by Robin Rhodes
Elizabeth pulled herself free and came to stand by Aaron's side. She was still naked, but didn't appear to be ashamed of it anymore. Aaron rested an arm around her waist, fingers digging into the soft flesh there. For a moment he almost abandoned his plans of showing them the ships and taking them straight back to the bed Elizabeth had just gotten off of, but Delilah looked like she would be exhausting to deal with right now so he ignored the smooth bare ass marked with his initials beside him and focused on getting them to their new quarters.
"Come here," he said again. "I'm just going to teleport you."
Delilah shook her head. "I'm not coming near you, you bastard."
"Do you never learn? Do you want me to put you back in the stocks?"
That made Delilah hesitate, and eventually she took small measured steps toward him. Aaron was unable to resist, and when she stood beside him he slapped her on her raw ass, still bruised from the beating, in order to make the physical contact that would teleport them.
Delilah screamed in outrage when they arrived on the ship, and staggered away from him. Her hands were balled into fists and she looked ready to charge at him.
"Don't be dramatic," Aaron said, tightening his arm around Elizabeth's waist as a warning. "Let me show you your room."
He walked from where they were on deck, with the orcs working the ship, through a door that led to his private cabin. This room was much nicer than his quarters behind the dungeon core. They had black stone walls, they felt dank. Here they were wooden walls with tapestries hung on them. The best was still a four-poster with ruby drapes, manacles in tact, but there were no stocks. It looked like any captain's room he might have seen on TV.
Elizabeth stayed by his side looking at her feet instead of around the room. Delilah appeared in the doorway, and her face didn't change.
He'd expected them to be impressed by the quarters he was giving them, but instead they didn't care.
He dropped his hand from Elizabeth's waist and folded his arms. This is where you'll be living from now on," he said. "And things can be added or taken away as I please, so don't annoy me." To demonstrate this, he clicked a finger and the clothes on Delilah's body vanished. "See."
Delilah hurried to cover herself, and the loud rattle of something falling on the floor echoed in the cabin.
She bent down to pick it up, holding it to her chest.
Aaron had forgotten about her phone. He held her wrist now, tight enough that she was forced to release the cell due to the pain. it fell on the floor again. "I'll be taking that," he said.
He was sure that she would have used it, but he wasn't worried. There was nothing she could have told Mark that he wouldn't already know, nothing that could damage Aaron.
Tears gathered in Delilah's eyes as Aaron pocketed the phone, but they didn't fall. "I hate you," she said, hands still covering her tits and pussy.
Aaron only grinned. "I'm sure you do."
He looked at his two naked slaves, standing in their room, both on the verge of tears, and was about to instruct them to get onto the bed when the female voice inside his head said, You have one new private message from BethMurayama#138.
After a last look at his slaves, he said, "Stay in your room," then went above deck to read his message.
I have a billion questions that aren't Kings in Castles related, I thought I'd just PM you instead. Especially since some of them aren't messageboard appropriate ;)
Aaron swallowed thickly, and send a response asking her what she wanted to know, before teleporting back to the room with his dungeon core and grabbing Gonzo's cage.
He was going to have to find somewhere aboard his ship to designate as his own private quarters. He didn't trust the lizard alone with his slaves, and he didn't want to respond to any questions Beth might have that required a winking emote with Elizabeth's sad eyes distracting him, either.
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