Message-ID: <40592asstr$1043464203@assm.asstr-mirror.org> Return-Path: <kellipaine1979@hotmail.com> From: "Kelli Paine" <kellipaine1979@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Original-Message-ID: <F92dsRcivXdYKzZssIa0000bef7@hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Jan 2003 23:40:05.0018 (UTC) FILETIME=[EBD177A0:01C2C401] X-ASSTR-Original-Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 18:40:04 -0500 Subject: {ASSM} Bed and Breakfast - Chapter 4 Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 22:10:03 -0500 Path: assm.asstr-mirror.org!not-for-mail Approved: <assm@asstr-mirror.org> Newsgroups: alt.sex.stories.moderated,alt.sex.stories Followup-To: alt.sex.stories.d X-Archived-At: <URL:http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/Year2003/40592> X-Moderator-Contact: ASSTR ASSM moderation <story-ckought69@hotmail.com> X-Story-Submission: <ckought69@hotmail.com> X-Moderator-ID: hecate, gill-bates The following story is a work of fiction. Its contents are of a graphically sexual nature and may involve non-consensual sexual acts between underage partners. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. This story is intended for ADULTS only. If you are under the legal age of consent in your local jurisdiction, or if you are easily offended, STOP READING NOW. Feedback is appreciated from those who enjoy the story and find it stimulating. Bed and Breakfast Codes: bF bg nc inc rape By Kelli Paine (kellipaine1979@hotmail.com) Note: This is Chapter 4 of a story in progress. In Chapter 1, Helen opened a bed-and-breakfast with her son and two daughters, and offered the services of herself and her children to the guests of the inn. Chapter 2 told of Helen's visit to some guests, and Chapter 3 described her 17-year-old daughter Dara's visit to other guests.] Chapter 4: Dillon Dillon, Helen's 13-year-old son, had been bought by the middle-aged couple with two young daughters. He went to their room at 8 PM, and one of the daughters let him in. She was 10, and her sister was 12, and both girls were gorgeous -- very slim, with long blonde hair down to the waist. The older girl was starting to develop breasts, but her sister was still a little girl. They were both wearing blouses and skirts and sneakers. The man told Dillon to sit in a chair, then led his daughters around in front of Dillon. "I want you to show my girls how to have sex, so they'll be able to please their boyfriends when we let them start dating." Both girls were looking down at the carpet, embarrassed and nervous. Dillon wasn't sure what to say. The girls were very pretty, but he had never been with such young girls -- his sister Laurel was 13 when she first sucked him off. He looked up at the girls, unsure what to do next. The man spoke to his younger daughter. "Melissa, you sit over there and watch." The 10-year-old girl sat down on the sofa. The man looked at the older girl. "Megan, take off your clothes so Dillon can see what a pretty girl you are." The 12-year-old pulled her blouse up over her head and took it off. She was wearing a training bra. She unfastened her skirt and dropped it on the floor, and took off her sneakers. She stood there in bra and panties, looking nervously at Dillon, trying to smile. "Take off your bra, Megan." The girl unfastened the tiny bra and dropped it on the floor, covering her budding breasts with one arm. She used the other arm to pull down her panties, and stepped out of them, covering her pussy with her hand. "Stand up straight, angel." Megan moved her arms to her sides and stood there with her eyes lowered shyly, and Dillon felt his cock start to throb. She was so pretty, with very pale skin, and just a little blonde pubic hair. Her thighs were very slim, and there was a gap between her legs, so her pussy was visible even with her legs together. Dillon stood up and started to take off his clothes, but the man told him to just open his pants, and told his daughter to get down on her knees in front of the boy. She had been told what to do then -- she reached into his pants and took out his penis. She looked up at Dillon shyly. "May I suck your cock, please?" Her father had taught Megan that she must always ask permission before she put her mouth on a man's cock. Dillon nodded at her, and she gently kissed the tip of his cock, then took it into her mouth. * * * The man wanted both of his daughters to get used to being naked around guys that were dressed. He had a secret reason for this: he hated women, and he was planning to turn his daughters into whores as soon as they were a little older. He was going to get them deflowered tonight, then start inviting his friends over to fuck them -- just a few at first, but eventually he wanted his girls to be able to service 50 men each day without complaining. He knew that a whore who