"It's mostly the yelling that I hate," said Mika, her fingers digging painfully into my arm as she clung to me. "Can they just fuck or kill each other or whatever they're going to do?"

Stephanie had sent us to bed before Regina came back-- but judging from the yelling, she was back now. Mika was entirely naked, but there was no light beyond the faint green light of the glow-in-the-dark stars above, so my view of her was impressionistic. I was just wearing panties and a t-shirt, myself.

"Yeah, well fucking check with her first next time!" Stephanie sounded enraged. "We wouldn't even be buying drugs from that loser if it weren't for your fucking habit!"

"I spend less than four thousand a year on drugs," replied Regina. Her voice was more controlled, and though raised, still quieter than Stephanie's. "It's kind a drop in the bucket compared to what you spent."

Mika whimpered softly and buried her face in my chest.

"What-- how are you blaming buying Mika on me!? You're the one who wanted to look at her, who was all like, 'but she was such a good streamer'. And besides, that's my fucking money, I earned it!" There was a slam on the wall, presumably from Stephanie hitting it to emphasize her point.

Mika trembled in my arms. "I'll be good... don't send me back... I'm sorry...." At least, that's what I thought she was saying, it was kind of hard to hear her mumbling into my chest as Stephanie and Regina argued loudly in the next room.

"Just sell Mika, if you're so upset about your financial inability to take care of Phoebe." Regina's voice was a bit detached. "Mika's never going to be happy, regardless of where she is. Maybe if you gamble double or nothing at a high-stakes casino a few times, or go sell your--"

"Fucking shut up! I'm not doing that again! And if we sell Mika, how would Phoebe ever trust us to take care of her? How would we trust ourselves!?"

"Then don't get angry at me about the conditions of the universe that are beyond our control."

After a few moments, I heard the door slam. I didn't know for sure who had left.

I pulled away from Mika towards the door, but she clung to me. "Don't leave me, Phoebe... please...."

"I want to tell them they can't talk about you like that."

"They can... I'm just their property... I can only beg for mercy if they want to sell me... making a fuss will just make things worse...."

I sighed. "I... is it okay if I pin you down?"

"...okay."

I pushed her down against the bed and she let out a soft moan as she surrendered her body to me, when the door opened.

Regina was looking down at us both. "Oh. Sorry to interrupt." She smiled a little, and started to close the door, but I put my palm out to keep it open.

"I know I'm here to learn from you, but you shouldn't argue right in front of Mika like that... much less about her." It was hard to make my words come out as I looked up at the woman that some part of me had already accepted that I should obey.

Mika made a little noise between a moan and a whimper as she looked up at Regina.

Regina sighed, opened the door back up the rest of the way, and sat down cross-legged on the edge of the bed, with the light pouring in the door from behind her into the dark room, making her look a bit like some sort of religious figure. "You shouldn't talk to that like your owner, when you have one... but you're right. That was my bad." She beckoned with one finger. "Here, Mika."

Mika wriggled out of my grasp and crawled over the bed, sniffing and licking at Regina's bare feet shamelessly, her owner slowly stroking Mika's head with an unreadable expression.

After a few moments, Regina raised her gaze to me again. "Selling Mika wouldn't be enough to buy you."

Mika rubbed her cheek against Regina's thigh. "Don't sell me... please... I can become whatever you want, Mistress, please...."

"It's okay. I know you're doing your best, Mika. I'm not going to make Stephanie throw you away when it wouldn't gain us anything, I just wanted her to stop yelling at me... really. It was her decision, and it wouldn't have changed anything." Regina played with Mika's ear idly, stroking her cheek, and Mika relaxed, resting her head in her lap nuzzled right up against her crotch. "Phoebe... no more sleeping with Damien unless me or Stephanie say otherwise. If you really want experience with other masters, we can arrange that."

Mika perked up, and slid upwards in Regina's lap, putting her arms around her shoulders. "Maybe you could do it on a lewd stream... she's not a pet yet. I'm not saying you'd make enough money to buy her, but you could maybe get some rich fan, maybe a woman, at least, if you marketed her as a lesbian..." She was rubbing her hips back and forth, grinding her groin against Regina's thigh.

