Roberta arrives on the scene:
Roberta felt pleased with her performance convincing Eddy to accept the hastily invented story. She had pretended to be in trouble, needing to escape the area, and was now in a plane being sent to a rich mans home as a servant.
That's what Eddy had told her, but she knew the truth. The two stupid oafs had told her all about this nefarious business. The thieves had carted off the two friends belongings and mistakenly carried Melanie with them. In their panic, finding Melanie in a packing case, they had taken her to Eddy. He in turn sold her to a rich man as a slave not a servant.
Now Roberta was on her way, also sold, but Roberta was not as compliant as her friend and intended to free her. It had been over a week since Melanie had gone missing but the police hadn't been much help. Not that Roberta had dared tell them the whole story. They thought it a case of missing property not a missing person.
Roberta didn't have much of a plan. She intended to find her, get back home, and that was about it. Roberta was aware Melanie was a submissive and would be susceptible in a slave role and was worried how she had survived what was in effect a kidnapping.
Feeling guilty over her stupid mistake Roberta had jumped at the idea without thinking it through, until now, on a plane to an unknown destination. She was inclined to make sudden decisions and relied on Melanie's sensible advice to talk her out of making a mistake. It was no good worrying now she would just have to get on with it
Roberta noticed they were travelling south but how far it was hard to tell. The landing was on a private strip out in the desert. The pilot didn't push but guided her out of the plane in a hurry to take off again. A jeep was waiting and so she walked toward it wondering what trouble she had gotten into this time.
"Jump in," Joe cheerily told her. The jeep sped away with Roberta's arse slamming into the seat. A cloud of dust swirled behind them and in the distance a ranch house with barns and stables appeared through the shimmering heat haze.
Roberta stole glances at him while trying to study the terrain in an attempt to establish where they were. The ranch house didn't look as impressive as expected. If this was a rich man's home he didn't exactly flaunt his wealth.
Relieved to be out of the morning heat she stood by the air conditioning tempted to lift the back of the dress to cool her bare ass. He seemed a rugged yet cute kind of guy. Under different circumstances she would have considered getting to know him.
She had expected some old pervert, someone she could kick until he told her where Melanie was. With this one she considered a more tactful approach was called for. "So, what now?" she asked.
Joe looked her over assessing this new trainee. The finder had been right; she needed a lot more work before selling on to a master. Apparently she had blustered her way in to the finder's office with some preposterous story. If he hadn't been warned by a friend what she was up to he would have sent her on her way.
"So you're in trouble at home and need to get away for awhile. You can't get much further away than this," he told her.
Holding up a hand to stop what might have been a repeat of the boring story he added. "I don't want to know. I'm a trainer and you are here to learn the rules. Be warned though. If you don't keep to the rules you'll be sent straight back to where you came from," he lied.
"First thing is to get some details down. Health and safety is important so you need to provide some information, then we can join the others," he smiled.
His disarming smile left her feeling more confident than on the journey. He hadn't given her a chance to say anything which was fine while finding out what in hell went on here.
This wasn't what she had expected when thinking of being sold as a slave, though it had been hard to imagine such a thing happening at all. Images of the Far East or a harem in the Middle East came to mind, but not this.
Roberta plonked down in the large padded chair before a computer screen. "Ouch!" she screeched.
"Be carful there are scorpions around here," he told her. He watched her jump up rubbing her bottom under the dress and laughed. "Not here in the house though. It's an old chair but comfortable. Just some of the horse hair stuffing working its way out I guess."
Roberta gave him a withering look then turned to the screen to read through the list. He didn't seem to be much of a threat and the rules looked innocuous enough. By the time she got to five her eyes were so heavy she couldn't keep them open. Next moment her head fell against the keyboard.
A hypodermic needle in the seat of the chair had injected a tranquiliser. "You look almost innocent asleep," he sighed. Taking a hold of her hands he pulled the inert body out of the chair, up and over his shoulder.
In the stable he lowered her gently onto a pile of straw. He slipped the dress off then pulled the panties down with the shoes coming off entangled with them. Unclipping the bra was next. Careful not to snag the skin he snapped manacles over wrists and ankles.
Joe pulled her hair up to fasten a collar around the neck and snapped its lock shut. The manacles were connected by chains and one of these he clipped to the collar and locked that too.
He rolled her over and tightened a thick leather belt around her waist. He pressed a button on a small black box attached to the back of a belt to test the battery. The chains slowly slipped through it pulling on her wrists and ankles. Once her legs and arms had been pulled up behind her back into a hogtie it stopped.
From a back pocket of his jeans he pulled out another control box, looking much like the one on her back. Joe pressed the release button watching the chains reverse allowing her limbs some freedom. Her arms flopped to her sides where she lolled, snoring loudly. Next he filled a water bottle and a food container.
Glancing around the barn he noticed the two slaves had cleaned it and strode out to check on them. Walking in to the practise barn he found Sandy at the computer busy paying bills and generally looking after the accounts. At least she was making herself useful until he could find a buyer for her.
Curiously the last two prospects had declined the offer, saying the price was too high, so he was considering placing her into an auction. This was tricky as he kept a low profile with none of his customers ever meeting him. He arranged for a friend to fly the slaves in for training avoiding direct contact. Taking Sandy to an auction would necessitate meeting potential buyers and getting his face known by too many people.