TWENTY-SIX
Control was an odd concept. So much of it depended on interpretation. In Tulsi’s case, desperation and desire drove her. Desperation to take back some control and desire to spurn Merchant’s advances.
On the fifth day of living at Merchant’s command, Tulsi was beginning to progress. The days went much the same as the first. Baines would appear at some time in the day, she’d be taken to the bathroom, then dragged into Merchant’s office. The gag prevented her using her mouth to aggravate her keeper, but in her fight to regain control, she found a new way to assert herself.
In a change from the first day, whenever Baines returned her to the bedroom, he’d remove the gag and offer her food… Food she refused to eat.
Five days without nourishment were slowing her, clouding her mind,
