Bound (ON HOLD)

Chapter Fourteen: AfterMath

Saphronia's P.O.V:
As soon as the handcuffs were taken off and I was released to go upstairs, I ran. It was so humiliating, eating like that! I went into the bathroom and looked at myself in the mirror. I had cheese all down my face and chin... and despite how much I tried some got on my clothes. The bathroom door was still open and Callum came in and looked at me, tears streaming and face disgusting. I look away from him.
"It's okay Saphronia, we're alone now. You don't have to be ashamed." He tells me softly. I try to hide my face from him but he walks into the hallway and opens a door. It's a linen closet. He comes back in with a washcloth. He gets it wet and squeezes the excess water into the sink. "Sit on the counter." He tells me. I don't even argue, I just hop up on there.
"Look at me." He says again. "I shake my head no. "Saphronia, please." He almost whines. I look up at him; tears still streaming and he gently starts cleaning my face. I don't look at him; my eyes to the floor, the counter, anything but his face.
"I'm sorry." He answers quietly when my face is clean. "Don't." I answer tearing up again. "Seth is only trying to help you-" He starts in. "Help me what?! Lose the little respect for myself I had?!" I start to get angry. "Shh, it's okay to be upset but he can't hear you!" Callum says shushing me. "Or what? I'll be dragged into that basement again? Tortured?" I ask loudly. "Or else I'll be forced to punish you." He says sternly. "It's not torture Saphronia; I'm not that much of a sadist..." he tells me.
"It's time you know..." he says after a minute. "I wasn't going to tell you but maybe it'll give you some reasoning to behave." He scratches the back of his head. "I have some ties right now with some guys who aren't so great... they are like the people who were at the auction and don't care about the women around them. They're pigs... if we don't train you correctly and they come around, they may decide to take you by force from me and.....I won't have a say in what happens to you." He finishes looking away from me.
"I thought you said you were different." Was all I could say. I hopped down and went to get some pjs from 'my' room. I brought them into the bathroom and didn't talk to him until I had to ask permission for privacy. He was in his room looking at the ceiling. "What do you want Seth?" He asks angrily. I carefully crack the door open and quietly ask for privacy.
"Of course." He says, seeming to go back into his thoughts. "I apologize for yelling." He adds as I turn to leave. "I should get used to it." I answer leaving. He sighs and I go back to the bathroom. I take a shower and just sit in a curled ball at the bottom of the shower until the water goes freezing cold.
When I come out I see a note on the floor in neat, semi-cursive letters. "Meet me downstairs when you're finished, we need to chat. -Seth." I roll my eyes and go to Callum's room. I attempt to open the door but it's locked so I sigh and talk through the door. "I have to go downstairs, Seth needs something." I tell him. I don't want another rerun of when he thought I was idiotically running away.
I start down the stairs, slowly. I'm not sure what Seth wants nor do I really want to know. I reach the bottom and Seth is on the couch, on his phone. I start to walk around so that he can see me but he grabs my wrist; lightly. "Did I say you could move?" He asks, sounding a bit angry. "N-no Sir, I'm sorry sir." I get out. "Back to where you started." He releases me and sighs. I wait. "Now." He adds and I go back to the bottom of the stairs. "Good girl now come kneel by my feet." He points in front of him. I shyly walk over there; scared he's going to ask of a sexual favor next.
"Are you scared of me little one?" He asks when he sees I'm practically shaking in my kneel position. I don't respond. "Kitten?" He asks and I feel myself blush. "That's your identity." He chuckles, interested. "Not surprised with the tendencies you'll grow into."
"Sir?" He looks down. "Training is over for today. You can call me Seth and since you were so good today you can either sit in my lap or on the floor. The choice is yours." He says. "Thank you...Seth." I answer trying the name out. He lets me release and I sit in a ball on the floor.
"I wanted to talk to you about this new lifestyle." He says out-loud. I look at the floor and away from him. "I know it's not easy... especially when you are forced into something like this." He starts in. I don't respond; I really didn't want to talk to him at all but now it's about stuff that I don't even like to talk about.
"I thought maybe if you understood some things about this lifestyle and maybe saw some of how it could be.... you'd feel a little bit better in participating." He says. My eyes widen and I shift uncomfortably. "Don't worry kitten, I'm not forcing you to watch porn." He answers. "Why don't you sit next to me now, so you can see?" He pats the couch next to him and I realize it's not an option. I sit on the far corner of the couch.
He connects his phone to the tv with Bluetooth and then he calls someone named "LaLa" in his phone. He turns to me as it rings and says "LaLa is what is called a little and what is called a pet. Sometimes she acts like a child and others like a kitten. She is also a bit of a brat. What this means is she doesn't like to listen completely all the time. She likes to push buttons by doing something halfway if at all." He says. "S-er I mean Seth?" I ask. "Yeah?"
