Beware the Purge: The Sub

The Meeting

Dominic Crane

“I would prefer not to make an appointment for a later date. I know Miss Thorn is in the building. Now, has she approved my meeting inquiry?” I asked the security droid of Thorn Heights, ID code JACK-4320. The machine is an older model. I’m surprised Maddie would have something so archaic in her place of business.

“Yes, Mr. Crane. I will escort you to her office.”

“Good.” I smiled, following the droid into the elevator. Damn, I can’t wait for her to be mine again. I knew who she was the moment the brothel manager pointed her out to me. It was like a f*****g dream come true. The brothel rules were strict on meetings on the outside, but I didn’t give a damn.

Maddie had always been mine to protect during school… even if she didn’t know it.

We would fight and bite constantly when we were around each other. Her spit-fire attitude was always a bit of entertainment for me during the mundane lessons.

The day after her sixteenth birthday, she came to class and didn’t say a word to anyone. I heard the other girls whisper gossip.

“Ron said they did it last night.”

“Oh my god! Maddie, lost her virginity? Did he say how she was?”

“Terrible, she didn’t do anything at all.”

I glanced back at Maddie, seeing her shrink further into her hoodie as class started.

I stood up and walked out of class, unable to sit there and not do something we would both regret.

I walked down the hall towards the main doors, planning to leave for the day when, low and behold, Ron walked out of class. His eyes met mine and he smiled like we were old friends, “Hey, Dominic, did you hear? I got to bang Madd-”

My fist connected with Ron’s nose, “WHAT THE f**k MAN!” He cried as he pulled his hand up to his nose, stunned and off balance.

I wrapped my hand around his neck, throwing him up against the wall. A few people were starting to stare at this point. I needed to do this quickly. I squeezed my hand around his neck. His fingers claw at my deathly grip. I leaned into his bruising broken face to whisper, “If you ever say a disgraceful word about Maddie Thorn again, I will kill you.” Ron’s eyes widened in horror and realization at my words. An evil smile spread across my lips for only a moment. I let him go, straightening my uniform and walking out of school.

He broke up with her later that day, with no explanation. No one else pursued or said a bad word about Maddie after that.

I had never thought of taking her as mine. In school she was always too pure for me to defile…but it seemed little Maddie Thorn…could be an obedient sub. Who knew?

The elevator doors open displaying the overly grand top-floor lobby. The JACK-4320 glides out, I keep my steps a reasonable distance behind him. He leads me through the rows of glass offices. At the end, Maddie sits in the largest office. The morning sun was just above her head.

“Good morning, Miss Thorn. I presume your purge night was fruitful?” Her green eyes tracked me as I walked over to pour myself a coffee before taking a seat. The security droid waits outside in the hall, his sensors pinned and pointed into the room.

“It was…an acceptable purge, and you?” She asks, turning her chair towards me.

“My purges are always acceptable, as you say,” I smirked, taking a sip of my coffee.

“I assume you are not here to discuss the events of last night, Mr. Crane. The only reason I can see why you want to grant me your presence after all these years is due to your father’s passing last night.”

Damn, brat. “Ms. Thorn, I’m wounded that you would not wish to discuss your night with me. We have known each other long enough. I feel we can drop the pleasantries.”

Her expression turns piercing. “Mr. Crane, the events of my purge night do not concern you. I have granted your unprofessional request for a meeting due to your father’s status in my company and my respect for his work.”

Aww, there she is. f**k, I want to make her get on her knees. Use that mouth to be a productive slut instead of spitting fire at me. “I appreciate you taking my meeting Ms.Thorn, but please call me Dom. Now, what assets does my father currently have?”

Maddie stiffened for a moment, before composing herself, “I would prefer to keep things professional, Mr. Crane. Your father’s assets are plentiful. Of course, his highest assets are in Pharmaceutical Research and Artificial Intelligence.”

“Well, isn’t that something? Looks like your family didn’t get the best of my dear old dad.”

“Excuse me?” Maddie asked, her eyes going wide with disbelief. “Do you have so much disrespect for me that you think I would run my business like that? Forcing people to put their hard-earned money where they don’t want to?”

I set down my coffee on her desk, “Yes, Ms. Thorn I believe your family did exactly that when I started my company eight years ago. My microchips took over the market. When I asked my father to buy in, your family advised him against it.”

She sighed, sitting back in her chair, running her fingers over the ponytail. She’s still wearing the clothes I left for her. f**k, I wonder if she showered before leaving the brothel and coming to work?

Maddie’s eyes met mine with less fire now. “Yes, and if you recall, my entire family was slaughtered at the purge that year. After I took over the business, I went through all the employee files. I discussed it with your father. If I recall correctly, you received your largest funding from an anonymous donor the month after the purge, yes?”

“Yes.”

“I can show you the records of the transaction if you wish. It will take me some time to find it.” She adds, turning back to her computer, her lips betraying her with a small smirk.

You are a brat, aren’t you, Maddie Thorn…mmm I can’t wait to punish you. f**k I want to keep her forever…but how? She will need it to be her idea… “That’s alright, Ms. Thorn. I had the funding tracked by my private investigator the moment I received it. I would be stupid to accept half a million dollar donation without knowing who was granting it.”

Her fingers pause, hovering above the keyboard as she turns her full attention back to me. “Mr. Crane, if you insult my business again, I will ask Jack to escort you out of the building.”

“Ms. Thorn, you should know I’m only trying to help you succeed and prosper as a business. Your security is decent, I paid a pretty penny for my investigator, and not many could get into your systems. You should be taking all this as a compliment.”

“Dominic? I should take it as a f*****g compliment that you walk all over me? I’m done here. Jack, please escort Mr. Crane out of my building.”

“Now, really Maddie, is that how easily you break now? If I remember our school days right, it used to take more than that for you to give up a fight.” I taught, begging her to take a bite.

She stands as the security droid enters the office. “So that’s why you came here, Dominic? To start a f*****g fight? Why? After all these years?”

“You’ve caught me.” I said, holding up my hands, “I didn’t just come here about my father’s assets. To tell you the truth, the media has been on my back for years about my relationships and I’m sick of it.” I said, sighing dramatically.

“What the f**k, Dominic! They’ve been on my back too. We’re thirty, of course they are! Who gives a s**t? Ignore them!”

“Is that what you do? Hide in your apartment and office twenty-four seven? Ignore every invitation and place you could be seen and judged?”

“I already told you, Dominic, what I do does not concern you. Besides, what do I have to do with your long list of escapades?”

For starters, you are one now…I sigh, “Here’s my proposition, take it or leave it, you and I could help each other find suitable matches. We know each other from school and I feel we can be a good team to help each other. In the meantime, we can tell the media we are dating. That will help keep them off our backs, at least for the time being.”

“We haven’t spoken in fifteen years! What makes you think either of us knows what the other wants? Hire a f*****g matchmaker, or better yet buy a fake wife, and do whatever the f**k you want to!”

Now there is an idea, my brilliant slut. “Mmmm, I think you’re right. That could work. We’ll discuss it more over dinner tonight at my place. Wear something simple, I’ll send your assistant the details.” I smiled, turning towards the door, stepping past the security droid as I pulled my phone to my ear, getting everything ready for my date tonight.