Rose, Tara - Behind Blue Eyes [The Doms of Sybaris Cove 1] (Siren Publishing Ménage Everlasting)

by Tara Rose

  As far as the nude pictures, it was nothing more than a misdemeanor, and the most Alex would be required to do was attend a class or do community service. Either offense, according to the DA, would likely result in nothing more than a fine. Alex’s attorney was fuming that Alex had not been released on bond, and was pushing for a trial off the island, as he felt he’d never receive a fair one on it.

  Alaina had already gone to Asa, at Taj and Jeff’s urging, to talk to him about suing Alex in civil court for sending the pictures. But it would mean dragging all of that through the press, because Asa was absolutely certain that they’d get wind of it if she did that. He practically begged her to wait for the outcome of the criminal charges. For the sake of the company, she had agreed to do that.

  How could she tell the guys she loved them until all this shit was cleared up? Her life was still up in the air. If Alex got out with nothing more than a fine, he would still be around, and he’d be angrier than a nest of hornets at all of them. He wasn’t capable of seeing that he’d brought this on himself. He’d try to take revenge another way, especially if she went after him in civil court.

  Consequently, Alaina was restless and began to ask a lot of questions one Friday night, almost two weeks after the fateful e-mail. The guys let her go on this time, grinning at her like they always did when she was about to cross a line that earned her a spanking, and then finally Taj picked her up and flung her over his shoulder.

  “I know you’re upset about this,” said Jeff. “We are, too.”

  Taj placed her down in front of the St. Andrews cross, and the guys removed her clothing. She simply let go and gave in. She needed them. She needed to feel their gentle touch, as well as their punishing one. Every time they played with her it grounded her, and right now all she wanted to do was empty her mind of everything that plagued her, and give herself over to these two. She was so crazy in love with them.

  “But we’ve let you get away with a lot these past two weeks.” Taj cupped her face. “Don’t you agree?”

  “Yes, Sir,” she whispered.

  “Good girl.” She melted inside. Those words, spoken by either man, in what she’d come to call their Dom voice, rendered her incapable of doing anything except submitting to them. And that’s exactly where she wanted to be tonight.

  Taj backed her up against the cross, and then they secured her arms and legs to the four points on the X with leather bondage cuffs. They took turns caressing her breasts and pussy until she was moaning and writhing against her bonds.

  When Taj smiled at her with his wicked, sexy grin, she knew she was in for an intense play session mixed with some punishment tonight. He slipped a blindfold over her eyes and tied it behind her head. They hadn’t used one very often yet, but each time they had, she’d reached new heights of pleasure. It blocked out all else for her except their voices and their touch, and allowed her to clear her mind. It brought tears to her eyes to realize that they knew she desperately needed that tonight.

  The whirring of a vibrator had her turning her head from side to side, trying to follow the sound. When it brushed across her nipples, she cried out. They teased her like that for a few seconds, alternating moving the head over her breasts and her clit, until she was begging them to let her come.

  Taj chuckled. “Oh don’t worry,” he whispered. “You will come. As many times as we say you will. Welcome to your punishment, love.”

  The next sensation was a small, thin flogger that they’d used on her many times before. It struck both nipples, alternating with gentle passes over her breasts, while at the same time the vibrator moved across her clit. The burning sting on her nipples mixed with the powerful vibrations, and within seconds Alaina cried out as a powerful orgasm overtook her.

  But the guys didn’t remove the vibrator. They moved it in slow circles over her pussy lips, teasing, up and down, while they now used a riding crop on her nipples. They really hurt, but at the same time she didn’t want them to stop because she was going to come again, and quickly.

  Sweat pooled at her hairline, and she could feel her hair already sticking to the pad behind her head. A tongue soothed the burn on her nipples while the vibrator now moved over her pussy and against her clit with increasing speed. When the second climax crashed over her, she screamed, tossing her head back and forth.

  “Please…please, Sir…I can’t take anymore….”

  “Should have thought about that before you broke the rules so many times these past two weeks.” Jeff’s voice sent shivers up and down her spine. They were going to torture her with orgasms, and there wasn’t one thing she could do about it.

