The Drazen World: Broken (Kindle Worlds Novella) by Bree Dahlia

Author:Bree Dahlia [Dahlia, Bree]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2018-01-22T16:00:00+00:00

Three.

I choose to suffer.

And I was content with that choice. But when he cradled my face lovingly in his hands and gave me a sweet kiss, my blood froze solid.

The sharp crack snapped my eyes open, springing forth a well of tears. The seal had been tampered with, and I could no longer keep them contained. They streamed down my cheeks, down my neck, dampening my collar.

My skin was smoldering, already sore and fragile, the rest of me chilled to the marrow. Another lash drenched my forehead in sweat.

The stings were vicious. They claimed my back, my ass, my thighs. They reached in with their evil tongues and licked my soul.

I didn’t scream, but I sobbed when I heard the hiss sail through the air because I knew it was coming for me. Where I cried the loudest, he struck the hardest.

He’d been brutally honest. I did thrash. I recoiled when the belt neared, and I contorted when it hit. The worst was the moment it left my skin, for I knew there’d soon be another.

The callous bites had taken on a life-form, devouring me from the outside in, and the belt was its Master, pulling its strings while it delighted in my torment. Stopping was no longer an option. I was going to see this through no matter how long it took. I could handle it. I’d handled uglier.

I switched off my pain and took the control back. It didn’t exist. I didn’t exist. I was just a bodiless observer, and nothing could touch me. The silent pain.

I watched my eyes swell and my cheeks stain. Watched the hair plaster to the side of my face and stick between my trembling lips.

A sense of achievement filled my consciousness. I had the strength to deny it all and be just fine.

The corners of my mouth began to curve up right before the sensations ceased, yanking me back to a body I didn’t want to be in. I’d been the ash, desensitized and free from sparks until forced into the wildfire. Then I torched.

It was no consolation that my body had been drugged by the ache. My brain dulled, but as a cruel joke, it’d kept my nerves on high alert. Parts of me were throwing daggers at the others. They should’ve been sent to the corner for not playing nice.

I was aware of Deacon beside me, but I didn’t react to him. I briefly wondered if I was a masochist. No. My mind wasn’t too anesthetized to remember the requirement. Receiving pain did not give me pleasure. Receiving pain gave me fucking pain.

Time held little meaning by that point. I didn’t know if it was thirty seconds or thirty minutes or thirty hours before he’d lifted the belt again.

I shook my head. He brought the leather to my face, and the earthy smell sickened me. He ran it over my lips, and I smashed them closed, shaking my head once more.

He pressed it into my mouth, and I tasted bitterness. I tried to spit it out.

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