Warning! The following story contains adult material and is intended for mature readers. Copyright ©2002 Wolfworks Entertainment.

The vivacious Callie Colt and her pretty young cousin, Cassie Colt, left San Francisco after settling their claim on the gold mine left to young Cassie by her father Carlton Colt. A year earlier, Carlton had met and married a high society French woman by the name of Sadie DeSade, who used her wily schemes to slowly poison Carlton to death in order to gain his considerable fortune. At the same time she never hesitated to torment poor young Cassie, her stepdaughter. But Cassie’s brave and stalwart cousin Callie Colt had come to the rescue, and together they raced across America from Boston to San Francisco to get the deed to the gold mine before Sadie and her brother Marcus could steal it away. Marcus, a rather sadistic fellow, had his sights set on Callie, and grew furious with her refusals to marry him. There had been plenty of adventures and perils along the way, and ultimately Sadie and Marcus were defeated. And so Callie and Cassie took their time returning home to Boston and decided instead to explore the scenic California countryside for a few days.

The day was calm as they traveled on a pair of fresh horses on some seldom-used trail. After a few hours, Cassie had nodded off on her tan horse Sandy, who instinctively followed Callie’s white horse Buck. They continued slowly on the lonely trail through a thick forest of trees. But soon Callie realized they were lost. With equal parts exhaustion and frustration, Callie turned Buck off the narrow trail so she could come around and backtrack her route.

It was then that Callie Colt heard the unmistakable sound of rushing water and searched through the trees until she spied a fresh pool of spring water being fed from a waterfall. She brought Buck to a quick stop and called out to her cousin.

“Hey Cass, wake up! Look over there!” Callie exclaimed with a grin, pointing out the refreshing scene. “I could use a nice long dip and a shower under that waterfall right about now.”

“Oh! That’s sounds so refreshing!” Cassie said, rubbing the sleep from her pretty blue eyes. Then she added, “But this is too out in the open, don’t you think?”

“Don’t be a scaredy cat,” Callie Colt teased her cousin. “No one’s going to see us. Look at all the trees around there. And I haven’t heard or seen a single person for miles. Come on… last one in is a rotten egg!”

Callie and Cassie climbed off their horses and tied the reins off onto a thick branch. Without any inhibition at all, Callie quickly began to remove her bolero hat, kid leather riding gloves, cropped vest, suede chaps, blouse, jeans, boots, and the silk bloomers she had cut and sewn to ride high on her legs for riding comfort. She placed each item in a neat pile until she was completely nude from head to toe. Cassie instinctively averted her eyes at first, but she couldn’t help admire her cousin’s statuesque form. Callie turned and flipped her auburn hair and gave Cassie a sly smile before diving gracefully into the cold water. Awed by the scenic beauty around her, the cute young blonde slowly began to remove her hat, boots, vest, shirt and jeans.

“Hurry up, Cass!” Callie said as she backstroked in the water, her supple breasts floating wet and shining in the noonday sun. The temperature gave her golden tanned body goose bumps and made her pink nipples fully erect. “The water’s fine!”

Cassie blushed pink from head to toe when she removed the last of her frilly under garments and stepped slowly into the water to join Callie. The chilly water made her gasp with breathlessly, but slowly her lithe young body eventually adjusted to the cold. Soon the two of them began washing each other’s backs and hair, which in turn led to spirited horseplay.

Callie grabbed Cassie and dunked her head playfully under water. Cassie tried to fight back, but of course, she was no match for her older cousin. Callie grabbed Cassie close in a bear hug, twisted her cousin’s slender arms behind her back and placed her svelte hips between Cassie’s legs, pulling her close until their bodies were nice and snug against one another. Cassie continued to struggle as Callie laughed, enjoying her cousin’s squirming.

“Stop it!” Cassie screamed and laughed. “Let me go you big bully!”

From her tone, Callie could tell her Cassie didn’t really want to be let go. She took Cassie’s wrists with one hand and then used the other to reach down and pinch Cassie’s thighs, making her cousin squeal and holler. Then Callie leaned forward to bite Cassie’s ear. Her cousin squealed with shock and surprise when Callie suddenly pinched her supple ass cheek at the same time.

“Callie! Please, Stop!” Cassie begged. “You know how my bottom bruises too easily!”

Callie laughed and started tickling Cassie in the ribs, and then moved up the side of her wiggling torso until she dug her fingers into Cassie’s armpits. Cassie’s body grew tense with excitement as she squirmed in her cousin’s grasp. She felt Callie’s crotch rub up against her own and blushed at the tingling down there.

Callie suddenly had a naughty idea. She moved her hand around and placed it between Cassie’s legs to gently pluck at some of Cassie’s pubic hairs to get a rise out of her.

“Oh! Callie, stop!” Cassie screamed and begged. She felt her pussy tingle from Callie’s teasing touch and let out a long high-pitched scream.

Callie quickly covered Cassie’s mouth with her hand and dunked her underwater again. The two of them became entangled in a bout of wrestling. Callie lifted Cassie higher so she could take her young cousin’s nipple between her fingers. Cassie threw her head back, wincing and squealing when Callie pinched each erect nipple. Cassie’s body was thrashing under the water and she didn’t realize she was hollering so loud until Callie told her, “Hold it down Cass! Do you want to let the whole county know we’re here?”

Cassie blushed, suddenly embarrassed at her own unbridled squealing. Callie continued to tease and tickle her cousin. She released her grip on Cassie’s rear and brought her hand up to dunk her again. The two of them became lost in the vigorous splashing. The sound of horses rustling out of the trees did not even interrupt their screams and laughter.

The lead rider was a striking jade-eyed brunette with high cheekbones and blood red lips. Her jet-black hair pulled back and netted in a tight round bun. She was dressed entirely in black with a neck scarf, a bolero hat with a lace veil and a pair of long pointed black boots with silver spurs. Her torso was fitted with a tight corset and her flared riding pants was made out of slick ebony leather. The two cowboys on either side of her were wearing dusters, snakeskin vests and chaps decorated with studs in the shape of diamonds. One other member of the group was a dirty dark-skinned dwarf on a miniature pony wearing a sombrero, grinning at what he saw. All four of them were armed to the teeth with six-shooters and rifles stuffed into holsters on their saddles

“Well, well!” the woman said to her companions. “Look what we have here boys! Two genuine high society girls! Callie Colt and her sweet little cousin, Cassie.”

Callie and Cassie were startled out of their playful clench and turned towards the four riders watching them from the shoreline of the pond. Callie was puzzled by the woman’s knowledge of her identity. She wondered how the woman knew who they were. Could it be that they were already well known because of their fateful run in with Marcus and Sadie DeSade? Meanwhile, Cassie was cowering and shivering behind Callie’s back, keeping her blushing body hidden under the water.

“I suppose you’re wondering who I am,” the woman said. “My name is Dixie Diamond. But to everyone around these parts I’m known as Lady Diamond. These are my ranch hands, my nephew Snake and Viper, an old friend of the family. And that little wetback there is Chico. We’re here to inform you that you’re trespassing on private property.”

“Trespassing?” Callie asked, incredulous and more than a little perturbed.

“We’re sorry,” Cassie spoke up, trembling behind her cousin. “We’ll leave this instant! We didn’t realize this was private property!”

“Hush, Cassie!” Callie hissed.

“I’m afraid that’s not possible, little girl,” Lady Diamond said with a wry smirk.

It didn’t take long for Callie to realize that this woman was probably up to no good. “And just what do you mean by that?”

Lady Diamond smirked. “What I mean is, trespassing is a punishable offense in these parts.” She leaned over to a bush and pushed it aside, revealing a faded hand-painted sign.

THIS RANCH IS PRIVATE PROPERTY OF THE DIAMOND FAMILY! ABSOLUTELY NO TRESPASSING! VIOLATORS SEVERELY PUNISHED!

Callie Colt seethed with outrage. “How in the world could we know we were trespassing with the sign hidden like that? Who’s the head of the Diamond family? I want to speak to him right now!”

“That would be me, sugar britches,” Lady Diamond replied with a gleaming smile. The rough-looking companions at her side enjoyed a good chuckle seeing the look on Callie and Cassie’s faces.

Callie Colt’s eyes flashed with anger. She glanced at their rifles and pistols and decided there was nothing she could do without her trusty whip in her hand. She didn’t dare risk her young cousin getting hurt.

“Why don’t you two little vixens come on up out of my pond,” Lady Diamond suggested. Her men pulled out their weapons and leveled them at the two women.

“Oh, Callie,” whimpered the frightened Cassie under breath. “We’re in big trouble!”

“It’s going to be all right, Cassie.”

“Chico,” Lady Diamond called to the little Mexican dwarf who was watching the scene anxiously, “Pick up all their belongings, and bring them here to me.”

