Invisible strings

It was a strange dream to say the least. The Prince wondered if Gina had had the same dream. He pushed those thoughts fro his mind. It did no good to think about this. He had usurped Gina's control over her family and now needed to take the Royal Magnificence from Gina.

"All right, Gina, you're going to tell your cronies that I'm your boytoy." he told her. "There are some other instructions you're going to follow. You will remember doing them of your own accord."

This bit was important. For now Gina was the Prince's puppet but she was a puppet who could see the strings and the Prince needed at least some of these strings to be invisible.

Gina's head lackey Susan Underwood is incredibly useful. She was loyal to Gina. Her third in command is Carmen.

She might be a bit more difficult to control. Unlike Susan, Carmen had ambitions. The two girls also hated each other.

But if the Prince could unite them both under him...

Now was the time to begin his plan. Gina sat on the throne the Royal Magnificence has taken from the school theatre.

"It has come to my attention that both Susan and Carmen have betrayed me to Marel and Lauren, respectively." Gina said.

"No I didn't!" a girl with the same name as Susan.

"I mean Susan Underwood, not you. As punishment, Susan and Carmen will be my personal slaves. First they will whipped right now."

Susan and Carmen were both stripped naked and tied to a whipping post that was installed in the room but very rarely used.

"I'll deal with Susan personally." Gina said, taking one of the whip while handing another to one of her lackeys, Vanessa. "You will whip Carmen."

Gina raised her whip above her head and hit Susan across her back with her.

"You know what the ironic thing about your desire to take Susan's place, Carmen? I always hated Susan. You were jealous that you weren't my personal bitch."

"Actually, Miss. Gina, you're thinking of envy. Jealously would be if Carmen was afraid of losing her position to Susan." the Prince said.

Susan and Carman were brutally whipped. Some of the girls watched were shocked at Gina's cruelty. Vanessa was fighting back tears from whipping Carmen. The Prince stepped forward.

"Please, Gina!" the Prince cried out. "They've had enough."

The prince was careful not to directly ask Gina to stop. He wanted her to put some resistance. The Prince was the good cop and Gina didn't know this but she was playing bad cop. Gina tried to strike Susan but the Prince moved his body in the way, nearly getting hit himself.

"Gina, stop this! What you're doing is cruel!" he said, untying Susan from her bonds.

Vanessa did the same for Carmen.

"Take them to the infirmary." the Prince said.