The Cost of Freedom Is High

Around 3:00 am

Tyler’s POV -

Ricky had just walked out with a knocked out Bella hanging over his shoulders, and that’s when we all started to strategically get into the car.

Michael would be driving, with Balz next to him in the passenger seat.

DJ and Ryan were situated in the very back row of seats. Chris and Ghost were in the row behind Michael and Balz, and finally that left Ricky and I in the row between DJ and Ryan and Chris and Ghost.

Bella was situated in between Ricky and I, and for extra precaution there was a chest strap that secured in her as well as the arm cuffs that attached her arms to the arm rests.

“Are we ready to go?” Michael asked.

“Yeah, she’s situated.” Ricky replied.

“Okay, let’s go then.” Michael stated.

The large van started up, and we started the 7 hour drive.

Let’s just hope that Bella would actually sleep through most of the ride. Something told me, she wasn’t going to be well behaved when she wakes up.

Boy was I right.

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4 Hours Later

Bella’s POV -

I woke up with my head banging against an unfamiliar object, which forced my eyes open.

“What’s going on?” I mumbled.

“She’s up.” Someone announced.

Opening my eyes I was equally confused and a little scared.

“What the hell?” I panicked.

“You’re fine, just go back to bed.” Ricky instructed me.

“No, I want to know what’s going on.” I demanded.

“You’ll know when you need to.” Ricky said.

I stopped talking for a few, but focused my attention the tight chest strap and the cuffs on my arms.

I started to attempt to loosen the metal contraptions, but nothing was working.

“Please let me out.” I asked nicely.

“No.” Tyler replied.

“Are you kidding me?” I yelled.

“Shut your fucking mouth.” Michael growled.

Oh my, apparently we’re really in a shitty mood today.

“Let me out and I will.” I bargained with him.

“Not going to happen.” Tyler said.

“Fuck you, I’m not the one who’s being an asshole. You just got pissed off that I’m not perfectly okay with you using me like a little slutty toy.” I replied.

“Time to shut her up.” Ryan stated.

“Hand me a gag.” Tyler asked.

“No.” I yelled.

“Here you go.” DJ stated, handing Ricky what was very obviously a ball gag.

“Are you going to be nice?” Ricky asked, with a bit of a sigh to his tone.

“You’re not putting that on me.” I declared, pushing myself as far away as possible from Ricky.

However, that put me closer to Tyler, and I quickly realized that too late for Tyler had managed to get me in a tight vice so that I had no mobility.

“Open.” Ricky stated.

“Mmm.” I mumbled, tightly sealing my lips together.

“Always being difficult.” Balz sighed from the front.

Having enough of my shit, Ricky gripped my jaw so hard that I thought it was going to break.

“Open your mouth.” He growled.

“Just force it in.” Tyler instructed.

Despite my fighting it Ricky managed to force the gag into my mouth, and Tyler finished it off by tightening the strap in the back.

“MMM!!!” I screamed.

“That’s so much nicer than you talking.” Ricky stated.

Fuck him.

I tried as hard as possible to use my tongue to push it out, but it wasn’t budging, and it was starting to hurt me.

“Relax or you’re going to lose your breath.” Tyler warned me.

I took a deep breath, despite how hard it was, and took a few seconds to quickly reflect on my situation. I had to figure out my next step.

I had no idea where we were headed, as far as I could tell there were only these 8 guys coming with us, and they were obviously pissed, based on the restraints and now the ball gag.

There was no way in hell I was getting out, so until we readed our destination I was going to sit back, and try not to choke on the damn gag.

I didn’t know what was to come, but I had a bad feeling about it.

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3 Hours Later -

“We’re here!” Michael exclaimed.

“Mmm-mm.” I attempted to speak.

“Aww, we love you too.” DJ said.

With the relief of Ricky taking the cuff off of my right arm, I managed to quickly flip DJ the middle finger, with as much of a smile that I could pull off with the gag still in.

“Oh Bella, you’re so fucked already, cut your losses.” DJ told me.

I rolled my eyes, and just faced forwards.

The car came to a complete stop in a garage, attached to an almost cottage like house. This was much smaller than I was used to, well with these guys.

What was going on?

Balz opened up his passenger door, and stepped out. Next, Ghost got out of his seat in front of Tyler and I.

“Be smart.” Tyler whispered, before he quickly picked me up, and handed me into Ghost’s waiting arms.

“Mmm!” I screamed, as I was thrown over Ghost’s shoulder.

“Got her?” Balz asked, as we came to a front door.

“Yep, just make sure she keeps her eyes closed.” Ghost said.

“Bella close your eyes.” Balz instructed me.

I ignored him, and kept them open as we took the first steps into the house.

“For fucks sake.” Ghost groaned.

“Fuck!” I screeched, against the gag as Ghost dug his fingers into my inner thigh.

“Now close your fucking eyes.” He growled.

I nodded my head, and finally closed my eyes.

We walked down a considerably long hallway, took a turn, and the next thing I know we’re taking a trip down some stairs.

“Mm-mm!”

Despite not being able to see anything, I knew this wasn’t good.