Callie Colt and Cassie watched helplessly, shivering up to their necks in the water while the little Mexican dwarf jumped off his pony, scrambled over to edge of the pond and bent over to gather up all of their clothing. He grinned at the women with a soggy toothpick between his teeth when he pocketed the beloved choker Cassie’s mother had left behind when she passed away. Chico brought the clothes to Lady Diamond. She took a special interest in Callie’s custom leather whip. Lifting an eyebrow high, she kept the whip and tossed the clothes back to Chico, who eagerly sniffed at Callie and Cassie’s frilly underwear.

“You can’t do this!” Callie protested.

“Of course I can, sweetheart,” Lady Diamond said. “Now come on up out of there real nice and slow like. And by the way, dearie, I’ve heard the tale of how you handled some acquaintances of mine back in San Francisco. Sadie and Marcus DeSade. So I’m well aware that you’re a slippery and thieving little scoundrel. So, just to make sure you don’t try any of your shenanigans with us, I want the little one to come out first.”

“Oh, no,” Cassie whimpered. She trembled in the water even more at the mention of those two cruel and unspeakable people. Callie’s face turned pale. How in the world did this woman know of the evil DeSade siblings? The duo had pursued and tormented them clear across the country to get hold of the deed to her uncle Carlton’s mine after Sadie DeSade had poisoned him. Callie herself had nearly been raped by the sick and twisted Marcus while under the influence of his concoction. The concoction had nearly killed her while Sadie set her evil sights on her innocent cousin Cassie.

“I’ll get us out of this,” Callie assured her cousin. “Right now, just do what she says.”

Cassie tentatively climbed out of the water, quickly trying to cover her most intimate parts from the prying eyes of the leering men.

“Put your things on so you don’t catch a death of a cold,” Lady Diamond chuckled. She nodded at Chico, who tossed the handful of clothes down in front of Cassie.

Cassie snatched the clothes from the ground and quickly brought the loose cotton blouse over her head to cover her dripping wet body. The men grinned at her with wolf smiles. Cassie didn’t realize that the moisture from her body was making the thin cotton material slick and see-through. Callie Colt watched from the water and silently seethed while her cousin dressed as quickly as she could.

“Now, come over here and get on my horse, little darlin’” Lady Diamond ordered. The frightened and shivering young Cassie turned to give her cousin a look as if to ask, “Is it all right”?  Callie nodded back at her. Cassie gulped and went to mount Lady Diamond’s horse, sitting up in front of the shiny black leather saddle. Without Cassie realizing what she was doing, Lady Diamond removed a wicked-looking dagger from a sheath and held it up to where only Callie could see it, giving her a silent message that if she tried to fight or escape, Lady Diamond would not hesitate to cut her pretty little cousin.

“Now, come on out of there, real nice and slow,” Lady Diamond told Callie. “If you make one false move, my boys will be on you like ticks on a hound.”

Callie exited the pool of water and stood on the grass defiantly with her hands on her hips, not bothering to cover her slick wet body, giving the men an eyeful of her buxom form. Their eyes lingered over Callie’s downy fur patch and full breasts, but she stood firm, a fiery look on her face as if daring them all to a fight. Lady Diamond ordered Chico to give Callie her clothes as well. Callie put them on quickly, ignoring the leers and whistles of the men while never taking her eyes off the devious woman.

“Viper, put a collar on the hell cat,” Lady Diamond said to one of her men.

“My pleasure,” Viper answered. His lips curled up in a leering grin. He holstered his gun, dismounted and took out a thick leather collar from his saddlebag. A pair of locking wrist restraints and a larger single oval cuff was attached to the collar with chains.

Viper approached Callie Colt cautiously from behind while Snake held his six-shooter on her. Viper placed the thick collar around Cassie’s slender neck, and then buckled and locked it in place with a small padlock.

“Now, her hands,” Lady Diamond instructed with obvious pleasure. “Behind her back. Make sure it’s nice and tight.”

Viper took Callie’s wrists and clasped them into the restraints at the small of her back. She grunted when Viper made sure her elbows were cinched together with the larger oval cuff and then bent her forearms in opposite directions with her wrists turned outwards so her hands were at each side of her waist. Then he lopped a chain around the front of her waist and snapped a pair of cuffs tightly on each wrist before locking them securely into the unusual contraption. It was extremely uncomfortable for Callie.

“You’re not going to get away with this you cowards!” Callie warned. “Mark my words!”

“I wouldn’t go around makin’ promises you can’t keep,” Lady Diamond chuckled.

“Bitch!” Callie snapped.

Lady Diamond curled her blood red lips into a cold smirk and told Viper, “She has a very sassy mouth. I think she’s going to require the bit and bridle.”

Viper smiled crookedly, revealing rows of corn-yellow teeth. The cowboy had hoped his boss would suggest that very thing. He went back to his saddlebag to get a thick bit and bridle with leather straps attached to metal rings at each end. He walked up to Callie with a cocky gait and said, “Open wide little filly!”

“You’re not putting that thing in my mouth!”

Viper reached up and pinched Callie hard on the nipple.

“OWWW! Damn you! MMMMMMMMMMMMPH!”

Callie tried to kick him, but Viper sidestepped her and jammed the bit roughly between her clenched teeth and then tied off the leather straps tight behind her head, rendering her speechless. Callie couldn’t help but bite into the metal and glared at Lady Diamond. Meanwhile cousin Cassie looked on in worry.

Lady Diamond ordered Viper to lift Callie onto her horse. Once Viper made certain Callie was secure in her saddle, he “accidentally” pulled open the top buttons of her shirt and then grinned at her before mounting his own horse. Lady Diamond wanted Callie as vulnerable as possible, making it impossible her for her to escape or retaliate. Viper and Snake would ride along each side of Callie’s horse. Each of them had one end of a rope, which ran from each of their saddle horns through the ring in Callie’s neck collar. If she tried to jump off or resist, the men only had to ride apart to choke her or pull her down.

When they all began to ride to Lady Diamond’s ranch house, Callie’s blouse opened up, revealing her ample chest. As Lady Diamond rode ahead of Callie, she would turn back every so often to get a peek, gazing at the furious Callie with a wicked smile on her face. She had one arm wrapped around Cassie’s shivering body, angering Callie even more.

After awhile they arrived at the ranch house. Callie Colt looked around and noticed a large stable and corral near one end of the house, holding horses of all breeds. It appeared to her that Lady Diamond had all Mexican workers tending to the animals.

The horses stopped in an open courtyard area by the huge two-story ranch house. The curios charros strolled out of the stables to take a look. After dismounting, Lady Diamond held court with her laborers. She was about to speak when her daughter, Belle, came out of the main house.

“What’s happening?” Belle called out. She had caught the eye of young Cassie. Belle had never seen anyone so beautiful.

Lady Diamond answered her daughter. “These are trespassers, darlin’. They go by the names of Callie and Cassie Colt. All the way from Boston Massachusetts. We were about to give ‘em their punishment. Twenty lashes each… with Miss Callie’s own whip.”

Belle gasped. “My goodness.”

“Snake…Viper… tie Miss Callie Colt to the post first,” Lady Diamond ordered the grinning cowboys.

Callie was outraged. To be lashed with her own whip! She grew deeply concerned now and Cassie was more frightened than ever by what was about to transpire. Belle went to her mother to speak closely to her while Viper and Snake led Callie to a ten-foot tall post. They removed the binding contraption and then stripped down Callie’s vest and shirt to the waist before tying her arms above her head and positioning the brave girl with her bare back to the small crowd of Mexican workers.

“No! No!” Cassie pleaded, as Snake and Viper trussed Callie tight. Then she begged Lady Diamond,  “Please don’t do this!”

“Mother, is there any other way?” Belle pleaded out of the blue, not taking her eyes off Cassie’s tearful face. “The whip looks so harsh. She…they could be seriously hurt.”

“Nonsense!” Lady Diamond said. She paused for a moment when she noticed her young daughter’s anxious concern for Cassie. Suddenly, she had a devious idea.  “Well…there might be another way…”

Lady Diamond walked up to Callie and removed the bit from her mouth, telling her loudly for Cassie and her daughter to hear, “You have two choices, darlin’…you and your cousin can both take ten lashes…or, you can take all twenty yourself. It’s your choice.”

Callie Colt snarled at Lady Diamond, tugging hard at the binding ropes. “Damn you, I’ll have your hide for this! You know I’d rather take all twenty than let my cousin be stung by my own whip!”

“No!!” Cassie screamed when she heard Callie’s brave answer, struggling to free herself from Snake’s firm grasp. “Callie, please don’t!”

Lady Diamond smiled devilishly as she replaced the bit in Callie’s mouth; whispering with devilish glee so only Callie could hear, “Make sure you bite down hard. I reckon it’s going to hurt quite a bit.”

