The Monster and the Doll by Jade West

Author:Jade West [West, Jade]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, romance
Publisher: Dangerous Press
Published: 2022-03-28T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

Lucian

I’d never heard of Reverend Lynch, but he made my hackles rise as soon as Elaine spoke his name. Her stance shifted, scared even after all these years.

“He touched you, didn’t he?”

She looked away from me as she answered with a nod of her head. It took her a few long seconds to speak again. “First, it was punishment. I had to write lines out for him in my best handwriting. He let the other girls leave when they were done, but he made me stay, saying I hadn’t done well enough.” She took a breath before she continued. “I was writing them until late, until I was falling asleep in my chair. That’s when he came up behind me.”

My heart was pounding as I waited for her to continue, and not in a good way.

Her voice was so gentle as she carried on talking. “He tore up the pages.”

“He spanked you, didn’t he?”

She nodded, and her cheeks were pinking up. “Yeah, he spanked me. He lifted my skirt up and spanked me over my panties. I was so embarrassed. Humiliated, really—tears streaming down my face. I begged him to stop but he told me to shut up. I didn’t know priests used words like that. Shut up. It was the worst word I knew at the time.”

I thought I would delight in her misery. Maybe that sounds fucked up, but when you’ve lived a life of jaded hedonism as long as I have, you are fucked up. I didn’t feel delighted. I felt deeply, starkly horrified at her quiet recounting. “And then what happened?”

“He called Margaret back. I tried to tell her that he’d hurt me. I told her I wanted to call my mother, but she wouldn’t listen to me. Reverend Lynch is a good man. A godly man. Spoiled little girls like you have no business making up lies about him.”

I tipped my head to the side and tried to act nonchalant, but it was hard. I felt anything but calm at her words. My fists clenched at my sides. “How often did he punish you?”

“I was sent there every weekend in the beginning, even though I begged not to go. Uncle Lionel told Mom it was good for me, and I think she was just relieved to have me out of the house.”

“Fuck,” I said, the word a sharp bark in the air.

“It was strange. Most of the time he was mean. But sometimes…sometimes he would smile at me as if he was proud. Sometimes he’d tell me that I was a good girl. That I was one of God’s beautiful angels. He told me those things, and the worst part is, I’d be so glad. I’d be glad that he thought I was a good girl. Even though I hated him.”

“He was a fucking predator. He wanted you to feel that way.”

“It was a few months in when I first tried to tell my mother what was happening. She said I’d already whined so much about going.

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