RELUCTANT PRESS

ket for slaves in the East, Middle-East, and parts of Europe, Asia and Africa, and there is a special market for slaves such as you, Honey, feminized and trained to be a woman."

"Our business is to provide highly trained slaves for this very unique market," Suzy explained. "Our goal for you was to make you into a docile and feminine slave-girl, and I must say that Annie and I are very proud of the way you turned out. It should make you happy to know that we sold you to Mr. Abdul for sixty thousand dollars!"

"Sold me? You sold me?" I managed to say, but little else as the drug was rapidly taking effect. I tried to struggle but could only move my feet in a feeble sort of jerk at this point.

"Of course, we sold you!" Annie announced. "What did you think all this time and effort to train you has been for? This is what we do for a living. And you, my dear Helen, are the product that we have developed, marketed and sold!"

"Mr. Abdul is an important dealer on both the black and the white slave markets," said Suzy. "He honors us by purchasing you at such a high price. I'm sure that you will be a perfect little slave-girl for your new owner and that Mr. Abdul will realize a tidy profit when he auctions you off at the slave market."

Her words, "auctions you off," were still clanging around in my brain when Mr. Abdul came back into the room with two young black men in business suits.

At Mr. Abdul's direction, one of the men lifted me to my feet, then the other one bent down and lifted me easily over his shoulder. Helpless to do anything, I was carried bound and immobilized out of the room with my petticoats showing under the white silk of my dress.

I was carried out of the house and down the front steps to where a long black limousine was waiting. The man who carried me placed me into the back seat and rested my head in Mr. Abdul's lap.

Then, the two black men got in the front of the limousine and started the engine. Mr. Abdul gently stroked my forehead and played with my curls as the limousine started away from Suzy and Annie's house.

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