Beads Of Demand

The Weekend Off

Ava's POV

I followed her into her home. She took a deep breath and dropped all her stuff to the floor. "Lana will get it," she said. "Lana?" She kissed her teeth annoyed. "Questions. But if you must know the maid. She comes in the mornings. It'll be the first thing she see's. If you must know," she spat angrily.

"What's your problem?" I mumbled.

She sighed heavily, "Ava please-"

"WHAT?! Don't mumble? Don't whine? Don't yell? Don't roll my eyes? Don't speak unless spoken to. All these bullshit rules. Can you stop for one fucken second? You wanna hear some real shit? I've been on edge all fucking night. I want to cum intensely. You just forgot all about it... Because you're so wrapped up in your head. I love my Mistress, I'd do anything to please her.. but I also enjoy Diana," I snapped.

"Vous ne savez pas la différence entre les deux ... " she whispered. Her back was to me. She held her head down. "You know I don't know French," I said exhausted. She unraveled the beads and they hung loosely from her fingertips. "What I said .. Ava , is that you don't know the difference between the two," she said in a soft voice. She rotated the beads in a circle, as if looking for something. "Vous êtes la deuxième soumise à entrer dans cette maison," she said turning around. My breathing became sporadic. "What I said was .. your the second submissive to enter this household," explained. She unclasped the bead necklace and my vision blurred and I fell into this space of nothingness. 

Diana's POV

I was in my office going through contracts when Lana knocked softly at the door. "Yes?" I answered and she peeked her head in. "Ava's up," she said and then closed the door. Lana was an old woman, 54 I would say. She wasn't nosy and she wasn't scared to put her two cents in. She was the maid of my father and once he passed she asked for a job with me. I can't think of a better mother figure in my life than her. G-d knows her and my biological mother never got along. I sighed and got up from my desk chair and moved slowly up the steps. 

I went into Ava's bedroom and her eyes darted to me. "So ... I have a lot of paperwork to do and I'm still mad at you for that shit at the event so I'm not taking you off edge. However Jennifer and Lucas is coming over after Lucas's class. Lana will be up in a few to show you around ... if you decide to stay. If you decide to stay we'll be finishing up this punishment at seven tonight. I want you in bed by nine thirty. You have class tomorrow," I said and began to turn around when she asked me to wait. I turned to her and she said, "What do you mean if I decide to stay?"

I looked her up and down. She was just in her underwear. I walked away back to my office.  A couple hours later there was a knock on my door and it was Lucas. "What?" I snapped and he took a deep breath. "You'd never come in here. You were always too busy in the night life to do paper work or run your father's companies. Or punishing me ..." he trailed off. I smiled and looked at Lucas. "Are you hinting or do you have a point to this?" I asked and he looked down and then back into my eyes. He was the only one who learned how to stare into my eyes. 

"I broke your heart but I was scared of you breaking mine. Diana was a good person. I think a lot of people wouldn't mind if you brought her around more," he said and then slipped out the room. I placed my head on my desk. I refused to love again awhile ago. Two heartbreaks was enough. Now I'm faced with Ava. She's so rebellious. I guess that's what makes it fun. I buried my face in my hands. My phone rang and I was slow to answer it. 

"Hello?" I answered. 

"So ... I know you said no about Ava," Derek laughed into the phone and my mood changed. 

"Tu n'auras jamais un doigt sur elle! Avez-vous" I screamed angrily. 

(You will never lay a finger on her! Do you unde-)

"The news Diana ... just watch the news," he said and I quickly hung up and ran downstairs into the den. Jennifer , Lucas , and Ava were watching the television. "Turn to the news," I demanded and Jennifer did so. 

"Here we are with Oscar Greene. Mr. Greene after last night's charity event you called your legal team and told them you wanted to sue Diana Elizabeth for fifty million dollars. A lot of people are curious obviously to know what for?" That little shit smiled directly into the camera. "You see it's not a business lawsuit. It's a civil settlement for her domestic violence on my princess Ava. She's nearly holding her hostage. She's the professor at her school, Ava is constantly within arm's reach of her and doesn't speak to her family at all ..." 

Ava shed a tear and I felt a weight fall on my chest and shoulders. Oscar began crying and then said, "Ava I don't know if she's letting you see this right now but I love you so much and I wish you'd build the strength and courage to come home and I promise you'd never be hurt by her again." 

Jennifer turned it off and there was a silence. Jennifer wrapped an arm around Ava and Ava buried her face in her friend. Lucas glanced at me. "Call Roy and tell him to get a good legal team together. This type of accusation means he has something up his sleeve," I said and Lucas ran up the steps. I sat down next to Ava and turned her to face me. 

I held her face. "Look at me Ava," I said softly and she shook her head. "I love you," I said and she looked me in the eye. "This is gonna blow over quickly," I promised and she buried her face in my chest and let out a huge cry. Jennifer rubbed her back. 

Ava was scared of the media. In any footage you ever see her in she's camera shy and now something like this pushes her to the front. I don't know why her father would do this to her ... but I know Derek has his hand up Oscar's ass playing puppet master. 

Oscar and I were rivals and Derek and I were divorced. 

And I was in love with Ava... love is a wicked thing to mess with .. you could compare it to a fire in the middle of the woods. The only way to handle fire was to constantly maintain it. You put it out and your in darkness until the sun rises. You let it grow and it burns everything you loved about mother nature. You get bored .. and play with it. You get burned.

As much as a perfectionist I came to be as a Mistress ... Diana never perfected her ability to love.