Deserae

Chapter 8

No matter how much she fights I'm not letting go. She needs to be punished for what she said to me. She thinks I treat her unfairly now? You slut, just wait and see what I do to you now!

"You said I wouldn't get in trouble for it!" she pleaded, pulling at my arm and clawing at my fingers wrapped securely around her wrist. "Please, Madam! Please keep your word!" She continued to scratch me and beg as I drug her across the hallway and to the red door beside my bedroom entrance.

It's a room no one's allowed in, not even the maids to clean it. This room is just for me and my pets. No one even knows what's in here, I have everything moved from stores or specialists silently and at night so that no one knows my tastes.

I've sent Rae down here before, when she first came here and started acting up. I told her that I would use all of the toys and chains on her if she ever acted up and I thought her punishment was necessary. Thankfully though, she hasn't done much lately. But she crossed a line when she thought she was trying her best and that I was too hard on her. She doesn't know how difficult I can be to please.

When we got to the door I pulled the golden key out of my pocket and slid it into the lock. My movements are close and casual as I opened the door and walked down the pitch-black stairs. Rae needs to know that this is something I'm completely comfortable with doing to her, if she acts up it doesn't bother me to put her in her place.

"Madam please. You said I could tell you how I felt and that I wouldn't get in trouble for it!" she begged relentlessly. I bit the inside of my cheek to prevent myself from smiling, but the pain made the laugher in my chest grow and it was all I could do to hold myself together. But I managed to make it to the bottom of the stairs and to the stone floor that waited for me.

She tugged on my wrist even tighter when I pulled her over to the massive wooden cross on the wall. She stopped fighting for a moment then it felt like her weight doubled. I couldn't drag her behind me and get her closer to the ropes and chains she'd soon be hanging from.

I turned to look at the disobedient leech and saw that she had collapsed to keep me from pulling her closer. She can't weight more than one hundred pounds but it was enough of a weight difference to stop me. Nonetheless I bared my teeth at her and contemplated letting my Wolf tear her to shreds.

No, no, no. Not yet. Perhaps someday when she's too submissive to fight back you can bite through the soft skin of her throat and watch her bleed out on the cold floor. Relishing in the fact that you killed another worthless Vampire and are one step closer to your kind taking over as supreme.

But not today.

"Get up," I instructed, "Or I'll make your punishment worse."

She shook her head wildly, her dirty brown hair making itself even more tangled at her childish actions. "No! You said I could speak honestly and I did! Why am I being punished?"

I crouched down so that I was a little more eye-level to her. She's sitting down with her knees bent beside her and her arms supporting her from the front, but she's slouching so I'm still taller. "Because I said I wouldn't stop you, not that I wouldn't punish you. Any pet that decides to speak against me gets the life beaten out of them, and, in the case that I let them live..." I drug my perfectly-manicured nail down her soft, pale cheek, "I'll make sure that they know never to defy me again."

When I stood again I grabbed a fistful of her hair and drug her along the ground to the cross. Her screaming and clawing at my hands did nothing but make me more aggravated and anxious to get on with her punishment. I'm going to beat her tonight, whether she agrees to it or not. I can't let anyone get away with talking back to me, not even her.