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The world was divided into two categories of people: those who made the rules and those who followed them. Hermione Granger, twenty-seven years old, senior analyst at "Lestrange Capital," had spent her entire life proving she could be in the first category. Not by birth, but by right of intellect, will, and that icy, ruthless logic that made numbers dance to her tune.
Her office on the forty-eighth floor of the "Lestrange" tower in the City was ascetic: glass, steel, three monitors showing the pulse of world markets in real time. There were no unnecessary things here, just as there were no unnecessary emotions. There were only deals. And today she had closed the most important deal of her career—the takeover of the competing fund "Astral." She had done it not by force of capital, but by force of mind, finding that very crack in their defense, that tiny error in the algorithm that brought down the wall. A bonus with six zeros and a promotion to vice president were already finalized. Now she was not just an upstart. She was a force.
And that was precisely why she was now standing before an unmarked door on a quiet Mayfair street. The club "The Web." A legend. A place you weren't brought to, you were admitted to. Her key card, made of matte black metal, presented to her today, was cold and heavy in her palm. She swiped it, the door slid open silently, ushering her into another world.
Inside, there was no garish glamour. There was semi-darkness, broken by the light of art-deco sconces, the muffled hum of low voices, and languid jazz. The air was thick with the scent of old leather, expensive tobacco, aged whiskey, and something else—the smell of decided fates and agreements concluded in silence. Hermione walked to the bar, feeling eyes on her. She knew these faces from newspaper columns and Forbes biographies. And now they were looking at her.
— "Glenfiddich," 21 years. No ice, — she said to the bartender. Her voice sounded calm, only a slight tremor in her fingertips betraying her inner tension.
While they poured the golden liquid, she let her gaze wander across the room. And it met a pair of eyes that were already watching her. A woman. Sat alone in the corner, in the shadows. Chestnut, curly hair fell onto the shoulders of a leather jacket draped over a scarlet dress that seemed to glow in the semi-darkness with its own fire. In her hand, she swirled a glass of dark whiskey. Her gaze was not just appraising. It was... studying. As if she saw not Hermione in her new black dress by Oswald Boateng, but an X-ray of her soul with all its cracks and scars.
Hermione took her glass, took a sip, feeling the fire spread through her chest. And she didn't look away. The challenge was accepted.
Fifteen minutes later, as she was finishing her second whiskey, a shadow in a leather trench coat approached her table.
— Is this seat free? Or are you saving it for your ego? — the voice was low, with a huskiness, as if from long smoking or laughing too loud.
It was that same woman. Up close, she seemed even more dazzling and dangerous. Facial features—sharp, expressive. Eyes—dark, almost black, with golden flecks. On her lips played a smirk, both challenging and weary.
— It's free, if you're not afraid of being bored, — Hermione replied, indicating the chair.
The woman laughed out loud—loudly, unashamedly, causing several heads to turn.
— Afraid of being bored? Darling, boredom is the only thing I'm truly afraid of. I'm Andromeda. And you?
— Hermione Granger.
— Ah, — Andromeda drawled, sitting down and tossing her jacket over the back of the chair. The dress underneath had such a décolletage that Hermione had to consciously shift her gaze to her face. — The famous Granger. The moths in this club are already buzzing with rumors of your feat. You dismantled "Astral." Cold, cruel, brilliant. I like it.
They drank. Whiskey gave way to champagne. Andromeda Tonks, as she introduced herself, turned out to be the black sheep of one of the oldest and wealthiest families in Britain—the Black clan, which had renamed itself "Lestrange" after a scandal in the nineties. She was an architect, but she didn't build skyscrapers. She created installations—provocative, absurd, space-shattering. And she shattered all the expectations of her family in the same way.
— They wanted me to marry some dreary lord, breed heirs, and adorn their dinner parties, — she said, lighting a thin cigarette. — Instead, I went and married an electrician. A female electrician. Then I got divorced. Then I burned my wedding dress in the middle of Trafalgar Square. Now I'm a professional disappointment. And you know what? It's the most honest job I've ever had.
Hermione listened, enchanted. This woman was the complete opposite of her ordered world. She was chaos, incarnate in flesh, expensive perfume, and a leather jacket. And from this chaos emanated a magnetic, incredible power.
— And you, — Andromeda said, leaning in so close that Hermione felt the warm, whiskey-tobacco breath on her skin, — you're like a perfectly calibrated Swiss mechanism. You tick, you perform a function. But in the most precise mechanisms, you know, there are emergency valves. In case of excess pressure. I wonder where yours is, Granger?
