Chapter 23: Chapter 23

Roses & Kings Series Book 1: Poison RoseWords: 12042

REYNA

Just like two days ago, Sabrina and John were in the same situation. John was naked and chained, while Sabrina was leafing through the pages of a book.

The only difference was that now Sabrina and John were talking. The others formed a circle, all too busy watching something I couldn’t see around the other man.

My cheeks heated when I remembered what I had seen yesterday. I fanned my face, trying to control my emotions.

My stomach was tied in knots because of the anticipation of meeting Casvan, and the thousands of questions I had for him. I hadn’t slept well last night, thinking about Casvan.

His name was strange but beautiful, and I had dreamed of him again. I was always thinking about him, about our conversation.

It made me think and question everything I knew and believed in.

“Good morning, Sabrina, John,” I greeted, crossing the threshold.

Sabrina lifted her eyes from the book she was perusing, but John answered first.

“Good morning, princess,” he replied from his sprawled position.

“How are you, Reyna?” Sabrina asked.

“I’m okay, absolutely fine.”

“Good, you can strip out of your clothes so we can continue from yesterday’s lessons,” she said.

I avoided meeting her eyes and removed my brown uniform. Soon, I stood naked before her, just like the others.

Sabrina got up from the chair in front of the table and began to take off her clothes. My eyes bugged out of their sockets, still not used to seeing her naked.

I quickly looked away.

Sabrina chuckled. “Oh Reyna, you’re so sweet. You’d better get used to seeing me like this, because we Roses don’t care about modesty—unless it’s my body you don’t want to see. While I’m a few years older than you, I don’t think I’m old enough to repulse you.”

“No, I’m not repulsed by you, Sabrina, and your body is beautiful. You’re gorgeous,” I hurried to say, blushing. “It’s just, I’m not used to seeing naked people.”

She nodded understandingly. “You’ll get used to it. We all did. Now let’s begin.”

Together, we went to where John was spread-eagle like a sacrifice. It was then that I saw the other man.

There was also another older Rose, fucking the man to oblivion much like I had seen Sabrina do with John. The only difference was, she was rocking him slowly and artfully.

It looked perfect and practiced. The man was babbling and groaning, a gag firmly in his mouth.

He tried to move, sweating and bucking, while the girls all watched in awe.

“That is advanced class. The girls are ahead of you, so some of our lessons might be just the two of us.”

I swallowed hard and nodded.

Sabrina guided me to the right of John while she stood on his left side, all three of us naked and on the round bed.

“Today, John will kiss you, teach you how to kiss, then you will touch John in return. Learn and get familiar with a man’s body.”

My eyes bulged out of their sockets, but Sabrina kept talking.

“Find out where he’s sensitive, where he likes to be touched and stroked, where, if touched, will turn him crazy with lust.”

Sabrina uncuffed John’s hands and removed his face mask. John wasn’t as young as I first thought, but he was a good-looking man, and I remembered him now from my birthday dinner.

Trepidation made my stomach knot and bile rise in my throat. The idea of touching John, despite my curiosity, was repulsive.

While I loved watching Sabrina and him, and the other couple, I didn’t want to touch any of them. John stared at me with anticipation, waiting for me to touch him.

I glanced at Sabrina, who was waiting for me to do as I was told.

“You…” I swallowed. “You want me to touch him?”

She arched one of her perfect brows. “Of course, this is part of your training, Reyna. I know you might not understand why we’re teaching you all these, but trust me, there’s a valid reason for why it’s important to learn these things. Every Rose has gone through this training.”

The look in her eyes and tone of voice made it clear this wasn’t a suggestion. I reluctantly moved within his reach.

I reached out to touch his shoulder, even as I felt my stomach roil, but I forced down my revulsion and touched him. The instant my fingers made contact with his shoulder, electricity sparked, sending a burning sensation through me that wrenched a gasp from my mouth and a yelp from John.

I jumped back so fast I almost tumbled down from the bed. The pad of my fingers felt strangely numb.

“What the hell is that?” John said, laughing nervously, rubbing his shoulder.

“What is it?” Sabrina asked, eyeing us both with confusion.

“Just static, I guess,” John answered, doubtful.

“Well, try again. Kiss her, John,” she ordered.

“But…” I started. I didn’t want him to kiss me.

“There’s no room for shyness here. You’re going to kiss John and you’re going to mimic him, learn from him.”

The frown on her face made me bite back my objections. I glanced away and looked at John.

He reached out and pulled me close; fortunately, there was no burn this time. He put his mouth on mine, then licked my lips and sucked on my bottom lip. I felt gross.

This was not the same as how Cas had kissed me in my dream. But I parted my lips when Sabrina ordered me to. It seemed that was what he was waiting for.

Because that was when he put his tongue inside my mouth and sucked on my tongue. Pain so sharp sliced through me, I moaned.

I tried to move back, but Sabrina’s voice stopped me.

“That’s it, now kiss him, do what he did to you.”

I forced down the pain, not wanting Sabrina to think I was deliberately disobeying her. I especially didn’t want her telling on me to Cassandra.

I mimicked him and followed his lead. Instantly, a wave of pain greater than the other two times coursed through me.

Making bile rise up in my throat, I yanked my mouth away and flew back just in time to avoid puking on John’s face and body.

“What is wrong with you?” Sabrina yelled.

I couldn’t answer as I emptied my gut. When it finally subsided, I wiped my mouth and found everyone was staring at me.

