Chapters tagged humiliation

by Opps-Thats-Mine

Chapter 4

You run. Not toward the gate. Toward the collar, around the well, to the bucket. Hoping to see a face that is not the one sitting on your neck. The dress scraps your new thighs. The chest slaps with it. You hit the bucket with both hands hard enough that water slops over your wr...

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Chapter 5

The light goes down hiding what just happened. Someone in the cottage slams a pot for real this time, and the older man swears and works the knots with fingers that are not trying to be kind. The cap cuts your rope with a knife that nicks your wrist. You come out of the hole on l...

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Chapter 8

You do not lie down. You go back to the bar with the rag pulled over your chest as far as it will go and Marr is wiping the same slate he counted on while you were bent over his keg. The room has thinned. The older girl is upending wash water. Sawdust-sleeves is gone. "Paper,"...

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Chapter 11

You do not wake to slop. You wake to a boot hitting the crate and Marr standing over the bench with daylight in the open door. The blanket is on the floor. The dress is still at your waist. Your hand is still between your own legs like you fell asleep in the middle of it, and th...

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Chapter 15

 The crowd does not thin. It packs the stones until the men at the front are against the glass, and some of them stop pretending they came to buy a hem. A few of them get a hand inside their own trousers and work thems...

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Chapter 16

 You stay on the floor. Your knees find the rug because the bed is offlimits, and you sit back on your heels in the worn ivory-and-black with Sera’s chest still heavy in the lace and the slap-heat still sitting in your cheek. The chair of...

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Chapter 18

You pull the robe on before the key finishes turning, worn wool over the lace and the new rings, Sera’s winter smell shutting around you, and you drop back onto the rug with the tray because that was the first order, even if a second mouth already put you on the bed. The beads ar...

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Chapter 32

 When the last coat-hem clears the green curtain you collapse inward on the coverlet, and the enchanted strands finally stop performing. They slacken as if the room has used up its stamina on y...

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Chapter 33

He does not take your arm. He walks, and the ribbons that are left on the floor do not follow, and you go after him before you have a chance to think. The cape is heavy. The bra and the panties are still on under it, damp, and every step tugs the wet cloth against you while the h...