At that moment, a phone rang. Andromeda grimaced, looked at the screen, and sighed.
— Speaking of family expectations… My sister. The only person in this circus I can still tolerate. And that's only because she's colder than the rest of them combined.
She answered without leaving the table.
— Cissy? Yes, I know where you are. In your ice palace, sorting through documents? Get out. Right now. Yes, the papers came through. I'm officially free from that gilded idiot. No, I'm not crying. I'm drinking. And there's a girl here with me, with so much suppressed rage and desire in her eyes that, I think, one more whiskey and she'll blow this place to hell. Join in. Or will you, as always, judge me over the phone?
She hung up and downed the rest of her whiskey in one gulp.
— Narcissa. My younger sister. Just divorced some Wall Street rich kid. Took half his fortune. Her way of celebrating is recounting the zeros in her bank account. She'll be here in ten minutes. Don't be put off by her appearance. She looks like an ice statue, but somewhere very, very deep under the ice, there's fire there too. You just have to know how to dig for it.
Narcissa Malfoy (she kept her husband's surname "for ease of doing business," as Andromeda explained) appeared exactly ten minutes later. She entered the room, and Hermione felt the temperature drop a few degrees. She was the embodiment of cold, aristocratic beauty. An impeccably cut ivory dress, accentuating every curve of her perfect figure. Her light, almost silver hair was gathered in a tight, smooth bun. Not a single extra detail, not a single extra movement. She approached, nodded to her sister, and sat down, placing a tiny crocodile-skin handbag on the table.
— Congratulations on gaining your freedom, Andy, — she said. Her voice was clear, melodic, utterly devoid of intonation. — Although, judging by the atmosphere, you're trading one form of unfreedom for another. One that's noisier and smells of cheap pompousness.
Andromeda rolled her eyes.
— Meet the queen of snobs. Narcissa, this is Hermione Granger. The one who dismantled "Astral." Hermione, don't mind her tone. She's only had an orgasm once in her life, and that was probably from looking at a perfectly balanced budget.
Narcissa slowly turned her gaze to Hermione. Her eyes were blue—cold, clear like a mountain lake in winter. There was no contempt in them, nor interest. Just pure, unclouded assessment.
— Miss Granger. I read your final report on "Astral." Ruthless. Precise. Elegant in its ruthlessness. You dismantled a company managed by three generations of one family with the same cold-bloodedness with which a pathologist dissects a corpse. That's impressive.
It was unexpected. And from this cold, flattery-free acknowledgment, something inside Hermione gave a little jolt—not fear, but something else. Respect? A challenge?
— Thank you, — she said simply. — It was just a job.
— No, — Narcissa countered, ordering sparkling water with a slice of lime from the bartender. — It was a hunt. And you proved to be the better hunter. In our world, that is valued above birth.
They began to talk. About markets, about mechanisms of power, about how to build and destroy empires. Narcissa proved to be a brilliant analyst; her mind worked with icy, inhuman precision. She had just completed her own battle—a divorce proceeding the journalists had dubbed "the war of the Roses in a billionaires' edition." She had emerged from it not just a winner, but the sole owner of a fortune that now needed to be multiplied. Her freedom smelled not of champagne, but of dry ink on legal documents and the cold steel of safes.
Andromeda watched them, sipping whiskey and smoking, a weary, satisfied smile playing on her lips.
— God, you two look like you're about to hole up in a basement and invent a new weapon of mass destruction. Let's liven things up!
She stood up, swaying. The alcohol was taking its toll.
— Let's... let's just dance! There must be music here somewhere!
She tugged at Hermione's hand. Hermione, not expecting it, lost her balance and bumped into her. Andromeda, laughing, wrapped her arms around her, trying to hold her, but her drunken legs failed them both. They crashed flat onto the low marble table of the adjacent company. There was a deafening, crystal crash. The table setting scattered beneath them, bottles of expensive Burgundy, plates of oysters and black caviar went flying. They lay in the middle of this chaos, drenched in wine and sauce, and Andromeda, lying on top, suddenly stopped laughing. Her dark eyes grew serious, almost black. She looked down at Hermione, and her breath was warm and fast on her face. She slowly licked a drop of whiskey from the corner of Hermione's lip.
— Looks like we just signed a joint agreement for causing damage, — she whispered. — An expensive one. And, by the looks of it, very, very sticky.
Hermione, stunned by the fall, the whiskey, and the proximity of this body, couldn't find an answer. She felt Andromeda's thighs pressed against hers, felt her palm lying on her chest.
