Crave

by Marina Anderson

  “Yes, I don’t understand how, if you truly feel anything for me, you can take pleasure in seeing me hurt. It doesn’t make any sense. That’s not what a loving relationship is meant to be about.”

  “I don’t want to see you hurt,” he said softly, one hand stroking her long, dark hair. “I want you to learn that immense pleasure can come through just a little pain.”

  “I don’t believe that’s true. It’s cruel and you’re being unkind,” she retorted, on the edge of tears.

  He bent lower, until his mouth was against her ear. “It is true, my darling. If you really loved me, then you’d trust me.”

  “I do love you! Why won’t you believe that?”

  “I want to believe it, but you’re making it very difficult for me when you won’t even try something that I’ve told you I enjoy.”

  “You mean you’ll enjoy seeing me hurt in front of virtual strangers?” she asked incredulously.

  “No! The pain is nothing compared to the pleasure that follows it. You keep saying you love me, yet you won’t trust me. Show me how much you love me, try it.”

  Grace was about to refuse when Amber spoke. “She doesn’t want to do it, David. We must let her go. No one can be kept against their will, or coerced, and you’re trying to…”

  Hearing David’s sigh of acceptance, Grace suddenly realized that she couldn’t just let him go. She didn’t want to lose him, and she certainly didn’t want to return to her previous life never knowing if they could have been happy together. She would be left with nothing except her work, but he would continue visiting the Dining Club whenever he liked, and almost certainly would regularly enjoy the delights of Amber’s beautiful, sexually sophisticated body.

  Amber wanted Grace out of the way, which had to mean that she saw her, Grace, as a threat to the hopes she clearly had for making David hers and hers alone.

  “It’s all right, I want to go ahead now,” she announced, and the look of relief that crossed David’s face before he left her side was a reward in itself. Clearly he did care deeply for her, and wanted to love her. Now she had to hope that he was right and they were as sexually compatible as he believed.

  On the bed next to her she could hear the young woman from table three whimpering, and realized that inadvertently she’d made it worse for her by delaying the start of the trial. She heard Andrew’s deep voice coming from that side of the room, but it was Will who fastened her wrists into fur-covered cuffs set on each side of the bed. Then he pushed her feet up until her knees were pointing to the ceiling, fastened her ankles in the same way as her wrists and waited while Laura fastened soft leather straps around the tops of Grace’s thighs.

  Shocked and terrified, Grace twisted and turned in the restraints. No one had ever tied her up before, and she didn’t like the resulting feeling of helplessness. All control had been taken away from her, and she was totally at their mercy. The feeling was worse than anything she’d ever imagined, and now she understood only too well why the red-haired young woman had been crying at the prospect of undergoing the trial again.

  “What are you doing?” she asked Laura, her voice barely a whisper.

  “It’s a labia spreader,” explained the younger girl. She parted Grace’s outer sex lips and then her slim fingers were opening Grace up and she felt something small but quite hard fasten on each side of her outer labia, meaning she was fully exposed all the time.

  “It helps during oral sex,” Laura whispered, but Grace didn’t find the words as comforting as they were clearly meant to be.

  As soon as Grace was properly positioned Amber announced that the clock was starting, and as Laura gently stroked Grace’s breasts, so tightly trapped in the leather openings, Will began to massage warm, scented oil into her equally exposed and gently rounded belly.

  She could feel what they were doing, but because she was lying flat she couldn’t see, and this made her nervous. She started to tremble, fearful of what might happen next. “It’s all right,” murmured David, coming to stand by her head. “They are only trying to give you pleasure. We want you to orgasm, remember?” His words, which seemed so kind, in fact only served to remind her of why they wanted her to orgasm.

  She did remember, and she remembered too what was going to happen when she did, so she tried to fight against the tendrils of pleasure that were slithering through her lower belly.

  Her breasts started to swell and tighten as Laura flicked her tongue against the sensitive tips of her nipples, before drawing each of them in turn into her mouth and sucking delicately on them.

  In the meantime Will’s clever tongue was sliding up and down her rapidly dampening inner channel, and when he pushed back the clitoral hood and swirled his tongue around the incredibly sensitive clitoris she felt a heavy throbbing begin deep in her pubic mound. Whimpering with rising excitement she felt her hips start to move upwards, and then Will pushed firmly against the flesh above her pubic bone, which increased the heavy, aching need inside her.

  Lost in the sensations, it took her a few minutes to realize that David was now sitting on a chair at her side, and had reached beneath the raised bed. His fingers were spreading a cool gel between the cheeks of her bottom, which were imprisoned tightly in the hole in the bed, preventing her from wriggling away.

  “What are you doing?” she cried, feeling his fingers moving insidiously toward her back passage, but he didn’t answer. Instead he continued to spread the gel around.

  Laura, who had briefly stopped caressing Grace’s breasts, began to suck them again, but her mouth was now so cold that Grace gave a squeal of surprise. “I sucked on an ice cube,” explained the twin, “doesn’t it feel good?”

  “I don’t know. I can’t think. I…”

  She flinched as she felt David begin to insert a well-lubricated finger inside her anus. “Don’t,” she pleaded. “That hurts.”

