For the Love of Anna (The Town of Pearl 1)

They kicked her ribs, and she felt the impact of each hit.

She cried in agony as their kicks lifted her off the floor, sending her farther across the room. Someone had to have heard her screams. Oh, please, someone help me!

“Hey, what’s going on!” She heard her father’s voice and erupted into a deep, painful cry. He would save her. He was her father.

The one guy grabbed her dad and closed the door before shoving her father up against it.

“Where’s the money!” the man with the facial hair yelled.

“I…I ain’t got money,” her father stated as he pulled out the inside of his pockets in his pants, revealing lint.

The other guy started beating on him.

“You owe us money. A lot of money and our boss wants it now.”

“I don’t have anything. I need more time.”

“We gave you more than enough time.”

Anna cried out in pain as the other goon grabbed her off the floor. Her head throbbed, and her body ached everywhere. Her father wouldn’t even look at her.

“Get the money by tomorrow, or we take your daughter for a down payment.”

The men looked her over as if she were edible.

“She’d make a nice profit,” the one guy stated.

“With her body, looks, and age, we’d have the old man’s debt paid off within a few weeks,” the other man added, then licked his lips before sniffing Anna’s hair. She pulled her head away, and he jerked her body back up against his.

“No! Daddy, please. Help me, please. Give them something. Where’s the thousand dollars I gave you this week?”

He wouldn’t look at her.

“Daddy,” she cried, and he looked at each of the men.

She was terrified at the thought of the men taking her.

She looked at her dad as she held her side, the pain increasing with every breath she took.

“Take her. I don’t want her.”

Anna felt her whole world crumble. Her father didn’t love her at all. She wasted all this time, all these years caring for him, and for what? So he could whore her out to pay his gambling debts?

“Please don’t do this.” She pleaded with the men to leave her.

The one guy pulled her to him, caressed her arm, and then slowly caressed her throat, holding her closer against his chest.

“She’s a real looker. Big tits, firm, round ass, and innocent. I can tell.” He chuckled then he rubbed his hands across her breasts, squeezed, then glided his hand to the V between her legs.

She shook in fear.

“I may just have to break her in so she can be a real good cash machine for the boss.”

Tears streamed down her face as he pressed his erection against her back. She wouldn’t be able to fight them off. They were big men and used to using their strength and fists to get their way. Anna knew she was as good as dead if she didn’t get out of there.

She needed to do something. She needed to escape. Her body shook so hard her teeth chattered. She needed to be strong. She was on her own, that was obvious. Anna lifted her eyes toward her dad, and her heart ached. He wasn’t even in the room.

The thought of what her father did and how easily he gave her up caused bile to rise in her throat. It burned a streak straight to her stomach.