Narcissa, watching this, sighed silently. She rose, straightened a non-existent wrinkle on her dress, and approached the bartender.
— The bill for the damage, — she said emotionlessly, — charge it to Lestrange. Bellatrix. And call three taxis. Maximum comfort level. I think it's time we changed the venue to something more... private.
***
Hermione's apartment in the "Hercules" tower on the banks of the Thames was her fortress, her trophy. A hundred square meters of space, decorated in a hi-tech style: cold concrete, glass partitions, built-in appliances, a panoramic view of the city. A place where order reigned. Until this evening.
Andromeda tossed her leather jacket right on the floor in the hallway. Narcissa carefully placed her Louboutins on a special shelf.
— Functional, — she stated, surveying the interior. — Like an operating room. Or a laboratory.
— The perfect place for a dissection, — Andromeda added, approaching the window. — Look, Cissy, all of London at our feet. Or under us. Depends on your perspective.
Hermione turned on the dim light and music—something abstract, electronic, without words. She felt strange—simultaneously the hostess and a hostage in her own home.
They drank. Whiskey from her collection, single malt, from the Isle of Islay. The conversation started at the bar continued, but the atmosphere had changed. The prying eyes were gone, the need to keep up a mask had vanished. Andromeda became even more uninhibited, her jokes sharper, her touches more frequent. Narcissa, on the contrary, seemed to withdraw into herself, but her cold eyes never stopped following Hermione, as if gathering data for a new report.
They talked about freedom. Andromeda argued that freedom was action, at any cost. Narcissa believed freedom was control, primarily over oneself. Hermione was silent, listening, and realized that her own freedom, which she had fought so hard for, suddenly seemed meager and limited. The freedom of a slave who had been moved to a better cell.
Then the music stopped, because someone had turned it off. And in the sudden silence, their breathing became audible. And the beating of her own heart in Hermione's ears.
Andromeda approached her first. She didn't say a word. She just pressed her palm to her chest, over the silk blouse, and felt the frantic heartbeat.
— There it is, — she whispered. — The emergency valve. Beating like crazy. Time to open it.
And she kissed her. It wasn't a kiss. It was a capture. Lips, teeth, tongue—everything demanded surrender. Hermione responded with the same fury she had been storing for years—the fury of an outsider who had to be ten times better just to be noticed. Her hands dug into the chestnut curls, pulling Andromeda's head back, exposing her long neck, and she sank her teeth into it, tasting the salty skin.
Narcissa watched, leaning against a concrete pillar. She slowly removed her hairpins, and her light hair fell in a heavy, silky wave onto her shoulders. Then, just as slowly, she approached. Her cold fingers touched Hermione's temple, pushed back her hair, baring her ear.
— Interesting reaction, — she stated in a voice devoid of emotion. — Aggression mixed with heightened libido. Adrenaline levels are off the charts. This will either kill her or...
— Or she'll explode, — Andromeda finished for her, tearing Hermione's blouse off. The buttons, flying off, clinked loudly against the glass surface of the coffee table.
After that, everything became swift and irreversible. They undressed without ceremony, fabric tore, zipper metal broke under impatient fingers. Hermione found herself on the cold floor of the living room, on a polar bear skin (an ironic gift from a client she had once ruined), naked and incredibly alive under the intense gazes of the two women.
Andromeda settled between her legs. Her approach was direct, without preludes, without tenderness. She didn't caress—she conquered. Her tongue, in broad, wet strokes, swept across her entire groin, gathering the taste of fear, arousal, and expensive whiskey. Then she focused on the clitoris. She didn't caress it, she worked it: sucked it, nibbled it with her lips, traced the tip of her tongue in fast, vibrating circles, found that very rhythm that made Hermione howl, digging her fingers into the fur. Simultaneously, her fingers, strong and dexterous from working with blueprints and sculptures, slid inside. Not one, but two at once, stretching, finding the sensitive spots on the front wall, which pulsed like electric shocks.
Narcissa, meanwhile, attended to the upper part. Her approach was different—methodical, cold, scientific. Her mouth and teeth explored the breasts, stomach, ribs, neck, as if creating a map. She left not just traces, but marks. Bruises from pinching fingers, red streaks from scratches with long, perfectly manicured nails, bite marks on the inner thighs and on the nipples. She took a nipple into her mouth and, looking directly into Hermione's eyes, which were rolling back, bit down—so hard that she cried out from the sharp pain, which instantly transformed into a new, even stronger spasm of pleasure below the waist.