Lady Diamond nodded at Viper, who uncoiled Callie Colt’s long slender whip with an artful motion. He flicked and snapped the whip a few times to get used to the fell of it. Then in one graceful turn of his arm and wrist, he lashed out at his victim, striking a crimson stripe across her bared back. Callie grimaced in pain, biting into the hard bit in her mouth as another lash struck her back, this one more painful than the last. She could hear Cassie scream in the background as each lash brought a whistling sound and then a sharp, biting sting of intense pain. To try and lessen the pain, she vowed in her mind to avenge this atrocity on her body and thought of a hundred different ways she would kill her tormentor. Callie’s body trembled with each stinging lash and soon tears began to stream down her reddening cheeks as the pain intensified.

Cassie’s tears began to flow as well for her brave cousin; and after the first ten lashes, she could not bear to watch any more, bowing her head and shuddering with sobs. In what seemed an eternity for Callie and Cassie Colt, all twenty lashes were meted out, everyone silently counting each one in their heads. By the last one, Callie’s body had given out, and she hung limp on the post, delirious and exhausted, her back striped with crisscrossed lines of crimson. Cassie finally freed herself from the guard and ran to Callie. Snake was about to apprehend her, but Lady Diamond held up a hand to stop him.

“Callie!” Cassie said through her pained sobs. “I’m so sorry!”

After a few moments, Lady Diamond’s men untied Callie and carried her limp body into the house. Cassie tried to follow, but Lady Diamond took her by the arm, telling her, “Why don’t you come along with me.”

“I want to go to my cousin Callie,” Cassie said. “You can’t stop me!”

“You’ll see her in good time,” Lady Diamond assured Cassie as she led her into the large ranch house, showing her to a large bedroom that was furnished in thick rustic furniture. “She’ll be well taken care of.”

“Why did you do this?” Cassie cried. “I don’t understand this cruelty.”

“I’ll try to explain this just once, sweetheart,” Lady Diamond said. “The punishment was harsh, I realize, but I have a responsibility to those people out there who work for me. I live off this ranch. Among other things, I breed horses for people who want them. I have to have the respect of those workers, and in order to do keep that respect; I have to give out punishment when necessary. My livelihood depends on it. You’ve seen those people out there. They’re uncultured and dimwitted.  If I don’t keep their respect, I could have a rebellion on my hands. I’m doing all this for Belle because I won’t be around forever.”

“Is she your daughter?” Cassie asked, remembering the pretty young girl who seemed so concerned for her. “Why didn’t she want you to punish me?”

Lady Diamond smiled. “I gather because she took a shine to you. Or, maybe she was just concerned for you.” Lady Diamond paused and her face took on a wistful expression. “She doesn’t have any friends here her own age.”

Cassie suddenly felt a strange concern and pity for Belle. “She doesn’t have any brothers or sisters?”

“Afraid not,” Lady Diamond said, suddenly growing quiet. Cassie could almost swear tears were welling up in his eyes. “She’s my one and only. Her father died when she was very young.”

“That’s a pity,” Cassie said with sadness. She knew exactly how that felt thanks to that murderous Sadie DeSade, who tricked her father into marrying her after Cassie’s mother passed away and then slowly poisoned him to get his fortune. It was only because of her beloved cousin Callie that her evil stepmother’s plan was thwarted.

Lady Diamond sighed and looked around, saying, “This was her father’s room. It’ll be your room now until your cousin gets better. Then you both can leave when you wish.”

“Could I please see her? Just for a moment?” Cassie begged.

“I’ll check and see how she is, and I’ll let you know,” Lady Diamond said as she prepared to leave.

“Thank you, ma’am,” Cassie said softly. She sat down on the thick quilted bed.

Before she walked out, Lady Diamond stopped and turned to Cassie. “I’ll understand if you don’t want to, but I’d like you to join us for supper this evening. I know Belle would enjoy your company.”

“I don’t know if I can,” Cassie confessed. “After all that’s happened.”

“That’s understandable,” Lady Diamond said. “You have strong feelings for her, don’t you?”

“She’s the only family I have.” Cassie responded quickly. “And she’s my best friend.”

After a pause, Lady Diamond told her, “I’ll go and see about her.”

Cassie bowed her head and cried silently after Lady Diamond left her alone. She prayed desperately that Callie was all right, and that she would be able to see her soon. Outside the door, Lady Diamond was smiling wickedly. Her sad act had worked like a charm.
 

     ***
 

Lady Diamond entered the room where Callie Colt was being tended. Callie was laying nude and face down on a bed, seemingly unconscious, except for an occasional moan. A young Mexican woman with silken waist length brown hair was dabbing her wounds with a cloth. The exotic beauty was a curandera named Angelina, a witch with blazing azure-colored eyes, bronze skin and thick rose petal lips.

Angelina was virtually a slave under Lady Diamond’s command due to the fateful day her parents were killed by a curse placed on them by an evil curandero, a rival of her father for her mother’s love. She rued that day ever since. As an orphan, she grew up with strangers until she fell into the hands of Lady Diamond, to be raised on the ranch by the cruel Mistress.

“How is she?” Lady Diamond inquired as he stood with his arms crossed.

“Very weak,” Angelina answered with disgust.

“Well, what are you waiting for?” Lady Diamond said with impatience. “Take care of her with those magic potions of yours.”

Angelina glared at Lady Diamond with contempt. She despised it when she was forced to use her craft. She considered it a curse to be born with the skill she had inherited from her dead mother. What made it worse was that her Mistress never hesitated to use the girl’s powers to her own advantage, and it was all Angelina could do not to break the cursed bind that linked them together. The alternative would be do die a long and painful death. She reluctantly went to a cupboard to gather some items. She took a cloth and a bottle of dark liquid, poured some of the contents on the cloth and then wiped the bloody red welts on Callie’s otherwise smooth backside.

Lady Diamond watched with keen interest, as each welt seemed to fade and disappear into the skin. She never ceased to be amazed by Angelina’s skills. Her mind began to race with possibilities. She remembered a story told to her by an acquaintance that saw Callie Colt in a saloon brawl. It began when one of the men had accused Callie of cheating at cards, and she used her skill with a whip to take on nearly a dozen hardened gamblers. Lady Diamond suddenly wondered what a child conceived by this woman be like? An idea began to smolder in her head.

With an evil grin crossing her face, Lady Diamond told Angelina, “I want you to give her a something that will make her obey whatever I tell her.”

“¿Que, Senora?” Angelina looked at Lady Diamond in concern. “You mean a potion?”

“Yes! A love serum,” Lady Diamond replied. “I want her under my complete control.”

“Are you sure you wish for this?” Angelina asked, clearly not in agreement with the idea. She quickly wished she hadn’t questioned her Mistress.

Lady Diamond’s jade eyes narrowed and seemed to ice over. Without warning, Angelina was seized by the back of her neck and hair. With her face inches from her servant, Lady Diamond snarled, “Don’t ever question me, witch. You just do what I say like a good little slave. Or do I need to give you another lesson in obedience?”

“No, Senora! Por favor!” Angelina trembled with fright, and stammered, “I will make the potion right now.”

Lady Diamond released her and Angelina quickly went about the task of creating a potion from various ingredients in the pouch she carried at her waist at all times. Lady Diamond instructed her before leaving, “When you’re done with the potion, have her bathed and oiled and taken to my bedroom.”

“Si, Senora,” Angelina said as Lady Diamond left and closed the door. When she had the potion ready, she had Callie Colt lift her head up to drink it, while she whispered a series of commands into her ear, burning them into Callie’s subconscious.
 

***
 

That evening, Lady Diamond sat with her daughter Belle at a large dining table with a few Mexican servants standing by to serve them food and drink. Mother and daughter sat in silence; each ignoring the other until Cassie quietly entered the room. Lady Diamond noticed her first and stood to acknowledge her presence. Then Belle stood up as well, obviously excited by her appearance.

“Evening,” Lady Diamond said in greeting. “Pleased you could join us.”

“I just wanted to find out how my cousin is,” Cassie announced.

“Sit down sweetheart,” Lady Diamond said gesturing to an empty chair as a young girl in a Mexican peasant dress scurried to set a place for her. “We’ll talk about it over some lamb chops.”

Cassie sat down reluctantly as a plate of food was set before her. “Is Callie all right?”

“She will be,” Lady Diamond answered. “She’s being taken care of as we speak. All she can do rest right now.”

“Has she…asked about me?” Cassie inquired tentatively.

“Why yes, indeed,” Lady Diamond said. “She said to tell you not to worry about her.”

“I’d so much like to see her,” Cassie replied, suspicious of Lady Diamond’s assurances.

“I’ll arrange it,” Lady Diamond said. “But… she made me promise that I wouldn’t let you see her in her current condition. Not until she’s better. She said you’d understand.”

Cassie thought that was just the kind of thing Callie might say, but she still wanted to see for herself if her cousin was really all right. Finally she muttered, “I suppose I can wait.”

“This is my daughter, Belle,” Lady Diamond said, introducing her beautiful daughter. Belle nodded at Cassie and gave her a quick smile. Cassie couldn’t believe such a shy and attractive young girl could be the daughter of someone like the stern and menacing Lady Diamond.