I look down and away from him.... scared to ask this question. "You can say it." He encourages me. "Does she get punished for that?" He laughs. "Depending on what I told her to do and how many times she disobeys." He looks at the tv and winks because she connected during his statement. I hear a higher pitched giggle. "Isn't that right, Little Girl?" He asks her.
"Yes, daddy." She answers with a giggle. "Who's that?" She takes the word that and makes it sound more like "dat". She's talking like a three or maybe slowly developing four year old. "Saphronia?" He asks turning to me. "Huh?" I ask snapping out of my thoughts he seems a bit angry. "Stop being rude and pay attention." He says. "I didn't call my baby in front of you for my good health, trust me I'd rather be alone with her." He smiles to the tv, and she giggles. "Daddy no be a piggy." She tells him.
"I can't help it; my princess is so beautiful." He answers. "Anyway, she need helpies?" She asks looking at me. Seth nods and looks at me. "Stand up." He says to me. I look at him confused about what is going on he said that training was done for the day. LaLa shakes her head. "Daddy, I come back after a minute wait here." He nods to her and she leaves the phone. As she's leaving I notice she's dressed like a four year old as well. She has a puffy teal skirt and a Little mermaid purple shirt. She has her hair in two high pigtails with her bangs over her left eye.
After ten minutes she comes back, in black jeans and a band t-shirt. Her hair is down and brushed out and she has a black cat ear head band on. "Wasn't feeling so little anymore baby?" He asks her. "It's easier to help someone when I'm not four." She answers, turning to me. "Are you vanilla and like a guy in who likes a chocolate relationship?" She asks laughing.
I look to Seth. "No sweetie...." He starts to answer. "She's vanilla and stuck with a guy in a chocolate relationship." He answers, then he turns to me. "You are not familiar with this type of lifestyle. What that means is you are vanilla. The chocolate relationship refers to Callum." She looks at the both of us confused. "What did he get himself into this time?" She asks after a minute.
"He bought me from a place that kidnaps and sells women!" I tell her loudly. She gasps. "Seth, she's taken?! What do you think you're doing over there?!" She starts to shout. "Shhh baby shh. It's okay, I yelled at him but he didn't- I'll explain it to you later." He says looking at me. "We need to call the po-" she starts but Seth looks at her angrily and she stops. "Okay look...." he sighs. "The only reason I haven't called them myself is because she's not being hurt here in anyway, and if we call them both Callum and Saphronia will be in great danger. It's safer for her here with Callum than without him." He answers. "Callum didn't buy her for sex." He tells LaLa. "However there's still punishment for her if she doesn't obey and therefore we are trying to train her. I thought maybe seeing how you act would help her a bit and show her that not everything you do results in punishment. Also; what a punishment can be when she gets to that point. You know; help her not be so scared?" He answers.
"So you want me to go all the way to Callum's for the rest of the week while you're there to help train a girl who doesn't want to be trained in the first place?" She asks annoyed. "What makes you think-" then Seth looks at her. "-Because although I did not buy you little girl, don't forget who OWNS you. If you are not here ready to help in two days I will not be kind when I return." He answers. She giggles shyly. "Yes sir."
His demeanor changes again. "Good girl, it's getting late Talulah, you should head to bed. Remember, be here soon and I love you baby girl." He answers. She smiles "I love you too Daddy." Then they hang up. He turns to me and says. "You are released, go upstairs and get ready for bed okay?" I start to get up but turn back to him before leaving.
"She chose this lifestyle?" I ask. "Yes she did." He smiles. "A-And....." I trail off. "And what Saphronia?" He urges. "You?" I look down quietly. "Hard to believe but she did." He laughs. "I'm not as bad as I seem. Although I don't take attitude, I also care about your safety. This type of relationship is still about love and care. That's the true way of any relationship..." he says lost in thought. "Now, upstairs, to bed." He demands and I leave.
Callum's door is still shut as I pass by it, but I hear him on the other side. "Come here." He says. It's as if he's half asleep. I open the door a crack and he then says "over here, come on." I walk over to him and in one swift motion I have my mouth covered and his arm around me. He starts to fall asleep after a while and his hand on my mouth falls to my side. I try and get up off the bed but he tightens his grip and says in his sleepy voice. "Where are you going?" I freeze and say "please sir, let go of me..." I beg. "Stay, please?" He started it as a command but then softened it by the please. As if he is torn between forcing me or asking me. "Please let go.." I ask him again. I feel his grip loosen on me but he doesn't take his arm off me. I leave his room and go to my own.