Domination

When I entered the director's office that afternoon, I knew the question wasn't whether I would accept his deal. It was how much I was willing to give for a crown I no longer cared about.

Her eyes behind those glasses had been chasing me from across the bar for years. The afternoon I brushed her wrist, I knew she was waiting for something too.

I saw the videos: women strapped to machines, electric shocks, lashes while they ran. And still I dialed the number. My will was spent.

Selena had spent months molding them into perfect pets. What she didn’t expect was for the buyer to arrive with a third collar under his arm.

When I put on the mask in front of the mirror, I stopped being myself. What happened after in that garden I didn’t tell anyone until today.

Three months of writing to each other. One step across his threshold. What came next wasn’t what he promised: it was everything my body had been demanding for months.

When the blonde’s heels echoed down the corridor and the chain pulled at his collar, Adrián knew he was about to learn what it meant to be property.

Forty-three degrees, four in the afternoon, and her on the balcony with the camisole stuck to her body, knowing full well I was going to climb five floors.

When I faked the fainting spell, they knew they had me. But it was exactly then that the balance of power changed hands and the hook began looking for another body.

When the air returned to my lungs and he turned on the red camera, I knew that night of domination had only just begun and I could no longer go back.

When I went to the park to confront the boy extorting my son, I never imagined I’d be the one paying the most intimate price.

When her hand brushed mine as she passed me the glass, she didn’t pull away. She looked at me over her glasses, bit her lip, and I knew we’d been waiting too long.

I arrived at the hotel trembling, convinced it would only be photos. When the second brother walked in, I knew that night wouldn’t end as planned.

When the Master told her they were going out that day, something in Luna’s chest tightened. Not from fear, but from the anticipation only she knew.

The flyer promised guaranteed results. It didn’t say they would include restraints, electric shocks, and a year locked away with no way out. I signed anyway.

I put on the wig, the heels, and the fake curves. I didn’t realize that before dawn I’d be barking in a garden with my knees in the dirt.

The private room was immaculate, and I was kneeling in the center, waiting. Eight men entered in silence. Then I understood what it meant to truly surrender.

When the doctor locked the door, I knew that appointment would be unlike any other. It never was.

My husband had a plan: take me to a shop and let the salesman put his hands on me. There was only one rule: he would pretend not to see a thing.

I walked into her room with a tray and came out a different person. Sofía was twenty, and she already knew more about me than I knew about myself.