"Mmm," said Regina, sounding almost absent-minded as she stroked Mika's head, looking over to me.

I shrugged helplessly. Standing up for Mika had already taken more bravery than I actually had.

Regina, looking at my face, smiled slightly. "Worth a thought. Thank you, Mika." She shook her head, eyes staring ahead, unfocused, her attention on neither of us, her words more to herself. "I should probably go talk to Stephanie before she does something stupid. I do love that idiot."

She looked back to us, and snapped her fingers, and Mika's eyes raised to her fingers. "Okay. Mika, be a good girl and lie down and let Princess do whatever she wants to you."

Mika slid off her and lay down, looking up at me plaintively as Regina rose and walked out towards the door to outside.

I leaned in and kissed Mika softly on the lips while I caressed her thigh, and she moaned appreciatively. "Please fuck me, Phoebe... or I can lick your pussy... I just want to be a good girl for you..." She was crying softly.

"Shhh... there's no one else who I'd rather have as my girlfriend," I said, meaning it, at least in the moment, as I groped her body. "Everyone likes you, no one's going to sell you...."

Mika pouted. "Regina doesn't... Regina never liked me... she wants to sell me....."

I stroked her head as my other hand rubbed against her entrance. "Of course she likes you... she was just upset at Stephanie... you're a good girl... you're safe... you just need to relax and surrender your body to me...."

"Would you take me in as your pet? ...if circumstances were different...."

"Of course." I kissed her forehead, which hadn't been what I meant to do, just it was hard to see in the darkness, so I trailed kisses down her nose, which is what I meant to kiss in the first place, I just had trouble seeing it in the dim green glow of the stars above, especially after the door had been opened for a bit and messed with my eyes, which had been acclimating to the lack of light. "I'd take such good care of you. Grope your own breasts for me, okay?"

Her body shifted beneath me, I assume to follow my command, as I continued to finger her pussy, giving little kisses all over her face and neck as her moans got louder.

I was getting horny too... I just wanted to kiss her and pleasure her and chain her up and hug her and imprison her forever until she knew she was good and she was safe and she was loved. I wanted to promise to run away with her, but I held back, because this seemed like a really really bad time to make that sort of promise.

I trailed kisses down her body, and she elbowed me in the head with her arm a little as I kissed lower, and I let out a soft pained grunt and she gasped. "Oh no, I'm sorry! I'm so sorry.!" She was panicking again, so I grabbed her hip and pinned her down against the bed hard until she relaxed, still whimpering softly. "It's okay. I'm fine... just be a good girl and keep on groping yourself, okay?

My head settled approximately between her legs, kissing her belly and her inner thighs and then getting closer and closer to the dark valley from which I could smell of her arousal, pressing my lips up against her lower lips, kissing and licking her as she moaned and squirmed.

It was that point that I remembered that Regina was talking about live-streaming me, presumably in some pornographic fashion, and Mika had thought I could get a woman owner that way... I wanted to be with Mika, but at least with a woman owner, I could be a little happy... I think even if she mistreated me, maybe I'd find it a little hot.... I licked at Mika's pussy more enthusiastically, desperately, wanting to become better and better at my oral skills so I could satisfy the woman who's collar I'd wear around my neck... maybe a redhead with sleepy eyes....

...apparently I was thinking about being owned by Regina while I was trying to comfort my girlfriend. The girlfriend who was crying right now because of Regina.

I was the fucking worst.

I held Mika's hips as I licked at her devotionally, like I was confessing to a sin, feeling more aroused and with my conscience slightly salved as she moaned louder and louder, wrapping her legs around the back of my torso as her pussy and hips convulsed under my lips, but I kept licking until she started to pull back a little, and then wiggled free of her legs, moving up to wrap my arms around her, slide under her body even though it was a bit uncomfortable, and cuddle on top of her, pressing her down, trying to make her feel completely owned by me.

Maybe that was a bad idea.

But for the moment, at least, she moaned softly and relaxed under me. "I love you...." There was worship and desperation and sadness in her voice.

"I love you too," I responded sweetly, wondering if it was true.