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“I’m so sorry, Corbin,” I say as I start to cry. “I’m sorry. I didn’t want any of that. I didn’t mean to hurt her. I…”

“Woah,” he says as he pulls back. “Stop. Stop it, Hux.”

“I hurt her,” I say tearfully. I see Jim and another guy I don’t recognize, and they both look happy.

“Come inside,” he says as he takes me back and forces me in the door. “This is Ben Lawson. He is Roman’s best friend. I assume you know who Roman is?”

“Uh… Yeah. Riah’s boss,” I say. “It’s good to meet you, Ben.”

“Likewise,” he says warmly.

“So… I’m going to just throw you into the deep end here. Okay?” Corbin says.

“Go for it,” I say. What I love about Corbin is that he not only encourages me to have emotions, but he will also force them out of me by making me talk to him about anything and everything.

There is nothing he doesn’t know about me until recently.

He knows that I do my best when I am thrown all of the information at once.

“Okay. Zoriah is with Roman and Ben. They are both in LA right now, and they’ll be married when they return later today.

Riah has every intention of pulling you into their dynamic.

She is madly in love with all three of you, and we have encouraged her to fuel that as much as she wants,” Corbin says.

“So… I hope you meant it when you told her you love her, because she meant it.”

“I did,” I admit. “Jim, are you sober? You look sober.”

“Yeah,” he laughs, “I stopped drinking when Riah went missing.”

“Hell yeah. Good for you,” I say as I hug him.

“Oh… Riah is absolutely not allowed to drink alcohol. At all,” Ben says.

“She had a bit of a meltdown when she connected that Richard and Doug were the ones who raped her and her mom before killing her mom. She ended up getting shit-faced and screaming at Dad. It led to a good conversation that helped her heal, but she’s no longer allowed to drink. ”

“You should explain the rest of that,” Corbin laughs.

“Right… So… do you know what TPE is?” Ben asks me.

“Yeah. Total power exchange. Why?” I ask.

“That’s the agreement that Roman and I have made with her. From the beginning she explained that you are included in all the things that we are. I can explain more when you get settled,” Ben says.

“You guys are throwing a lot at him right now. The man hasn’t even sat down yet,” Jim says.

“No, it’s okay,” I say. “I would much rather have you throw it all at me at once. It’s easier that way.”

“Well, they will be back this evening. We won’t tell Riah that you are here, but we will let Roman know,” Corbin says. “I would like to know how you got here.”

“Uh…” I say.

“Come sit down,” Jim says. I nod and walk over and sit with them on the couch.

“So. I am just going to throw all of this out at once because I need to before I see Riah,” I say. “I am honestly afraid she will fucking hate me for what I had to do over the last month, but… I wanted to be free, and I wanted to get back to her. I needed to know she was okay,” I say.

“Let’s hear it,” Corbin says.

“I had to essentially pretend that I was consenting to whatever I was told to do. It didn’t matter who it was; I had to play the part and keep everyone happy… This means I was raped multiple times a day by… well… everyone,” I say.

“Shit, man. That’s awful,” Ben says.

“One of the ones that latched onto me was Haley,” I say.

“Oooo. Yeah, I saw that coming,” Corbin says.

“She’s... worse than Doug and Richard. Also, Doug is her biological father.

I don’t know who her mom is, but apparently Pamela and Richard lost their baby at birth, and Haley’s biological mom died in childbirth, so they just swapped them.

Richard and Pamela raised Haley, and their baby was buried with that woman,” I explain.

“Haley was in on everything from the beginning. There is so much that was hidden from me that I’ve learned over the last month.

Like… Richard assaulted Riah many times. ”

“We knew about once when she was eighteen, outside of when she was six and a few weeks ago,” Jim says.

“Haley said every time she stayed at your house with Riah, she would wait until you were asleep and drug her. Once Riah was knocked out, she would let Richard in and help him rape her. This happened every time she was there, I think.”

“Oh no,” Ben says slowly.

“It was when I’d be passed out drunk, huh?” Jim asks with a sigh.

“I think it was just when everyone was asleep. This would have happened when Corbin was home too, so I think they were just really fucking good at being quiet,” I explain. “Also… Haley is dead.”

“Oh, Riah is going to be disappointed that she couldn’t do it, but give her a step by step and she’ll love it,” Corbin laughs.

“Well… You see… I was made to be consenting. She used this power to force me to get off. Apparently, there is this injectable shit to force a man to get hard. She used that over the last month. I slowly gained her trust to the point that I had convinced her to take us out of the bunker so we could find Riah. The plan was to get her back to Doug as a surprise. She was excited for that, so after her daily assault, she shut the alarm off and got us out… We walked for a while so that we were secluded enough, and… I kind of lost my mind a bit.”

“Oh, please tell me you gave her a taste of her own medicine,” Corbin says.

“Yeah. I tied her up to a tree and hit her… more times than I remember. I was so fucking angry at everyone, and she is who I took that out on. She was the main part of Zoriah getting hurt. She was excited at the thought of whipping her with a metal cable and Richard killing her. Their plan was to get Zoriah pregnant with Doug’s baby but then kill her and have Haley raise it as her own.

So… I got a huge stick, carved it into a point, and shoved it up her ass.

