Ashes to New by Ellie Masters

Author:Ellie Masters [Masters, Ellie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: JEM Publishing

Chapter Nine

FOR MOST PEOPLE, basements were dark places where order grew into disorganized chaos with the storing and sorting of unwanted things.

Clark Preston’s basement was something else entirely. Finished. Soundproofed. Wired to provide whatever sound or lighting effect he desired. From the harsh light of fluorescents to the amber glow of candlelight, he could match lighting, sound, and mood, and Elsbeth could prepare her mind for what would follow.

Padded flooring covered the cement floor, the one concession he allowed his foster children, who spent too many hours on their knees. Rows of hangers and hooks lined the walls, and these were loaded with implements meant to inflict nothing but pain.

A bed. A cage. And several benches.

But the centerpiece had to be the Saint Andrew’s Cross, which dominated the room.

Master John did not take her to the cross, and she had a suspicion as to why. Instead, he led her toward the back of the room where he trussed her arms over her head against the wall.

Ragged and gasping, she couldn’t collect enough air. Blackness edged her vision, tunneling her sight. Pins and needles poked at her fingertips and buzzed at the edges of her lips.

“You are and always will be mine.” The heat of Master John’s breath warmed her neck and sent shivers rippling down her spine. “You have been from the moment you arrived. Trained for me, kept for me, until you were ready to leave with me. You don’t understand, but you will.”

Her whimper was met with a hard yank of her hair, snapping her head back. He cracked her ass with his palm, raising her up to her toes with a shriek pulled from her lungs.

“You will obey. You will please. You’ll do everything I command.” He punctuated each word with a strike of his hand, leaving her breathless and in agony.

Tears poured down her cheeks, and her nose ran.

“We leave in a week, my love,” he said with a rumbling low chuckle.

She stilled.

Leave? Her senior year would begin in less than two weeks.

“Now, that got your attention.”

His hand rubbed where he’d struck her ass, and she hissed against the intimate touch.

Permission to talk had not been granted, but she didn’t care. “What do you mean, leave?”

“You know exactly what I mean.”

“I have school, and my caseworker—”

“Has already signed off. Funny what people will do for money. It’s been arranged.”

“I won’t.”

She couldn’t leave Forest.

“It’s not a choice.”

Without Forest, Master John had no leverage.

“I’ll run away. You can’t keep me.”

He laughed. “Oh, my pretty pet, you don’t want to do that.”

The basement door creaked, opening slowly.

“Give me a hand,” Clark Preston called out. “The little shit’s heavy as fuck.”

With a gasp, she twisted away from the wall, but Master John pressed her shoulder, holding her in place. “Face the wall, or I’ll hood you. I’m a patient master, but don’t test me. The more you obey, the easier things will be.”

She whimpered, “Please don’t hurt him.” Racking deep sobs chopped at her words, making them incoherent.

Desire to turn

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