  On the bed next to her, the other woman suddenly began to groan and cry, which increased Grace’s anxiety.

  “Relax and you’ll find it adds to your pleasure. It will give you a stronger orgasm,” he promised her. She could tell that his finger was now inside her, but he didn’t move it around, instead he kept it quite still, pressed against one inner wall of her rectum. Within seconds she knew that he’d been right as the tension in her stimulated body continued to increase.

  Beside her, the woman from table three was sobbing so loudly that it momentarily distracted Grace, giving her a moment’s respite from her impending orgasm.

  Despite this, she could feel how wet she was between her thighs, and wished she could close them, but the fiendish little straps meant she was fully open to Will all the time, and his hands had pushed her knees wide apart.

  As Laura nibbled at one of her rigid, throbbing nipples, Will pushed his tongue into her damp, needy vagina and David moved his finger very slightly against the wall of her rectum, Grace felt as though her body was going to explode.

  “They’re both close to coming,” she heard Amber say as she tried frantically to delay the pleasure, for fear of what would follow.

  In the other bed her fellow guest was now gasping and crying loudly as her desire mounted, which increased Grace’s excitement so much that she knew it was only a matter of seconds now before she climaxed.

  Will’s tongue was suddenly still, but her muted sound of protest stopped as he used his fingers instead, while at the same time climbing up onto the bed until he was crouching over her on all fours and she felt the tip of his erection nudging against her shamefully wet opening.

  The swollen head of his straining penis remained at the entrance to her vagina, and now she desperately wanted him inside her, no matter what the consequences. Her body was so full, and under such tight pressure from the leather outfit she’d been put in, that it craved release from the throbbing, hot tension that was making every inch of her flesh frantic as she both longed for and yet feared the orgasm that was now so close.

  As Will slowly thrust into her and David slid ano
ther finger inside her second opening she heard herself scream “Yes, oh yes!” as the first tingles of her long-awaited climax began deep inside her body.

  “She’s coming,” said Will. “It’s time now.”

  Grace realized what he meant, and knew that once her orgasm took hold something bad was going to happen. Desperately she fought to control herself, breathing through her open mouth and attempting to quell the shards of hot ecstasy that were travelling up her body, but her efforts were in vain.

  As her teased and tormented body finally went into spasms Will, without withdrawing from her, leaned back away from her and Grace’s initial cry of ecstasy changed to a shout of protest as a swift blow from a riding crop fell across the shuddering, trapped flesh of her belly. Pain seared through her tender flesh like fire.

  “No!” she screamed. “That hurts. Stop, please stop!”

  “It will stop when your climax stops,” said David softly. “Wait a few seconds and you’ll be surprised at what happens now.”

  As the pleasure from her long-delayed orgasm continued to flood through her body, and with the sound of the other guest’s cries filling the room, Grace wanted to weep at the cruelty of a trial designed to spoil such a cleverly orchestrated moment of ecstasy.

  Then the feelings inside her changed, and the spasms grew stronger. “Why won’t it stop?” she cried, as waves of hot, dark pleasure continued to swamp her while the riding crop flicked relentlessly at her trapped, flinching belly.

  “Because the pain from the crop is prolonging your orgasm,” said David, his voice thick with excitement. “It’s giving your body pleasure, as I knew it would.”

  When her orgasm finally ended and Amber put the riding crop down, an exhausted and whimpering Grace lay in a sweat-soaked daze. “You know I was right,” David whispered in her ear, but she refused to answer him.

  She didn’t fully understand what had happened to her, and she didn’t want to. Everything she’d ever believed about love told her that it was wrong to have had another man inside her while David was standing watching them. Yet shockingly, in a perverse way, the fact that David was watching had actually increased her pleasure.

  As for the pleasure pain, she didn’t want to admit even to herself how good those moments had felt. She knew that she’d never felt so totally sated before, and the knowledge both excited and disturbed her. Her whole world was being turned upside down here in this darkly erotic basement room. Furthermore, she knew that the trial wasn’t over yet, and the most difficult part probably lay ahead of her.

  Then, hearing the door to the room open and close she realized that the other guest had chosen to leave both the Dining Club and the man she’d planned to marry. The realization increased her fear, because unlike her, the other woman knew what else lay ahead in the trial, and had given up the man she’d hoped to marry rather than face it.

  Now, if she chose to stay, she was the only one left for them all to pleasure and then torment. She knew that she had to go on, despite being well aware that the next part of the trial was going to be worse than the part she’d just endured. She had to gain David’s love, and this was the only way to do it. She was more afraid of the trials now than before, but deep inside her a new fear was also growing.

  If, at some point during the course of the trial, she failed a test, how would it be possible for her, with all that she was learning about her own sexuality, to go back to the life she’d led before she was introduced to the Dining Club? This realization only increased her tension, because no matter what lay ahead she knew that by remaining she would have to learn to embrace the life that David loved so much. Choosing to stay this time would mean there was no way back.

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  About the Author

  Marina Anderson is the pseudonym of a British author. Her novels have sold over half a million copies worldwide and she is a Sunday Times bestseller.

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