Chapter One, Discovery
Such a fine example of pure beauty was Anna, I had to have her as the premier model for my designer line of lingerie. She had everything a man could want in a woman and so much more, with a slim waistline and simply perfect breasts and the most provacative legs I've ever seen before.
My name is Derek Le Blanc, and I discovered Anna as she strolled down the streets of Milan with a mere whisp of a red dress upon her petite, yet delightfully portioned body. Naturally full, cherry red lips and a swagger to her gait that sent shivers down my spine. Then I saw her eyes. Like pools of radiance, sparkling crystalline rays of shimmering light as purity emanated from her aura.
It was on a crisp and clear Milanese morn that seemed like yesterday, that I instructed my driver to inconspicuously follow her to wherever she went, and when we had her address, a dozen fully bloomed white roses to be delivered to this address. I'll do the rest. I paid the aged, withered and wrinkled hag a six pence with a handful of shillings to admit me into her building and asked her while I was there,
"Perchance a curious question if I may? Does a Madam of unequal quality and utmost beauty abide in this brownstone?"
The wretched witch said,
"Eh, yar bloomin' trallop do she keep a strange hours until a dawn a comes and when she sleeps ner a soul to know. But she do pay her wayer to stay in the loft and ner' be a problem to meself. Bleedin' whore's wat she's, thats' wat I methinks a her scandalous tramp!"
I graciously thanked Madam witch and slipped a five pound note into her cloak as I crept up the stairs, one by creaky one. With a brisk knock at her door, I announced myself as a deliveryman with an urgent message for the resident of 1205 Tremontaine Place. Only that person can sign for it.
I heard a commotion and a crack appeared in her door as she slowly opened up just enough to see her immaculate face.
"I'm not dressed yet. What do you want?"
In my best King's English, I said,
"If Madam would be so gracious to allow me a moment of her time to entertain a propostion of extraordinary interest to her, perhaps a small token of my gratitude is appropriate."
A period of eternal silence ensued before she actually decided to let me in.
"I'll be right there as soon as I've got some clothes on. You wouldn't want to see me naked would you?"
I chuckled,
"'Twil not a thing seen before, that's not worth a view, Madam, I'm quite sure that a beauty lies behind me lady's door. I've merely a simple proposition to ask of you."
If she only knew.
Opening up, she pointed out where I could sit, so I placed my coat around the chair and looked her straight in the eye.
"When I saw this, my thoughts were only for you, and I bought it with cash. Now it is yours to keep around your dainty neck. Has anyone ever told you that you are the most breathtaking and strikingly beautiful girl of unnatural quality?"
A single tear rolled down her cheek as she said,
"Mi papa said such things and then he made me do something that he promised I'd be his slave if I did not comply with his wishes. Then the raping began as he forced himself into my body, making me bleed and hurt, then he left me to wallow in my own shit!"
I held her frail body in my arms and said to her,
"There now, my child, I'm here to protect you and keep you from harm. Come to my mansion and stay with me tonight, where you'll have your own bedroom and a private bath with a locking door so you can feel safe and secure. Do you trust me?"
She wiped her tears and asked,
"I do not even know your name to begin to trust you."
I turned her to face me, saying,
"My name is Derek Le Blanc, and this is the first day of the rest of your life. What shall Madam be addressed as?"
I felt the pain in her words, mixed with pride and sorrow,
" Mi Papa christened me le Anna Du Bois, of dirty slum shod crap and did whatever men told me to do because I was nothing."
Now, my tears flowed freely down my cheek.
"I've heard enough of this atrocity. Quickly, grab your things and make haste, a car awaits us and no longer shall you live in crap!"
Anna rummaged through her scant few items and stuffed them into a steamer trunk as I whistled to Chadsworth to bring round the car and pick us up. Madam Du Bois is coming home with us tonight.
A light rain began to fall upon the streets of Milan as we entered my limosine with my felt coat around Anna's shoulders. She settled down into the warmth of the seat and that was the first time she smiled, and I knew that Anna was a rare and special star that outshined even the most elegant of all of the debutant'e in Italia.