— Quiet, — Narcissa commanded, covering her lips with a kiss. This kiss was different—slow, deep, exploratory, almost emotionless. — Your sounds are now our asset. We decide when and how you will use them.
Then they switched. Narcissa lowered her head. Her technique was the opposite of her sister's—ruthlessly efficient, like an algorithm. She studied Hermione's reaction to every millimeter of touch, found the most sensitive zones, and attacked them without mercy. She could caress only her thighs for minutes, driving her mad with anticipation, then press her flat tongue to the clitoris and vibrate with such frequency and precision that Hermione would start convulsing in a hysterical, silent orgasm, unable even to cry out, only hoarsely gasping and scratching the floor as waves of convulsions receded, leaving her completely drained.
Andromeda, meanwhile, took Hermione's hand and pressed it to her own wet, burning core.
— Work, analyst, — she rasped, moving her hips, rubbing herself against her fingers. — Analyze this asset. Find the points of maximum return. Do your job well.
Hermione, half-delirious, obeyed. Her fingers, accustomed to keyboards and numbers, now explored a different, wetter, and more complex reality. She found Andromeda's clitoris, rubbed it, slid her fingers inside, feeling her clench around them with animal force, and listened to her low, hoarse moans mixed with whispered obscenities.
Positions changed with cruel, drunken grace. Hermione ended up on all fours. Narcissa entered her from behind, her long, slender fingers filling her to the limit, while her other hand squeezed her throat, not completely cutting off her breath, but regulating it, making each inhale a reward, each lack of air an additional stimulus. Andromeda, meanwhile, knelt before her, pressing her swollen, aroused clitoris into Hermione's trembling, tired mouth.
— Lick, — Andromeda commanded, moving her hips, brushing against her teeth, her lips. — Lick good. You'll get your reward when I come on your face. And you'll come with me. On my command. Not before.
Orgasms followed one after another, in waves, erasing the boundaries between pain and pleasure, between humiliation and liberation, between pure animal instinct and the sophisticated game of submission. She was used as an instrument for pleasure, and she, to her deepest horror and delight, was discovering in herself the capacity to be that perfect, responsive instrument. Her mind, always controlling everything, had finally switched off. Only the body remained, responding to commands, pain, touch. It no longer belonged to her.
They fell asleep at dawn, collapsing into her wide bed with its ten-thousand-pound mattress, intertwined in a sticky, sweaty, sex-smelling, expensive-whiskey-smelling, fallen-smelling tangle. The impeccable apartment had been turned into a battlefield: scattered and torn clothes, overturned furniture, empty and broken bottles, stains on the carpet and on the glass. The fortress had been stormed.
***
Hermione regained consciousness not all at once, but in waves of physical suffering. First her head—as if a red-hot nail had been driven into it and was now being methodically hammered on. Throbbing in her temples, nausea rising to her throat. Then her body—every muscle ached, but especially her inner thighs, the deep muscles of her pelvis, her abdomen. They burned with a dull, warm pain, a living reminder of yesterday's intense, hours-long use.
Carefully, struggling to focus her gaze, she began to extricate herself from the tangle of unfamiliar arms and legs. Andromeda was sleeping, her face buried in Hermione's back, her breath hot and steady on her skin. Narcissa lay on her back, one arm thrown behind her head, her flawless, coldly beautiful face in sleep seeming almost innocent, like a marble virgin.
Hermione crawled to the bathroom. Her reflection in the huge mirror above the sink was shocking. Hair—a tangled nest. Face—pale, sallow, with bluish shadows under her eyes. Lips—swollen, with a crust of dried blood at the corner. And her body… Her body was a detailed map of the night's madness. Her breasts and neck were covered in red marks from bites and hickeys, already turning blue and yellow. On her hips and buttocks were imprints of fingers in bruises, as if she had been held with such force that capillaries had burst. Between her legs, the skin was inflamed pink, the tender mucous membranes were swollen and burned, and on her inner thighs and the skin of her pubis, shiny, sticky trails of dried secretions had dried—her own and others', mixed with lubricant and, possibly, traces of whiskey.
She sat on the edge of the black onyx bathtub, buried her face in her hands. Thoughts darted about like trapped birds. "What have I done? Who are they? The club… the bill… God, the bill for that table… Work…"
Thoughts of work, of the fund, of her career, built with such effort, brought on a fresh wave of nausea. And then, like a thunderclap from a clear sky, the image of her boss appeared in her mind. Bella Lestrange.
Cold, pure terror flooded over her.
