"Aliana, our Master owns you. All of you. He can take what is his when he wants. It is your duty as his pet to please him." I looked at Silver. Terror evident in my eyes. "Try not to panic, Aliana. This will be your first time. It will hurt...
I stepped out of the bathtub and wrapped myself in a towel. I smoothed scented oil on my skin, towel dried my hair and wrapped myself in the robe. I smiled at the little bathhouse my father had built for my mother. We mostly bathed in the stream by our cabin when we lived in the forest. My mother would always talk about how she would have the most luxurious baths when she was younger and how she had taken them for granted, often preferring quick showers to long baths. My dad would occasionally fill a small wooden tub with warm water for my mother, but mostly we'd take quick showers using water that sat in a tank and was warmed by the sun.
My parents had taken the money they had gotten from my auction at the Selection and made many upgrades to the main house, barn and the other houses and structures on the property. Of course it wasn't like the bathrooms in the castle. Humans needed a special license to have running water and electricity. Mostly these special licenses went to businesses like restaurants, medical offices, hospitals and schools. Private homes didn't have these luxuries.
However, my father had done his best given the limitations and now...he owned the land so he didn't have to worry about the owner taking advantage of the increase in value his work has added to the land.
In most cases, a Vampire will let a human rent the land so that it can be prepped for farming and then they take the land back, evicting the human and selling the property at a higher price, capitalizing on all the hard work that went into preparing the land. My father had lived with that fear since he rented it. Thankfully, Lord Philip did not make it to this side of the Realm very often. Now it belonged to my father.
Knowing that this land now belonged to my father made my heart swell. Knowing that he would lose it again once I ran away brought me back down to reality. I hadn't even had a chance to speak to my father about that possibility. His only advice had been to find Alaric and kill my Master. If I killed him and they couldn't point the death to me, would that mean I was free? Would it mean my parents kept their land?
I sighed deeply as I walked back to my room. Master was waiting for me there. He walked over to me and I clenched my fists as he approached. Stiffening and waiting for him to touch me. He noticed my reaction.
He turned abruptly and sat on the bed. "Come. I'm hungry." He pointed to the space between his legs. I knew he wasn't really hungry since he'd fed from Sawyer earlier, but I suspected this was part of my punishment so I went and sat. He wrapped his hand around my waist, letting his hand slip inside my robe and landing on my bare stomach. He pulled me into him. I moved my hair to one side exposing my neck. He pushed my robe down exposing my neck and back to him.
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He used the thumb of the hand that wasn't holding me to rub my Mark. I stifled the moan that threatened to escape me as I pressed my thighs together to alleviate the tightening in my core. I felt my sex moistening...and I hated it. I hated my body for reacting.
I forced myself to focus my breathing and pull myself out of the blind passion that the Mark caused and back to neutrality. Master rubbed along my neck with his nose, smelling my blood as it ran through my veins. He leaned back slightly and came forward again, sinking his fangs into the delicate area of my neck.
