OWNED IN THE DARK

CIARA

If I had walked away the first time, none of this would be happening.

But I don't. And now I'm standing here, trapped in something I no longer want.

"You petty, pretentious bastard. You don't get to do this to me," I snarl. "I'm done. We're done. Marry her for all I care, but I'm moving on with my life."

He laughs softly, the sound low and mocking, his eyes meeting mine through the mirror. My back is pressed against his chest, his grip firm on my waist.

"It's way too late now to think of walking away, little Ciara..." he murmurs against my ear. "You had years to walk away but the moment my cock got inside you, your fate was sealed. You don't ever get to walk away from us in this lifetime or the one afterwards. I've tasted you, and I'm never letting you go."

My stomach twists.

I try to remove his hands from my waist as it feels like some hot scorch burning through the fabric I'm wearing.

"Dream on Mathew, I snap, my chest rising and falling sharply. "I made a lapse in judgement but it is not too late...I want out."

"There's never an out between us Ciara, the earlier you get used to it, the better for you."

I try to come up with an argument, but my phone rings. I check the caller, and it's his sister Calista.

I pick up. "Hello?"

"Where are you Ciara? I've looked everywhere for you but I can't find you."

I clear my throat. "Just in the bathroom, I'll be right outside."

"Bathroom? Good.. Tony's on his way to you, he's been very worried about you. You picked a good one, honey. I totally support you choosing him. You should see him now."

Before I'm able to come up with a response, she hangs up giggling.

Then I heard him call my name outside the ladies room "Ciara? Babe are you good?"

I go completely still as Mathew suddenly pulls me even closer to himself and palms my right breast. I struggle to stifle a moan but he refuses to have it as I look up at the mirror in fright to see him smirking.

Mathew is a jerk. And when he smirks it's because he's about to start shit up.

I quickly answer Tony. "Hey Tony...I'm in the ladies I'd be out soon..."

Mathew being the devil he is at that moment tweaks my nipple bud and a moan slips out of my mouth.

"Are you okay Ciara?" I try to answer Tony but I can't even manage a coherent thought as he slips his hands through the slit of my dress and presses into my clit while clamping and tweaking on my nipple bud harshly as pleasure takes over my senses completely

This is not fair, he shouldn't get to do this when he's practically getting engaged to another woman.

I try to bring myself back from the brink of pleasure to snap out of it and push him away but no...my body fails me as I find myself nudging at the bulge in his pant suit, moving my hips in hopes of getting a friction around him. He grunts.

Tony is saying something yet I hear nothing as I feel Matthew unzip himself and slam into me.

I cover my mouth quickly to avoid moaning, then I exhale.

"Stop Mathew...I'm not on the pill and you have no protection."

He thrusts back in and out sharply. "Having your stomach swell with my child will do me such pleasure," he whisper.

He licks my ear while I stare at him through the mirror.

"This is wrong Mathew."

He bruises my waist with his fingers. "What's wrong Ciara is you thinking I'd let you walk off into the sunset with some punkass after loving you for three years."

His thrusts becomes even more urgent as I become a complete mess.

He continued. "What's wrong is you ever even imagining that I'd let you go."

I try so hard to stop him, Lord knows I tried yet it yields to nothing as he ignores me completely and simply hastens his thrusts.

"Your body is mine, your kisses are mine, everything about you is mine absolutely mine," he grunts.

My entire body suddenly pulses with electric urgency as I feel an orgasm coming up. Every protest in me at the moment dies out as he continues fucking my senses out of me as tears of frustration and pleasure attacks me. I clamp my mouth shut to avoid screaming out in pleasure so Tony doesn't hear me.

"Fuck...you feel so good and tight Ciara. I was your first and I'd be your last."

His hand remained on my waist as he completely ignores my cautions, getting vocal about the pleasures he feels

"The world be damned Ciara...you are never leaving me." He grunts as he cums at the same time I do, riding out his orgasm high, totally disregarding poor Tony at the other side of the door.

I push him away.

Without hesitation, I slap him hard. But he simply smiles.

I look away, trying to fix and make myself presentable. "Hey Tony...I'd be right outside."

Before I can make an attempt to leave, he moves closer to me, staring at me with a look of regret.

"I love you Ciara...I'd never marry her," he says.

"But there's so much going on that you have no idea of so, please stop allowing any man into your space. It drives me completely crazy."

He kisses my forehead.

I scoff as I fix my appearance, disentangling myself from him. He tries to go out but I push him backwards and made my way outside.

I find a very concerned looking Tony who has stayed outside no less than thirty minutes worried about me.

I walk toward him, enveloped in guilt. "Hey, Tony. "

He quickly checks me over. "Are you okay?"

I exhale shakily and smile.

Together, we join the engagement party. Throughout the night, Matthew's eyes remain on me irrespective of his fiancée beside him.

CIARA

"You are pregnant."

"I beg your pardon?"

"You're pregnant, Miss."

