[Completed] Riley Hayes | A Vampire Novel - Book I

Chapter 5 - Worth the pay

Why was I blushing so unexpectedly? Why was his hand groping me down there? That evil smirk displayed on his face knew exactly what he was doing to me, embarrassing me, humiliating me!

I'd been warned one last time though, his blue eyes were serious now. He had ordered me to get into the bathroom and clean myself and be dressed in half an hour.

His hand tightened around my lower cheek, telling me he wanted an answer. I wasn't going to call him master or Lord! Hell no!

I whimpered when he tightened it, even more, it was on the verge of painful now. "Riley, words." His husky breath was just above my ear, urging me to obey him.

"O-Okay, Lord..." I technically didn't say master of my Lord, he wasn't my master, not my lord. He was a Lord though so... Yes, I am sweet-talking my slight surrender.

I just wanted his touch off me. And I just wanted a warm bath. I still was wearing that nude and thin garments you receive from the slave traders. At first, I hated being so bare but strangely you get used to it.

He hummed and nosed along with my temple, I held in my breath as he did. Come on, that was good enough right? "That's a good girl, Riley. Half an hour." He released me and took a few steps back. Without acknowledging me any further he retracted behind his desk in the corner.

I watched him take out folders and open his laptop while typing something. "Twenty-nine minutes left" He warned and blood rushed back to my head, shit, my well-deserved bath!

I rushed into the bathroom, completely forgetting to grab clothes, fondled with the knobs to run the water into the bath, and fill it. I turned around to lock the door, only to find there was none.

Seriously? He could barge in whenever he wants to? I sighed and accepted it, I stripped myself of those filthy thin underwear and cast it aside.

While the bath was filling, I'd rinsed most of the dirt out of my hair and from my body under the walk-in shower. It even had three showerheads, why three?

I then used (maybe half a bottle) of shampoo and rinsed it out as well. I peeked towards the bath which was almost filled up. I happily trotted towards it and used my fingers to test the water temperature. It was perfect!

I slid into the bath and let relaxation completely take me over. God, I never knew warm water was such a luxurious resource.

Back at base, we didn't have many luxurious items and had limited resources. Water was to be drunk and water to be bathed in was to be shared. It was heated over fire slightly so if you were one of the first it was a tad warm but otherwise it went cold quickly and the water became dirty as well.

So I didn't bathe very often as you can imagine. During raids, we acquired stuff like deodorant or perfume but it was rare to find such items. I'd rather use an additional spray of perfume instead of bathing in that dirty and cold water.

I saw a bottle of conditioner, I loved that stuff so much. It made my hair all silky and smooth! I used a generous amount of it, now I could, and gently massages it into my locks. It smelled divine as well, Lavender.

My eyes wandered around the room while I was letting the conditioner do its thing. Electricity, we had generators back at base but we couldn't always make use of them. And if we did, we used it mainly for technical stuff. I wasn't technical at all, our leader had a laptop but I wouldn't even know how to use it. Stuff like phones was even more foreign to me, again, only the higher up had those in possession.

Leuca also had a laptop
on his desk. Now my thoughts drifted off to him, he had some strict rules set up for me. I'm sure I won't abide by them, Caleb had tried it for months but still didn't succeed. Although Leuca spoke about a different kind of punishment? I'm curious as to what it is.