  The vibrator moved to her breasts now, teasing, over the sides and then across her nipples. Alaina began to whimper. When a heavy, thudding blow struck her pussy, she knew she was in deep shit. It felt like the wooden paddle, and they knew she hated that thing. She could almost see them grinning, trying not to laugh, as her pussy was hit again and again with it. They alternated the swats with rubbing the edge of the paddle over her pussy lips, which in her current state was just as bad as the paddling because it made her want to come again.

  The vibrator continued torturing her nipples, and each pass sent tiny jolts of electricity straight to her throbbing, sore clit. Her groin was on fire now, but the pain mixed with pleasure was so exquisite that Alaina slipped away into that peaceful state where every pleasant emotion she’d ever experienced lingered. She didn’t want to leave it. She only wanted to feel it.

  They moved the vibrator to her clit again, and now she understood why forced orgasms were referred to as torture. It really hurt, but at the same time, she ached to reach a climax again. They tapped her nipples with what felt like a leather paddle now, not hard, but she felt it just the same.

  Her vocalizations became a steady stream of whimpering, mixed with incomprehensible words by the time her third orgasm finally crested. She was panting, and had to call “yellow” because she desperately needed water. They took off the blindfold and uncuffed her, and then they gave her water. After she’d drunk it, they took turns holding her and kissing her gently, telling her how proud they were of her.

  She thought they were done until after she took a quick bathroom break, they repositioned her facing the cross this time. They left the blindfold off, but Taj slipped a vibrating egg with a strap over her clit and fastened it behind her waist. “No,” she whispered. “Please…no more orgasms. I can’t take it.”

  He nuzzled her neck. “Yes, you can, love. It’s a punishment, remember?”

  “Yes, Sir.” She gritted her teeth, secretly thrilled that it wasn’t over yet. They used what felt like every flogger they owned on her ass cheeks. She recognized a few of her favorite floggers and paddles, as well as the ones she fucking hated. But through it all, the tears and the endorphins flowed, and she nearly told them she loved them. Right there in the middle of a punishment. That’s how raw and strong her emotions were.

  When they finally stopped, her clit was still throbbing from an orgasm that had basically never ended. Her legs shook, and her ass cheeks felt like fire ants had had an all-day picnic on them. The guys rubbed cooling lotion on her ass, and again they took turns kissing her and holding her. When she crawled into bed between them, this time she wasn’t sure they were both asleep when she whispered the words, but she didn’t care. She wanted them to hear her. She needed to tell them.

  Chapter Sixteen

  “I love you. I love you both.”

  Jeff’s eyes snapped open. Had he dreamed those soft words? This wasn’t the first time he swore he’d heard Alaina whisper that she loved them. He’d been so damn close to telling her tonight. He was crazy about her, but how could he tell her something like that when her very future on this island was up in the air? It wouldn’t be fair. And he and Taj hadn’t yet discussed the “L” word. They needed to, but Jeff hadn’t brought it up because of all that was going on with Alex.

  She was awake. He knew that. He could tell by her breathing. When s
he crawled out of bed, his heart began to pound until he heard her move down the hall. She was probably hungry. They usually gave her something to eat after an exhausting play session like that. He should have done that before climbing into bed. Jeff started to follow her but Taj’s voice stopped him.

  “Is she all right?”

  Jeff sat on the edge of the bed and faced Taj. “Did you hear what she whispered, or did I imagine it?”

  “If you did, so did I.”

  “Fuck. I knew it. No…I mean I’m happy. I love her, too. I have for years now.”

  Taj chuckled. “Yeah. We both have.”

  Jeff reached over and turned on the bedside lamp. “We have to tell her. But I’m afraid to. Not because I don’t want to commit to it, but with all this shit going on…”

  “I know. Same here. I haven’t even said anything to you. I feel like all our lives are on hold until this shit is over with.”

  “She might have to leave the island. You know that, right?”