could service that many men would bring a nice price at a whore auction, and he planned to make a lot of money by selling his daughters to a pimp. He was a lawyer, and several of his clients were pimps. They had taken him to some whore auctions, and after they bought the girls, they had let him sample one of them. The girl was 12, the same age as his own daughter, and he had gone crazy while he was fucking her -- he rammed his cock into her so savagely that he tore her vagina. She screamed, but he wouldn't stop screwing her. After he ejaculated inside her, he pulled his cock out, and a gush of blood flooded out of her pussy -- she had bled to death while she was being fucked. The pimps got rid of the girl's body, and the man offered them free legal services to make up for the money they lost on her. He got to sample other young whores over the years, and nothing was as exciting to him as a sexy girl around the age of 12. He knew he was going to fuck his daughters, and pimp them to his friends, but he wanted to start them out with just one boy, and fool them into thinking this is how sex would always be. * * * Megan sucked Dillon's cock until he had a huge erection -- it didn't take long, because he really wanted to fuck her. Her father told her to lay down on her back with her legs spread wide apart. He told Dillon to take off all his clothes. "You'll be the first boy to make love to Megan. She just had her first period this month." Dillon got between the girl's legs and put the tip of his cock against her slit. She smiled up at him shyly, then gasped as he deflowered her. A little blood ran out of her cunt and dripped down onto the carpet, but soon she was enjoying how the cock felt inside her. Megan's father had told Dillon it was OK to cum inside her, so Dillon kept fucking the girl until his cock stiffened and he groaned with intense pleasure, then ejaculated in her vagina. The girl had the first orgasm of her life as she felt the warm semen filling her cunt. As he pulled out of her, he left a white string of sperm on her thigh, and she put her hand between her legs and got some of it on her fingers. She licked it off and swallowed it, smiling up at Dillon. "It tastes nice." Dillon's cock was getting soft, and the man could see that he needed some time before he would be ready to fuck the other girl. Dillon got up and walked over to the sofa and sat down. The man told his wife to take Melissa into the bathroom and keep her there for a while -- he didn't want his 10-year-old daughter to see what what was going to happen to her sister. He walked over to Megan and looked down at her naked body. "You're so beautiful, angel. Is it OK if I make love to you, too?" Megan's face reddened with embarrassment as she glanced at Dillon, but she really enjoyed having a cock inside her, and she wanted more. * * * Megan did have some doubts about Daddy making love to her, and she remembered something she learned in school about relatives touching her private parts -- but she loved Daddy, and she knew he would never hurt her or do anything bad to her. So she looked up at him and smiled. "Ooooh, I'd like that, Daddy." She lay back and opened her legs, smiling shyly at her father as he took off his clothes. He got down on his knees between her legs, his penis throbbing as he looked at her. He decided it was time to show his daughter what she would be facing when he turned her into a whore. He kissed Megan, forcing his tongue into her mouth, and put the tip of his cock in her pussy. Still kissing her, he thrust into her vagina, making her gasp in pain. She pulled her head back and yowled at him. "Owwwww, that hurt, Daddy, please don't--" The girl yelped as her father rammed his cock into her again. He had a ten-inch penis, and his daughter's cunt was very small and tight, and she was still hurt from being deflowered. "Shut up, angel, just lay there and take it -- this is what a girl has to do when a man wants to make love to her." He thrust into her pussy hard, making her gasp in pain. Tears were streaming down her cheeks, her body jerking with each stroke of the cock as her father gave her a good hard screwing. * * * Dillon was looking at the girl as she got fucked right there in front of him. He had never watched a man do that to a girl, and he felt his cock twitching as he started to get hard again. Every time the girl whimpered in pain, his cock twitched -- he was really enjoying this. He had never thought of hurting a girl while he was fucking her -- his mother would have slugged him if he did that while he was making love to his sisters. But this man was hurting his own daughter while he had his cock inside her, and she couldn't do anything about it -- that was really exciting. * * * Megan's pussy started to bleed -- her father had forced his cock so far inside her that it tore her