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2024-10-29 19:42:56He pushes me away, and I am not sure why. Does he not want me anymore? No, that can’t be true.
I sense the need in him, the want to tear into me, to break me. And I am not unhappy about it or threatened.
All I feel is a relief that finally he’s revealed his true self to me. Just as I have to him. I watch him walk to the door, open it, and speak in a low voice to the soldier stationed outside. Footsteps approach up the corridor. A tray exchanges hands. He steps back, holding it. The door snicks shut behind him. It’s a soft sound and yet it shivers over my sensitized skin. The scent of food wafts over to me, but that only twists my stomach.
He places the tray on the table, then turns and folds his arms over his chest. He doesn’t say anything, just waits for me to comply with his unspoken command. Every line of his body indicates he’ll patiently wait until I give in.
I want to say no, want to deny him, but all that
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When I come to it is to the thud of his heart under my cheek. I slide my fingers over warm skin. Turn my face and bury my nose in the light smattering of hair on his chest.The scent of his sweat and musk of his arousal turns me on, and it also strangely soothes me. I feel protected and cherished, and the still thinking part of my mind warns me I am falling into a place from which there is no return. I try to move only to find there is a heavy weight around my waist. It’s his arm, which is massive enough to hold me down.It feels so right that I know it’s wrong.Not like this.All my life I’ve spent fighting that core inside me, the part that was intrinsically dominion that needed to be tamed, subdued, knotted, and bred. And in one stroke he…this leader, the most monstrous of all in the city, has done just that. And I had encouraged him. The faint recollection of giving him what he wanted, of calling him by his name
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I look at myself in the mirror and wince. My hair is caked with cum, and there is fluid drying on my body. My lips are swollen, the skin around my lips is chafed, my nipples look unusually larger, and my breasts…?I cup them and grimace.They feel sore, like they have been squeezed and pummeled.Well, to be fair, he had been gentle with my breasts. Overall, he’d been gentle with my body. For a big man like him, his fingers are unusually light in their touch. He’d rubbed his cum into every part of me that he could access, then poured some of our joined-up liquids into my mouth, and I had…loved it.I admit it.I had relished every touch, feel, taste of him.I had reveled in his scent. I had fucked him right back.I grasp the edge of the wash basin and lean forward, my hair falling over my face, bringing with it the scent of sex. That darker, deeper, muskier essence of his laced with the lighter on
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I pause with the croissant halfway to my lips, and stare at him.Spit drools from my open mouth.For once, all of the graces instilled in me since childhood, since I was brought up as the treasured dominion in the household of the Czar of Russia, desert me. But then it has been a long time since anyone has called me by my full name. The name which I’d hoped I’d left behind when I escaped from Russia.I’d run away from the arrangement my father had in mind for me… straight into a bond with an leader who is much more fearsome.Why is it that everywhere I turn there is always a man who wants to hold me down, collar me, bond to me, make me feel like I am secondary, only an dominion?‘You’re not an average dominion…’ My mother’s voice echoes in my ears. ‘You are a pure-born dominion who carries in your blood the genes of the Russian royal family. The genes that guar
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I hear his voice as if from a distance. See his face set in an expression of determination. His jaw firms. A nerve ticks at his temple.His chest planes ripple under his dark skin, and all I can think of is going to him, dragging my fingernails over his chest and marking him. Then, throwing myself at him and asking him to take me over and over again until I reach that space where all that remains is that bare essence of my soul—a naked need, a burning desire to be part of something.To be joined to him in a way that I have never been to anyone else and never will be again. And that thought is a shock.But is it, is it really? When I’d known from the time I’d set foot in this palace that there would be only one logical conclusion. That I was going to be taken and knotted, and not by any leader, but by the most powerful of all of them. And inside I’d been ready. More than ready. Maybe it was that genetic superior
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I’d walked out of there and that was not what I had intended. I’d wanted to try to be civil, to stay with her, make sure she was okay after the last few days. And that thought itself is so unnatural. What does it matter how she feels? She is my hostage. The daughter of an enemy who’d walked into my palace with the express need to hurt me. Why did she agree to do that?I’d never bothered to ask her of her intentions.I didn’t need to.The look on her face when I had called her out on her own identity was proof enough. Besides, I am judge, jury, and executioner. I don't need to explain my decisions to anyone, and certainly not to an dominion.And yet that part of me that seems to come alive when I’m around her, insists that I give her the benefit of the doubt.Why is it that the sight of her green eyes, wide and with tears shimmering in them, haunts me? That scent of hers, that familiar,
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