Into The Woods: A Monster Anthology by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-03-28T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Two

"Hello, Alice," an amused voice came from behind me before I could leave Caterpillar’s room. A large smile appeared, followed by two villainous green, glowing eyes. He shocked me bad enough I jerked back, my hand went to my chest as I gasped. Once I composed myself, I was angry at being startled by Cheshire.

"I'm leaving," I huffed. Caterpillar looked greatly annoyed. One of his arms reached for the absinthe while another fiddled with the hookah bowl.

"Alice, Alice, Alice," Cheshire taunted. Something was off. I swallowed thickly, unsure of what to say or do. A creeping sense of dread was beginning to bloom in my stomach.

"Playing peeping tomcat? How vile," I said, trying to sound angry instead of nervous.

“Vile? What a lovely adjective. I do more than peep, though. I keep a record. Don’t you just love what you can do with cameras these days? Doesn’t take long at all to capture a couple in an embrace.” A photo appeared from the smoke above my head and fell to the ground quickly. I could see from where I stood what it was. Me on my knees for Caterpillar. It wasn’t the perfect picture, but it said enough, and everyone would want to believe the drama. It probably could have been a picture of two entirely different people but they’d want it to be me and would eat up the story.

It didn’t help how many people had seen me tonight. Add then the loose lips of Mad Hatter telling people about my interest in Caterpillar.

“Blackmailing all your clients can’t be good for business,” I said in anger as he brushed against my leg.

“Don’t be so humble, Alice. It's not just anyone I’d blackmail.” He looked up at me with a victorious smile on his face.

“You aren’t supposed to be in my room,” Caterpillar said, with an unfriendly glare at the cat. His comment made something unclench inside me. I wasn’t sure this was a regular thing and that he’d known the whole time. That I’d been betrayed when I thought we had something special. Clearly, that wasn’t the case, though. He seemed even more upset than me.

“I’m tired of you thinking you have any say in how I do my business. You are my product, Shaheen, and need to swallow the bitter pill of subservience. Having Alice in my close care will help get you in line, won’t it?” Close care? What did that mean?

“She’s just another client to me,” Shaheen sighed, not looking at me.

“Oh, Shaheen, don’t be silly. Depositing eggs means something quite serious,” Cheshire purred. He padded over and then hopped up on Shaheen’s lap. Shaheen curled his lip and looked away while Cheshire laughed.

“So I’ll tell you how this is going to go. Alice is going to be my newest employee,” Cheshire said. I gawped at him.

“Excuse me?” I asked in shock. This was not what I saw coming. Which made it perfectly in line with Cheshire. Money is what I thought, favours perhaps—not being his sex slave for hire.

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