The Inquisitor's Song

By Ava Ayers

As the lead Inquisitor of The Order, Luca Maretti, is sent to enact vengeance against Offenders all over the world. A beautiful and sadistic man, Luca’s proficiency in the chamber is second only to his expertise in the bedroom. The new mission is unprecedented within The Order. The exquisite Lena Mason is chosen to accompany Luca to Manhattan as junior Inquisitor on the assignment. Auto-Da-Fé is declared against the Offenders: Paul Kirschner, the handsome, depraved special prosecutor for New York’s Public Integrity Board and his pretty, pathologically vain wife Katy who is aware of all her husband’s immoral secrets. While Luca and Lena wield an Inquisitor’s meticulous punishment over the Offenders, the tension developing between the passionate Inquisitors is much harder to control.

The Inquisitor’s Song is Ava Ayer’s newest release after her best-selling erotic fantasy novel, Immoral Beloved. The Inquisitor’s Song is a 40,000-word fantasy novel that contains erotic scenes, incidents of Medieval retribution against entitled hypocrites and lively discussions about cake sitters. Meant for mature readers, all characters are eighteen years of age or older.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ava Ayers
• Release date: Apr 25, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310730184

Ava Ayers

Ava Ayers spends her days sunning on the shore of Sanremo and her nights fighting crime and changing the footwear choices of those with a propensity for pairing socks and Birkenstocks. Or nothing like that. Mostly she likes entertaining her readers with epic tales of lust, love and intrigue involving strong men and even stronger--women something very near and dear to her wild heart. Ava Ayers is the bestselling author of psychological thriller, Once Were Family, new adult novel, Pretty Hate, and fantasy novels, The Inquisitor's Song and Immoral Beloved.

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The Inquisitor’s Song

By Ava Ayers

Copyright 2014 Ava Ayers and Pulp Friction Publishing, Inc.

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Ava Ayers spends her days sunning on the shore of Sanremo and her nights fighting crime and changing the footwear choices of those with a propensity for pairing socks and Birkenstocks...or nothing like that. Mostly she likes entertaining her readers with epic tales of lust, love and intrigue involving strong men and even stronger women--something very near and dear to her heart.

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For him who does my head in.

Table Of Contents

The Order

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

About The Author

The Order

When among us, they are as human as you and I, but the Inquisitors of the Order are trained to use us as pawns in their missions.

Through these missions, Inquisitors find desired reprieves from their timeless suspension and they are free to engage in the life they desire while administering the directed pain and pleasure to the Offenders. But none of this is done altruistically, for the Inquisitor's ultimate goal is to rise up to the Order's favor and be returned to their place on earth...to gain libertas from the Order and end their suffering in the limbotic state.

The unrested souls who were victims of the original Inquisition began the Order.

The Elders were inhumanely tortured, despite their innocence and sent to the state between worlds. These condemned heretics formed the Order to enact vengeance upon their Inquisitors. As time went on they learned that those Offenders who cry foulest against perversion are usually most perverted.

The vengeance these heretics-turned-Inquisitors enacted was sweet. The same torture methods used to kill the Elders were now used against the Offenders.

As the Order expanded, new Inquisitors were recruited. All souls who died violent deaths and were either victimizers or victims in life were given one chance to gain acceptance into the Order. They are reeducated when they come. Beaten down by the Elders, they are shown the error of their ways through torment.

If they survive the reeducation camps, they are graduated as Inquisitors and sent down to carry out the directives of the Elders after choosing an Offender from the list in the Libri Infidelis. The Inquisitors return to their human form when sent down and feel pleasure and pain as they did in life.

Not all Inquisitors brought into the Order remain. Those who fail to follow the Laws are banished to an eternity in their purgatorial states. For those who do follow the Laws, freedom is the prize.

For the current mission, the Elders declared two Inquisitors would be sent down and work in tandem to carry out the task. The Offenders to be punished were husband and wife, both equal heretics. The unprecedented operation would reward the Inquisitors well. And the Elders prepared the directive with much excitement.

Auto-Da-Fé was decreed.

Chapter One

They were Luca Maretti and Lena Mason. And they were exquisite.

Paired together only because of the proximity to one another on the List, their reasons for gaining entrance into the Order could not be more different.

Luca Maretti aspired to be the grandest lover in all of Italy and in 1979, right before he was struck down, he was. A beautiful and sadistic man, Luca treated every woman he encountered like an animal. But as Luca's scorned lovers piled up like corpses left to rot in a gulch, the fury toward him intensified. And one day, the sensitive Assunta Dasarto allowed her rage at being cruelly cast aside by Luca overtake her. The young girl hacked at Luca with the fury of a thousand castaways with her father's field machete.

Lena Mason was different. A woman who lacked her own beliefs, she fell upon her beauty like a martyr and allowed her lovers to chart her fated course. Lena's men sniffed her out as wolves do the wounded and she simply lay upon her back and spread her legs.

