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A glowing dragonfly was the only signal the club existed No garish signs, no hint of existence Just like Obsidian, both clubs worked on referral and secrecy

Knocking on the door in the correct code sequence, I glared at the bouncer who cracked it open

The glooet in there and fight Thenfor Zel

To track her down and take her hohtfully mine

"Poison Oaks? Is he here?" My voice lost its fake Australian accent and slipped into Russian My eyesight pulsated with greys and whites, aled

I hadn’t been this close before Not since two years ago

The bouncer held out his hand, pointing toward the back Stepping aside, he letnot to touchcrowd, careful to keep a wide berth The boxing ring in the centre of the club was the only fighting arena Every discipline was allowed and the dark stains on the floor, along with the tattered rigging and ropes, spoke of battles won and lost

My heart thudded faster, preparing for a fight

I found who I needed sitting with a half-naked woman with fake breasts on his lap His tanned skin and tattooed arht like a pet or a child on his knee

The instant he saw ht, Fox I’ in me not to slap the wo

"Ten thousand Giveyou have"

He shook his head, his bald scalp shining thanks to the neon lights in the shapes of dragonflies The ceiling had been painted with a thousand of the fucking bugs, transfore

"I’ain, Fox Fuck off"

The woainst his groping hand

The woman was tacky and cheap; my cock showed no interest in her fakery Only Zel had power over that piece of my anatomy She proved it still worked Too well

"I won’t touch you You haveMy body felt like it would explode at any et this evilness out of me I had to find my way back to the man I wanted to be and not the man I’d been trained to be

I needed to be punished

Poison’s brown eyes narrowed "You expect me to believe that?"

"You can bind ers stroking the woh I kne deadly they could be I’d suffered pain Great pain Pain I wanted again

After a never-endingover oatee "Get some rope and bind his wrists"

The man nodded and disappeared into the crowd He returned a th of heavy-duty twine

I ell-versed in the art of knots and rope It was a perfect weapon: silent, portable, undetectable

"Hold ‘e for me to obey

It took a lot to spin around and present my wrists My jaw locked as I deliberately and obediently held the sub over my shoulder, I deht"

"Dude, how the fuck a at me like I was an idiot

Touch me and see what happens, cocksucker

"Do as he says, Geoff You don’t want to knohat happens otherwise" Poison Oaks shifted the woman off his knee and stood to his iht

I kept nore any quick touches as Geoff bound ainst ht, he"Come on then, you psycho I don’t have ti He added, "You really need some therapy This isn’t the kind of shit you should need"

I didn’t answer My body had ceased to exist; all I thought of was finding peace The fear of being bound couldn’t override the delicious expectation of as to come

Poison looked across to the DJ in the corner of the ser over his throat Theinstantly "Anyone ants to see a brutal bashing, gather ‘round You--" he pointed at theI cliry push fro, a buzz filledwould be okay

"See hoeus We win Every time You’re ours, and you need to remember that"

The vision popped into ut My lungs gasped for air as I doubled over--shock and pain quaked through h me, a small bit of torture left The blackness in ht shine

Music clicked on, raining froae with a touch of dru Poison’s next ed by pain, but it didn’t ht he was safe withidiot

"Get ‘e hi to the side, I brought my knee up and sla hard His tanned skin flushed red with anger and pain "Oi, ht you said you wouldn’t retaliate" He charged, pushing me back ell-aimed strikes Fist after fist landed on ht More space to breathe

I felt lighter, ht hook, and I fell to hts danced inthat’d crept over me I was on the ether as Poison kickedany air fro