Bellatrix Lestrange. Not just a boss. A living legend of the financial world. Rumors said her ancestors were not just aristocrats, but pirates, smugglers, and moneylenders, and she had inherited their ruthlessness, wrapping it in impeccable Kitson suits and Harvard degrees. She had built Lestrange Capital from nothing, from a small family office, and in twenty years had turned it into an international monster, devouring entire industries and spitting out the bones. Competitors feared her, politicians hated her, and shareholders worshipped her. Hermione worshipped her quietly, secretly, seeing in her a model of what could be achieved by force of intellect and will, regardless of birth. And she feared her to the point of trembling.
It was at that very moment that her work phone rang. Not her personal one. Her work phone. The one issued for communication with top management and for emergency alerts. On the dark screen, a name glowed: "B. Lestrange. Personal."
Her hands shook so badly she could barely hold the heavy titanium case. She answered, brought it to her ear.
— M-Ms. Lestrange…
— Granger. — The voice on the phone was calm, even, and cold as the surface of dry ice. No preamble, no "good morning." — A notification was received on my personal number from the security service of the club "The Web." With attached high-resolution photographs and a preliminary bill for an amount equivalent to your bonus for this quarter. In the photographs, you and two individuals whose surname, I presume, you now know, are engaged in what the report calls "intentional destruction of highest-category private property." This is unacceptable to me. For three reasons. First: the bill is made out to my corporate account. Second: members of my family are involved in the scandal. Third: my best employee is displaying behavior inconsistent with her position and the investments made in her. I will be at your place in twenty minutes. Make sure you are ready for a serious conversation about the parameters of your future. And about the nature of your debt.
The connection ended. Hermione stood in the middle of the bathroom, naked and trembling, the phone in her ice-cold hand. She felt physically ill. The world was spinning.
She somehow pulled on the first t-shirt and pajama shorts she found, went out to the kitchen, poured water. Her hands shook so badly the water splashed everywhere. From the bedroom, swaying, came Andromeda, wearing only black lace panties on her naked body. Her breasts swayed as she walked, her skin bearing the same marks of struggle as Hermione's.
— Oh, good morning, our conqueror of hearts and furniture, — she rasped, heading for the coffee machine. — How are you feeling? I've got what feels like full-scale construction with jackhammers going on in my head.
— Terrible, — Hermione managed. Her voice sounded hoarse and foreign. — And your… your sister. Bellatrix. She's… she's coming here. Now.
All traces of sleep and hangover were wiped from Andromeda's face in an instant. Her eyes, usually mocking and bold, widened in pure, genuine shock bordering on fear.
— Bella? Here? Oh, shit. Oh, triple shit. Cissy! — she shouted towards the bedroom, panic creeping into her voice for the first time. — Wake up, for heaven's sake! A category five hurricane is approaching our shore!
Narcissa emerged from the bedroom. She moved silently, like a ghost. She had thrown Hermione's silk robe over herself, but it was open, revealing her flawless, pale body with bite marks on her hips and breasts. Hearing the news, she didn't flinch. Only her thin, perfectly arched eyebrows rose slightly.
— Predictable, — she said in her icy, measured voice. — She always appears when the mess reaches critical mass. Her mission is to restore order. Or to create the illusion of order through total control.
It was at that moment that a knock came at the door. Not a ring. A knock. Hard, abrupt, metallic, as if the door was being struck not with a fist, but with the butt of a gun. The person knocking had no doubt they would be let in. Moreover, they considered that they must be let in immediately.
The three women froze, staring at the front door like rabbits at a snake. Hermione, driven by the purest instinct for self-preservation and long years of drilled submission, approached and opened it.
In the doorway, eclipsing the gray morning light from the corridor window, stood Bellatrix Lestrange.
In person, she seemed even more monumental, frightening, and… beautiful than in Hermione's imagination. Tall, almost five foot ten, with perfect, straight posture, as if her spine was made of a titanium rod. She wore an impeccable anthracite-colored suit, a white silk blouse, and classic pumps with breathtaking heels on her feet. Her raven-black hair was pulled back into a tight, smooth, low ponytail, not a single strand out of place. Not one extra detail, not one wrinkle in her clothing. Her face, with high, sharp cheekbones, a straight nose, and thin, pale pink lips, was flawless and absolutely devoid of emotion. Only in her black, fathomless eyes, devoid of any glimmer, swirled cold, concentrated rage and… keen, predatory curiosity.