“I’d be worried if I was you too.” Balz chuckled.

Finally we came to a complete stop, but I once again got worried when I was laid down on a table.

“Ah, keep them closed until Balz or I say different.” Ghost snapped, as my eyes slowly began to open.

I heard shuffling feet, and a couple drawers opening, but after that it was pretty silent.

Thankfully the next thing that I felt was the strap of the gag being undone, and right after that it was taken out of my mouth.

It felt delightful to be able to breathe again normally.

Although delight quickly became slight fear as I was stripped down to just my bra and underwear.

“Spread your arms and legs.” Balz instructed me.

Without questioning them, I did as I was asked to, and as soon as my limbs were in place they were tied down tightly with some rope and tons of knots.

“Open your eyes.” Ghost said.

“Oh, no.” I groaned, taking a quick glance around the room.

“You dug this hole Bella, now you’re going to lay in it.” Balz told me.

“Just please tell me what the hell is going on.” I pleaded.

“Allow me to give you just a quick overview. You refuse to cooperate with anyone, give us no respect, and don’t complete your responsibilities to us. Obviously none of our training has been a help, so now we’ll just strip you down to the core, and build you back up as the perfect little submissive.” Ghost answered.

“Fuck you.” I spat.

“Example A.” Ghost snickered.

“You’ll get it eventually princess, … and if not then you’re in for a shit load of pain.” Balz told me.

“I think you doubt me too much.” I replied.

He rolled his eyes, and made his way to the back counter. Once I saw the candles and lighter in his hands I started to get a little worried.

I attempted to move my body a bit with the restraints, but nothing was working.

“What’s wrong?” Balz cooed.

“Please don’t do what I know you’re planning.” I begged him.

“Maybe someone should've behaved better.” He taunted me, lighting the wick of the thinnest and shortest candle.

“Balz, knock it off.” I growled, as he approached the table I was on.

“No thanks.” He replied.

“Josh, stop!” I yelled, using his first name, which I’ve never done before.

My cries did nothing, and I found the candle to be slowly tipping over my bare stomach.

I squeezed my eyes shut, tightened my muscles, and squealed as the hot wax hit my skin.

Had I been in pain before?

Yes.

Have they hurt me before?

Absolutely.

However, this was a whole new realm of pain.

It felt like it was singeing me, and even as the wax cooled it still hurt.

“Hmm, maybe this is what it’ll take to make you behave.” Balz said, almost as if he was contemplating the issue all by himself.

“No, just please stop!” I whined, as the wax slowly dropped further and further down my stomach.

“Shhh.” Ghost whispered, leaning down behind me and placing his lips against my ear, in a haunting fashion.

“No!” I yelled, once more as the pain increased even more.

“Answer one question correctly, and I’ll stop. The catch though is that you’ve only got the amount of time until this wick burns out.” Balz told me.

“Fine, just go.” I shouted, the pain increasing to new levels.

“Are you going to submit to us?” Josh asked.

I didn’t need more than a second to respond.

“Yes, just stop.” I cried.

To my complete relief, the candle was lifted up and off of me.

“I’m going to let you take over, and as for you my princess I’d make sure to keep that promise.” Balz said.

I took a deep breath of relief, and watched as Balz left to go back upstairs.

“Are you okay?” Ghost asked.

“It hurts a lot, but I mean I’ll make it.” I answered.

“You do realize that this entire thing could’ve been avoided by actually behaving back at the other house, right?” Ghost wondered.

“I’m getting at that.” I chuckled.

“No one’s actually slept besides from the few hours you dozed off, so I’ll take you upstairs and we can sleep.” Ghost told me, untying the ropes.

“Whatever you want.” I replied.

“Exactly.” He stated.

“So why are there only 8 of you?” I wondered, as he carried me like a baby up the stairs.

“As you’ve noticed this is a much smaller house, and there’s 8 bedrooms and it works better than having 30 + people trying to train you. 8 works much better.” Ghost replied.

“I see.” I said.

Ghost carried me into a small yet comfortable bedroom, placed me on the bed, and took of his shirt and slipped into bed next to me.

“You can’t fool us my dear, we know the difference between real submission and kissing ass. Balz and I know you weren’t sincere. I’ll just say that you might want to rethink your ways because the more we have to actually break you, your submission will be a lot more forced. Knowing you, I know that’s not what you want.” Ghost told me.

“Ghost, my mind won’t let me.” I whispered, turning around in bed to face him.

“The body will always overpower.” He responded.

“Nothing’s stronger than the heart’s will.” I informed him.

Ghost pulled me in close to his body, so that my legs wrapped around his waist and our noses were practically touching.

“You are much more naive than I thought, my dear sweet Bella.” Ghost whispered.

“I know.” I admitted.

He smiled and placed his lips gently on mine, pulling me into a frighteningly sweet kiss.

“You’re beautiful.” Ghost said.

For a second I was almost flattered with his compliment, but my head got back in the game and I remembered everything that had happened and was still going on.

“You’re a monster.” I snarled.

“I know.” He mocked me.

“and I plan to make your life hell.” He finished with a snarl.

“Bring it.”

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