Chapter One: The auction
Where am I? Tiffany murmured as her head still felt foggy from the gaseous substance used in capturing her. The last thing she remembered was the tour bus taking them to their hotel suddenly stopping in the middle of the highway.
Now she has been stripped naked in a cage. She inspected herself with the little reflection of light and found some bruises on her arm, not remembering how it happened she was perplexed.
Suddenly, the cage started to move. A rig was attached dragging it up into the direction of a bright light.
The cage landed on a stage and looking around Tiffany realized there were other cages with other girls stripped naked as well.
Tiffany has heard stories but never thought it was real. "It can't be", she thought. They couldn't all probably be kidn*pped.
She looked around to see if there was any one she could recognize but most people were seated face down on their knees, from what she could see even though the gaseous substance still allowed her sight to seem foggy she knew she could see at least ten cages.
She starts to panic as the light goes dim and a bright spot light shines on a particular cage and a voice comes up on the speaker.
"Welcome Gentlemen to tonight's auction", the voice from the speaker announced.
Tiffany in this moment fell down on her knees and started to say,
"This is a dream, it's not real, it can't be real. Things like this only happen in movies".
"Our first product", the voice from the speaker announced.
The reality of things hit Tiffany as she saw the spotlight on the cage and the girl inside was led out by a black masked man, parading her forcefully.
Tiffany began to pray. She grew up going to church but never really believed as she started to see things in a scientific way but at this very moment she knew she needed to ask God for help.
"Please God, I know it's been a while I have talked to but please please I need your help. I need you to save me from this situation. My parents still need me, I still have so much I need to live for…please Lor…".
"Sold for 10 million dollars", the voice from the speaker announced, distracting Tiffany's prayer. She started to weep, praying and begging God to help her.
Across from where Tiffany and the other girls were, one of the men who was there to buy one of the girls observed the ladies on stage but he noticed one in particular.
She was the only one staring at their side. She has blonde hair but it can't be called blonde, the color is closer to the silver side..just like Daenerys in Game of thrones, he thought.
Jake Reed watched the silver haired lady whimper and this caused him to chuckle, she reminded him of a kitten stuck on top of a tree, so fearful, he thought. It was at that moment Jake set his mind on buying her.
Tiffany watched as each girl was auctioned off one after the other, praying the virus will pass over her but the spotlight shone upon her and she fell to her knees, this can't be happening, she thought.
The voice from the speaker announced, " we start the bidding at $1 million dollars…we have a few hands up, going for 2 million"..
Across the room, Jake spoke into the little microphone inside of his private cubicle, " the girl for 50 million".
The rest of the buyers instantly knew the voice, it was Jake Reed one of the youngest notorious mafias in the country, no one dares question his authority. He always has his reason for doing things.
The voice from the speaker announced," Sold for $50 million!". Tiffany could not believe her ears, were they referring to her, this is the highest amount she had heard so far. She knew she was attractive but not on a 50 million level. The situation was quite funny to her yet reality hits back instantly she had just been sold off.
The rig that pulled her cage up to the stage suddenly lowered her back down and the gas was again released causing her to fall asleep.
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The sound of rain pouring woke Tiffany up. She realized she was now inside of a moving vehicle as the wind blew through the bars on the back of the truck.
She is still weak and realizes that she has not had any meal since the whole k********g, she musters up the little strength she has left and tries to crawl towards the bars on the truck to see what is outside. As she crawled towards the bar, the truck swerved sending her back to the position she was, her back hitting the truck.
She is too weak to try to crawl back and just watches the moonlight shine through the bars, since she can't see what is outside she tries to listen for anything that can help her but nothing just the rain pouring. This is not helping she thought, if she plans to escape she needs to know the route to pass she musters up her strength again and crawls towards the bars and holds on to it.
She looked out and the rain was already dying down giving her a chance to see but she saw only the road and she concluded it was an Express road, she knew there would be a sign somewhere and she glued her eyes on the road.
''Route 54'', she mumbled as the truck sped past a sign, this gave her a little bit of hope.
The truck stopped all of sudden and two men got out and walked towards the back of the truck to get Tiffany out.
"Do you think she's awake?", one of the men said in Spanish.
"How am I supposed to know? '', the other man replied.
Tiffany back inside the truck wished she took Spanish classes instead of French back in high school because she could not understand their conversation. She realizes since she is bound she will try to make a run for it and dash into the forest as soon as the doors open up.
The sound of keys jingling made Tiffany stand up and the moment the doors swung open she sprinted out but two hands yanked her back before she could move further and she struggled to free herself from their grasp, screaming and scratching but to no avail the men bound her with ropes and put tape over her mouth and carried her towards a ferry.
Tiffany watched as the men worked the ferry bringing it to life and she realized there is now a vast space of water between her and freedom.