The Life of Anna, Part 2: Entwined (64 page)

She flushed when she walked by a group of five girls who looked at her then giggled.

“...wonder what she did to get such a high and mighty place,” she heard one of them say loudly.

“She thinks she’s better than us,” another one said, giving Anna a nasty look.

“You should treat the Mistress with respect,” Maggie said, defending her. “It’s not her fault who her father is.”

The first one snorted. “How do you know? Maybe she just claimed it. How can you prove it?”

“The Immortals said she was,” Maggie said. “And the Chairman.”

The other girls rolled their eyes. One grabbed her hand. “Look, she wears a diamond ring like she’s engaged or something.”

“Dev...my Master gave that to me,” Anna said pulling her hand away.

“I wanna see the ring.” The girl tried to pull it off Anna’s finger. “I wonder what it’s like to wear so many diamonds.”

Anna clenched her hand, but the other girl was stronger. Another girl grabbed her other arm.

Anna looked around for Maggie, but she was gone. The other girls noticed too.

“Oh, your little bitch abandoned you,” the first one said. “Maybe we can have some fun with you now. No one ever comes back here, you know.”

Anna yelled as someone pulled her hair. She struggled against the hold and broke free. The one girl was still trying to get her ring off her finger and finally succeeded.

A fury built up inside Anna and she lunged at the girl and hit her in the face. “Give me back my ring.”

Another girl grabbed Anna from behind and pulled her off, pushing her to the ground.

“Look, I’m a princess!” said the girl who had taken her ring. “Bow to me, all of you.”

The girls in the room all laughed.

“Maybe she’s got a great mouth. Maybe that’s how she gets the diamonds.”

Anna felt her hair grabbed again and was pushed forward to the spread legs of the girl who held her ring. Anna fought as hard as she could, but there were too many to fight. Her mouth made contact with the girl’s pussy.

“Eat me,” the girl growled.

Anna struggled to get away, but was beginning to realize the struggle was pointless. She’d never win. Her shoulders slumped and she stuck out her tongue to taste the girl. Maybe they’d let her go if she cooperated.

But she couldn’t lose Devin’s ring. He’d be so angry.

Anna pushed back and lunged at the girl again, reaching for the hand with the ring on it.

Through the yelling and screaming Anna faintly heard a loud male voice. Instantly all the girls dropped to their knees. Anna wheeled around to see Devin, Tom, Connor, Oscar and Ian standing in the doorway. They all looked pissed. Anna could see Maggie behind them. Devin gave Anna a look and she dropped to her knees.

“What the fuck is going on?” Devin growled.

*****

Footsteps echoed through the silent room as Devin and the rest of the Elders walked to where Anna was. She was trembling and blinking rapidly.

He stood over her and looked down, then sighed. “Stand up, Anna.”

Anna stood quickly and stared at his chest. He cupped her chin and lifted her face. “What happened?” he asked in a soft voice. Her eyes were full of fear. From what Maggie had said, the girls had been rude to her and practically attacked her.

Instantly tears spilled from Anna’s eyes. “I’m sorry, Master,” she whispered. “I wasn’t trying to start a fight. I promise.”

“I know, Baby.” He ran a finger over her cheek where a bruise was forming and she winced at the pain. He hated petty jealousy. Especially from women, and it was even worse with slave women.

He let out a little growl. How dare someone attack his precious Anna! When men did it, it was for conquering. When women did it, it was just annoying.

He looked down to take her hand and frowned. The ring he’d given her was missing.

“Where’s your ring, Baby?” he asked in a gentle voice. He wasn’t angry at her. She hadn’t done anything wrong.

Anna looked around and motioned to the girl kneeling next to her. She also had a bruise on her cheek. He hoped it was from Anna. The girl had Anna’s ring on her little finger. Devin narrowed his eyes and stepped in front of the slave.

He turned to the men behind him and pointed to the girl. “Who does she belong to?”

Connor stepped forward. “She’s mine, Devin.”

Devin frowned. “Perhaps you’d like to explain to me why one of your girls is wearing the ring I gave Anna?”

Connor’s eyes widened. “You gave...?” He stepped forward and told the girl to stand. “Lily? Explain yourself.”

The girl had the grace to look nervous. “I...she....” She looked angry. “She was acting all high and mighty and it pissed me off, Master.”

Devin swallowed a comment. She was lying. He could feel it. That and Devin knew that Anna wouldn’t act that way. She was almost as shy today as she was when she was ten. Though Devin was pretty sure that Anna had caused the bruise on Lily’s face. It was rapidly darkening.

If she was his, she’d be outside already, but she wasn’t his to discipline. He never would have stood for that kind of attitude.

“So you took her ring? I know there’s no other way that you would have acquired such a ring.”

Devin saw a small smile at the corner of Anna’s lips, which amused him.

Lily didn’t reply to Connor, but her shoulders drooped.

“Who hit you, Anna?” Devin asked.

Anna looked up at him. “I-I don’t know.”

Devin studied her. She really didn’t know. God, how many girls attacked her? He looked around. Several of the girls were disheveled. Devin let out a low growl.

“Sir.” Ian walked over with a tablet in his hands. Good, the footage of the fight. There were cameras all over the camp, including in here.

He kissed Anna on the forehead. “I’ll be right back.”

Devin motioned to the men to follow him outside. They would watch the video, then make a decision what to do. In Devin’s mind, attacking Anna was like attacking him. There needed to be punishment. With a camp full of men it was sure to be interesting.

*****

Anna stood nervously next to Lily. She had given Anna her ring back and was nervous as well. With the men gone outside, there were low conversations throughout the room. Anna had tried to smile at Lily when she returned the ring, but Lily had only glared at her.

“Why does he call you ‘Baby?’” Lily asked.