“Belle, maybe you’d like to give Cassie here a little tour of the ranch tomorrow. Of course, if Cassie wants to…”

Cassie looked at Lady Diamond, and then at Belle, whose expression was one of anxious anticipation. All at once, Cassie couldn’t bear to disappoint her. After a moment she answered, “I’d like that.”

***

In another part of the house, Callie Colt was in a large bathing room, surrounded by four comely Mexican girls. She was still weak from the effects of the whip, her body soaking in a large old-fashioned bathtub filled with steaming water. The women were each busy washing her arms and legs. They took great care with every inch of her smooth skin. The aroma of pine and scented candles filled the room. The close attention of the four women overwhelmed Callie’s senses and she noticed that all were taking great delight in washing her, each revealing shy delicate smiles. It seemed that they had never seen a woman so beautiful and strong, openly admiring her perfectly toned body.

Callie was uncomfortable at first, but she allowed herself to relax and enjoy their soothing and gently massaging hands upon her naked form. She gasped with surprise when one of the women reached to wash gently between her legs, but she relaxed when the surprise turned to extreme pleasure as the woman stroked her with great care. For what seemed like hours, they continued bathing her. When they were done, they helped her out of the water, dried her body thoroughly and led her to a short table covered with satin pillows. There they rubbed scented oils all over her now glistening body. As the women stroked and massaged her most intimate of areas, Callie closed her eyes… and thought of Cassie.

It was the last thing she thought of before she was startled out of her reverie by a woman with silky long hair who entered the room. She ordered the girls to dress Callie in a silk Chinese robe and then Callie was led to another part of the massive ranch house into a spacious immaculately furnished bedroom. Callie’s first thought was that this was where she would rest for the night. It was hard to believe that earlier that day, she had been bull whipped to near death. It was only then that she realized that she felt absolutely no pain on her back. When the door was closed behind her and she was finally left alone, Callie went to a large oval vanity mirror to inspect her backside and was amazed that there were no scars or welts at all. Was this all a dream? What was happening here?  She stared in amazement, and didn’t notice that Lady Diamond had silently entered the room from a secret door. Callie turned when she saw a reflection in the mirror.

“You!” Callie Colt swirled around and snarled in a fit of anger.

“Hello, darlin’,” Lady Diamond replied with a grin “How are you feeling?”

“I want to see my cousin this instant!” Callie Colt scowled, then reiterated. “Now!”

Lady Diamond uttered a throaty laughed. “You’ll find out soon enough who makes the demands around here.”

“I should scratch your eyes out!” Callie snarled, taking a step towards Lady Diamond.

“Go right ahead, sugar. Better yet, why don’t you use this?” Lady Diamond suggested. She took a small dagger tucked in her belt and held it out to Callie, handle first. Callie paused before taking a step closer and then snatched the dagger from Lady Diamond’s hand. Angered by the woman’s smug expression, Callie bared her teeth and hissed as she brought the blade upward.

“Stop!” Lady Diamond commanded. As if hitting an invisible screen, the blade tip stopped inches from Lady Diamond’s chin. Callie’s mouth opened in amazement.

“Hand me the knife now, darlin’,” Lady Diamond grinned.

The stunned Callie did as she was told and handed the dagger back.

“I’ll let you in on a little secret,” Lady Diamond said conspiratorially. “You’re now under my complete command. You’ll do anything I tell you to, and you won’t be able to resist my…ahem…considerable charms.”

“How are you…doing this?” Callie asked in both anger and astonishment.

“That’s not really important,” Lady Diamond said. “What is important, is that I start your training for my own selfish purposes.”

“What?!” Callie Colt snarled, as her eyes went wide in outrage.

“Here, let me explain it to you,” Lady Diamond said as she began to walk around Callie’s upright but quivering body, eyes dancing over inch of Callie’s body as if to inspect her. “And do me a favor by keeping completely still with those pretty lips of yours shut tight while I talk. I don’t tolerate interruptions lightly.”

Lady Diamond stopped behind Callie and put a hand on her shoulder. Callie shuddered, and when she tried to turn to slap the woman for touching her, she found that her body was unable to move. She even tried to speak, but no words would come forth.

“You see, in addition to raising horses here on my ranch, I have a few other businesses on the side. I run whiskey into dry counties. I sell rifles to the Apaches and opium to the Chinese railroad workers. I also own saloons and cat houses up and down the California coast,” Lady Diamond told Callie. “I’ve been doing it for years. You see I learned about hard work and making a dishonest living way back when I was a little girl. I helped my Daddy raise mustangs and kept up his illegal whiskey stills on our ranch back in Texas. When he passed on, I ran into a bit of trouble with the law. See, I didn’t take to paying them off like my Daddy did. And they didn’t take kindly to a woman telling them off. So I decided to sell the ranch and moved out here to California so I could turn a much better profit from the gold rush.”

Lady Diamond’s hand began to slide down Callie Colt’s arm as she continued. “You know, my Daddy taught me how to appreciate a fine animal like a good breeding mare. So when I train my animals, I only use the strongest and fastest I can find. My horses are revered far and wide for their stamina. And so are my whores. You remind me of a good breeding mare Callie… strong…wild…”

Lady Diamond’s hand went from Callie’s arm to her back, making Callie tense up from her touch. She wanted nothing more than to take her arm and break it, but she couldn’t.

“Before I turn you loose in one my cat houses, I was thinking that you just might make the perfect bitch for my second child. See, I’m as barren as a water hole in Death Valley. So I’m going to have my nephew Snake do the dirty deed with you.” Lady Diamond said, leaning close to Callie’s ear as her hand slid around her waist and stopped over her flat stomach.

Callie was disgusted by the touch of Lady Diamond’s hand through the silk material. She gritted her teeth in anger. She became even more livid as Lady Diamond’s hand began to slide up over her ample breasts, cupping one in a palm and gently squeezing it.

“So, sugar britches,” Lady Diamond said as he reached around with his other arm to hug her from behind, “You may speak now. What do you think of my generous offer?”

“I’d sooner be dragged for miles by wild horses than let any man stick his pathetic little pecker inside me without my consent!” Callie spat out, released from her silence. “Now get your filthy hands off of me!”

“Now, now,” Lady Diamond mocked her. “That isn’t any way to speak to the mother of your future child.”

“I’d kill myself first!” Callie snapped as Lady Diamond continued to run her hand over her body, letting her right hand slip through the opening of Callie’s silk robe to cup her feather soft mound.

“Oh, that simply won’t do,” Lady Diamond whispered into her ear. “I’ll still need you to whore in one of my best saloons once you’ve given birth to my son. Remember?”

Callie Colt grunted in anger, trying desperately to resist the molesting. Lady Diamond chuckled. “Of course, if you have a girl, we’ll have to keep trying until you get it right.”

“I swear I’ll have your skin on a wall for this!” Callie hissed through bared teeth.

Lady Diamond laughed and licked Callie’s ear, making her recoil in disgust. However, she could not move an inch as Lady Diamond continued pawing her breasts. Callie could feel the urgent nudging of Lady Diamond’s groin, which was pressed up against her derriere. Callie grunted and tried to move away, but something unexplainable held her in place and she was powerless to fight it. Lady Diamond brushed away the material of Callie’s gown, opening the front to have full access to her full breasts and itching crotch, cupping and fondling them while she sucked and kissed Callie’s neck from behind. Callie’s face grew hot, burning with hate at Lady Diamond’s intrusions on her most private areas.

“Now, my wild little mustang,” Lady Diamond said as she released Callie and walked around to face her. “We have to break you in and give you your first lesson in obedience.”

“What?!” Callie Colt said angrily. “Obedience to you? I’ll never…!”

Lady Diamond ignored Callie’s protest and smiled. “I think I’ll first require a show of proper subservience. I want you to get down on your hands and knees in front of me.”

Before Callie could say a word, she felt her body move against her will to a kneeling position in front of Lady Diamond. She struggled mightily, but soon enough, she was on her hands and knees, staring up hatefully at her tormentor.

“Now, kiss the toe of my boot,” Lady Diamond ordered as she put one foot on Callie’s right hand, stepping down on her fingers with all her force. Callie groaned and leaned down to plant her lips on the pointed toe of her tormentor’s slick black boot. When Lady Diamond was satisfied, she tapped Callie’s bare behind a few times with her riding crop. “Very good, little kitten.”

Red-faced and humiliated, Callie Colt stared down at the floor, struggling to hold her tongue for now.

“Now, get up on your knees,” Lady Diamond ordered. When Callie responded to her command, she found herself uncomfortably close to a man’s pelvis. To her shock and embarrassment, she looked up and saw Snake standing before her. Apparently he was biding his time and watching from a dark corner of the room ever since Lady Diamond walked in. With a distressing realization, Callie could sense what Lady Diamond had in mind for her next.