vagina. He felt the blood on his cock, but he kept fucking her until he was ready to cum. He wanted to get her pregnant -- that was why he let Dillon ejaculate inside her -- and he dumped his own load in her pussy, groaning with deep satisfaction as he filled her vagina. Megan was crying quietly as her father pulled his cock out of her pussy. His penis was streaked with blood, and semen was dripping out of the tip. He got down on his knees, with Megan's face between his legs. His cock was an inch from her face. "Clean it, angel. Take it in your mouth and clean it up good." The girl shook her head, still upset because he had hurt her so much. "Please, angel, do it for me. You know I love you. I really want to feel your beautiful lips on my cock. Please, for Daddy...?" He was rubbing his cock across her lips gently, leaving streaks of blood and semen on her sweet face. She looked up at him, then opened her mouth and let him lay his throbbing penis on her tongue. She closed her lips around the cock and sucked, and a little gush of warm jism shot into her mouth. She swallowed it as she put her small hands on her father's balls, squeezing them gently, trying to get more sperm in her mouth. She loved the taste of her Daddy's creamy sperm, and she loved looking up at his face while she had his cock in her mouth. It was so big, it made her quiver with excitement, and she forgot all about how much he hurt her. She could feel her pussy, wet and gooey between her legs, and she really loved that feeling. That was the moment when Megan became a whore. * * * Her father told Megan to sit on the sofa with Dillon. She got up slowly, wincing at the pain between her legs. She got some tissues and wiped her pubic hair and her slit, cleaning off the blood and semen that had oozed out of her vagina, then she sat down next to Dillon, smiling shyly as she stared at his erection. The man told his wife to come in from the bathroom, but to leave Melissa in there. He stood in front of the sofa with her, then told her to take off her clothes. The woman was 30, about the same age as Dillon's mom, but she had much bigger breasts than Helen's, and a smaller waist. As she stripped, Dillon felt his cock throbbing between his legs -- he wanted to touch her big titties. When she bent over to take off her stockings, her jugs hung out like a cow, bouncing around and dangling. Her nipples were huge, sticking straight out, and her dark brown areolas were three inches wide. Dillon had never seen any titties except his mom's and his sisters' and he really wanted to touch them. The man told her to keep her shoes on. They were red ankle strap pumps with 6-inch heels, and Dillon's cock twitched as he looked at her legs -- she looked so sexy in her high heels. The man told her to spread her legs and bend over, with her hands on her ankles. She turned her around, facing away from Dillon, and when she bent over, he could see her big breasts dangling between her legs. Dillon could see her asshole and her pussy, both holes completely open and available. He wanted to fuck the woman, but he knew he was supposed to make love to the man's other daughter. The man stood behind his wife, with his hand on her smooth round ass. "Dillon, I want you to watch while I fuck my wife in the ass. Megan, I want you to see how I do this. so come over here where you can see." Megan got down on her knees beside him, with her face just a few inches from his cock as he inserted it in his wife's anus. He held her hips and thrust into her, making her grunt with pain as he forced his whole cock inside her in one movement. "Touch my balls, Megan, squeeze them." * * * Megan put her hands on her father's balls and squeezed gently, and his cock stiffened as he thrust into his wife's rectum. Megan could feel the power of the cock as it drove deeply into her mom's asshole. Her anal ring was stretched tight around the cock, and she was moaning, a mixture of pleasure and pain -- she loved the big cock in her ass, but it hurt a lot. Her nipples were swollen and erect, sticking out like little cocks, and her mouth was open as she groaned with each stroke. Megan squeezed her father's balls harder, and he groaned as he ejaculated in his wife's bowels. The soft hands on his balls made him spurt a huge load into his wife's ass. She moaned as an orgasm shook her whole body. She loved feeling the big cock throbbing inside her, loved how it stretched her anal ring so tight, loved the panic she felt with each deep thrust of the cock into her bowels, wondering if her rectum was going to get torn. Finally the man pulled his cock out of his wife's asshole, and stuck it in his daughter's mouth. "Suck it, angel, clean it off." Megan sucked as hard as she could, and she was rewarded with a huge gush of cum that made her cough as she tried to swallow it. She could