“Reyna, are you sick?” Chloe asked, concerned.

“Not that I know of. I only feel pain when I touch John. I can’t touch him again, Sabrina, it hurts,” I confessed, looking at the others.

The girls and Sabrina all shared a strange look that made me feel as though I was missing something really important. I didn’t want to touch him. Her brows creased with confusion.

“That’s not supposed to happen, at least not with you,” she muttered, her voice barely a whisper that, if I weren’t close to her, I wouldn’t have heard.

“What do you mean?” I asked, eyebrows scrunched.

“What? Nothing, it’s just strange.” She smiled reassuringly.

“Girls, Elise, please continue with your lessons.”

Instantly, they all went back to watching Elise have sex with the man while they all stood around the bed.

Sabrina’s eyes suddenly widened, and then she turned toward John.

“Are you okay? Does it also hurt you when you kiss Reyna?” she asked. He nodded.

“Yes, just a bit. I thought it was because of the static issue.”

Sabrina looked panicked. She pulled me to the side.

“Um, Reyna, have you visited Dr. Elizabeth recently?” I glanced at John, then back to her.

“No, is something wrong with me?” I asked. She sighed.

“No, nothing is wrong with you. We’ll continue with our lesson tomorrow. Right now, you’ll watch me with John. Later, you and I are going to see Dr. Elizabeth. I think you’re coming down with something, better to have a look at you now just in case.”

I just nodded, grateful I didn’t have to touch John again. Even now, my lips were numb; I couldn’t feel them.

I stood quietly, watching Sabrina stroking and touching John’s body.

She stroked his lips and jaw, his neck, then kissed him, shoving her tongue into his mouth while he did the same to her.

All the while, her hand kept descending lower, and lower still.

Her breath heavy, she rubbed his flat nipples, so unlike hers.

John sucked in a breath. His breathing changed, his body sheened with a light sweat.

Sabrina was also moaning, but she pulled back from their kiss.

“Do you notice how his breathing is changing? You keep touching, stroke him softly,” she instructed.

She stroked lower, his pecs, his stomach, until she reached between his legs, where his cock was thick and long with arousal.

I swallowed hard, surprised at how I was feeling now. Earlier, I had been repulsed; now my body was tense and tingling, my mind kept imagining me and Casvan.

It was me, tentatively touching the pink mushroom head of Casvan’s cock, which was spilling white liquid—pre-come, as Sabrina called it.

With my fingers moving from up then downward, Casvan moaned low.

I grew a little bolder and fisted his cock with both hands.

He groaned.

I imagined the skin around his cock was velvety smooth but also as hard as a rod.

“Oh fuck, Sabrina,” John yelled.

The sound startled me and brought me back to earth.

Sabrina was stroking him from base to tip, slow at first, then she picked up speed and stroked him faster.

John kept groaning loudly, lifting his hips to keep pace with her hand. They had found a rhythm.

“While you’re at it, you can touch his balls. They’re very sensitive, so you have to be careful, you touch them like this,” Sabrina kept talking—she was always teaching.

She rolled his balls in her fingers, then squeezed a little.

John was bucking his hips wildly and cursing.

“You keep stroking with one hand, you don’t stop.” She stroked faster after that, not stopping, using John’s pre-come to wet her hand and create friction.

John was frantic.

“Please, fuck.”

Somehow I knew he was close to coming, like he had yesterday when he was buried inside Sabrina.

Sweat dripped from his face. He was bucking his hips wildly.

Sabrina bent her head, opened her mouth, and sucked him.

She just sucked his balls, swallowing them up, swirling her tongue, while her hands worked overtime.

John yelled loudly, bucking wildly.

Then he started coming, white thick liquid spurting from the tiny slit of his cock.

I stared wide-eyed at his contorted features, looking like he was in pain.

I was so wet and shocked that I rubbed my thighs together.

Just when I thought it was finally over, Sabrina swallowed all of John’s cock in one go while he was still coming.

John groaned and jerked a few more times before his body went lax.

Sabrina licked him clean with slow flicks of her tongue and praised him.

“You did good, John. I’m proud,” she said as she finally let go of John’s cock.

“I hope you’ve learned everything I just taught you,” she added.

I nodded.

***

“There’s nothing wrong with you, Reyna, from everything I’ve seen. But I’ll still take your blood to conduct some tests, see if there’s anything else I’m missing,” Dr. Elizabeth assured with a smile.

She took a syringe and withdrew pints of my blood.

Sabrina smiled at me while I rubbed the place the needle had pierced.

She followed Dr. Elizabeth, leaving me alone on the hospital bed.

I didn’t know what was going on, but I could sense there was a whole lot I was missing.

Seeing them whispering a couple of feet away from me only reaffirmed that suspicion.

“Can I leave or is there more?” I asked, getting up from the bed.

My plan to see Casvan was delayed, and I knew I’d get nothing out of them.

So I’d rather find a way to see him than waste my time here.

“That’s all, Reyna. I’ll ask for you if I find anything else,” Dr. Elizabeth said.

“Thank you, bye Doctor. See you tomorrow, Sabrina,” I said.

“Later, princess,” Sabrina replied.

I nodded and left.

My mind occupied with the thought of my beast, I decided I’d think about what happened today when I was alone in my room.

Who knew, maybe talking to my beast might help me understand what had just happened to me earlier.

It was only as I made my way out of there that I realized I had called him mine twice now.