Her gaze, heavy and piercing as an X-ray, slowly, with withering deliberation, surveyed the hallway: Andromeda's discarded leather jacket, shoes scattered on the floor, an empty bottle of Glenfiddich on the console, Hermione's torn dress draped over the back of a chair along with her blouse. Then that gaze shifted to her two sisters—half-naked, frightened Andromeda and cold Narcissa wrapped in someone else's robe. And finally settled on Hermione—pale, in a torn t-shirt and pajama shorts, her face twisted with terror and a hangover, teeth marks on her neck clearly visible beneath the fabric.
— Well, well, — Bellatrix said quietly. Her voice was low, velvety, with perfect Oxford pronunciation, and each sound fell into the silence like a drop of ice water. — The full cast. My two reckless, irresponsible, and, judging by appearances, undiscriminating sisters. And my… promising employee. A scene worthy of a degenerate artist's brush. Most expressive.
Narcissa stepped forward. She let the robe fall. It dropped silently, a soft silken wave. She stood completely naked, white and perfect as a Carrara marble statue, and her posture was not defiance, but a cold, detached statement of fact.
— The entertainments are over, Bella. As always, you've arrived at the scene after the fact to lecture us on propriety. It's becoming a tedious ritual.
Bellatrix didn't even glance at her. Her entire focus, all her predatory concentration, returned to Hermione.
— Miss Granger. I highly value your analytical mind and the profit you bring to the fund. But your taste in evening leisure… raises serious questions. And, more importantly, entails measurable financial consequences. Who do you think received the bill for the destroyed property at "The Web"?
— I… I'll pay, — Hermione whispered. Her voice trembled treacherously, sounding weak and pitiful. — The whole amount. I'll cover it.
— Oh, you will pay, — Bellatrix agreed, taking a step forward. She entered the apartment. With a wide, confident stride. The door closed behind her with a loud, final click of the automatic lock. — But not with money. Money is for ordinary transactions. For servants and suppliers. Your debt… has a different nature. More personal.
She was now two steps away from Hermione. She smelled of frosty morning air, expensive leather, and absolute, unwavering power. The scent was both repulsive and hypnotizing.
— You allowed yourself to drag my name and my family's reputation into a public, low-class scandal. You engaged in debauchery with my sisters. You damaged my property.
— I am not property! — escaped Hermione, the last spark of pride, the last flicker of what had once been her "self."
Bellatrix smiled. It was a terrifying smile, not reaching her eyes. The corners of her lips lifted, revealing perfectly straight, white teeth.
— Property you are, my dear. The most valuable asset in my fund is your brain. And now I see that this asset is poisoned by alcohol, lust, and stupidity. It needs to be cleansed. Reset. And shown, once and for all, who it belongs to. Who its real owner is.
Her movement was swift, precise, devoid of any fuss. She grabbed Hermione by the hair at the temple, not the bulk of it, but a strand near the root, and roughly, with force, pulled her close. The pain was sharp, humiliating, bringing tears to her eyes.
— First lesson in asset management, Granger: your body, your mind, your dubious pleasures—henceforth belong to me. Until the debt is paid in full.
And she kissed her. It was an act of pure violence. Her lips were firm and cold, her tongue did not ask for entry but forced its way in, suppressing, capturing territory, marking it. Her teeth scraped the inside of Hermione's lip until she tasted the metallic tang of blood. Hermione tried to pull away, her hands pushing against the firm shoulders in expensive wool, but Bellatrix was incredibly strong. Her free hand grabbed the collar of Hermione's t-shirt and ripped it down. The cheap cotton tore with a dry, loud crack, exposing her breasts, already covered in marks from yesterday's bites and bruises.
Then Bellatrix pulled back, leaving Hermione's lips swollen, wet, and bloody. Without a word, with one powerful, practiced motion, she spun Hermione around and pushed her forward. Hermione's hips slammed into the cold, metal edge of the kitchen island table. The coffee cup remaining on it fell and shattered with a thin clink.
— Now, — Bellatrix said in an icy, measured tone, — I will conduct an independent valuation of the asset. Determine its real, rather than stated, worth.
She unbuckled her belt. Slowly, with the click of each buckle. She unbuttoned her trousers and pushed them down, along with her black silk underwear, to mid-thigh. But on her hips, hugging her narrow pelvis, was not just a belt. It was a narrow, black leather corset-belt with a system of straps. And attached to it was a strap-on.
It wasn't huge or ostentatious. It was made with the same impeccable, minimalist taste as her suit. Matte black, of high-quality, dense silicone, with carefully contoured anatomical details. It didn't look like a sex toy, but like a tool. A tool of discipline. A tool of power. A tool of punishment.