  Taj’s gaze darkened, and he sat up to run his fingers through his hair. “I know. I can’t stop thinking about that. Like I have a premonition. That’s why I haven’t pushed to tell her. How can we do that with something like this looming over her? It wouldn’t be fair. Not to her, especially.”

  “Fuck.” Jeff pulled on his sweat pants, not sure what he was or wasn’t going to do, when his cell phone rang. It was Sallyanne’s ringtone. “Oh man. I can’t deal with her right now.”

  “It might be about Alex.”

  Jeff answered it as Alaina came back into the room, stark naked, eating ice cream straight from the tub. It was difficult to give a shit what Sallyanne wanted from him on a Friday night when he let his gaze travel over Alaina, but the panic in Sallyanne’s voice tore him away from Alaina’s naked tits for a second. “Say again?”

  “Is Alaina there? I’m so dead if I don’t get those papers.”

  “What papers?”

  “Is she there?” Sallyanne voice was now both annoyed and panicky.

  Jeff silently handed over the phone. “Something about papers.”

  Alaina frowned then nodded several times while Sallyanne spoke at what sounded like breakneck speed. When she handed the phone back to Jeff, she put down the ice cream and reached for her clothes. “My boss actually needs me to bail out her ass. That’s a first.”

  “What?” They both asked at the same time.

  “She’s been really paranoid about her work since that e-mail. Asa is watching her like a hawk. There’s been a contract sitting on her desk for a new customer that I brought in. She should have given it to Asa and Tim for their signatures days ago, but she forgot all about it until tonight. She has it at home now, but thinks she screwed something up on it. She’s terrified to make a mistake right now, and wants to know if I can come over and help her fix it. She promised it wouldn’t take too long.”

  “You’re kidding.”

  Alaina looked so conflicted, Jeff immediately wished he hadn’t said that.

  “Please, Sir? She really has been trying. And I don’t want to see her fired over something so trivial.”

  Jeff and Taj exchanged a glance.

  “All right,” said Taj. “But don’t stay any longer than you have to, and call us when you’re on the way back here.”

  “I will. I promise. Thank you.” Alaina smiled, kissed each of them deeply, then left.

  Jeff waited until he heard his Jeep start up, then spoke up. “Okay. I can’t wait any longer. That was the most altruistic thing I’ve ever seen anyone do. Sallyanne doesn’t deserve her as an employee. We tell her as soon as she returns. Deal?”

  Taj high-fived him. “Deal. Absolutely.”

  Jeff hadn’t felt this happy in his entire life. He picked up the ice cream and began to eat it, hoping she wouldn’t be too upset. When this was over, he’d buy Alaina all the ice cream she could eat for the rest of her life.

  * * * *

  Alaina frowned as she pulled up to Sallyanne’s house. It didn’t look like any lights were on inside, but maybe she was in a back room? She’d never been inside the home. For all she knew, her boss lived like a bat. She parked in the driveway and knocked on the front door, but it took a moment before it opened. When she saw who stood there instead of Sallyanne, backlit only by a soft light coming from the hallway, her heart froze.

  “Come on in. We’ve been expecting you.” Alex’s voice was conversational, as if she’d been invited over for a party.

  Alaina cut her gaze toward his right hand as it moved. He held a gun.

  “And don’t try to run away or reach for your cell. I’ll shoot you because I don’t give a fuck whether you live or die. Get in here.”

  She thought about it for a split second, but then Jeff’s and Taj’s faces flashed before her eyes. They would be devastated if her life ended this way, at Alex’s hands. And they’d kill him. She knew they would. Even Asa couldn’t save them from cold-blooded murder convictions. Alex would have the last laugh, and she’d be damned if she’d give him that.

  She opened the door, ready to pounce on Sallyanne for lying to them, and for tricking her over here tonight, but stopped cold at the sight of her, sitting on the sofa, hugging her knees. A small lamp next to her on a table shone just enough light on her face that Alaina could tell she’d obviously been crying, and hard. There was also a nasty bruise coming up on her left cheek.

  She turned on Alex as he slammed the front door shut. “You fucking asshole. You hit her?”