“Since I believe in training my animals and my whores with rewards, I’ll do the same for you,” Lady Diamond said as she unsnapped the buttons of her nephew’s trousers to take out his long throbbing organ. “Look, Snake has a delicious treat for you.”

“No… I won’t… do this!” Callie said as she glared at Lady Diamond.

“Don’t be chaste now, sweet Callie,” Lady Diamond said with a chuckle. “You deserve it. Go on now…taste it. Put those luscious lips of yours all over it.”

Callie took a deep breath, burning with humiliation. She couldn’t seem to resist no matter how hard she tried. What had they done to her? She leaned her head forward, parting her lips as she looked up at Lady Diamond with hate in her eyes. She placed her soft lips on the smooth tip of Snake’s member.

Snake looked down at Callie with a cruel sneer on his face. She was surprised to discover that Snake had coated his cock with a thin glaze of nectar. It made Callie’s mouth water instinctively when she tasted the plump head of his glistening shaft.

Snake groaned when he felt the warm, wet sensation of Callie’s tongue and lips on his engorged cock. He reached to place a hand on Callie’s head, running his fingers through her silken tresses. He began to rock his hips slowly back and forth against Callie’s moist lips and grunted when he thrust his cock as deep as he could down Callie’s throat. Lady Diamond was delighted to see that Callie couldn’t help but dribble saliva out of the edge of her mouth and down her chin as the sweet coating continued to make her new pet’s mouth water.

The wet sound of her lips slurping and sucking as Snake’s thick shaft filled her mouth made Callie self conscious about how terribly she was being degraded, but there was nothing she could do to prevent it. All she could do was look up at Lady Diamond from the corners of her eyes full of malice. This only seemed to incite Snake. The sadistic cowboy took Callie’s head with both hands and thrust his hips against her face enthusiastically.

“You do that real good,” Snake taunted as he fucked Callie’s mouth. “If I didn’t know better, I could swear you were already trained to whore.”

“UUUUUMMMMMMMMFFF!” Callie Colt tried to respond, but her cock-filled mouth prevented any harsh retort.

Lady Diamond leaned against her nephew Snake’s shoulder and smiled haughtily at Callie’s humiliation. She reached down and pulled Snake’s cock away, holding Callie by the hair with one hand as she stroked the glistening cock with the other and then used it to rub over Callie’s lips and cheeks, making her blush with humiliation. Callie unleashed a torrent of curses, but Lady Diamond and Snake only responded with raucous laughter.

“Up on your feet now, darlin’,” Lady Diamond ordered, suddenly snatching Callie up by the hair. She pushed Callie over to a table and told her, “Lean over. It’s time for you to get properly mounted.”

“What are you going to do?!” Callie Colt demanded right before Snake pushed her forward roughly on the large heavy oak table until her chest was mashed down hard on the surface. Callie gave out a painful grunt. “UNNNNNNNNNNHH!”

“I’m going to give you a good old fashioned ridin’ lesson,” Snake said as a sadistic smile creased his face. He grabbed the silken material of Callie’s robe and flipped it up out of the way to reveal her perfectly tones legs and buttocks. Her feet were up on tiptoes.

“You wouldn’t dare!” Callie hissed. She was wide eyed with shock when she realized what was about to happen to her. “You’ll curse the day you were born if you even try it!”

“I’ll curse the day if I don’t. After all, it’s not every day that I get the chance to corn hole a high society type bitch like you,” Snake leered as he placed the head of his shaft at the rear of Callie’s firm ass and slowly began to push it in. Callie grabbed on hard to the edge of the heavy table and winced with pain. She gritted her teeth and grunted as Snake suddenly thrust the full length of his cock inside her, causing a bolt of agony to shoot up through her body.

“AAAAAAAAAAAH!” Callie Colt screamed out when Snake began to viscously rape her rear portal. He pumped her hard, showing no mercy as he drove her forward onto the table with each powerful thrust. Hot tears began to roll down Callie’s flushed cheeks as she tried to block out the pain and embarrassment.

Snake leaned close and grabbed Callie’s hair. He yanked her head back as he snarled between gasping breaths, “This is just like breakin’ in a new mare. I ride ‘em long and hard until they’re all shiverin’ and sweatin’.”

“Son of a bitch! I’ll…kill you! … UUUUUNH!! …. For this!” Callie Colt cursed through hot tears of humiliation.

After nearly a half-hour of degrading and taunting Callie, Snake began to tremble with an orgasm. He groaned and began to unleash a hot flow of his seed into Callie. He thrust harder when he began to shoot deep into her, and then pulled out to spill the remaining ropes of milky liquid onto her back and reddened ass cheeks. He placed his throbbing cock into the valley of her rear and leaned forward, placing his hands on the table on either side of her waist to catch his breath. Callie, sweating and shaken from the assault, had already collapsed forward on the table, exhausted from the assault.

“Well, sweetheart,” Lady Diamond said as she watched from her place on the bed. “It looks like you got the best of my nephew tonight. He got so damned carried away that he forgot to shoot his load into your sweet honey box.”

Snake looked over and grinned at Lady Diamond. He leaned down close to Callie and whispered tauntingly into her flaming ears, “Looks like we’ll have to try again real soon.”

With that, Snake got up. He grabbed Callie by the arm and shoved her towards the bed, where her ravaged body fell forward on her stomach. Lady Diamond quickly used the opportunity to truss Callie to the brass rails of the feathered bed in spread eagle fashion. Callie groaned in agony each time Lady Diamond pulled and cinched her wrist and ankle ropes to the rails. She was spread so taut that her derriere and her head were the only parts actually touching the mattress while the rest of her body was suspended inches off the bed. After she excused Snake for the evening, Lady Diamond spent many more hours teasing, taunting and tormenting poor Callie with sadistic glee until she finally got sleepy and fell asleep next to her exhausted and sweating prisoner, who was whimpering over and over, “No more…no more…no more…”

****

The next day, Lady Diamond woke up, called her nephew in, and immediately ordered Callie Colt to perform a long degrading session of oral pleasures on Snake to get him up and ready for another attempt to violate her womanhood, but Snake was so excited he spilled in Callie’s mouth instead, infuriating her to no end. Lady Diamond playfully scolded Snake playfully and sent him off to his ranch duties while she stayed behind in the room with Callie. She promptly trussed up Callie into a variety of stringent positions and worked her over all morning as “punishment” for making Snake come so quickly with her mouth.

At lunchtime, Snake stopped in after his meal and plowed Callie Colt twice more, but instead of erupting inside her sweet hole, he pulled out and squirted his milky syrup all over Callie’s stomach and chest. Lady Diamond laughed and told Callie that it might be better to wait for later that night before Snake knocked her up once and for all. Once her nephew left, Lady Diamond called the Mexican girls in to take the sore and dazed Callie for another hot bath to prepare her for the special occasion.

Callie noticed that the four women had three common traits. They were all beautiful, all well endowed, and none of them spoke a word to her or each other. They went about their eager task of washing Callie’s body and covering her with scented oil afterwards. They did their duty with great care, as if they were born to it. When she tried to speak to them, they only smiled at each other, infuriating Callie to no end.

“What’s wrong with all of you?” Callie Colt hissed at them.

“No hablan Ingles, senorita,” came a voice from the doorway. It was Angelina. “They do not speak English.”

Callie looked at Angelina suspiciously and demanded, “Where’s my cousin Cassie?”

“¿Tu prima preciosa? She is safe. Do not worry,” Angelina assured her. “Right now she is in the company of Senorita Belle, la hija de la Dona. The daughter of La Dona Diamond.”

***

A few miles away, Cassie and Belle were riding double on Belle’s horse throughout the immense ranch. Belle was giving her a riding tour of the ranch and they were heading back to the main house after they had a late picnic lunch by a stream. The scenic beauty of the land awed Cassie. They talked about all kinds of things and Cassie found Belle shy at first, but once she opened up to her, Belle was actually very sweet.

“Your mother owns all this land?” Cassie inquired.

“Yes,” Belle answered. “It’s been in our family for quite awhile.”

“It’s very beautiful,” Cassie said softly.

Belle told Cassie, “Not as beautiful as you.”

Cassie blushed and tried to hide her wide smile.  It had been a long time since she had had such pleasant company.  It was almost enough to make her forget about Callie, but not quite.  In the back of her mind, she still fretted about how her lover was recovering.  Every time she asked Lady Diamond about Callie, he would give her some excuse not to see her.  All she could do was hope that her beloved cousin was all right.

***

That evening Lady Diamond and Snake entered her quarters after a late dinner and found Callie Colt spread out on her stomach on the huge feathered brass bed with the Mexican girls, each of them massaging a leg, a foot, an arm, and her back. One of them was gently kissing and suckling her toes. Callie quickly sat up and gathered a bed sheet around her torso and glared at the intrusion. Lady Diamond smiled at Callie with a raised eyebrow while Snake signaled the girls to leave. At once, the four Mexicans ceased what they were doing and left the room quickly and quietly. Callie was left alone with Lady Diamond and her nephew Snake. Callie wanted to curse them, but she bit her tongue, knowing that it would only encourage their cruelty.

