Chapter 28

"Buongiorno Gatita."

Giovanni, spoke from behind me and I instantly shuddered as he stroked my arm lightly. His hand roughly grabs me by my waist and then a tender kiss is pressed against my neck, just below my ear. My nerve endings crackled with awareness, and my skin pebbled underneath his touch.

Giovanni's hand gripped my collar and his erection pressed deep against my ass. I'm his. For his pleasure, is all I could hear playing in my mind. I'm his, and I belong to him.

"How can I serve you master?" I say in a sarcastic tone.

"You're still struggling Gatita?" He says pressing his erection harder into my ass. "You still don't understand you belong to me? I will make you understand how much." Giovanni's hand pressed deeper into my side causing me to arch my back into him.

"Do you have to do that?"

A chuckle escaped him. "The fact that you still speak to me this way means yes, I definitely have to. Go brush your teeth, shower, and come back here."

"And then what, will I be chained up again?"

"With that attitude, of course you will," he laughed.

I walked to the bathroom and relieved the weight of my bladder. After a warm shower I look at myself in the mirror and realize I've seen better days. The brush was on the bathroom counter and I hesitated but then decide a little brush of my hair wouldn't hurt. I felt eyes were on me as I oiled my body but there was no one there when I looked to the door.

I took in a deep breath before exiting the bathroom, and Giovanni greets me with a black blindfold. I started to take a step back but I realize the more I resist the harder this will be.

"I like the way you watch me with such intent, but I'm going to be your eyes. I only want you to focus on what I'm making you feel."

"Will you make me feel good?" I knew better than to ask that.

"First I'll make you feel real bad, and then," He lifted the cloth to my face and pressed it over my eyes. I closed them out of pure instinct, and I felt him knot the material firmly at the back of my head. "Then I'll make you feel real good."

Panic spiked as soon as the darkness closed in around me, and I lifted my hands to rip the blindfold off.

"What do I want from you?" He says coolly as if he knew what I was going to do.

"My obedience, my submission, and my body." I say placing my hands down to my side.

"Good girl." He says placing a sweet caress to my shoulders.  "Lesson number three. Trust."

"What does this have to do with my obedience?" I say softly.

"Question me again and you will be punished." He growls and then the familiar click to my collar.

I know I'm now on a leash, and at his full disposal. Fear, is seeping in as he tugs my leash and I walk blindly. I count the steps in my mind and I feel a swift rush of air. The floor has changed to a softer carpet, and the aroma is husky. My heart begins beating faster by the second and with the clank I hear it nearly makes me jump out of my own skin.

"Stay,"

I can't help but listen to his movements. I try to make out the different sounds but it's becoming harder.

"Settle, gatita," he cooed.

"I'm afraid," I admit on a shaky whisper, the words leaving me without thought. Admitting my fear to him made me feel powerless.

"If I were a good man gatita, I'd tell you not to be frightened. But I'm not a good man, and I never will be."

Giovanni, took my hands into his firmly and then placed them downwards, and then soft leather enclosed them.

"You're cuffing me?"

"I am. Now arms behind your back."

I do as instructed and I let out a breath. I know he's not going to kill me but I'm not dumb enough to think he won't hurt me.

"Lean forward."

I'm afraid that I'm going to land flat on my face but I remember this is about trust. Without any doubt I lean my body forward until I feel a soft surface. It's not a bed but it's not a table. He breaks my thought as he pulls my right ankle up to a ninety degree ankle and then I feel a tug to my wrist. Then he does the same to my left ankle. I'm exposed. My pussy and ass are exposed and on display.

"How are you feeling?" He whispers into my ear, but before I could answer he growls. "And don't lie to me."

"I'm nervous."

"And?"

"I feel that I'm in danger." I say the last word and I feel his smile.

"I like having you at my mercy. I always have, and I don't think I've ever wanted a woman's obedience as bad as I want yours." I don't speak I just listen. "I like when you tremble but what will bring us closer are your tears."

"Please."

"Who do you belong to?"

I don't speak because I don't want to speak. If I say it out loud this all becomes real, it's not just a bad dream I can't wake up from.

Smack!
Smack!
Smack!

Giovanni, paddles my ass continuously until I'm choking with tears. Then he begins to place harsh whacks to my pussy.

"Who do you belong to?"

"Please stop!"

"Do you think I'm a monster?"

"Yes!"

"You think so, huh?"

Smack!

"Yes!" I screech.

"There are monsters way worse than me, you were friends with one. The man who killed your mother is the same one who nearly killed you."

All of the air in the room leaves and I'm suffocating at the revelation. Antonio, is the one who killed my mother and uncle in cold blood.

"I'm not your enemy Gatita, but I can help you kill your true enemy. But I need to know that I can trust you."

One more immobilizing hit, then he stops, with me heaving for air. I hear the object fall to the floor. Then he removes my blindfold.

I stare back at him with choppy breaths, tear-soaked cheeks, and a stinging body. I have no response. He made his point. I was blind in trusting Antonio, but I know that now. What does this have to do with him?

"You're mine now, Scarlett. Do you hear me?"

I nod my head.

"I won't break you. But I am going to tame you, and together we will be unstoppable."

Tears were streaming down my face uncontrollably. I didn't know what to think or feel but I knew Antonio must die at all cost. I would sell my soul to the devil if it means I could be free just to kill him.

Giovanni, stroked my hair and if I could I would be purring.

"Tell me what you're thinking right now."

"I'm alone." I spoke the truth just as he knew that I would somehow. "I have nothing and no one."

"You are mine therefore never alone. Do you understand me?"

"Yes, but I only want one thing from you."

"You do not get to make request."

"I know sir, and I won't request anything else if you let him die by my hands."

"Don't you have enough blood on your hands?"

"It's not nearly enough. Please, I will never run and I will be yours." I realized what I was doing but before I could finish the deadly sentence.

"They have Isabella!" Emmanuel, says as he bursts into the room.