  He backhanded her, and she fell on her ass, struggling to keep breathing. It hurt so damn much that she couldn’t stop the tears that stung her eyes.

  “Shut the fuck up, you stupid cunt. Sit down next to her or I swear to high heaven I will shoot you.”

  Alaina struggled to her feet, determined not to let him see how afraid she was. Why hadn’t she told Jeff and Taj how much she loved them? She’d die at the hands of this asshole, and they’d never know. They’d never know that all she wanted to do was stay with them forever, as their sub and their lover.

  It couldn’t be true. It couldn’t end this way. Not after all she’d overcome at the hands of this monster. No. “How did you get free? Did you break out of jail?”

  He gave her a droll look and lifted his right pant leg. There was an ankle bracelet attached to it. He wasn’t free. He was on house arrest. “Free? I’ll never be free. Not while you two bitches draw breath.”

  She rubbed her face as she took a seat next to Sallyanne. When Taj and Jeff saw this, they’d kill him anyway. “You did this to yourself.”

  “I said shut the fuck up! What would you know about anything?”

  Sallyanne began to whimper, but Alaina wasn’t going down without a fight. She hadn’t done anything wrong. If he couldn’t see that, then he was more of a fucking idiot than she’d never known, but she was going to have her final say regardless.

  “What would I know? I know I loved you once. I trusted you, and you violated that trust. You sent out nude pictures of me to your friends ten years ago, and then you sent them to your girlfriend, your former bosses, and the CEOs. That means you kept them, all this time. Where in all that is this my fault? Or Sallyanne’s? Have you lost your fucking mind?”

  “I had to send those pictures. You got me fired.”

  “Bullshit. You got yourself fired for not doing your job.”

  “You harassed me.”

  “No. I pointed out your mistakes to your bosses. You thought you were safe because you were sleeping with my boss, but you were wrong.” Alaina cut her gaze toward Sallyanne for a second, hoping she forgave her for rubbing salt in the wounds right now.

  Then a thought occurred to her. What if she were in on it? “Is there really a problem with the contract, or did he tell you to tell me that so I’d come over?”

  “I’m sorry,” she whispered. “He said he’d shoot me.”

  Thank God. At least Sallyanne hadn’t betrayed her as well. She wouldn’t be able to stay in her job if that
had happened. Would she still have a job on Monday? Assuming she got out of this alive?

  No. Don’t go there. She had to stay strong. She had to maintain the upper hand. She’d sat through countless negotiations during her career. That’s what this was. She couldn’t let him see weakness, or think he was gaining control. If he’d wanted her dead, he could have killed her a long time ago. That wasn’t his mission right now. She had no idea what the hell he hoped to gain from this, but she had to keep him talking. That was the only way to find out, and to show him she wasn’t going to roll over and take this shit from him.

  She turned to face Sallyanne, hoping the bravery she felt inside translated to her voice. “It’s okay. He’s a chickenshit coward. It’s what he does best.” She was too pissed off now to be afraid. He’d used her, and now he’d used Sallyanne more than once. And yet he still insisted on blaming them instead of himself?

  Alex turned a cold gaze toward Sallyanne. “I sent the pictures to you because I wanted you to see what a real woman looks like naked. I never loved you. I used you to keep an eye on Alaina.”

  “Don’t listen to him. He’s only trying to hurt you again. He never loved me. He used me. He broke my trust. The pictures prove it.”

  Alaina actually felt sorry for Sallyanne. She looked so confused right now. “I got you that job when you first got here. I protected you. I put my job on the line more than once for you. And then you lied to me. You told me she dumped you and that isn’t true.”

  “All right! Fine! It’s not true. There. Are you happy, you stupid, silly cow? Yes, I lied to you. She dumped me, not the other way around.”

  Alaina didn’t want him to shout at Sallyanne anymore. It wasn’t accomplishing anything. “That’s probably the first time you’ve admitted the truth in years. What the hell do you hope to accomplish here? Taj and Jeff know I’ve come here. They’ll be coming over any minute.”