“Well,” Lady Diamond said as she approached the bed while Snake began to remove his vest and shirt. “I can see my girls have been treating you well. I guess it’s not every day they get to take care of such a pretty young filly like you.”

“If that’s your idea of a compliment you can keep it,” Callie sneered.

“No, I suppose I’m not generally one for compliments,” Lady Diamond chuckled while Snake kicked off his boots and tossed the rest of his clothes on a chair. “I’m sure you find me rude, but when I deal with the kind of people I’m used to dealing with every day, I’m used to being brash.”

Callie only glanced nervously at Snake and the nudeness of his body, trying not to linger on his privates. Lady Diamond captured Callie’s attention with a gentle lash of her riding crop across Callie’s bared thigh. In her forties, Dixie Diamond’s statuesque body was still firm and shapely as she strutted in her tight corset, fishnet stockings, short high heels boots and fancy nightgown with feather trim. She stretched out on the bed next to Callie and sighed breathlessly, “My nephew has had a hard day, haven’t you, Snake?”

“I sure have,” Snake replied, pretending to rub sore muscles as he yawned and lumbered onto the bed on the other side of Callie so that she was sandwiched between the two.

He did look genuinely exhausted. Callie Colt rejoiced inside, thinking she was going to get a respite from the slimy Snake and his unwanted advances. Maybe they would just let her rest tonight. But Callie’s relief was short lived when Snake told her, “I guess you’ll just have to get on top. Hope you don’t mind doing all the work tonight.”

Callie sighed in defeat. She closed her eyes and cursed to herself.

Shamed by her predicament, Callie Colt removed her sheet to reveal her perfect form and kneeled naked and burning on the bed in front of Lady Diamond and Snake’s leering eyes before they motioned for her to get to her duty. Callie seethed with anger, then moved over to straddle Snake’s loins so she could get the ordeal over with.

“Hold on, sugar,” Snake flashed a grin, nodding to his still limp member, “I’m going to require a little stimulation. Hope you don’t mind.”

There seemed to be no end to this humiliation. Callie Colt, nostrils flaring and gritting her teeth, hesitated for a moment before adjusting her body so that she could move closer to his crotch. Snake relaxed against the downy pillows and put his hands behind his head to watch contentedly as Callie took his member in her hand and began to use her lips and tongue to stimulate him to erection. It took awhile, and Snake tried to resist the sensation of her warm mouth to prolong her oral pleasuring, but after a while, he allowed himself to become hard. Then he ordered Callie to mount his raging erection.

It was the defining moment. Callie noticed Lady Diamond’s watchful eye and the look of positively sinful glee while her nephew was about to enter her for the sole purpose of filling her with his foul seed. And she was helpless to prevent it. With a steely gaze, Callie got up and positioned her hips above his. With one hand, she guided the head of his thick cock into her opening and then slid down slowly to impale herself on his shaft.

“Aaaaaaah…yea…that’s nice,” Snake groaned as he filled her to the hilt. “Now ride me long and hard like a I’m a bucking bronco, cowgirl.”

Callie cursed him silently. She placed her hands on his bare chest and began to rock her hips slowly back and forth on his pelvis. Snake relaxed, closed his eyes and lay perfectly still, allowing Callie to pleasure him with her sweet box. She tried to speed her tempo to hurry and finish with him, but every time she had him on the brink of orgasm, Lady Diamond would distract her with some snide comment or order her to stop or slow down, frustrating Callie each time. Callie guessed that Lady Diamond knew exactly what she was trying to accomplish by prolonging her humiliation. And Snake seemed to have total control over his own organ as well.

Callie continued to ride on top of Snake for what seemed like an eternity. When he was finally ready to climax, She was finally allowed to pick up her rhythm. Callie began to pump faster and faster on top of Snake, using the muscles of her inner walls to stroke and pull his shaft. Lady Diamond looked gleefully at Callie Colt as she humped furiously on top of her nephew, eyes closed and breathing heavily through her nostrils, trying not to moan out loud. She could see Callie was beginning to get frustrated, and when she finally opened her eyes, Callie glared at the two of them with anger, knowing exactly what they were up to.

“You bastard! Finish, damn you!”  Callie cried as she rocked desperately on top of Snake and grunted with each furious thrust of her hips. “UNNNH! UNNNH! UNNNH!”

Snake decided to end Callie’s torment only after several more tantalizing minutes of rutting her. Her pussy felt so good and tight, he never wanted the wild humping to end. He reached up, grasped her bouncing melons and mashed them hard as he arched his waist upward, exploding in a gush deep inside her silken tunnel. He groaned loudly as his body tensed up. The intensity of the climax caused his body to shiver as he held on tight to the buxom heroine’s sleek mounds, making her wince with unexpected pleasure.

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!” Callie screamed out in ecstasy. She couldn’t help but finally give in to the ultimate pleasure of the cock ramming deep inside her and unleashed her own numbing climax, soaking Snake’s shaft with her juices.

Finally, Snake relaxed, spent and breathing heavily, as Callie panted for air above him. She had broken out in a sheen of sweat from the rigorous riding session, and drops of perspiration began to form and slide down her chest and stomach before she collapsed on the bed between Snake and Lady Diamond worn out from the bout of vigorous sex.

Callie whimpered when she heard Lady Diamond next say, “Now it’s my turn, sugar.”
 

     ***
 

Cassie Colt woke up the next morning with a tingle in her stomach. When she realized the reason for her giddy excitement was that she was going to see Belle that morning, she wondered if she was feeling something more for Belle than just friendship. She tried to put the thought out of her mind, but it kept creeping back in like a slippery serpent. Cassie met Belle outside after breakfast and when she offered to take Cassie for a horse ride to the lake, Cassie gladly accepted. When they arrived at the scenic lake, Cassie was breath taken by the early morning beauty of the surrounding trees and hills. They found a nice secluded spot by the lake and spread out a blanket to sit and enjoy the scenery.

After a long pause, Cassie finally broke the uncomfortable silence between them and asked Belle, “Have you ever been with a boy before? I mean, like this?”

Belle looked at Cassie, paused, and then shook her head as if she were ashamed.

“Why not?’ Cassie asked.

“I’ve been too busy, I guess, working here on the ranch,” Belle answered. “And, well, I’m not allowed.”

Cassie looked out over the lake. “It must be lonely for you.”

“I don’t have time to be lonely,” Belle said. A weary expression came over her face.

Cassie suddenly felt very sympathetic towards Belle, and placed a hand on hers. Belle was surprised at the contact at first, but she enjoyed it, although she became suddenly very nervous. She was never in this sort of position before. She liked Cassie so much.

“Cassie, I’d like to tell you something,” Belle said, trying to gather his courage

“Yes?” Cassie urged her on. “What is it?”

“Never mind,” Belle said, turning away.

“No, please tell me,” Cassie said, turning Belle’s face back towards her

“Even though we’ve only known each other a short time…” Belle began, “I feel very close to you.”

“You do?” Cassie asked with a sweet smile.

“Yes,” Belle said. “I enjoy being with you…like this.”

Cassie smiled and leaned close to her and said, ”So do I.”

They looked into each other’s eyes for several moments, and then leaned toward each other simultaneously to plant their lips together in a tender kiss. When they finally broke apart, Belle took a deep breath and smiled.

“That was like a dream,” Belle said softly. “Could we…do it again?”

Cassie did not say a word, but only leaned forward to kiss Belle again, more passionately this time. This time, Belle began to feel a stirring in her loins and broke apart from Cassie to gather her senses.

“What’s wrong?” Cassie asked, puzzled by Belle’s sudden discomfort.

“I…I don’t know,” Belle stammered. “I’m feeling…”

Cassie then noticed Belle’s hand surreptitiously covering her groin area. Cassie smiled and put one arm around her shoulder, and with the other, moved Belle’s hand aside, and discovered that Belle was so wet she had soaked clear through her suede riding trousers. Cassie told Belle with a comforting smile, “Don’t worry, that’s normal.”

“It is?” Belle asked as he looked down at his crotch.

“Yes,” Cassie assured him. “When two people are passionate together, they become aroused and their natural urges come forth.”

Belle was excited and breathing heavily. “What happens next?”

“Then the two people act on their desires…sometimes,” Cassie explained.

“Sometimes?” Belle asked, puzzled.

“Yes,” Cassie continued. “If they’re both ready.”

Belle looked at Cassie and swallowed before asking, “Are you ready?”

“No,” Cassie said with a sympathetic smile. “But I can see you are.”

“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to…” Belle stammered.

“No, it’s all right,” Cassie interrupted.  “It’s just that… I’m saving myself. I’m going to wait to be more intimate with my one true love…the man I plan to marry.”