Andromeda, watching this, gasped—short, hollow, as if punched in the stomach. Her hand instinctively flew to her mouth. She had seen much in her life, but she had never expected this from her older, always impeccably controlled sister. Wild, primal terror and… genuine, dark excitement flared in her eyes. Narcissa froze. Not a muscle moved on her impassive face. Only her blue eyes narrowed, growing even colder. She studied her sister, her actions, like a scientist studying a complex but predictable chemical process.
Bellatrix noticed their reaction. Her smile widened slightly, became more bared.
— Surprised? Power, my dears, has many forms of expression. And it requires the appropriate… tool kit for its assertion. Especially when dealing with spoiled, disobedient assets.
She approached the table, at Hermione's feet, who, seeing the black, gleaming, inexorable form approaching her, began to struggle in mute, animal panic. Her mind refused to accept what was happening.
— No… please… no… — she managed, her voice breaking into a hoarse whisper.
— "Please" is closer to the right tone, — Bellatrix remarked, her voice almost gentle, which was scarier than a shout. — But not the right word yet. Not the right intonation of complete and unconditional acceptance.
She didn't use additional lubricant. She roughly spread Hermione's thighs wider, exposing the inflamed, vulva wet with fear and the remnants of the previous night. She spat into her palm, lubricated the cold, hard tip of the strap-on, then ran it the entire length of the slit, gathering moisture, mixing it with her saliva. Then she pressed that cold, alien tip to the very entrance.
— Remember the numbers, Granger, — she whispered. — The amount of the bill. Each zero is a weight around your neck. Each digit is my anger, which you must satisfy.
And Bellatrix entered Granger's vagina. Slowly, but with inexorable, iron, mechanical pressure. It was nothing like fingers or a tongue. It was an invasion of a different order. A cold, foreign, utterly rigid body, filling all space, spreading the inner walls, suppressing any muscular resistance. Hermione cried out—high, almost childlike, her back arching in an unnatural arc, her legs trembling, trying to close, but Bellatrix's knee roughly pushed them even wider apart.
The older woman thrust in to the hilt, letting Granger feel the full length, the full volume, the sheer foreignness of the intrusion. She paused for a second, savoring the expression of pure shock, pain, and absolute helplessness on Hermione's face.
— Good, — she whispered, almost tenderly. — Perfect. Now the process of recapitalization begins. The repayment of the debt.
And she began to move. First—one deep, measured thrust, almost fully withdrawing and then entering again. She let Hermione feel every detail, every friction, every millimeter of the way. Then the rhythm quickened. Her movements were not impulsive or passionate, but powerful, measured, inexorable, like the work of a hydraulic press. Each thrust struck deep, hitting sensitive points already inflamed and overloaded from yesterday's hours of stimulation. Each withdrawal was almost complete, leaving a chilling, frightening emptiness, only to be roughly filled again the next instant.
— Watch, — Bellatrix commanded her sisters, not slowing her pace. Her face remained calm, impassive, only the tiniest beads of sweat appeared on her forehead and upper lip, and her breathing became slightly more audible. — Watch how depreciation of debt occurs. How an asset learns to serve its true purpose. This is financial discipline, taken to its logical, bodily extreme.
Andromeda, overcoming the initial shock, approached the head of the table. She leaned down and kissed Hermione. But this kiss was different—not greedy and commanding like yesterday, but almost pitying, sympathetic, an attempt to share the pain, to be a connecting link in this monstrous process.
— Hang on, silly, — she whispered into her lips, salty from tears and blood. — Just… hang on. This will pass. And then… then it will be different. New. Maybe even better.
Narcissa approached from the other side. Her cold, thin, manicured fingers slid over Hermione's sweaty stomach, down, to the place where the black, gleaming silicone disappeared into her body. She pressed on Hermione's pubis, increasing the internal pressure, forcing the strap-on deeper with the next thrust.
— Perfect angle of attack, — she murmured with emotionless approval. — Maximum impact on the anterior vaginal wall and indirectly on the G-spot. High efficiency with minimal energy expenditure. And complete, total control over the subject's physiological response.
