Chapter Ten
When I awoke, I was naked and in a small room with my hands cuffed to the end of the cot. How can this happen? Is the human trafficking industry that big? Obviously slavery is far bigger than I ever imagined. I’ve seen the number of missing kids on the news over the years. They talk with someone on-line and then just disappear. I wondered how many of them ever get back home safely. It’s obvious. I won’t.
A while later Ms. Thompson came in. “You’re luck is somewhere between bad and none, isn’t it Adam?” she laughed.
“Yea, I guess.”
“You escaped from your owner earlier today, but not to worry, I’ll have a new one for you in a day or two.”
“Why?” I asked. “Can’t you just let me go?”
“Why, you ask? Isn’t it obvious. It’s the money. I have already put you on the internet. I ex