“Oh,” Belle said, looking as if he had just lost her best friend.

Cassie took pity on her and said, “Well… maybe I can help you…in another way.”

“How?” Belle asked, his attitude suddenly coming back to life.

“Lie back,” Cassie instructed Belle, and used her hands to push Belle into a reclining position on the grass, and then squatted on her knees next to her. “Now close your eyes, and don’t look.”

Belle did as he was told. Her heart began to beat faster. Her eyes sprung open when she felt Cassie begin to unfasten her riding trousers.

“Don’t peek!” Cassie admonished her. “Close them and relax.”

Belle quickly did so and then tried unsuccessfully to relax when she felt Cassie begin to slide off her britches. She gasped when he felt the cool morning air on her groin and gasped again when he felt Cassie’s soft hand on her most intimate area. Her body stiffened when Cassie gently touched it and began to rub her fingertips gently up and down, making Belle very tingly inside.

“I want you to imagine you’re in bed with me,” Cassie whispered as she stroked Belle’s soaked pussy hair. “And I’m on top of you…naked.”

“Ummmm,” Belle murmured softly as she was overcome by Cassie’s touch.

“We’re lovers,” Cassie continued, using both hands now, one on Belle’s honey pot and the other on her creamy thighs. “Now I’m moving on top of you.”

Belle groaned at the wonderful sensation, thinking that nothing could feel as good as this.
She was startled by yet another sensation, this time a wet one. Cassie had just let a long string of saliva drip from her lips to the head of Belle’ tiny pink pussy bud, creating a slick surface for Cassie to slide and rub as she continued her gentle strokes. Cassie used her fingers to reach inside of Belle and alternately squeezed, tightened and loosened her grip as she pumped Belle’s pussy with her hands, also turning her finger in semi circles over her clitoris as she did so. Cassie watched with fascination as Belle’s pussy throbbed in her palms. When she saw the expression of ecstasy on Belle’s face, Cassie decided to give her the ultimate treat.

“I’m deep inside you,” Cassie said with a sensuous whisper as she leaned down and used her tongue to wet the entire surface of Belle’s sex, making the girl’s hips buck upward slightly at the tactile sensation. Cassie then slipped her soft lips around the clitoris and used her warm, salivating mouth to suckle it as she continued the stroking and fingering of Belle’s honeysuckle.

Belle dug her fingers into the ground and curled her toes in her boots as Cassie sucked, licked and dabbed her engorged clit with her finger. Finally, Belle could hold it no longer; in an intense climax, she exploded in a gush, squirting Cassie’s mouth with fluid. Cassie tasted some, and then let the rest spill over her fingers and onto Belle’s pussy, using it to lubricate the quivering slit. Belle’s seemed to be screaming but no sound was coming out of her open mouth and past her quivering lips.

“Howdy, ladies!” came a voice from close by. Belle suddenly opened her eyes and sat straight up when she felt Cassie let her loose. To their horror, Viper was watching them sitting atop his horse several yards away. They never heard him approach and didn’t know he had been watching them for some time.

Cassie, embarrassed and startled by the appearance of the leering ranch hand, wiped the remnants of Belle’s juices from her lips as Belle scrambled to her feet in a panic and snapped up her britches up as quickly as she could.

“V-Viper!” Belle stammered.

“I think you’d better mosey on back to the house.” Viper told Belle ominously.

Belle was about to speak but Viper squinted an eye at her. The girl looked down, frightened, and went to mount her horse.

“Come on, Cassie,” Belle called.

“Nope, just you,” Viper told Belle, “I’m going to have a word with the young lady here.”

“It wasn’t her fault…I…” Belle tried to explain, suddenly fretful for Cassie.

“We’ll talk about that later, little girl. Go on now,” Viper said.

“You’d better do as he says,” Cassie said to Belle.

“I’m so sorry,” Belle said, as she mounted her horse. She headed back the house, leaving Cassie alone with Viper. Once Belle had disappeared over the rise, Viper looked at Cassie with an evil gleam in his eye and Cassie knew immediately that he was up to no good. When he dismounted his horse and started to approach her, Cassie backed away.

“Stay away from me, you…scoundrel!” Cassie exclaimed. She stumbled over a rock and fell on her bottom. Viper her was on her like his namesake moniker, snatching Cassie by the hair and scrambling on top of her. Poor frightened Cassie tried to scream in a panic, but Viper clamped a gloved hand over her mouth.

“Calm down, little filly,” Viper hissed. “You and me are going to have a little bit of fun!”

Cassie shook her head back and forth, wide-eyed and hysterical. This beast was going to rape her! With her hands she began to slap and punch his arms, but Viper only responded with a raspy chuckle. His groin was pressing in between her legs and Cassie could feel his hardness. No, this can’t be happening! Cassie thought.

While Viper lifted his hips and reached between his legs to unbuckle his chaps, Cassie seized the opportunity to bring her knee up to plant it hard into Viper’s engorged cock and testicles. He wheezed and grunted in agony, and Cassie was able to scramble out from beneath him as he rolled into a fetal position and grabbed his aching balls.

Cassie jumped on Viper’s horse and took off toward the ranch house. When she arrived, she headed straight to her room, frightened out of her wits. Where was Callie when she needed her? And what would Lady Diamond do when she found out what happened, once that bastard Viper was sure to tell her. She went to her bed and sobbed until she was too exhausted to cry any more.
 

***
 

Hours later, Cassie was still waiting in her room, pacing and worrying about her and Belle’s fate. When a knock came upon her door, she jumped in fright.

“Come in,” Cassie called out in a tentative voice. The door opened and Lady Diamond entered with a grim expression on her face.

“I just came to tell you that I’m on my way to punish Belle for her indecency,” Lady Diamond said.

“Lady Diamond, please let me explain,” Cassie said quickly. “It wasn’t her fault!”

“You don’t have to protect her,” Lady Diamond protested. “She knows better than this.”

“You don’t understand,” Cassie said. “I was the one who suggested…what we did.”

“That doesn’t matter,” Lady Diamond said. “She’s responsible for her actions.”

Lady Diamond turned to leave but Cassie grabbed her arm. “What are you going to do to her?”

“She’ll be whipped, of course,” Lady Diamond explained casually. It was then that Cassie noticed the wicked looking riding whip that Lady Diamond carried in her right hand.

Cassie pleaded, “No! You can’t! Please! I beg you! She didn’t mean any harm!”

“You should have thought of that before you corrupted my daughter,” Lady Diamond said.

“Oh, please! Is there anything I can do to change your mind?” Cassie pleaded as tears welled in her soft blue eyes. She couldn’t let this happen to poor Belle.

Lady Diamond looked at Cassie, expressionless, while the wheels spun in her head.  She had young Cassie exactly where she wanted her.

“Do you feel that strongly?” Lady Diamond asked. “You’d even take her punishment?”

Cassie lowered her eyes and realized the gravity of the situation. She thought about what Callie had done for her, sacrificing her body so that Cassie would not be harmed. Her cousin had been incredibly brave to do that for her. She decided she could do the same for Belle. She took a deep breath, and finally uttered, “Yes, ma’am.”

“Well, then,” Lady Diamond said. “If you feel that strongly about it, we’ll begin now.”

“Where do you want to do it?” Cassie asked. “Outside in front of everyone?”

“That won’t be necessary,” Lady Diamond said. “Right here is fine.”

Cassie looked at Lady Diamond and thought she saw a look of eagerness in her eyes, like the way she looked when she first discovered her and Callie in the pond. At once, Cassie began to doubt her decision, but it was too late to turn back. She stood by with nervous anticipation as she awaited Lady Diamond’s next instruction.

Enjoying Cassie’s discomfort, Lady Diamond waited a few moments before she told the young girl, “Turn around and lean over that table.”

Cassie hesitated, and then did as she was told. Her heart began to pound with fear. Lady Diamond waited until Cassie’s back was turned to let a leering grin cross her face. She licked the corner of her lip as she stroked and bent the whip in her hand. Lady Diamond admired the way Cassie’s body began to tremble as she neared her, and she lifted Cassie’s skirt gently to expose her firm, alabaster thighs and cheeks, covered partially by her frilly satin bloomers. Lady Diamond was clearly going to enjoy this task, and she placed a hand on Cassie’s back to hold her down still on the tabletop. She watched with a gleam in her eye as Cassie tensed up, and then brought the whip up to eye level.

With a curl of her blood red lips, Lady Diamond brought the whip down with a whistling arc and slashed it across Cassie’s shivering buttocks. Cassie emitted a short, high-pitched scream, and bit her lip as the burning sensation shot through her body. Hot tears began to flow down her flushed cheeks as Lady Diamond brought down the whip again with a loud snap.

“OOOOOOW!!” Cassie cried out in agony, grabbing onto the edge of the table to brace herself from the stinging whip. She shut her watery eyes tight and whimpered as Lady Diamond lashed young Cassie’s reddened ass three more times. When Lady Diamond paused, Cassie relaxed for a moment, hoping that it was finished.

