wet and at first it felt nice, but he kept pushing harder and it felt like he was going to rip her apart. She grunted but didn’t speak.
Tony grabbed her hair with his other hand and pulled it hard. She felt pain in both places now and then he forced her onto her side. He took his hand out from inside her and forced her mouth onto his cock.
“Suck me,” he whispered.
She’d never done that before but she had no choice. He was forcing her head up and down on him.
“You belong to me,” he said. “You’ll do anything I tell you to.”
She kept sucking him, hoping he’d change his mind and want something else.
He kept her mouth on him until he was ready to come. Then he pulled out and sprayed his semen on her face. Some got into her eyes and stung.
When he was done, he lay down beside her. “Next time, it’ll be your turn.”
Next time ended up being less than an hour later. He went through some of the same actions, slapping her ass hard, biting, pulling hair, but this time he entered her and started to fuck her like she had been expecting.
It felt nice.
Then, as he was fucking her, he put both his hands on her neck and squeezed.
She couldn’t breathe and started to panic. He continued to fuck her as he squeezed harder, and her body reacted to the pleasure, overcoming the urge to fight. She came and as she did, he relaxed the hold on her neck.
“Best orgasm you’ll ever have,” he said.
He continued to pound her with his cock until he came a second time. Then he rolled over and fell asleep.
After a while, she got dressed and left. When she got home, she looked in the mirror and saw red marks on her neck. Her body hurt all over and she felt a strange combination of fear and longing.
Deb fell asleep and dreamed of Tony, hoping he’d come to her store again soon.
Chapter 10
July 15
It was a beautiful Friday morning, the sun shining down in such a glorious fashion that it made Avril want to run around the neighborhood shouting how wonderful the day was. She loved hot sunny days, and today was definitely fitting the bill. Even though it was only 9:00 in the morning, it was already 83 degrees out, and looking out her bedroom window, all she saw was happiness.
She stayed quiet, knowing her mom would still be sleeping. She liked to stay in bed mornings when she could. Weekends, holidays, and especially the summer when Avril was out of school.
The house was silent. Dad never slept this late so he must have already left for work. Avril thought for a minute and remembered it was Friday. During summer holidays, every day was part of a wonderfully long weekend. It was one of the best parts of being a kid.
She found an apple-flavored Bear Paw in the pantry and munched on it as she walked to the front door.
Hesitating, she looked at the little box on the wall that controlled the alarm system. Would the alarm sound if she opened the door? It’d happened before.
“No,” she decided. “Dad would have turned it off.”
She unlocked the door and walked out onto the front porch. The sun blazed across the sky even more magnificently than it had looked from her bedroom. She smiled and stretched her arms out.
Avril planned on spending as much of the day outside as possible. She’d bring her cheap little plastic chess set out and practice some games while sitting on the—
She blinked when she saw the dead cat on the rattan chair.
“Rocky?”
Fear ran through her and her first thought was, Daddy did this.
But she knew that was silly. Why would he?
She inched closer. There was no doubt it was Rocky. Avril had owned the cat as long as she could remember. It was a black tabby with brown stripes.
The cat’s head was turned at an impossible angle. That alone would have been enough to tell Avril that Rocky was gone, but on top of that, there were dozens (maybe hundreds) of bugs eating at the carcass. Rocky’s belly had been bitten so many times it looked like it was raw