Beat, blighted and broken, she never spoke up for herself or against those who abused her. Her lovers all tired of her and stepped over her weak body without a second glance as they walked out her door. Lena gave herself a day at most to change her sheets and buy a new outfit and she was out the door and on the hunt for a replacement. She begged for companionship, yet lacked any conviction with which to sustain even the most superficial relationship. Her final lover, a con man known to her only as Cute Mitch, strangled her dead when she failed to make him a drink at the end of his day.

The Order abhors weakness as much as arrogance. Spectacular careers made of feebleness or conceit is a starting point to gain entrance into the Order.

As Elder Andarnus read to Lena and Luca from the Libri Infidelis, Lena studied Luca from the corner of her eye while running her fingertips over the ligature scars on her neck. He was a most handsome man, she thought. Just the kind of man she would go after in life–dark hair and evil, but beautiful eyes. Luca looked like a model even in death. She knew little about this man, her partner-Inquisitor, other than the fact he was murdered by a former lover as she was and he was a maddeningly arrogant Italian.

Luca was pleased to be paired with Lena. He noticed her when she first came into the Order. And when he looked at her, Lena reminded him of his past. A photographer during his life, Lena looked like the type of woman Luca would have been most pleased to work with. He surveyed Lena’s body under the sheer white gown the female Inquisitors wore and closed his eyes. He remembered the feeling of dragging his hands slowly down the sides of a woman’s body—feeling the dips his hands made as they slid down her waist and the arch out as his hands glided over the bow of her hips.

Luca half-listened to Andarnus prattle on about their mission while he stared through Lena’s gown and recalled the sensation of plunging his fingertips between a woman’s legs, between her moist lips and into the hollow where his cock inevitably found its home. He smiled as he remembered the taste of a woman and licked his lips as he recalled flicking his tongue back and forth against a woman’s hard clit and finally, bringing his full, cushiony lips around that bud and sucking. A trick taught to him by a prostitute to make a woman crazy, it never failed. Luca loved to hear them moan and scream. He loved when a woman closed her legs around his head and dug her nails into his shoulders. He especially loved…

Excuse me, Inquisitor Maretti? Elder Andarnus said as he slammed the book down. Are there any questions about the mission?

Luca looked over at Lena who stared at him angrily. Of the two of them, he was the senior Inquisitor and in charge of the mission. It would not be good for either he or Lena if he lost himself in the few memories he had left.

No, Elder, Luca said and cleared his throat. Lena and I are ready.

"Fine, go to the Departing Chamber and prepare. And remember, Inquisitor Maretti, your conduct during your missions effect not only the potential for your freedom but that of Inquisitor Mason’s freedom. Fail at your assignments and you fail to gain libertas. Do we understand?"

Yes, Elder, Luca said and bowed his head, I understand.

This mission is decreed! Now go! Elder Andarnus said as he dismissed Luca and Lena.

As Luca and Lena approached the Departing Chamber, Luca admonished himself for not listening to the directive.

Assignment? an Elder who stood at the entrance of the Departing Chamber said.

Luca stared at the ancient man and felt Lena jab at his arm.

Ah, our Assignment, Luca said. Our Assignment is in--

New York, United States, Lena said.

Time? the man said.

Present, Lena said as she gave Luca a cross look.

The man scribbled in a leather-bound book.

Names?

Their names or ours? Lena said.

"Your names! I assumed that was the easiest of questions!" the Elder said.

Yes, our names. Inquisitors Maretti and Mason, Luca said.

Glad you finally made it, Lena said under her breath.

Offenders? the Elder said.

Luca looked at Lena, her beautiful mouth open and ready to speak. He was angry she embarrassed him in front of the Elder and decided when they arrived at their destination, he would silence that know-it-all tone by shoving his cock into that lovely hole. Or holes, no matter.

Go right ahead, Luca said as he nudged Lena toward the Elder.

Kirschner. Paul and Katy Kirschner, Lena said.

Fine, enter the portal, the Elder said and stepped aside.

It’s not like you knew anyway, Lena said to Luca.

Just get in! Luca said and pushed Lena into the chamber.

The journey from where the Inquisitors were to where they went was a rough one. Being jettisoned from one world to the next was never easy, but they prepared well for the trip. This was Lena’s first mission back to the world she was violently deprived of and she felt the transformation deeply as she moved between the world of the Order to the world of the living.

It had been three years since Cute Mitch killed Lena. Three years since she was inducted into the Order. The torture she endured during her reeducation was no worse to Lena than the torture she endured in life. The Elders showed her the pathetic ways she lived her life and how those ways contributed to her death.

The travel to the present was exciting and not fully understood to Lena. She wanted to ask Luca a million questions but noticed his eyes were closed. How could he sleep? But suddenly and despite her excitement, she too felt very sleepy and it wasn’t long before her body slumped against Luca’s. She didn’t wake until she felt her body hit something after the crash.

Chapter Two

What? Lena said as she looked around. Wait...where are we?

Luca was at the far end of the bedroom in a cream, linen suit in front of the room’s wet bar making a drink.

We are here, he said and smiled as he took a tiny pair of tongs and placed some ice in a glass. "There’s a bigger bar in the main room, but I didn’t want to leave you alone for your first reentry.