Chapter 1: Tammi's Life is Interrupted
Tammi was taken from her luxurious bedroom at 8:30 in the morning and taken outside of Nick's beach house and walked briskly to the beach. The heads of several of the men and even the women turned to watch her naked body with her bound wrists walk past them. Some of the watching eyes held carnivorous stares, while others held admiration. But all held some measure of pity deep in their depths. She walked with her chin high, her own eyes flashing angrily and her embarrassed fearful face cast downward.
Thirty yards from the back patio of the beach house, the two female guards accompanying Tammi stopped her and motioned to the still wet sand where four long spiral anchors had been screwed deeply into the sand. When she did not lie down between them, as she knew they expected, the shorter of the two guards shot out a sudden right hook that drove into Tammi's lower abdomen driving the wind from her lungs and her knees to the wet sand. While she struggled to get air into her lungs, the guards quickly unlocked the handcuffs and placed nylon wrist and ankle cuffs to her limbs and secured them tightly to ropes from the four anchors. By the time she could breathe without intense pain, Tammi was tied very tightly in a spread eagle position on the sand. The Caribbean sun was just beginning to climb into the sky from directly between her feet. She was already hot and thirsty from her struggles.
Three hours later, her skin was on fire and the sun was not yet overhead. She continually licked her dry chafing lips in a vain attempt to relieve the painful dryness she felt there, all to no avail.
In her abject misery, she contemplated just how she had arrived in these dire straits. It was a pitiful and pitifully stupid story indeed. Five years ago, she and her husband Ken had sold their very profitable on-line mail order company for a little over two million dollars. They had decided to pull up stakes in the good old US, take their appreciable capitol, and start a new business in Costa PiΓ±ata, a small thriving island nation in the Caribbean. The plan had worked beautifully. Within three years their company, southamericanspecialties.com had turned into a gold mine. That was where the trouble started.
She and Ken had worked nearly 20 hours a day to secure their hundreds of suppliers of authentic South American specialties for their marketing program. Enter Jack Singer, the nemesis of her sad story. He was an American exile wanted by the FBI among other law enforcement agencies back home for tax evasion, conspiracy to commit murder, and racketeering among other charges. Costa PiΓ±ata did not have an extradition treaty with the US.
Ken estimated the .com would clear a profit of seven and a half million dollars over the next five years with a ton of work on their part. He offered the whole thing to Singer for five million. Jack offered one million and some free advice, "Don't fuck with me in this country. I own it." Ken refused to sell for less than four and a half million.
A week later, Ken was arrested for bribery, tax evasion, and trafficking in human traffic, commonly called white slavery. The witnesses were coerced, blackmailed, and bribed into their false testimony and Ken was tried and sentenced in less than two weeks. His prison term was 40 years.
That very evening, before Ken was transported, Jack came to Tammi's home and talked to her. "I can have his prison changed from the Black Wall prison to the relatively comfortable Plaza de Steel with a sentence reduced to 10 years if you sell to me at one million. That price also includes your pretty ass as my property."
Tammi had angrily refused and thrown a tear filled temper tantrum. All the while, Jack sat smiling and sipping a rum and coke. As she settled down he added, "By the way, I have learned that there are two arrest warrants out for your daughters. Several witnesses have come forward tying them to the white slavery, prostitution, and drug running your husband was found guilty of. But there was a mistake in the court planning. Somehow, the prison they will be sentenced to WHEN they are found guilty is the co-educational prison at San Ramos. It has a terrible reputation concerning the safety of the female prisoners housed there. Many of them it seems have been assigned to dormitory cells where there is one woman and ten or twelve men with no supervision after dinner in the evenings. Some really horrible things happen to the women there." After that he left telling her that she had 24 hours before the arrest warrant was to be served on her daughters.
The next day, she signed the contract for sale of the .com as well as the quite legal contract for her indentured service to Jack Singer for ten years. A third document was signed and notarized guarantying her daughters would be protected from harm for that ten years. The next day, Jack had brought her to this beach house.
By the time this memory and its bitter after taste cleared her mind, Tammi knew her skin was sunburned and approaching second degree burns. It was at this time that Jack sauntered up beside her. Two women whom Tammi knew were sex slaves of the fiend set a folding chair for him to sit in and held an umbrella to keep him in the shade. "Hello, Tammi," Jack said in an amenable voice, "how are you feelin after your day of lying in the sand and resting and relaxing on my beach, eh?"
"What do you want, Jack?" she asked evenly.
"Just your promise to become totally cooperative and obedient to my every whim and request," he said smiling.
"What choice do I have, you bastard," she said heatedly, "you've got me over a barrel with my daughters in it. What else can I do?"
"You misunderstand me, Tammi," he responded as if he was talking to a child, "I want and demand your WILLING cooperation. I don't want to fuck you I want you to aggressively seek to fuck me. In fact, I want you to fuck, suck, eat, lick, me or anyone else I specify with your full amount of gusto and energy. In addition, I want you to smile, converse pleasantly, and entertain charmingly all of my social friends who will not know you are my little fuck toy."
"That I can't promise you, Jack, but I'll try, as long as you keep my daughters safe." she said quietly beginning to weep once again.
"That's why we are here on the lovely sunny beach, my Dear," he said smiling. "He held out his right hand and the pretty teenaged girl who had brought the chair placed a two inch wide leather strap with a wooden handle attached to it in his hand. "He added in a confident tone of voice, "When you feel that you can make such a promise to me, just tell me you love me."
With a suddenness that she did not expect, the strap crashed down across her badly sunburned stomach at her navel. The scream she exuded drowned out even the roaring surf out past her feet. The second blow landed a neat one inch above the first. The third blow an inch above the second and a scant inch below the juncture of her lower breast and her chest. The fourth blow crashed into her abdomen an inch below the first and two more followed making a path of wide angry fiery red stripes on top of her mildly red sunburned skin. He held the strap out to the slave who exchanged it for another rum and coke.
"Think carefully about whether you can make a sincere promise to love me, Tammi," that cool calculating voice was terrifying to Tammi now.