Hello! I am going to have complete transparency with y'all, I forgot about this website! There are three more chapters to this story that I did upload on A03, but not here! It was fun to revisit this story again, especially now that I've grown a lot as a person. I am much more active on my Tumblr, you can find me at starrysky-whumpfics, and on A03 as starlightsapphic, or as starrysky_whumpfics! Through those platforms I can engage more with my readers and I feel like the platform is easier to navigate. However, I will post those three chapters here, and if more come, I'll try to remember to put those there as well! Love you all!
"If you'll follow me down here, this is where I store my most valuable offer. Gentlemen, this is Anya. Otherwise known as the Grand Duchess Anastasia herself. You can call me a liar but I have reliable sources that prove it's her. She'll provide us with a very fortunate income. Go ahead and poke around if you'd like, just don't damage the goods too much." Maksim announced to his guests, a small party of three.
"This an intriguing find, Maxsim, quite a difficult one to pull off. Perhaps a moment alone for each of us would be fair?" One of them suggested, Anya almost perked up at the familiarity of the voice but didn't say anything.
"I suppose…three minutes each. It'll cost extra for longer." Maksim agreed, taking himself and the other two upstairs.
"Anya…" The voice said hesitatingly before carefully pulling the gag from her mouth and removing the blindfold. Hands untied her own from behind her and stood her up to pull her into an embrace.
"Gleb…I thought you would've gone back to Russia." She said quietly, letting tears escape her eyes and both fear and relief filled her mind seeing his face. She had nightmares about him coming back for her after the last time they saw each other.
"My report was enough to convince citizens, but not my superiors, I was forced to flee again and only recently heard about your situation here after arriving." He explained.
"Are you here to get me out or just to go along with whatever Maksim has in mind." She asked.
"I've done terrible things to cause you grief but I'd never…I don't want to hurt hurt you, Anya. I don't want to see you hurt. I'll do whatever I can to see you go free." He promised.
"So get me out of here now." She pleaded.
Gleb shook his head and slowly sat her back down in her chair. "I can't, not yet. We weren't permitted weapons inside and I can't risk that yet, it could put you in more danger." He said, securing her hands. He picked the gag up off the ground.
"Dmitry…find Dmitry please. I need him, I never got to tell him." She said as the gag and then blindfold were tied back around her head, cutting her off. Gleb seemed to fill in the blanks though, his hands slowly going down her waist and stopping at her stomach.
"You're pregnant, aren't you?" He asked. She nodded her head slowly as the door opened back up.
"Times up for you Pierre." Maxsim announced. "Ruslan would love to take his turn."
Anya could almost sense the change in atmosphere as she was left alone with just Ruslan. He walked over and took the gag out, leaving it hanging around her neck only to replace it with his own hand.
"Let me see those eyes…" he said in a cruel tone, slipping her blindfold down. "How beautiful, those alone could be proof enough you're really a Romanov, beautiful blue eyes. You know what Maxsim plans to do with you?" He asked and she stayed silent, frozen in fear. "He's going to sell you off to the highest bidder, and then they'll send you off to the next highest payer and so on and so on. Or maybe, I'll just buy you myself. I get a rush of adrenaline thinking about a princess answering to me, being the one to kneel at my feet and serve me however I please. If you say the word, I'll put my offer down and take you away from this place huh? It would be a lot kinder than being passed around place to place." He asked, removing his hand.
"Never." She muttered bitterly. "Maxsim does not own me and neither will you nor anyone else. If you had half the decency—!"
"Shut her up now! I had her gagged for a reason!" Maksim said quickly, returning down with Gleb and the other guest. "Dmitry just knocked at the door and he can't find her!" He instructed in a harsh whisper before storming upstairs. Ruslan pulled the gag up between her teeth and then covered her mouth with his hand as well.
Anya's eyes shifted up at the sound of glass breaking and shouting before the door swung open. "Let go of her." Dmitry demanded, walking slowly towards her before Maxsim hit him over the head with a bucket to knock him out. Anya let out a muffled scream and struggled around in her restraints.
"I'll call you all later when I secure potential people of interest." Maxsim said and quickly cleared his guests out as quickly as possible, Gleb tried to give Anya a hopeful look of promise before being ushered away. Maxsim sat Dmitry up to chain his wrists to the wall before walking over to yank the gag from Anya's mouth.
"There will be, severe punishments, for his disruption. As for you, I'm interested in how well this will work." He said before pricking a syringe into her neck and cutting her free, letting her slump to the floor. She started to go over to Dmitry before having to stop as a feverish wave hit her.
"Goodnight, Anya. Hopefully having Dmitry here will encourage you to behave more compliantly." Maxsim said, returning upstairs.