair and led me to the dungeon. It actually seemed as if he was truly pissed at me because he kept muttering under his breath.
“I’m sorry, I wasn’t thinking.”
“Set your ass down here,” he barked, guiding me toward a padded table.
As he went over to pick up several pieces of white rope, I caught a glimpse of Carter out of the corner of my eye. That’s why Gunner is being such a dick. He was making it look good for him, so I began to play along.
“I’m sorry I let myself get sunburned, sir,” I said when he returned.
He simply shook his head, hanging on to the look of disgust that had settled on his face. I sat there quietly as he tied a rope to one of my ankles, before pulling my arms behind my back. Silence continued to hang in the air as he securely tied my arms together and then proceeded to tie up my other leg.
“That’s not going to work,” he said assessing his work. “I’m going to have to use another set of ropes around your thighs. That sunburned ass of yours needs to be higher in the air.”
Great… I’m smart enough to know that my sunburned ass is going to be one hundred times as sore when I leave here tonight.
“Welcome to the pile driver,” he growled in my ear as he cinched the last rope and slapped me on the ass.
“Ouch, fuck!” That damn thing really is tender.
“If that hurt, you are in for a long night,” he scoffed before shedding his shirt and walking back to a table filled with bondage toys.
Lying there with my arms immobilized and my legs suspended in the air, I cringed when I saw Carter walking over to Gunner. This isn’t good. After a quick exchange of words, Gunner shot me a sorrowful look before exiting the room. Shit, this is what he has been warning me about. I sat there helplessly as Carter slipped on his black mask and casually made his way over to me.
“You picked a bad day to come in with a sunburn sweetie,” he said, glaring down at me in all his conceited glory. All I could see was his eyes, which made it all the more annoying.
“Yes, I’m sorry, sir,” I replied, even though I really wanted to tell him to fuck off. I knew however, I had no choice under the current circumstances.
“It’s too late for you to play nice with me. I’ve been told that I can’t so much as lay a finger on you,” he said picking up an ice cube.
Eat shit and die, flashed through my mind as he began to run the ice cube along my sunburned ass and legs.
“This should help to cool the burn.” He laughed as my nipples hardened and trails of goose bumps popped up on my tender skin. “I have to make sure that my fingers don’t accidentally touch you.”
After a few more moments of ice cube torture, he added, “I’m going to enjoy watching them break you.”
“Who? Sapphire and Gunner?” I asked not knowing exactly what he meant.
“No… them,” he said pointing to the live camera. “They’re like a pack of wolves and you are a little wounded lamb. I have been planning this for months.”
“Planning what, sir?” I still didn’t understand exactly what he was talking about.
“This moment. To bring you in as the naïve amateur and watch as you are beaten into submission on a live feed,” he sneered picking up another ice cube.
I really wanted to give him a piece of my mind, but instead I just sat there glaring at him while he amused himself. I totally despise you.
“Gunner and Sapphire have been hooking up off-set for a long time. I couldn’t fire them because they were my top two revenue generators,” he said after a long pause. “I had a feeling that Gunner would fall for you and now you get to face Sapphire’s wrath. I would say this is a win-win for me.”
“Why do you have to be such an asshole?” I hissed between my teeth.
“It’s called revenge, little lady. No one turns their back on me,” he whispered once again as he ran the ice cube over the top of my breasts. “By the way, if you use your safe word, I’ll reveal your true identity.”
“You wouldn’t!” I gasped in sheer horror.
“Only if you use your safe word,” he whispered again, “and since you called me an asshole, it now applies to all ten levels.”
“And if I make all ten?” I asked, suddenly feeling determined.
“Then your secret will be safe,” he smiled and tossed the ice cube onto the floor. “Oh shit, sweetie, I’ll bet Sapphire’s whip is going to hurt even more against wet skin. Maybe those ice cubes weren’t helpful after all.”
You mother fucker. I closed my eyes and forced back the tears of rage that were burning behind my
eyes. I can make it through this. All I need to do is focus on my breathing. As soon as my attention turned to my breathing, I realized that I was already in a state of full panic. My heart was pounding in my chest and my breathing was choppy as hell. I tried to calm myself and take control as Carter said something to the camera before strolling to the back of the room.