taste her mother's shit on the cock, and it made her gag a little, but she just loved the feeling of the big cock on her tongue, so she kept sucking and licking on it. Her father pulled out of her mouth. "Now I want you to clean out your mother's asshole. Suck out all my semen and let me see it in your sweet mouth before you swallow it. Please, Megan, do it for Daddy." The girl looked up at him, then smiled as she moved in close behind her mother, on her knees, with her face an inch from her mother's anus. Semen was slowly leaking out and running down her mother's thighs, mixed with a little blood. * * * Megan nuzzled her face into her mother's round little ass, working her mouth in until her lips were touching the rim of the asshole. She kissed the anus, then pushed her face deeply in between the ass cheeks and started sucking. Her mother gasped as she felt Megan's soft lips moving over her sensitive anal ring. She tried to work the sperm out of her ass, moving her hips as she worked the muscles in her buttocks, trying to help Megan clean out her asshole. The woman farted right in Megan's face, and Megan inhaled the deep musky scent of her mother's bowels as she sucked. She worked her tongue into the anus, and poked it deeper until it was in her mother's rectum. The woman had an orgasm as Megan sucked, her whole body quivering as she moaned. Finally Megan pulled her face out of her mother's ass and turned to her father. She opened her mouth wide, so he could see the sperm, and then she tried to swallow it, but there was just so much of it that she gagged a little, but she managed to swallow it all. She wiped some strings of jism off her chin and lips and swallowed those, too, smiling up at her father. * * * Dillon felt his penis getting hard as he watched the young girl sucking her own mother's asshole -- he had never seen anything like that before. And he really liked how the woman's titties hung out -- they were so big, like balloons filled with butter. She was still bent over, but now she stood up, keeping her legs apart because of the pain from being fucked in the ass. She smiled at Dillon and stepped over to the sofa, her breasts jiggling and bouncing with every step. She cupped them in her hands and leaned forward, lifting her jugs, offering them to Dillon, smiling like a whore. "Please touch me... touch my nipples, squeeze them hard... I like for it to hurt." Dillon's cock stiffened as he put his hands on her nipples, pinching them gently. "Ooooh, that's nice... harder, do it harder..." She sighed as Dillon gripped the stiff cones and pulled on them -- they were huge, as big as the top joint on his finger. He couldn't believe how stiff they were. His dick throbbed as he rolled them between his fingers. The woman closed her eyes and moaned, and her body shook as she had an orgasm, forcing her tits against his fingers as her body quivered. The man saw that Dillon was getting excited, but he wanted Dillon to fuck his other daughter later, so he took his wife's shoulder and turned her around. He pushed her down on her knees on the carpet, right in front of Dillon, and told Megan to get down on her knees beside her mother. "Dillon, watch what you can do with two girls." * * * The man took out his cock and told his wife to suck it. As she took it in her mouth, he pulled his daughter's head over so her ear was against her mother's ear. As the woman started to suck, moving her head forward and back, her daughter's head moved along with her, the man's hands holding them tight against each other. After a few minutes, the man pulled his cock out of his wife's mouth and put it on his daughter's lips. She opened her mouth to receive the cock, then started sucking, with the man still holding her head against her mother's. His wife looked up at him, smiling lewdly. "Fuck her face... do it faster..." She groaned as the man forced her head tighter against Megan's and started to move his cock faster, forcing their heads into his groin with each stroke. He was masturbating, using his daughter's warm mouth instead of his hand, and his wife kept saying dirty things to him, getting him hotter and hotter. He jerked his erection out of Megan's mouth and forced it down his wife's throat, making her gag as he probed for the back of her throat. "Suck it, you little bitch, take it all." He jerked her head forward and backward, fucking her mouth hard, then he stuck two fingers in Megan's mouth and started finger-fucking his daughter at the same time. The man let his wife and daughter suck him for half an hour, alternating between their mouths, a few thrusts into his wife's mouth followed by five or ten thrusts down Megan's throat. Dillon was getting hot just watching, and he couldn't imagine how good it must feel to do that to two girls at the same time. * * * The man pulled his erection