Mira withdrew her foot from Ayla's mouth with a wet pop, leaving the brunette gasping. Without breaking eye contact, she brought her bare foot to rest between Ayla's breasts, pressing down until the soft flesh yielded beneath her sole.
"Look at these," Mira mused, grinding her heel in slow circles. "Perfect little playthings. And yet..." She dug her toes into Ayla's left nipple, twisting sharply. "Completely useless to me now."
Ayla's choked cry filled the room as Mira alternated between cruel pressure and feather-light brushes with her toes. Each touch was calculated - just enough to make her whimper, never enough to grant real satisfaction.
"You'd let me stamp these pretty breasts purple, wouldn't you?" Mira purred, arching her foot to drag her big toe across a peaked nipple. "Let me ruin them for any other lover?"
"Y-yes Mistress!" Ayla gasped, her back arching into the torment. "They're yours to—ah!—to break!"
Mira's laughter was cold as she pinched a nipple between her toes, rolling it mercilessly. "Such a desperate slut. Do you even know why I bother with you anymore?" She leaned forward, her voice dropping to a venomous whisper. "Because at least your suffering is real. That look in your eyes when I deny you? That's the only honest thing about you."
With sudden violence, Mira clamped both feet around Ayla's breasts, squeezing until the flesh bulged between her toes. "You'll never be her," she hissed, remembering Rosalyn's face in ecstasy. "Never lose yourself like she did. Never feel that deep."
Ayla's tears flowed freely now, her body trembling not just from arousal but from the raw, cutting truth in Mira's words. The other women watched in silent fascination as their mistress's cruelty took on a new, almost desperate edge.
Mira released her grip, leaving angry red marks blooming across pale skin. "Clean my feet again," she commanded, shoving her toes back against Ayla's lips. "Maybe if you're very good, I'll fuck you as long as you want as a reward."
The words hung between them - both threat and promise - as Ayla's tongue began its familiar worship, her sobs vibrating against Mira's skin.
But even this, Mira knew, would be just another performance. Another pale imitation of that perfect, broken ecstasy she'd witnessed.
Mira's eyes flicked to the other women watching from the corner. "Come," she commanded, crooking a finger while keeping her foot pressed to Ayla's mouth. "Let's show this desperate bitch real torment."
Onyx moved first, her calloused fingers replacing Mira's foot on Ayla's abused breasts. "Shall we use the silver clamps?" she asked, already reaching for the delicate-looking instruments that belied their cruel bite. "Or perhaps..." Her fingers trailed down to Ayla's waist. "The nettle lash from the garden?"
Mira's lips curled as she reclined on the bed, her fingers idly tracing circles on her own thighs. "Both. But first—" She gestured to the bedside table where a small iron brazier glowed with coals. "Heat the clamps properly. I want to smell her flesh cooking."
Ayla whimpered as Onyx selected two silver clips with vicious teeth, dangling them over the coals until they glowed cherry-red. The scent of burning metal filled the chamber.
Meanwhile, Ruby knelt between Ayla's thighs, producing a small vial of amber liquid. "The alchemist's newest creation," she purred, uncorking it to release a sharp citrus scent. "One drop heightens sensation for hours. Two... well." Her grin turned wicked as she tipped the vial, letting a single glistening drop fall onto Ayla's swollen clit.
The effect was instantaneous. Ayla's back arched off the floor as if struck by lightning, her scream echoing off the stone walls. Every breath against her oversensitive flesh sent visible tremors through her body.
"Good," Mira murmured, watching Ayla's torment with half-lidded eyes. Yet even as Onyx approached with the glowing clamps, Mira's mind wandered back to that damned memory—Rosalyn's face contorted in real pleasure, not pain. Those broken cries that had sounded like prayers rather than screams.
She jerked back to the present as Ayla's shriek pierced the air—Onyx had applied the first clamp, the sizzle of flesh audible even over the brunette's cries. The scent of seared skin mingled with the citrus perfume of the alchemist's concoction.
"Luna," Mira snapped, her sudden irritation making the blonde woman jump. "Stop gawking and make yourself useful. Ride her face properly."
Luna scrambled to obey, settling over Ayla's mouth with none of her usual teasing grace. She ground down hard, muffling Ayla's sobs as Ruby applied the second clamp to the other nipple. The brunette's body bowed off the floor, her muscles straining against invisible bonds of torment.
Mira watched the scene unfold—Ruby now teasing Ayla's tortured clit with a single feather, Onyx twisting the clamps' chains to make the silver teeth bite deeper, Luna riding Ayla's face with increasing desperation—and felt... nothing.
No, worse than nothing. A creeping disgust at how easily these women performed their roles. How perfectly Ayla played the victim. All of it so carefully choreographed, so utterly predictable.
Unlike that moment she couldn't forget—Rosalyn's nails raking down Adrian's back as he drove into her. The way her hips had moved with instinct rather than instruction. That guttural, animalistic growl Adrian had made when—
"Enough!" Mira's roar shook the chamber. She tore the clamps from Ayla's breasts herself, ignoring the brunette's scream as chunks of seared flesh came with them. "Out. All of you. Now."
The women froze mid-torment, confusion warring with obedience. Ruby's mouth opened to protest, but one look at Mira's face had her scrambling backwards. They fled like startled birds, leaving Ayla sobbing on the floor.
Mira crouched over the broken woman, her fingers digging into Ayla's jaw. "Look at you," she hissed. "Perfectly ruined. Exactly as I commanded. And yet..." Her thumb brushed a tear from Ayla's cheek. "It's not enough."
Ayla's breath hitched. "I-I don't understand, Mistress. What more can I—"
"You can't," Mira cut her off, rising abruptly. "That's the problem." She pulled out a green vial out of thin air and tossed it towards Ayla. " Heal yourself. We will be leaving soon, to meet my future brother-in-law. "
As Ayla crawled away, Mira pressed her burning forehead to the cool glass. The memory wouldn't leave her—Adrian's powerful thrusts, Rosalyn's toes curling in ecstasy, that moment when their bodies had moved in perfect, unthinking harmony.
Her fist connected with the stone wall, pain radiating up her arm. Good. At least that felt real.
Soon, she would stand before Adrian Everhart. Soon, she would demand he show her that same abandon. And if he couldn't?