Back to slavery

Chapter 9

I pace back and forth in my room; I don’t care what Jon or Max has to say, I want her, and I will get her. Making up my mind, I get dressed in my Sunday best and walked down the street to Pi’s whorehouse.

As I got closer and closer, my heart started to pound faster and faster until I thought it was going to pound out of my chest.

I got to the door and knocked. After a few minutes, an older lady opened the door. She was not much to look at, but in her younger days she would have been a looker.

“Can I help you?” she asks.

Taking my hat off, I cleared my throat and said, “Yes, I am told that you have some beautiful ladies that are available to show someone like me around.”

She looks me up and down and lets me inside. “I don’t know what you have been told but I do have some girls who can please you.”

She leads me into a room that had seen better days.

Pointing to a chair, she tells me to sit down.

I am so nervous, as I sit down hoping that I look calmer than how I feel.

“So what can I help you with? We have different kinds of girls that can help with anything you want? Let’s start with what you are looking for and need.”

I tell her that I am looking for a girl who can show me around town and can blend in with society, someone who does not look like she has been doing this for a long……”

Before I can finish, she interrupts me.

“I have the perfect girl for you.’

And with that, she leaves the room.

Heart pounding, palms sweating. I think this is it, I am finally going to come face to face with the girl who has been hunting my dreams.

A few minutes later, Pi and some other girls came into the room. I take one look and know that she is not the one. Disappointed, I shook my head. Taking the girl back, she leaves and comes back with a different girl. Shaking my head again, I stood up and told her to just bring me all the girls and I chose them. Agreeing, she gets the rest of the girls, but I can already tell that she was not there. Heart sinking, I ask ‘Is that all there is?”

“Yes, these are my best girls.”

“I saw a young girl yesterday she’s about yeah high.”

“Oh her, well she is used goods and not really worth……”

Holding my hand up, I told her I wanted to see her and the amount of money I was willing to pay. I will be the judge of that.

With a look of disgust, she tells the other girls to leave and goes back upstairs. This time I am standing pacing back and forth. What could be taking her so long?

Then I hear footsteps coming down and as soon as I turn to look, there she is. I saw my life flash before my eyes, my mouth dry, I could only nod. Finally, after all this time, she will be mine. After she leaves, we talk about prices. I paid her what she was asking and a little more. It did not take long for her to come.

I knew I could not just look at her all night like I would like to, so I asked her

“Hi, do you know English?”

“Yes, I was taught at my last home.”

“Good, good, how do you like where you’re at?”

She started blushing and lowering her and told me” I love it, they take wonderful care of me.”

She does not look me in the eyes.

I tilted her head up and said, “Whatever you do, don’t lie to me anymore, I will always know when you do is that understood?”

Shakily she, shakes her head, yes.

“Good, now I will ask you again how do you like living where you are at?”

“Please ‘she begs of me, “I can’t say or they will hurt me”

“It’s OK, what if I told you that I could take you away from all this? Some place that they won’t treat you like this would you like to go?”

She does not say anything but turns to look back at where we came from.

Seeing that scared look in her eyes, I knew right then and there that I would do anything that I could to take her with me, not as a wife, no and not even as a mistress. Just long enough to get her out of my system and then sell her when we get to America. No woman has ever made me feel this way and I knew once I had her and was able to be done with her, I would be fine.

I wanted to go back the next day, but things got so hectic at work, trying to transfer new people and making sure all the arraignments were made, that my workers were paid on time.

I saw her as much as I was able.

I told Max the night before what my plan was.

“It could work but you know how Jon is and he will not go for it. You know he feels that goods are goods, regardless of how you feel about them.”

“I know that’s why I need your help. The other men won’t touch her if they know she is with me, but Jon is going to be hard, but there is no other way I have to have her.”

Looking me in the eye, Max asks me the same question, the same thing I had been asking myself for a month.

“What is it about this one that makes you want her so badly?”

Shaking my head, all I could tell him was “I don’t know.”

“Well, if you want her, I will gladly help you.”

Patting him on his back, I told him thanks.

The rest of the night we planned things out for the next night.

When I finally got back to my hotel room it was late but, I could not sleep. In a few hours, she will finally be mine. With her on my mind, I finally fell asleep.

The next morning, I woke up still feeling groggy from not sleeping so well, but I was also bustling with excitement. In just a few hours I will get what I want. I just hope that in the end she did not hate me. I didn't care either way, but it just made things easier if she wasn't mad at me.

After washing up,I walked downstairs to meet up with Max like we had planned the night before. We went over everything one last time. After everything was in place, I went about my day as best as I could.

That night I went to Pi's house, and I did all that I could not to jump up and down like a little kid. When Pi came out, I told her that I wanted to buy Samar-Lynn. Meet me tonight at the pear and I will pay you.”

“Fine, that girl has been nothing but trouble. Anyway, I will be glad to get rid of her.”

That night, after dropping her off with Max, I met up with Pi. Handing her the money, I felt giddy inside. I looked over and saw Samar-Lynn looking at me confused before Max took her away.