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Originally posted by: ronshaan

Hi vinnie part five was gud

Originally posted by: payal7

Fantastic chapter3,4&5

Its certainly a fast paced story.

Loving the suspense.

Cannot wait for the next chapter

Chapter 8

"What?, Sugni you can't own another human being, no matter what he says" Amrita said

" No ...he did he paid a price for me" She said

"What?" They asked in unison, both looked at her with confused disbelief on their faces. Knowing they would not understand she started her story from the beginning.

"I am from a small town to the north called Bundel, my mother was a bar dancer, my dad was a drunk and a drug addict, he would beat my mom for money just so he could get his fix. All the money she made he would take it...up to the point were I had to drop out of school simply because she could no longer afford to send me." At 13 Sugni realized that her mother was hiding from her father the amount of money she made to send her to school, he found out and her mother ended up in the hospital. Sugni decided she would never go back, and even with her mother begging her to she refused as she was to afraid what would happen to her mother if she did. Instead she took over the duties of taking care of the house while her mother worked, with the hopes that if he was happy he would spare them. For most part it worked. ...

"When I was 19 mom died. She was always like a barrier between him and me, but now she was gone...and I had to bear the brunt of his anger." She remembered those days like it was yesterday, bracing her self for the rest of her story, she took a deep breath and continued , almost monotonously,. "One night he came home he started ranting as usual, only this time he was packing my clothes in a bag, saying it was time I paid back for free loading off of him. He took me to this place, a really rich looking house like a castle and he says I have to go live their now, as I belonged to the establishment."

"The establishment, what was that?" Vickram asked.
"The establishment, is a place where girls are auctioned off to the highest bidder for a price and a time. they have their own rules" What it was was just a fancy word for a modern day brothel. "I found out that for a few thousand dollars and some drugs , he..he sold.." Her composure was starting to break as she started crying"

"It Ok" Amrita said patting her hand She handed her a glass of water" She took it shakily. After a few minutes Amrita said. "You ok to continue ...or we can do this later." She shook her head, she started it , might as well get it over with.
"That's where I met Amma, she ran the place, took care of the clients, trained the girls. For the first few months, I actually t thought I was in a better place, not really understanding what was going on. See we had to learn to dress a certain way, act a certain way, dance and the other only people I saw were girls my age , girls just like me with little or no family. We were given a new name and at the begining we were treated really well by the older ladies. But for some reason Amma said I was special, I reminded her of her daughter. Later I found out she shielded me from going out. I was there for about six months before I knew what was going on..." Twinkle one of the other girls there dissappered one night, When Sugni asked Amma all she was told was she went on a vacation. a few days later Twinkle was back, but diffrent...she had a scared look and was crying all the time. Sugni kept asking what happened but she said she could not talk about it. After that she noticed other girls to would just vanish and reappear after a while all with that same look on their faces, and non saying what happened to them. Then it was my turn, I was dressed up and taken to this place which was really an auction block, 8 days for $20,000." She would never forget that day standing in that hall looking at these men dressed in their expensive suites and driving their expensive cars, part of high class society, putting a price on a young girls innocents. she wrapped her arms around her middle as she cried she remembered it like it was yesterday...her cries, are pleads going on deaf ears as she realized this was not a better place but the worse hell she could be in

."We were like furniture you rent, used and then returned. Amma would do her best to screen them, but some how she got fooled by Divakar." A high ranking officer, in the police service, he was very charming and generous with his money, which made the boss very happy, apparently he was one of their best clients." She shuddered , thinking about him. "So he picked me, every one thought that might be two weeks in heaven. as he had a reputation of treating the girls to long trips and luxurious treatments. In reality, he was a monster, who probably scared the other girls into silence about what really happens to them. " She started shaking as she recalled what happened. The trip on the plan, where she was degraded and called all sorts of horrible names, by him and his drunk friends. It was amusing to him slapping her around.

It was mightily funny to him that he could do what ever he wanted to her and she had no way out as he owned her. And that was the truth. By the time they got to the rented Town house in that small town, Sugni had been humiliated and abused, and was being treated as a side show to these men.

Up to this point she had met some characters, thanks to Amma's screening most of them were OK, but occasionally she would encounter some nasty ones, who thankfully did not bit for a long time.. But Divakar, he was a wolf in sheep clothing. Who got sadistic pleasure form torturing others.

"When we got to the town house, he just got worse, his friends were no better than him, I thought for sure they would kill me...there was no way I could survive one day with them much less two weeks" even with her arms wrapped around herself she could not control her shaking, as she cried.

"So you ran at at the first chance you got" Vickram said...knowing how she ended up in his van.He had an over whelming urge to break something. Not in his wildest imagination would he think something like this happened.

At that moment Vickram made a promise to himself , no matter what it took , he would help her. Amrita was consoling her. Vickram felt out of place and jittery,. silently he walked out the door unnoticed. He needed to get out of here before he burst.

" There you are" Amrita said a short while later as she walked into the gym, where he was furiously punching away at a punching bag. He stopped and turn to her. "How is she?"

"Asleep, I gave her a sedative, at least she'll sleep through the night" . He nodded.

"I think I'm gonna be sick" She said "I've herd some shocking stuff, in my time but this..." She shook her head blinking back tears. In all the time he had known her he never saw Amrita anything but happy, except now. where her face mirrored the disgust and horror he as sure he was wearing as well.

"So what do we do now?" He asked. after she composed herself.

"Well we got her to tell her story, and naturally she will be feeling raw and exposed. The important thing is to make sure she dose not feel like we are judging her. She agreed for me to help her, but given the circumstances of her situation , and the kind of people we seem to be dealing with, I would like to keep this unofficial. Now that it's out keep a close eye on her...this could go either way although I don't think she would try anything but still."

Vickram nodded...he remember her standing at the edge of that cliff. He prayed it would not come to that.

HE knew they were looking for her, he also knew they would not be able to find her easily as she really has no records. However, from her story, these people cater to a very powerful clientele, and if they were inclined to do some digging they might be successful. His first priority would be hiding her where she could not be found.

"You Ok?" She asked suddenly looking at him.

"Me? Yeah why?"

"I don't know , you want to talk about anything" Vickram Laughed

"Could you stop being a shrink now,? I am fine, a little mad but I am fine."

"Well I better get a move on, I'll be back tomorrow to check on her". She got up to leave.

"Amrita..."

"Don't you dear say it..." She said as she walked out the door with out turning back.