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I didn’t want it.
I fought and squirmed and cried, and…something happened.
The fire switched from agony to something else. Something tangled and twisted and dangerously powerful. It soaked into my core. It smouldered in my clit. It set up its blazing home in my nipples and tummy and centre.
“That’s it,” Hunter whispered, pressing the sweetest kiss on my cheek. “Let go. Let it consume you.” Glancing at Nick, he ordered, “Again.”
The savage kiss of the flogger didn’t just strike me this time; it shoved me headfirst into a cauldron of coals and embers and incandescent smoke.
I couldn’t fight it.
Didn’t want to fight it.
The tension in my limbs melted beneath the onslaught.
The stiffness in my bones liquified into bliss as I submitted to wave after wave of cradling fire, carrying me deeper and deeper into a place I’d never been before.
A place of intensity and numbness.
Of severity and softness.
A place full of contradictions with its euphoria and misery, pain and pleasure, need and fear.
I squirmed for an entirely different reason.
The fire switched from punishment to salvation, and…I lost myself.
“Fuck, Ella,” Nick groaned as my hips circled of their own accord. My legs gave out, and I sat on Hunter’s bare thigh.
The moment my clit touched his leg, I whimpered. I rocked on him, using him, chasing the desperation inside me.
The pain drenching my back now throbbed directly in my core, driving me into insanity, freedom, and rapture.
“Good girl,” Hunter murmured, his hands on my hips, moving with me as I undulated on him. “You’re close. So close. Do you want to come, little witch?”
I nodded and mewed.
I gripped his shoulders with hands made of glass as I closed my eyes and rode his thigh.
I didn’t think about how I looked.
I didn’t remember I was human or a woman with accolades and degrees to her name.
I was merely frenzy and ecstasy and madness.
“Come here then.” Hunter wrapped an arm around me. His skin stuck to the stinging flaying of my back.
I screamed.
Nick cursed something I didn’t hear.
Pain devoured me.
Pain annihilated me.
Pain absolved me as Hunter pulled me higher and shifted me so my knees landed on the bed on either side of his hips.
The first nudge of his hard cock against my pulsing clit had my eyes flying wide.