It was a week since she had been sent here; a week in which her life had changed completely. In many ways she was still not clear about what had happened.
She remembered coming back home one day, to find her house locked and a large suitcase standing on the porch. There was a letter for her from her parents telling her that they had to go away in a hurry and could not make proper arrangements for her. She was to spend the rest of the year with one of her father’s friends in the country. The school had apparently been informed and she was to be picked up in an hour.
Barely had she registered the contents of the amazing letter, when she felt a hand on her shoulder. She turned around to look into the large muscular back of a stranger, who was walking away with her suitcase. She followed wordlessly, tears streaming down her cheeks. As she got into the pickup van, she tried to look at the man with whom she had to live from now on.
He was in his late thirties, and very well built. She could see the muscles in his arms through the cut of his jacket as he drove. His blond hair covered with a hat and a hint of stubble on his cheek, completed the picture.
“I got a call from your father today morning when you were at school. He told me about the problems he was facing and I agreed to help him out. You need not worry about the whereabouts of your parents for a while. You will be living with me at my farm till they get in touch again. I am Robert you may call me Rob. I am afraid, I will not be able to send you to school. Let’s see how you can make yourself useful at the farm.”
The words seemed to hit out at her from nowhere. For the rest of the journey she seemed to hear only the words without making any sense of them; she saw only the words in the letter dancing in front of her eyes and did not know where she was going. Everything had happened too fast for her to understand or even care about what the future had in store. Right now she was working on autopilot.
Rob looked at the dazed face of Elena, with a grim look in his eyes. He knew that her parents had fled the country after embezzling huge amounts from his firm. They had remembered their daughter only at the last minute while fleeing and that as payment for their debts.
He remembered the deal he had made with her father. The chance to get away with robbery for the price of an eighteen-year-old’s life.
Looking at the man’s hungry eyes, his wife’s hunted look, he knew he was doing the girl a favor by getting her away form the clutches of her father. If she had half as good a body as her photographs suggested it would not be long before her father was prostituting her. It had been Rob’s idea to make the mother write the letter and then to wait for her return.
While Elena looked ahead numbly into the unknown, Rob appraised her body. She was fair and petite. He could see the white sweat soaked blouse sticking to her curves, her bra-free breasts bouncing as the road roughened. The short gym-skirt did nothing to hide those white creamy thighs. A few strands of hair escaped the ponytail and were covering her eyes.
Despite telling himself again and again that he did not have any intentions to molest the teenager, Rob could not control the bulge in his pants. Within ten minutes of driving, he knew he was going to make good the deal. The teenager was going to pay heavily for her father’s deeds. And her job would start that very night.
When they reached the farm and Rob stopped the vehicle in front of a gate, Elena came back to reality with a jolt. She looked for the first time around her and knew that life as she knew it was over for good. She had no idea how long they had been driving or how far; whether she was in the same state or not, nothing. She only knew she was
Here
, wherever that here was.