“Why did you do that?” I cry.
“It’s not a question, baby Knight. I’d do anythin’ to protect you. Just so happens that this helped protect my ass from Sonny too,” he chuckles, which turns into a groan.
“You’re so stupid! You just lost a fucking toe,” I continue to cry. “You can’t keep letting him cut off parts of your body to save me, Dez. I won’t let you.”
“Not your choice, sweetheart.”
And he kept making sure to take that choice away from me.
Until Ricco stopped giving us a choice at all.
The day he walked in with a young girl, I thought I was going to be sick. She was young and sobbing and shaking in fear. A fear I knew because I had lived it once too.
“I want you two to meet my new friend,” Ricco says, looking at the girl. “Isn’t she pretty? Reminds me so much of you when you were… less used,” he tells me. “But you can still have a choice today, Ruby. You can choose her or save her untouched cunt and give me yours. What will it be?” he asks, looking at me expectantly.
Taking in a shaky breath, I close my eyes and turn away from seeing her face. “Me,” I whisper, needing to help her the only way I can, the same way I wish I had been saved from him years ago.
“I’m glad you chose that because now, I’m going to make you watch me take her instead,” he says smugly. Everything in me pales knowing I just helped shatter this girl’s whole life.
“No.” The word slips out quietly from my cracked lips, and I don’t even know if anyone heard my plea for help for this girl.
“Oh, you don’t get to look away, my precious. You’re going to have to watch as I take this girl’s innocence and remember what it was like when I took yours,” he says, licking his lips like he’s remembering a tasty meal.
He then instructs his men to unstrap me from the bed and to put the girl in my place. He orders Desmond to hold me and for us to stand and watch as he takes from this girl whose only fault was living in the same city as this monster.
I bite back every cry and scream I want to let out to match that of the girl strapped to the bed. My head is spinning and my body is shaking as all my own memories come flooding back from that night when he did the same to me in a dark corner of a parking lot.
“It’ll be over soon. I got you,” Dez whispers into my ear as he holds me tightly against him, his arms a chain around my body.
“Shit! That was good,” Ricco pants after what seems like years. Watching my worst nightmare replay in front of me sickens me; him taking what he wanted from the shell of the girl lying on the bed under him. “Damn, look at my cock all painted with you,” he tells her and then takes a picture like the sick fuck he is. “You were still better,” he says, looking at me with a smirk. “Even if it did get me beat to shit afterward.”
I want to vomit all over him. But nothing can feel worse than when they take away the limp body of the girl he just abused and makes me lie back where her stolen innocence is still stained and wet on the mattress under me.
Once they all leave and it’s just Dez and me left alone once again, I crumble. My body shaking as sobs pour out of me. He tries to calm me as best he can, but the only person I want to comfort me isn’t here.
“I miss Sonny,” I cry.
“I know, baby, I know,” he soothes, and soon I feel his own tears mix with mine on my face, both of us feeling the full effect of how helpless we are.
I wake with a start and panic when I don’t feel Dez next to me. My eyes look to find him and see him shackled to the wall. He hangs there with so little strength. He’s lost so much blood, his body taking numerous beatings on top of all the mental games he’s played.
“What happened?” I ask, hoping he hasn’t passed out fully.
“Oh good, you’re awake,” I hear Ricco say. I didn’t even know he was in the room. “We were wondering how much longer Sleeping Beauty would be asleep.”
“W-why is he over there?” I ask.
Ricco sits on the bed next to me, smiling down. “You are so fucking filthy and smell like death, and yet I still want to be buried inside of you. Your pussy has to be lined with a drug that addicts any man the second they touch it. That has to be how Sonny feels too. It’s so…” He pauses, letting out a moan.
Then, without warning, he shoves two fingers inside of me. My back arches as I scream from the intrusion.
From where he’s shackled to the wall, Dez yells and curses for him to stop, but of course he doesn’t let up.
“I’ll fuck him!” I scream, willing to say anything to get Ricco’s hands off of me.
Ricco gasps with excitement as he pulls his fingers from me. Quickly, he walks to Dez and pushes his fingers that were just inside me into his mouth. “Taste her. Divine, isn’t she?”
Turning his head away, he pierces me with his eyes, begging me not to do this. But I have to do something to stop all of this. I can’t let him get cut anymore, and I can’t let Ricco have me either. Self-preservation and survival are both kicking into high gear.
“What if I give him a blow job?” I ask Ricco, not knowing what the hell I’m asking, but it seems like a better compromise for both Dez and me. Something that maybe we can both live with if—when—we get out of here.
He hums in thought before agreeing. The guards unstrap me from the bed and instead attach the ankle chain that Dez is usually wearing. Ricco leans against the bed and immediately pulls his already erect dick from his pants as I stand in front of Desmond.
I look at Dez, pleading with him to understand my choice to do this. To give in. I need to help him forget his pain this once. To calm him the way he has me not only since we’ve been here, but for as long as I’ve known him.
Closing my eyes, I lean in and peck his lips with a sweet, soft kiss before kissing my way to his ear. “Close your eyes and shut off your mind. Let me do this for you. Let me soothe your pain and not hurt you for once,” I whisper into his ear. When I pull back, I look at him again and see the battle raging in his eyes I cup his face in my hands and lean in to kiss him again. “Give in,” I ask as I push past his lips, licking the tip of his tongue with mine.
To make this work, he has to get hard. He has to let go of everything that’s held him back to this point and give in to me. To us. To right now, blocking out everything and everyone else. “Ruby.” He whispers my name into our kiss before he relaxes into it a little bit more. Closing my eyes for a moment, I imagine it’s Sonny in front of me instead of my best friend for.
His tongue meets mine as our kiss deepens. What started as soft and questionable turns intense and passionate. It’s like we’re questioning whether this is the end for both of us after this.
Soon, I feel his cock begin to twitch and harden between us. I don’t break our kiss as I wrap my hand around him, but he gasps into my mouth, his eyes opening to meet mine in shock under hooded lust. Dropping to my knees, I make sure not to break eye contact. I need him to stay here with me, drowning out everything around us: the chains, the decisions, the monster in the room.
With his glazed eyes on mine, I lick him from base to tip before swirling my tongue over the head to gather the pearl there. Heat from embarrassment rises up my neck as I taste him for the first time.