“He’s always called me that,” Anna replied. “For as far back as I can remember.” Back before he got angry.

“He was involved in your training?”

Anna looked at her. “My guardian trained me.”

“Your guardian?”

Anna nodded. “My parents died when I was twelve. I went to live with Jack after that.”

“You had parents?” another girl asked astonished.

“She wasn’t raised in the Manor, Brittany,” Maggie said, coming to stand beside Anna. “She doesn’t live there now, either.”

“Where do you live?” Lily asked.

“I have an apartment downtown. It’s close to Dev...I mean, Master’s work and the dance studio.”

Anna was inundated with questions about living outside the Manor. She told them about dancing and just joining the ballet Company. About going out with “normal” guys. They were in awe.

The men returned a few minutes later and the girls returned to their knees. Connor and Tom took several of the girls outside, including Lily and Brittany.

“A warning, girls,” Devin said loudly from the doorway. “Attacking Anna is the same as attacking me. Remember that in the future. Now, finish getting ready for the evening.”

When the men had left, the din of the room grew louder. The girls were very respectful of Anna and asked her lots of questions as Maggie got her ready. Maggie put her in a long dress, similar to what she wore on Fridays, then took her back to Devin’s pavilion.

Anna didn’t see the other girls return.

The sun went down and the stars sparkled high above the field. The fires in front of the Eagle were lit, once again casting eerie shadows on the stone bird.

*****

When it was time, the men started gathering in front of the eagle. Men in black tunics and men in robes. Anna watched from inside the pavilion.

“Anna, you will sit at my feet tonight, then participate in the orgy.”

“Yes, Master.” What would that be like?

The Elders and Sons walked up to the dais on the pathway between the men. Anna walked next to Devin, but kept her head down in a submissive pose, as he had instructed. When she got to the platform, she glanced surreptitiously toward where Tommy was sitting and saw him watching her. They smiled at one another, then Anna went to sit at Devin’s feet on the raised area where his throne was.

The evening was dull to Anna. Men gave long speeches about boring topics. It was all she could do to not drift off. Devin gave a long speech at the end, which the seated men seemed to enjoy, but went right over Anna’s head.

A sweet smell wafted through the area as Devin was finishing up and Anna began to feel dizzy, then very aroused. She clenched her thighs together as Devin finished his speech.

“Enjoy yourselves tonight, gentlemen,” he said at last, and returned to his seat. Devin looked down at Anna, and she swayed slightly. “How are you feeling, Baby?”

“Dizzy,” Anna answered. She was having a hard time concentrating on anything.

Devin chuckled. “Airborne ecstasy. Tonight will be fun.” He pulled her up into his lap and onto his already exposed cock.

“Oh!” she exclaimed as his bigger-than-before cock sank into her body. She moaned as he filled her.

“Like it, Baby?”

Anna nodded, unable to think of anything but him. He held her hips and she rode him hard, the world exploding into colors shortly after. He pushed her gently off his lap, then led her down to the grass where all manner of sex was occurring. It was a giant blob of naked bodies. Tongues, cocks, breasts, hands, pussies. Moans, cries and groans filled the air as no orifice was left empty. Men fucked men who were fucking women. If there was an available organ, it was used. If there was a hole, it was filled.

The night was a blur of sex and orgasms and pain and ecstasy.

Anna awoke Sunday mid-morning naked in the midst of a sea of naked men and women. It looked as if people had simply fallen asleep where they lay. Some looked as if they had fallen asleep in the middle of sex.

She had a slight headache and rubbed her eyes before she sat up to look around. Most everyone was still asleep, but she saw some up and about. Clothes were strewn all about the field; there was no way she was going to find her gown. She stood to make her way back to the pavilion.

She saw Devin on the way back with two brunettes in his arms. She closed her eyes and turned away. As much as she knew that Devin slept with other women, it still hurt.

She saw Tommy on the way, too. He was curled around a small redhead. Anna turned away from that sight as well and sighed. Why did she allow herself to care about men? Caring just meant getting hurt in the long run. Or maybe the real question was, why did it bother her when certain men slept with other women? Surely she was weak to feel that way. It was the way of the world. Men slept with whom they wanted to. Anna slept with whomever the men wanted her to. It was as simple as that. Why did it bother her?

She sighed as she walked into the pavilion. After retrieving a gown from the back “closet,” Anna made her way to the girl’s dorm, as they called it. She used the toilet, then took a quick shower to remove the stickiness that seemed to cover her body.

As she was leaving, a movement caught her eye through the trees. She heard a moan coming from the same direction, then the sound of something being hit and a cry. Slowly and carefully she made her way through the woods over rough terrain that hurt her feet. After a few minutes of walking she came upon an open field. It was much smaller than the other field, but what she saw there almost made her throw up.

Five girls were tied to a wooden beam with their hands above their heads. They were bloody and bruised. Three of them appeared dead, or at least Anna hoped for their sake that they were dead. Their bodies were so mutilated the only reason she knew they were female was because of their long hair and bloody stumps where their breasts had been. One’s legs were gone. The other two girls were still alive, though barely, it seemed. Their bodies were mutilated as well and a man was swinging a long sword up between one girl’s legs, seemingly chopping her in half from her pussy up. She grunted with each stroke. Anna couldn’t imagine why she wasn’t screaming until she realized her lips had been sewn together. The other girls’ too. The last girl was being whipped with a vicious cat-o-nine-tails, her flesh ripping with each stroke.

Anna gasped and clasped her hand over her mouth when she realized that these were the girls who had attacked her the day before.

Anna stumbled backwards, tears streaming down her face, horrible memories flashing back into her mind from when Devin had punished her for trying to kill herself. He had tortured a woman to death in front of Anna, much like these had obviously been, or were being, tortured to death.