Total pages in book: 137
Estimated words: 130317 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 652(@200wpm)___ 521(@250wpm)___ 434(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 130317 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 652(@200wpm)___ 521(@250wpm)___ 434(@300wpm)
“This concludes this Judgment Session,” the deep-voiced Elder said. “Thank you for attending and welcome to the PPP. We hope to see you back here at the Inner Sanctum soon for your Binding Ceremony.”
The Elders began rising and filing out of the small theater, leaving Sev and Mia to stand there on the stage. At last, no one else was left but Brother Jonash.
“Come on, you two,” he called in a cheerful voice. “That wasn’t so bad now, was it? I assure you, I’ve seen Judgment Sessions that were much more harsh. You really got off easy!”
“Yeah, right,” Sev muttered under his breath.
Mia, however, said nothing—she just looked up at her partner with wide eyes. Were they really going to have to practice the Commands they had been shown tonight? And if so, how far were they going to have to go?
“Don’t look at me like that, okay?” Sev told her. He ran a hand over his horns distractedly. “We’ll figure a way out of this mess…somehow.”
Though he didn’t look like he had any idea how. For that matter, neither did Mia.
“Come on,” Brother Jonash said again. “I would rather you had seen the Instructional vid on the Chastity Devices here, in case you had any questions, but I think you’ll be able to figure it out. So for now, I’ll take you both to your Work Assignments. We still have a lot to do before we can hear the Prophet speak tonight!”
He led the way out of the small theater and Mia didn’t know what else to do but follow.
TWENTY-ONE
SEV
They were fucked and Sev knew it. Now he understood the real reason the Docking Cave was so far from the Dome and why access to the ships was restricted.
Should have listened to my fucking instincts, he thought grimly as they finally left the Inner Sanctum. Now we’re fucking stuck here and I’ve got no weapons or any way to get us out!
Not only that, the fucking perverted Elders expected him to “train” his partner to sexually service him and obey his every whim. Sev wouldn’t deny that if Mia had come to him in private and asked to play kinky little games, he would have been eager to go. But the idea of forcing her to do the things they had been shown on the flat white screen turned his stomach.
The Dae’mon half of him might want to perform “Ger’prex” with her and teach her to submit sexually, but the Kindred part of him recoiled at doing something to his partner that she didn’t want.
Are you sure she doesn’t want it, though? whispered a dark voice in his head. Did you smell her need when you were watching that fucking training vid? She was more aroused than a female d’rix in heat!
Which was true, he acknowledged uneasily to himself—all through the wife training film he’d been smelling Mia’s heat waxing and waning. He’d been keeping track as best he could with his sensitive nose—trying to piece together what turned her on and what turned her off—females could be sensitive that way. But it was fucking confusing.
As far as he could tell, the visual images on the screen had been really doing it for her. At the same time, however, the sexist directions the Prophet had been giving had been making her angry—enraged almost—and turning her off. But since these two things were happening at almost the same time, it was difficult to know which parts of the wife training the PPP expected him to do would be at least acceptable to his partner. She…
“Hey, Sev—are you all right?”
Mia’s soft voice drew him out of his thoughts and he looked down to see his partner watching him with anxious eyes. Up ahead of them, Brother Jonash was leading their way, apparently oblivious to anything else but the pleasure of walking through the large park on a beautiful, sunny day.
“Yeah, I’m fine. Just trying to figure a way out of this,” he murmured, keeping his voice low, for her ears only.
“I’ve been thinking about the same thing,” she murmured back. “But at the moment, nothing comes to mind.”
“I’ll see if I can find anything out during my work period,” Sev told her. “You do the same, okay?”
She nodded. “Got it. I’ll just—”
“Here we are—the outdoor communal kitchens. There you are, Sister Mia—run along and greet your fellow sisters in the PPP. I’m sure you’ll find them very welcoming—we love new recruits around here!” Brother Jonash said.
Sev looked up to see that he was pointing to a large, long wooden structure where lots of women dressed in plain white gowns were congregating.
“Oh, er…okay.” Mia nodded.
“We’ll all be meeting here after our work duties are finished. There will be a communal supper and then we all get to listen to the Prophet’s Wisdom!” Brother Jonash said. “So fix this spot in your mind, Brother Severith—you’ll come here instead of back to your domicile after work is done.”