A bit of a shorter entry this time around, but I hope you all enjoy it regardless. Like with Andrea and Mariam or the Spire Guardians, the setting of Arkland and its many damsels is one I hope to return to outside of Kinktober; it's always fun to write and people seem to enjoy. This entry is a follow-up to
Kinktober 2022 - Day 22 - ObsessionLord Bagley was not obsessed with the Lady Abigail Leroux.Obsession, after all, was the sort of condition that affected only lesser men such as peasants and foreigners, while the Lord of Far Reach was of different, superior breeding. His family line reached back to the very founding of Arkland, and for years, he’d served as a courtier to the King himself. Obsession implied that he was not in control, that he was weak, and such an accusation could only be answered with drawn steel on the field of honour. That the memory of how she’d spurned him sometimes disturbed his sleep, that his spies kept a very close eye on her movements, that he often daydreamed of dragging her to his castle in chains that he might properly punish her for her betrayal… no, he was not obsessed. He could not be. If any of his soldiers or servants dared believe otherwise, they kept such treasonous thoughts to themselves, rather than risk their master’s acid temper.Yet, for all his protests to the contrary, his thoughts still centered on her. The very idea of Abigail Leroux had become like a poison for his mind, sapping his attentions, fraying his already poor composure. There had been other women in his life, a parade who he turned to for amusement and discarded at his leisure, but none before who so openly defied him, embarrassed him in front of King and court. None who had so slighted his honour that it demanded retribution.And now the time for that retribution was at hand. All around him, the bandit’s encampment burned, their numbers culled by the brutal assault of his household regiment and the few survivors sent to flight, pursued with bayonets fixed for daring to renege on their side of the deal and extort him, yet Bagley’s attentions were completely centered on the blonde beauty flanked on either side by a pair of his soldiers. She’d been bound as a prisoner of the highwaymen, ropes securing her tightly at her wrists and beneath her breasts, a cleave gag keeping her silent, and above, beautiful green eyes went wide in shock and horror. “Did you think I would not find you again, dear Abigail?” Bagley demanded, face becoming red as his pent-up rage found an outlet. “Did you think I would forget how you shamed me?”His sabre, unblooded in battle with the bandits, scraped against the wooden mouth of the scabbard, and the first cut sliced cleanly through the skirt of her silken gown without touching the skin beneath, exposing a long, shapely leg to his inspection. “You could have looked the other way, my lady. You could have allowed me my pleasures without comment and stood by my side as my future wife, yet you had to oppose me.” A second cut, and Abigail’s other leg was left bare. “And now, you will pay for that decision.”“Mmmmppgggghhh!” Abigail screamed into her gag, glancing wildly to the soldiers on either side and finding no support there. “MMMMPPPPPGGGHHHH!”Long had he dreamt of how to discipline her once she fell into his hands, considering every possible humiliation in agonizing detail, and now that the moment had come, he found himself wracked by indecision, obsessing over each possibility until none seemed like the ideal one to take. Still, now that she was in his hands, well… he had all the time in the world. “Take her to my carriage, and make sure she’d bound tight,” he ordered his men, slamming the sword home. “It is a shame you vanished without a trace, my lady, on such a dangerous road. But fear not, I’m sure that a woman of your beauty will have scholars obsessing over the mystery of her loss for generations to come…”
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