"How could I possibly be pregnant? I'm on the pill, and I take the morning-after pill every time despite my IUD. There is no way those test results are accurate."

The doctor stares at me for a while "Do you have your pills with you?"

"Yes, I do, Doctor Richard."

"Let me see it." I hand it over, and he checks the tablets.

He stays quiet for a while before clearing his throat "I'm sorry, Miss Ciara, but these are just vitamins."

There's a sudden ringing in my head as I stare at him in shock.

No way. All along, I'd suspected Matthew had messed with my things. But to get me pregnant just for me to stay with him? Who on earth does this?

I swallow and shift uncomfortably in my seat. "I want an abortion."

Doctor Richard stares at me "Are you sure Miss Ciara? Why not take some time to think about it?"

I shake my head "No...I want an abortion right now. I will not stay one more hour knowing I'm still pregnant with this child."

He nods. "Okay then. A nurse will escort you to a ward and prepare you for the surgery. Do you have any questions?"

"No."

"Would you like to know how far along you are?"

"No I won't."

The nurse takes me to the ward where I'm changed while I lie down and stare at the hospital walls and

ceilings.

I sent Calista a message, "Babes, I need to stay with you for some weeks. I'm a bit down."

A second later, her response comes in "Tell me where you're at, and I'd come get you right now." I smile sadly as tears fall from my eyes "I'd come by myself, Calista, no worries, love you."

"Love you more, darling."

I stare into nothing as I try to stop my tears...I'm an only child with absent parents, and I should welcome this child openly, but I completely refuse to be manipulated and controlled in this manner.

I stand slowly and walk away from the hospital, taking a cab to the beach, where I stay, reflecting on things in the breeze.

As an orphan, the closest I've got to family is Calista; she became my friend at the early age of six after I lost my parents. Her mother practically adopted me, but Mathew never agreed to them adopting me legally, so I stayed with them all my life as a guest.

I avoided him like the plague despite my crazy crush on him, until one day after my nineteenth birthday.

I had just returned from hanging out, Calista stayed back with Chad her date while I returned home early.

Matthew was apparently in a very bad mood. I should have simply walked away, but I couldn't; my heart ached as I watched him light up cigarette after cigarette pacing the pool, and so I went to him

"Matthew, are you okay?"

He eyes me from head to toe and then pours himself a bottle of gin, ignoring me totally.

"You know, talking to me could make you feel much better."

He scoffs and then smirks "The only way you can make me feel better is if I'm balls deep inside you"

There's a stunned silence as I stare at him in shock; I've always made sure to stay out of his way, never crossing paths with him " Who's stopping you, Mathew?"

For the first time since I've known him, he looked lost and confused. He clears his throat "You should leave now."

Looking back now, maybe I should have walked away, but I was so in love with him that I just wanted my turn with him even once. I moved even closer to him, then removed the very flimsy gown I had on, then removed my bra as my breasts spilt free, and he groaned as he hardened in his briefs

"You really should go, little girl...it's for your own good."

I scoff then walk up to him "What is it about me that even reminds you of a little girl? Tell me you don't like what you see, I dare you."

He stares but backs away " I need you to leave now Ciara"

I ignore him and face him squarely as I remove the glass of scotch with him and place his palms on my breasts, palming and squeezing with his hands as he groans but still tries to walk away so I hold his cock through his briefs and he screams "Fuck...I gave you time to walk away, you didn't."

I ignore him and kneel before him, removing his cock from his briefs as I lick him up sloppily, I play with his sac a bit more before I bulb my head down his massive cock as he grunts then pulls me up and kisses me, he carries me via the back door and takes me to his room as he bounces me into his bed and comes down on me, using his mouth on my pussy lip as I squirm in pleasure but he doesn't stop there, he torments me with his fingers before finally lining himself at my entrance as I go still "Oh..Ciara, there is no backing out after this."

I should have warned him, he was my first but I'm so distracted until he slams into me I lose my sense of presence and scream in pain "Fuck...why didn't you tell me you were a virgin Ciara?"

Tears pull at my eyes, and he pauses as he dries my tears "Should I stop Ciara?"

"No.. don't stop"

"Thank you for letting me be your first, I'd be your last." He slams back in, pulls out, repeats the motion, but after a while, it begins to feel so good my fingers claw at his back

"You're so tight, and you feel so good" He groans

"You're so big, Mathew, you feel so good...faster"

And so he dives even faster into me and for a moment it feels like my vagina might snap into two but it doesn't as my orgasm catches on and he cums, grunting and brutally drilling into me.

"There's no going back after this, Ciara." I should have listened to him, believed him, but I was lost in my stolen moments with him as he began coming to me every day after that day. I made sure Calista or anyone else didn't find out.

"Why on earth did you get an IUD, Ciara?"

"Because I'm not ready to become anyone's mother. I'm still a child myself."

"Come on, Cici, we've only been together for days, and the first thing you get is an IUD? If you get pregnant, I'd take care of both you and the baby."