Lady Diamond removed her hand from Cassie’s back and covered her exposed rear with the skirt, telling her, “I’m feeling very lenient today. Instead of meting out the full punishment with the whip, I’m going to allow you to do for me what you did for my daughter.”

Cassie, still shaking and frightened from the sting of the whip, stood and turned around to face Lady Diamond with a shocked expression. In utter dismay, she asked, “What?”

“Get down on your knees,” Lady Diamond ordered her, stroking the whip threateningly.

Cassie was crying. In a trembling voice, she sobbed, “Please…don’t make me do this.”

Lady Diamond suddenly lashed out, grabbing Cassie by the hair at the back of her neck, and snarled at her, “If you can do it to my daughter, you can certainly do it to me.”

Slowly, Lady Diamond forced Cassie down to her knees before her as Cassie shook her head back and forth, giving her a pleading look with tears flowing down her face. Lady Diamond only grinned and began to unbuckle her fancy belt.

Outside the door, Angelina was secretly listening to the cruel proceedings and became livid. She knew she could not allow such a thing to happen, and rushed away from the door and down the hallways to Belle’s room on the other side of the huge house.
When she arrived, she rapped loudly on the door, and Belle opened it nervously.

“Yes?” Belle asked. She was relieved that it wasn’t Dixie.

With her head bowed subserviently to Belle, Angelina told her, “Senora Dixie wishes to speak to you. She is waiting for you in la senorita Cassie’s room.”

Without a word, Belle headed to Cassie’s room with Angelina a few steps behind. Belle found the room and entered. She was frozen in place when she came upon the scene before her. It took her a few moments to react to Lady Diamond standing before a kneeling and crying Cassie.

“Mother!” Belle cried out in anger and shock. “What are you doing?”

“Who told you to come in here?” Lady Diamond roared back. “Close that door and get back to your room before I tan your hide young lady! Now!”

“No! I won’t!” Belle protested vehemently. “I won’t let you do this!”

“You little cur… just wait till I…!” Lady Diamond hissed as she re-buckled her belt and stepped menacingly toward Belle while Cassie slid away into a corner of the room in terror.

“You little bitch!” Lady Diamond spat out as he raised the whip at Belle. “I’ll beat you to within an inch of your life.”

“No!” Belle yelled, as her eyes welled up. “I won’t let you do that ever again!”

Lady Diamond swung the short whip hard at Belle, who tried to grab it with her hand. She grabbed her mother’s arm instead and they began to wrestle for the whip. The more they struggled, the more violent the two became, until they were slapping and pulling at each other furiously. When Belle somehow got the upper hand, Lady Diamond pulled out her dagger in desperation and lunged at Belle. Cassie let out a long high-pitched scream as she watched Lady Diamond and Belle struggle furiously for the knife, and then fell in a heap on the floor. Suddenly, the two women were both very still.

“Belle!” Cassie screamed. She was sure Belle had been stabbed.

Suddenly, Callie Colt entered the room in a panic. “Cassie!”

“Oh, Callie! You’re safe!” Cassie called back in surprise. She ran to her cousin and embraced her.

Callie wrapped her arms around the shaken Cassie. “I heard you scream.”

“I’m all right,” Cassie assured her, and then looked at Lady Diamond and Belle. With great effort, Belle pushed Lady Diamond off of her and onto her back, where it was revealed that the dagger was planted deeply into her mother’s heart.

“Oh, no!” Belle sobbed as she embraced Lady Diamond’s head to her chest and wept.

***

Later that afternoon, after Callie Colt was released from her spell and her clothes and horse returned to her, Angelina had revealed to Belle all the evil things her mother was involved in; her exploitation of the Mexican migrants, the opium, the guns, the selling of illegal whiskey and houses of ill repute, the torment of Callie Colt, as well as her own cruel treatment.

Angelina also revealed that not only was she herself free from Lady Diamond’s bondage over her, but she was free from her black magic powers. She explained to Belle that the curse that had bound her to Lady Diamond was finally broken by her death. Meanwhile, Viper and Snake were nowhere to be found.

“You’re free to leave then,” Belle told Angelina as she pondered over the day’s traumatic events.

“I will not leave you, Senorita Belle,” Angelina told her, addressing her formally as the new head of the ranch. “I will stay and help you undo all of the things your cruel mother has done. You must keep the ranch going. The people have no place else to go. And after all, it is rightfully yours now.”

“But why would you want to stay?” Belle asked, amazed at Angelina’s loyalty after so many years of cruel treatment by her sadistic mother.

“Because, I have really only loved and cared for you… I always have,” Angelina said with a bowed head. “I knew you were nothing like your mother.”

“I don’t know what to say,” Belle said. “I’m so confused right now.”

“I understand,” Angelina said as she comforted him. “But I will always be here for you.”

“Thank you so much,” Belle said, drying her eyes. “Come with me, I have to talk to everyone outside.”

Belle took Angelina outside by the hand and stood before all the workers who had come to the main house when they heard of Lady Diamond’s death. Callie Colt and Cassie were there too, about to leave to continue their journey back home to Boston.

“As you all have heard by now, my mother is dead,” Belle said while Angelina translated into Spanish for the workers. “I’ve been told of the many evil things my mother has done to some of you, and I want to make amends for it. Those who wish to leave, I will give you all plenty of money and you will be free to go where you wish. Those who can stay will be treated properly and paid a fair wage from now on.”

After a few minutes when no one spoke, a spokesperson for the Mexican workers stepped forward and addressed Belle, “I speak on behalf of everybody, senorita. All of us wish to stay here. We believe you will not follow in your madre’s footsteps.”

Belle was speechless for a minute, overwhelmed and on the verge of tears by the response and the realization of just who she was now to these forgiving people. She tried to keep her voice from breaking. “All right, then.”

As the workers walked away to return to their work, Belle approached Cassie and told her, “You’re more than welcome to stay. And your cousin Callie is welcome to stay too.”

Cassie was taken aback by Belle’s offer. After several heartfelt moments, she finally told Belle, “I’m sorry, but we can’t. We have our own home back in Boston.”

“I’ll never forget you, Cassie,” Belle said, trying to keep a strong face.

“I won’t forget you either, Belle,” Cassie said.

“Chico!” Belle called out to the dwarf. “Bring my horse here.”

As Chico went to get the horse, Belle told Cassie, “I want you to take my best mare. I raised her from a colt all by myself. She’s very gentle, but strong too… just like you.”

“I couldn’t do that,” Cassie protested as the beautiful painted mare was brought to her. Chico handed Cassie’s precious choker to her with a look of shame in his eyes.

“It’s the least I could do for what you’ve been through,” Belle said as she patted the mane of the horse for the last time.

“I don’t know how to thank you,” Cassie told her.

As Cassie and Belle embraced and whispered their tearful good byes, Callie Colt took Angelina aside and whispered to her, “That bastard Snake forced himself on me. Is there anything you can do?”

“Do not worry, Senorita Callie,” Angelina said, making sure she was unheard by others. “His seed no vale nada. No good. He could not have children if he tried for the next hundred years.”

“Those lying…!” Callie hissed. “And I’m as sure as the cock’s crow they both knew it all along!”

“Si. And one more thing you should know. Senorita Belle was not la senora Dixie’s real daughter,” Angelina revealed. “La Senorita Belle was stolen from a murdered enemy of Lady Diamond when senorita Belle was only a child. I was bound to secrecy under my cursed bondage to Lady Diamond, so la Senorita Belle never knew this secret. But I can tell her now. I will just have to wait when the time is right. Right now, I think she has been through too much.”

“Yes, I think she has too,” Callie said while they walked back toward Cassie and Belle. “Thank you for what you did.”

“No, senorita, it is you we have to thank,” Angelina said. “Despite what you have been through, it was fortunate that you arrived here, and freed us all from the cruel bondage of Lady Diamond.”

Callie Colt smiled and mounted her horse next to Cassie. As they waved and rode away, Cassie asked her cousin, “What was that all about?”

“She was just wishing us well on our trip back home,” Callie said with a straight face.

When she noticed Cassie turn and look back one more time, Callie asked her cousin, “Are you sure you won’t regret not staying? I wouldn’t want you to hold it against me.”

“Don’t be ridiculous,” Cassie said with a slight sniffle. “After all we’ve been through together, you should know that I only want to be with you. You’re my cousin and my best friend. You’re the only family I have left. I could never leave you. Not in a million years.”

Callie Colt smiled and punched her sweet cousin playfully on the arm. She felt fortunate to be related to such a wonderful person like Cassie, but she tried hard not to show it.

“Ouch!” Cassie exclaimed. “That hurt!”

“You little brat!” Callie Colt taunted.

“You big bully!” Cassie shot back.

They giggled like naughty schoolchildren and trotted off into the orange-lit valley, courtesy of the Southern California sunset.
 

THE END