I raped her with it. When her body went limp, I propped her up on it and walked away. ”

“Well damn,” Corbin laughs.

“Yeah…. Zoriah is going to love that,” Ben says.

“Also, I might have raped my mother, but… I’m choosing to ignore that part.”

“Don’t ignore it. What happened?” Corbin asks.

“Right after Riah got out, Doug wanted me to show my loyalty by letting him and Richard rape me… at the same time… Pamela ended up in Doug’s office and started blowing me.

When it ended up with just her, I… made her regret coming into that office.

I apparently caused damage because she didn’t have a voice for nearly a week after that,” I say.

“Meh. Revenge rape. Doesn’t count,” Ben shrugs. “Pretty sure Riah is going to rape Doug. Give her a giant stick so Haley and Doug can be matching.”

“Brings a whole new meaning to having a stick up their ass,” Jim chuckles, making me crack a smile.

“There he is,” Corbin says, hitting my leg. “You’re okay now, Hux.”

“Is Zoriah okay? How is she doing?”

“Since she had that meltdown last week, she is actually doing a lot better,” Ben says.

“She gave consent to be used orally a few weeks ago, but she was terrified of anything more, so we slowly moved into full power exchange. Roman said she gave full consent on the plane ride there, so she is definitely getting railed a lot right now and loving it.”

“Apparently my little sister is a freak,” Corbin laughs. “Like brother, like sister, I guess.”

“She is partial to violent but consensual interactions,” Ben explains. “Her only limit is anything close-handed, like punching, and no blood play.”

“Please don’t smack my sister,” Corbin laughs.

“Fuck that. I’m going to do it and see if it’s actually a limit. We can adjust as we go so it’s not like I'm going to knock the piss out of her,” Ben laughs.

“I’m afraid I have too much anger to be able to be around her,” I admit.

“Do you think you’d accidentally hurt her?” Jim asks.

“No, nothing like that, I just… I feel like my anger is going to be too much for her. I don’t know how to cope with this shit.

I have never let myself cope, because no matter how much I tried to heal, new trauma made its way in,” I say.

“But I’m free now… I will die before I get stuck with them again.

I feel like a fucking idiot for falling for their shit.

I just wanted to help Haley, but that was her plan.

She wanted me stuck there so she could torture me too. ”

“She can handle it,” Ben says. “Honestly, I think you two violently fucking might help the both of you.”

“As much as the thought of that makes me want to leap myself off a bridge, I do agree,” Corbin says. “It seems like Zoriah is going to do a lot of coping with sex and loss of control to you three. If that works for you too, then you’ll make a great quad couple.”

“I can’t wait to see her,” I admit.

“She’s going to be so damn happy,” Jim says. “I can’t wait to see this reunion.”

“The bedroom upstairs at the end of the hall is our room,” Ben says. “We’ve been making plans of how to allow all of us to be close to her and… I think I will just be on Roman’s other side and steal her every now and again so she can be between you and Roman.”

“Y’all don’t have to…”

“Don’t say that around Roman. He cares… aggressively,” Ben laughs. “Come on upstairs. You can take a shower and get comfortable. I’m sure you would like to get some sleep too. You look exhausted.”

“Yeah… I am running on fumes,” I say.

“Go on. One of us will wake you before they get here,” Corbin says. I nod and follow Ben upstairs.

“She's really doing okay?” I ask him when we get into the bedroom.

“Yeah. It’s slow going, but she’s getting there.

She has violent nightmares, though. We can’t seem to figure out how to help her there.

She will sometimes go days without sleeping to avoid waking us, but I end up staying up to watch her.

The last week she has been a bit easier to calm after a nightmare, and she gets back to sleep easier though. ”

“What changed there?” I ask.

“I think that meltdown and getting violently throat-fucked has helped a lot. She very much does cope with sex. Since the first day, she was dying for Roman to fuck the shit out of her, but she made herself wait to give consent until it didn’t scare her anymore.

That consent has come in waves,” he explains.

“How is the burn?” I ask.

“It’s still scabbed, but the infection was treated pretty easily. Luckily, it wasn’t severe,” Ben says. “She was pretty sore for a few days.”

“How did she end up here?”

“She ran here. The house she came from is only about a mile away. We had been trying to find her when she didn’t show up for work on Monday.

Roman came home to change clothes and eat something.

She showed up to the house naked and covered in blood and come.

Roman got her cleaned up. The local police have been shit, but apparently the FBI paid them a visit in LA.

I’m sure they will want to talk to you.”

“Of course. Anything I can do,” I say. “I know exactly where they are…. They are in a bunker off Old Highway 98. If you take the small dirt path just past the run-down gas station, you run right into the walking trail that leads to the hatch. If you go to the left about two miles, Haley is strung up in a tree.”

“Okay. You grab a shower and a nap. I am going to call the agents and tell them. I believe they are in town or going to be in soon,” Ben says.

“Okay. Thank you,” I sigh.

“You bet,” he smiles. “We are going to be getting really close with us all being with Zoriah. It’s important we all get along and trust each other.”

“I’m glad she has all of us,” I say. “She deserves so much love.”

“That’s for sure,” he agrees. “I’ll come wake you up later.”

When he leaves the room, I feel… happy... comfortable… safe… free.