out of Megan's mouth and told her to go sit on the sofa. He gave his wife a few more thrusts, then told her to join Megan on the sofa. "Come here, Dillon, I want to show you something new." Dillon got up quickly and came over to him. The man pushed him down on his hands and knees on the carpet. "Before I let you fuck Melissa, I want to give you something to remember me by." He got on his knees behind Dillon, then held the boy's hips in place and thrust his big cock up Dillon's ass. Dillon grunted in pain as sweat covered his forehead. He knew the man had paid extra to deflower him, but he never thought about how much it was going to hurt. How could a girl ever let a man do this to her? He took another thrust, and yelled in pain as his rectum was filled with cock meat. He lowered his head, then realized the man's wife and daughter were watching him get sodomized. He looked up, and the woman had her hands on her daughter's small breasts, fondling the nipples as she spoke softly into the girl's ear. Megan's nipples were erect, sticking straight out as her mother touched her, and Megan had a dreamy look on her face. She looked into Dillon's eyes, and smiled the dirtiest smile, like one little whore watching another whore get screwed. He looked back at her with tears of pain in his eyes, grunting as the man thrust into him again and again. The man was ready to cum. He gave the boy one more deep, hard thrust, and ejaculated in Dillon's bowels. Dillon could feel the thick sperm filling his rectum. His anal ring was stretched tight around the base of the cock, and he screamed in pain as the man pulled out of his anus, leaving a long white string of semen down his thigh. Dillon crawled over to the sofa, and Megan got down on the floor beside him and stroked his head gently. She put his hands on her breasts, and as he played with her nipples, the pain in his ass was slowly forgotten. The nipples were small, but they were very stiff, and they got harder as Dillon played with them. * * * The man came over to Dillon, smiling, and put his hand on Dillon's shoulder. "See, that wasn't so bad, was it?" Dillon didn't look at him -- he hated this man, hated the thought of a cock being forced inside his ass. But he knew his mom needed the extra money the man paid so he could be the first one to fuck Dillon in the ass, so he tried to smile. The man told Dillon to stand in the middle of the room, and told Megan to get down on her knees in front of him. "I want you to suck Dillon's cock and get him ready to fuck your sister. But don't start sucking until I bring her in." He went into the bathroom and brought Melissa in. The 10-year-old blushed when she saw that Megan and Dillon were naked, and her face reddened even more when she saw that her mother and father were naked, too. The man told her to sit down on the sofa. "Melissa, I want Dillon to make love to you now, so you'll know what it'll be like when you have a boyfriend later. Your sister is going to put his penis in her mouth and suck it until it gets hard, and then Dillon is going to stick it in your pussy. Is that OK, angel?" The girl nodded nervously. "Take off all your clothes now, angel, so you'll be ready when Dillon wants to make love to you." Melissa stood up and removed her blouse and skirt. She wasn't wearing a bra -- her chest was flat like a little boy. She took off her panties and her sneakers, then sat down on the sofa, completely naked. Dillon could see her slit showing between her legs -- it was just a smooth tight line, with no pubic hair at all. Megan started sucking his cock. He was already hard from looking at Melissa, and Megan didn't have to suck for long. He pulled out of her mouth with a huge erection, and turned toward Melissa. Her father spoke to her urgently. "Lay down on the floor, angel, and spread your legs wide apart." Melissa obeyed, and Dillon got down between her legs. She was looking up at him, her face red with embarrassment, and breathing fast. * * * Dillon inserted the tip of his cock in her slit, but her hymen was very tight. He gave a little thrust, and Melissa whimpered in pain. "It hurts, Daddy, it hurts." Dillon looked at the man, but he just motioned for Dillon to go ahead. He held the girl's hips and thrust harder, and the girl squealed and started to cry. Dillon looked at Megan, and she smiled at him and cupped her breasts and touched her nipples. His cock stiffened as he watched Megan playing with her tits, and he thrust hard into Melissa's virgin cunt, deflowering her as she cried. She was so tight, it was like a hand gripping his cock hard, and he could feel it twitching inside her as he started to fuck her. The girl had tears streaming down her cheeks. Dillon gave her a good fucking, and he tried to keep screwing her as long as he could, but watching her sister was making him so hot, after