Bellatrix sped up. Her thrusts became faster, harder, her hips slapping forcefully against Hermione's thighs, the wet, obscene sound of skin, silicone, and body filling the room, mingling with Hermione's broken sobs and heavy breathing. Hermione was no longer screaming. She was emitting low, hoarse, animal moans, her body, against all logic and will, beginning to respond to this rough, painful, humiliating assault. Her own clitoris, compressed between her body and Bellatrix's, was rubbed with each movement, sending contradictory, unbearable signals of pain and forced, deep, shameful arousal to her overloaded brain. A war raged inside her between shame, fear, and ancient, animal physiology. And physiology, fueled by pain, fear, and the inexorable rhythm, was beginning to prevail.
— Come, — Bellatrix commanded, her voice becoming hoarse, constricted with physical exertion and concentration. — Come on this. On being fucked like a thing, on your own table, in front of those you whored with yesterday. Show me the full depth of your depravity. Prove you are worth the resources invested in you and the attention you are currently receiving.
And Hermione, driven to the very edge of the abyss by pain, humiliation, unbearable physical pressure, contradictory bodily signals, and this monstrous, commanding order, plummeted into oblivion.
The orgasm that turned her inside out was not sweet release or pleasure. It was a shattering collapse, a painful, convulsive spasm, torn by force from the most secret, darkest corners of her psyche. It was capitulation. Her body was seized by a cramp, her internal muscles spasming, clenching with incredible force around the foreign object that had invaded her, as if trying to crush it or, conversely, absorb it forever. A hoarse, tearing, insane cry escaped her throat, spray of fluid burst forth, mixing with sweat, lubricant, and tears.
Bellatrix felt it—the powerful, pulsating, almost convulsive contractions squeezing the strap-on. It was her final trigger, the sign of absolute victory. She drove it into Hermione a few more times, with furious, final force, and then froze, her own body tensing in a mute but expressive grimace of deepest, icy satisfaction. For her, this was not just a physical peak. It was an act of final, total subjugation. The triumph of will, calculation, and power over another living being. It was her orgasm—the orgasm of control.
She slowly, almost carelessly, withdrew from Hermione. The sound was frankly wet, physiological. She stepped back, leaving Hermione lying on the table, trembling as if with fever, legs splayed, thighs wet and soiled, and with an emptiness inside that now burned not only physically, but also in her soul.
Bellatrix unfastened the leather corset with the strap-on and tossed it onto a nearby chair, like a surgeon discarding a used scalpel after a complex operation. She pulled up her trousers, fastened them, adjusted her blouse. Her breathing quickly steadied, her face once again an impassive, beautiful mask.
— The first installment towards the principal debt has been credited, Granger, — she said in an even, businesslike tone, taking a pack of antiseptic wipes from her bag and thoroughly wiping her hands. — Recorded in the books. But this is only the beginning of the financial recovery. The principal amount of the debt, compound interest for late payment, the penalty for reputational damage caused, and the cost of moral compensation—all of that is still to come. Get up. Make yourself and this premises presentable, fit for human habitation. Make coffee. Strong, espresso, double. I have a meeting with shareholders from Abu Dhabi in an hour. And these ladies, — she cast a cold glance at her sisters, — apparently also have something to discuss regarding the further schedule for repaying your… obligations.
Andromeda exhaled—long, tremblingly. Her gaze was fixed on the broken, devastated figure of Hermione, but there was no longer fear in her eyes. There was interest. Burning, insatiable excitement. And some strange, new respect for her sister, mixed with lust. Narcissa silently picked up the robe from the floor and draped it over herself. Her blue eyes, cold and clear as a winter sky, studied Hermione with the same attention she gave to stock charts. In them one could read not just curiosity. One could read the beginning of a new, complex plan. A plan for managing, restructuring, and extracting maximum profit from a new, problematic, but high-potential asset.
Hermione slowly, with a quiet, meaningless groan, slid off the table onto her trembling, buckling legs. She stood, head bowed, unable to lift her gaze, feeling warm drops of her shame, mixed with others' secretions and lubricant, trickling down the inside of her thighs. She had lost. Hopelessly and finally. Her career, her dignity, her body, her will, her very core—everything was now pledged, re-pledged, and in the full ownership. And her three new owners, her creditors—cold, calculating, merciless Bellatrix; chaotic, desirous, unpredictable Andromeda; and analytical, curious, icy Narcissa—had only just begun to assert their rights and define the terms of use.
This was not the end. This was the signing of a new, lifelong contract. A contract in which she had no rights, no voice, no will of her own. Only obligations. Endless, snowballing obligations. And a long, dark, winding path towards their repayment. A path on which, as she was beginning to realize with horror, awaited her not only pain and humiliation, but also some new, monstrous, forbidden forms of existence.
It was only morning. The day was just beginning.