Five
The guy was eager, it seemed. Before the red door had even closed behind me his payment had cleared. Logan’s assistant Calvin was already on the phone with him. Calvin was grinning ear to ear, giving me a wink as the collar was removed. I immediately turned, half expecting Logan to be here. The room was crowded with the other women getting branded or tied and prepared for shipment the hell below the crack in the earth where the monsters lived, but there was no Logan.
“Where--?” I went to ask, but Calvin raised a finger, silencing me.
“That sounds wonderful Mr. Greer. We will prep her and have her ready by then,” he said, giving me a grin like I should be as excited as he was. “Is there anything you would like for your first experience?” A pause. “Yes, yes. No, I agree, purity for the first time is always the key. There will be an assortment of toys in the footboard for you as well, should you change your mind.” Another pause and the door opened again. A teary-eyed girl being led through the red door.
That was fast. She must not have gone for much. No wonder she was crying. No wonder she was being led away to the branders, collar still in place.
“Wonderful!” Calvin erupted over the girls' sobs, giving me another wink that was only adding to my dread. “We will see you soon.”
Calvin hung up the phone with a smile that was surely going to split his face in two. It was splitting my heart in two well enough. I tried to step back but the guy with the collar was still there, waiting with it in his hands as if he was one step from replacing it around my neck should I step out of line.
“Darling, Elney,” Calvin said, his voice shifting from eagerness to slime. “You did it, you have secured yourself quite the prize. Logan will be so proud.”
“Where is Logan?”
“He is ill, I’m afraid, but I’ll take good care of you. I am sure you will see Logan after you are good and fucked.” He smiled wider, that slime oozing from him now. I shivered and inched backward, right into that wall of muscle behind me, the chains on the collar rattling with the impact. “Now, your buyer is on his way, eager as expected. So we best get you to your new room and get ready to receive him.”
“On the top floor?” I asked as Calvin turned on his heels, the big guy behind me herding me forward.
“Yes, you were just in a waiting room before. A dorm for visitors and girls waiting for their auction. Your new room is made for you and should have everything you and any of your buyers could ever want.”
That rock was officially back. I had a swirling cyclone of questions and no time to ask, the guy was talking a million miles an hour. His speed increased as we left the holding room and we swept down the quiet hallway toward the elevator.
“We will cover most of the basics once you have completed your first experience. Mr. Greer has opted for five days with you and by the sounds of it he has quite a bit in store.” He chuckled as I was pushed into the elevator, nearly falling into the glass of the exterior wall that overlooked the city and red-grey of the smog that swirled in its center, right where the monsters would appear.
Before the doors had closed all the way, Calvin had pressed his thumb to a flat metal screen by the door, a series of bubbles igniting as he began to put in some code. Each punch of his fingers against the keypad felt like a lock against my skin, holding me in place.
“After your five days with Mr. Greer, you and Logan will begin your training. Logan will be your point man on everything, and as your handler will cover any issues you may have with any buyer. If you ever feel unsafe, are in pain too much to handle, or are bleeding profusely there is a red alert button on the backside of your headboard. Press it, and either I or Logan will be there in minutes.”
“Bleeding profusely?” I gasped, my voice catching as the elevator began to zoom up to the top of the tower. “What kind of things are they going to do to me?”
“Nothing too bad to begin with, I promise,” With the hungry smile on his face I wasn’t sure how much of that I believed. “We will never match you with a buyer outside of your skillset, with this exception of course, although for your first experience you are heavily monitored to assure your safety. And with a Denon,” he snickered and my blood turned to ice. “You are going to need it.”
I turned to him, the zoom of the elevator twisting in my stomach about as bad as his words.
“What kind of things are they going to do to me?” I repeated, trying to be forceful even though my voice was only a squeak.
“You were raised to be a virgin, Elney,” Calvin said, all the sleazy want in his voice increasing as he turned to me, his eyes dragged over my body. “You were raised to know nothing so that the creature who purchases you can have his way with you. So that he can teach you the way a woman should act. Logan has given you the basics, obedience, submission, he has even taught you the right way to stand, to cower, to present that cunt of yours. But what your buyer does to you on this first time is of his choosing.”
He licked his lips, his eyes still dragging over me as the elevator changed directions, his greasy gaze lingering on the apex of my thighs as he said, “We get to watch him ravage you.”
I tried to step back, but there was nowhere to go. Nowhere but out of the doors that had opened to my room.
My new room.
The massive room was lined with windows, twice as high and twice as wide as my old room. It wasn’t the only thing that was bigger.
The bed was supersized. The red button that Calvin had told me about clearly protruding from the base. It wasn’t the only piece of furniture though. There were a few couches and chairs, all of them formed in weird shapes that couldn’t possibly be for sitting. The bathroom was open to the rest of the room. All of it glass so there was no hiding from anything. Anyone who was here could see me shower, bathe, even use the toilet.
In its own way it was beautiful, lavish and wondrous.
If it wasn’t for the straps.
When I had been really naughty Logan would take me to the punishment room where he would tie me up and spank me. Here, I had my own punishment room.
A dark metal structure rose up like a jungle gym and included a table and chair, all of it covered with chains and ropes and cushioned bands. There was even a wall covered with what looked like whips and feathers. Even a tail like the one I had seen in the box, although this one was black fur.