I scoff "Dream on Matthew..I'm not removing this IUD. I'd rather have us go our separate ways instead."

"Whoa! Woah! Calm down, Ciara. Alright,t I'm fine with it if it's what you want.

My phone rings, bringing me out of my reverie as Calista's voice comes through "What's keeping you, Ciara? I'm on my way now."

I leave the beach and go to her family home because he lives alone and he never goes there. But as I step through the door and laugh while hugging Calista, I find Mathew staring at me from across the room.

I began pacing around. "Go check out Ciara's movement, and if she's recently made new friends. "

Damn .. I need to fix this fast.

" What did you find?"

"She's just recently started seeing Tony. She's not made new friends, and she just got out of the hospital."

I still go very still at the word hospital. What is she doing at the hospital? Is she unwell?"

Louis clears his throat "Now I need you to be calm about this Mathew"

"What the fuck is going on?"

"She's just gone into the hospital for an abortion today" Every single thing around me blurs immediately "Did you just say abortion?"

"Yes, according to my men, she found out she was three Months pregnant and immediately requested an abortion. She never wrote the name of the father of the child."

"I am the father of the child"

"What? Then why did she get an abortion?"

"I'd like to know the answer to that too. I'm leaving the office now.

I call my assistant into the office, "Cancel everything I have pressing for the next week. I'd be back as soon as I can Geoffrey"

"Yes sir." He steps out

"Where is she now Louis?"

"She's on her way to your old family house."

I nod..."Okay guess I'm going home "

I rise from the chair and walk away from the office, get into my car and drive towards the old house. I'd never, ever, let her go in this lifetime.

I drive down to the house and Calista is first to berate me "Now what on earth are you doing here Mathew?"

I scoff "Last I checked both our parents own the house and we both grew up in this house"

"So is your little fiancée with you?"

"No, she's not Calista, give me a break. I'm going to my room." I walk away and she calls after me "Mom and dad will be so glad you came around."

I drop my things off in the room and move down the stairs to the kitchen, lighting a cigarette...I promised I'd quit yet whenever I'm in a nervous state I revert to my cigarette, my bad habit. I put out the cigarette, pick a glass of sparkling water when I hear her voice as I move towards them; she freezes the moment she sees me.

"Hello Ciara."

"Hi Matthew." She says softly then clears her throat before looking at Carlista in question as Calista shrugs nonchalantly.

"Babes, Matthew suddenly turned up here without prior notice hope you don't mind?"

"Of course not it's fine." She says softly. "

She chose to come here to avoid me but there is no avoiding me right now because we both need to have the dreaded conversation she's avoiding.

Calista fawns over her "Sweetheart, why were you at the hospital? Are you okay? Should you be standing?"

"I'm fine Calista...just need to lie down right now."

She takes her hand as they both walk up the stairs together, disappearing from my sight.

I wait until Calista comes out "She's asleep, I need to get some things outside now I'd be back on time. Please keep an eye on her for me will you? I know you don't like her but please she's the closest one I have to a sister."

I scoff "Why do you even think I don't like her?"

"Well duh...she avoids you like a plague and you ignore her totally which works just fine for me but today she's sick so I need you to watch her for me."

"Okay, Calista." I walk up to her, hug her and kiss her forehead as she eyes me suspiciously" You should let Louis take you"

She snaps immediately "I don't need Louis, I can go out by myself."

There's a story there I know but since they both don't tell me anything I act like I know nothing.

Immediately she leaves, I go to Cara's room where I find her asleep, a few minutes later, it starts raining heavily and I get a text message from Louis "I have your sister, I'd return her after the storm has passed"

I shake my head at that.. he'd share when he's comfortable sharing. I pick a chair and sit beside her as I stare at her then light a cigarette, two hours later she finally yawns and comes awake. I sent the butler a message to get soup for her.

"Are you feeling better Ciara?"

She frowns "Where is Calista?"

"She went out so it's just us. Would you care for water?" I open a bottle of still water and pour some into a cup, helping her sit as I help her drink it from the cup.

The butler James walks in with a tray which contains her soup and I collect it. "Drink up, it's healing soup" So I feed her and wait until she's done and a little relaxed before clearing my throat "Why on earth would you choose an abortion over telling me you were carrying our child Ciara?"

She scoffs "Of course you know already... doctor-patient clause doesn't even matter to you."

" Why would I keep a child I never signed up for? You want things always done your way but I will not be a pawn in whatever games you're playing. I'm done with you."

"Did it ever occur to you that I might actually want the child?"

"Oh get a grip and get off Lulu land Mathew; you're engaged very publicly to another woman, I told you I wasn't ready to have a child, you switched my pills, had my IUD removed without my consent just to keep me tied to you and I won't be having that. I'd like to go back to sleep now, please excuse me."

I stand, help her lie back, adjust her bed cover and kiss her lightly even as she stiffens.

"I know you're mad right now and it's fine, I'm sorry. Heal, I'll watch you till you're fully healed but we are not done, Ciara."