Crave (4 page)

“I don’t know. I can’t think. I…”

She flinched as she felt David begin to insert a well-lubricated finger inside her anus. “Don’t,” she pleaded. “That hurts.”

On the bed next to her, the other woman suddenly began to groan and cry, which increased Grace’s anxiety.

“Relax and you’ll find it adds to your pleasure. It will give you a stronger orgasm,” he promised her. She could tell that his finger was now inside her, but he didn’t move it around, instead he kept it quite still, pressed against one inner wall of her rectum. Within seconds she knew that he’d been right as the tension in her stimulated body continued to increase.

Beside her, the woman from table three was sobbing so loudly that it momentarily distracted Grace, giving her a moment’s respite from her impending orgasm.

Despite this, she could feel how wet she was between her thighs, and wished she could close them, but the fiendish little straps meant she was fully open to Will all the time, and his hands had pushed her knees wide apart.

As Laura nibbled at one of her rigid, throbbing nipples, Will pushed his tongue into her damp, needy vagina and David moved his finger very slightly against the wall of her rectum, Grace felt as though her body was going to explode.

“They’re both close to coming,” she heard Amber say as she tried frantically to delay the pleasure, for fear of what would follow.

In the other bed her fellow guest was now gasping and crying loudly as her desire mounted, which increased Grace’s excitement so much that she knew it was only a matter of seconds now before she climaxed.

Will’s tongue was suddenly still, but her muted sound of protest stopped as he used his fingers instead, while at the same time climbing up onto the bed until he was crouching over her on all fours and she felt the tip of his erection nudging against her shamefully wet opening.

The swollen head of his straining penis remained at the entrance to her vagina, and now she desperately wanted him inside her, no matter what the consequences. Her body was so full, and under such tight pressure from the leather outfit she’d been put in, that it craved release from the throbbing, hot tension that was making every inch of her flesh frantic as she both longed for and yet feared the orgasm that was now so close.

As Will slowly thrust into her and David slid another finger inside her second opening she heard herself scream “Yes, oh yes!” as the first tingles of her long-awaited climax began deep inside her body.

“She’s coming,” said Will. “It’s time now.”

Grace realized what he meant, and knew that once her orgasm took hold something bad was going to happen. Desperately she fought to control herself, breathing through her open mouth and attempting to quell the shards of hot ecstasy that were travelling up her body, but her efforts were in vain.

As her teased and tormented body finally went into spasms Will, without withdrawing from her, leaned back away from her and Grace’s initial cry of ecstasy changed to a shout of protest as a swift blow from a riding crop fell across the shuddering, trapped flesh of her belly. Pain seared through her tender flesh like fire.

“No!” she screamed. “That hurts. Stop, please stop!”

“It will stop when your climax stops,” said David softly. “Wait a few seconds and you’ll be surprised at what happens now.”

As the pleasure from her long-delayed orgasm continued to flood through her body, and with the sound of the other guest’s cries filling the room, Grace wanted to weep at the cruelty of a trial designed to spoil such a cleverly orchestrated moment of ecstasy.

Then the feelings inside her changed, and the spasms grew stronger. “Why won’t it stop?” she cried, as waves of hot, dark pleasure continued to swamp her while the riding crop flicked relentlessly at her trapped, flinching belly.

“Because the pain from the crop is prolonging your orgasm,” said David, his voice thick with excitement. “It’s giving your body pleasure, as I knew it would.”

When her orgasm finally ended and Amber put the riding crop down, an exhausted and whimpering Grace lay in a sweat-soaked daze. “You know I was right,” David whispered in her ear, but she refused to answer him.

She didn’t fully understand what had happened to her, and she didn’t want to. Everything she’d ever believed about love told her that it was wrong to have had another man inside her while David was standing watching them. Yet shockingly, in a perverse way, the fact that David was watching had actually increased her pleasure.

As for the pleasure pain, she didn’t want to admit even to herself how good those moments had felt. She knew that she’d never felt so totally sated before, and the knowledge both excited and disturbed her. Her whole world was being turned upside down here in this darkly erotic basement room. Furthermore, she knew that the trial wasn’t over yet, and the most difficult part probably lay ahead of her.

Then, hearing the door to the room open and close she realized that the other guest had chosen to leave both the Dining Club and the man she’d planned to marry. The realization increased her fear, because unlike her, the other woman knew what else lay ahead in the trial, and had given up the man she’d hoped to marry rather than face it.

Now, if she chose to stay, she was the only one left for them all to pleasure and then torment. She knew that she had to go on, despite being well aware that the next part of the trial was going to be worse than the part she’d just endured. She had to gain David’s love, and this was the only way to do it. She was more afraid of the trials now than before, but deep inside her a new fear was also growing.

If, at some point during the course of the trial, she failed a test, how would it be possible for her, with all that she was learning about her own sexuality, to go back to the life she’d led before she was introduced to the Dining Club? This realization only increased her tension, because no matter what lay ahead she knew that by remaining she would have to learn to embrace the life that David loved so much. Choosing to stay this time would mean there was no way back.

Marina Anderson is the pseudonym of a British author. Her novels have sold over half a million copies worldwide and she is a
Sunday Times
bestseller.

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