about ten minutes her grunted and ejaculated inside her. She hadn't started menstruating yet, and her father had told him it was OK to dump his load in her pussy, so he shoved his groin into hers and kept his throbbing cock deep inside her while he filled her cunt with thick creamy sperm. He looked down at Melissa. She had her eyes closed and her face was contorted with pain. He pulled his cock out, and she groaned as semen, streaked with blood, started leaking out of her slit. "I'm sorry, Melissa." He stood up, and Megan quickly got down on her knees in front of him. "May I clean your cock, please?" Dillon grinned at her as she took his erection in her mouth. His cock was covered with cum and Melissa's vaginal juices and blood, but Megan greedily took it in her mouth and started licking and sucking it. When she was finished, she wiped it dry with her long blonde hair as it twitched in her hands. * * * The man wanted to take a turn with Melissa, as he had with Megan, so he got down between her legs and told her he wanted to make love to her. "No, Daddy, it hurt, don't do that, please don't do that to me." The man kept talking to her as he forced her legs apart, but she started yelling and struggling. He reached over and found Megan's training bra on the floor, and stuffed it in Melissa's mouth. He pinned her arms to the floor, and held her legs apart with his body weight as he got his cock inserted in her slit. He thrust into her savagely, not caring how it felt to her, just craving that heavenly feeling of her tight little vagina gripping his cock. The girl's eyes were wide as she stared at him, tears running down her cheeks as he thrust into her again and again. The man raped his 10-year-old daughter for half an hour, while Megan and Dillon and his wife watched. Sometimes he stopped thrusting and just lay on top of her with his cock inside her, then started fucking her again. When he was ready to cum, he grunted like a pig and dumped his huge load in her twat, giving her little thrusts as his cock spurted. When he was done, he pulled the bra out of her mouth and gave it to her. "Here, wipe your slit with this, angel." The girl wiped up some of the sperm and blood that was leaking out of her cunt. She was crying quietly, her face red with shame and embarrassment. * * * The man had one more job for Dillon: take Melissa's anal virginity. Megan had already been fucked in both of her holes, and the man wanted Melissa to have the same experience. The man got Melissa on her hands and knees as she struggled, screaming and crying. He grabbed Megan's bra and again stuffed it in her mouth, then told Dillon to get behind her. Dillon wasn't sure if he could get an erection this soon, but he went ahead and tried to insert his penis into Melissa's asshole. She was very tight, and he just couldn't get inside her. Her father handed Dillon a butt plug, eight inches long and and two inches wide. "Here, use this to open her up a little." Dillon put the tip of the plug in Melissa's anus, and she burst into tears as he forced it inside her a little. Dillon was fascinated as he watched her anal ring stretching to surround the plug. He gave it a little shove, and Melissa grunted in pain, and Dillon felt his cock stiffen a little. He started to ream out the girl's ass with the butt plug, raping her slowly, expanding her rectum and forcing her anal ring to stretch more and more. Each little noise of pain she made caused his penis to get a little harder. Finally he jerked the plug out, and stuck his erection deep in Melissa's gaping ass. The girl tried to scream, but the bra stuffed in her mouth muffled it. Dillon thrust into her hard, liking how her whole body jerked with each stroke. He held her hips and raped her, giving her tight little ass a good screwing before he groaned and ejaculated in her rectum. The man gave Dillon the money for his services, and told him he could get dressed -- but first he wanted all of his girls to kiss Dillon's cock and thank him. The man's wife got down on her knees in front of Dillon and kissed the tip of his cock. "Thank you for deflowering my daughters." Megan took her mother's place in front of Dillon. She nuzzled her face against his groin, looking up at him. "Thanks for fucking me so good. I loved it." She kissed all over the head of his cock, then kissed his balls. She stood up, displaying her body for him as she went back to the sofa. Melissa didn't want to do this, and her father had to push her down on her knees in front of Dillon. She kissed his cock as quickly as she could, then ran over to the sofa, with blood and semen leaking out of her asshole and running down her legs. Dillon went back to his room, thinking about all three girls and hoping he would get to see them again before they left. 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