her holes at the same time.
They crushed her to them, yet she felt stronger than them at that point as they pumped their essence into her, branding her with their touch.
Fatigue latched onto her immediately, but even through the haze as they tended her, bathed her, massaged her, she knew she couldn’t stay hidden in this perfect cocoon.
Her problems were the same as they were at the start.
And yet Kade… Kade had said her name when he had never done so ever before. He called her Mrs. Stone or nothing at all.
He had called her Olivia.
But Liam still refused to acknowledge her love for him. How could he now when she had not fought hard enough to give Kade half of herself. When she had let him take his part of her ownership. Why had she been so utterly and wretchedly weak that she had let it happen?
Chapter Sixteen
Olivia couldn't keep her melancholy at bay any longer. Her heart was ripped asunder, yet to Liam everything was as he wanted it to be.
She still couldn't tell him she loved him because he still believed she had manually manufactured that feeling inside her. And she didn't know how else to show him that in other circumstances; in other worlds, she would have been drawn to him the very same way as she had the first time.
The compass of everything she was worth had gravitated toward him the absolute instant Nunzio's men had dragged her and her father into his dining room, where Liam had been seated before a table spread with documents.
Even with her life in the balance, and that of her family, her gaze had landed on him, and her already raging heart had started to beat for a different reason. His presence had edged into her world, then taken it over, and she'd been so embarrassed that he'd see her in such a poor light. Where she was going to beg for her father's life after their failed attempt to escape Nunzio's compound.
How could she make him believe her?
How could she love Kade if Liam didn't believe she loved him too?
Why did everything have to be so complicated?
In the middle of getting dressed for her date with her husband at the theater she broke down and cried for the umpteenth time that day.
Immediately she had felt an imbalance when she had opened her eyes that morning. She was alone in the bed in the Black Room before she remembered that Liam, who could have hardly slept at all, had to leave for a meeting and would only return later that evening. A memory of him kissing her goodbye while she slept drowsily and exhausted after what they had done to her, warmed her heart. He also reminded her of their date at the theater that night, and she smiled happily in her sleep.
She remembered Kade leaving too. Had heard his phone beep, had felt his tension rip through him when he rose immediately and left, leaving her with the emptiness of his side of the bed.
Of course, they had spent hours on her aftercare. Bathing her with lavender-scented water, massaging her body to take away the kinks that being tied up, then ravished, had created. She had blushed when they poured oil into her ass this time to gently caress her.
Memories of tangled sheets, the smell of sex scenting the air, even her skin which smelled like them up to now, like their cologne mixed with their masculinity gripped her intermittently and forcefully.
She could hear her moans, her whimpers, her shameless begging and pleading that went with a thick veil of embarrassment as they exposed her down to primal elements. Bites and bruises and large handprints still visible on her hips told her exactly what had happened to her.
She unconsciously rubbed at the band the restraints on her wrists had left behind. Her whole ass hurt, and she flushed disgracefully that the inside of her ass was as tender and as sore as her pussy.
She shuddered and gooseflesh sprang anew from her skin as she thought of them administering her punishment. Of how hopelessly embarrassed she had been as they plugged her asshole with a hose and filled her belly with warm water before they tortured her and taunted her with orgasms, driving her beyond insane with the idea that she was going to humiliate herself beyond repair and yet sealing her final repentance for the wrong she had done when she had thought she could save her friend