[Author's note: No sex in this chapter.]
[Part 4]
In the afternoon, Karishma went back upstairs. Kareena put her head on the pillow and lay there awake.
After an hour, Aishwarya came down. She pulled a chair and sat down. When Kareena asked to use the bathroom, Aishwarya nodded and picked up the leash.
Before opening the cage, she said "Please keep in mid that this leash is electrified. If you didn't behave I can press a button and it will shock you. But the shock is very hard, it'll knock you out and probably damage your body. If I use it without reason, Sir will skin me alive. Please don't give me reason to use it."
When Kareena nodded to show her understanding, Aishwarya opened the cage, attached the leash to her collar then untied her hands. Kareena behaved perfectly and went back into the cage after the bathroom break.
That night was hard on Kareena. She had extreme cramping pains like her insides were being torn apart. Karishma called Lara who gave Kareena a painkiller injection. That helped her calm down. Karishma sat next to her and stroked her hair through the feeding window. Neither sister slept very much that night.
In the morning, Romeo came down to see her with breakfast. He opened the cage door and fed her with his hand own hands. Karishma was sleeping upstairs. He made her finish the food. After the food was he put a one litre bottle of juice in front of her.
"You need hydration very badly." He said "You have one hour to drink all of this. Then another like this with lunch."
Kareena looked at him with fiery eyes "You are enjoying this!" She accused.
"Who would not enjoy hand feeding a pretty girl like you?" He replied.
Since there were no mirrors in the cellar, Kareena had not seen herself. She was not a pretty sight. But Romeo didn't tell her that.
Again that night, Kareena had severe pains. Lara gave her an injection which helped with the pain but she could not sleep. Karishma stayed with her and stroked her head.
Breakfast next morning was without Romeo. Karishma brought it for her.
"Where is he?" Kareena asked before she could stop herself.
"I don't know." Karishma said "I wanted to bring you breakfast myself. Do you want me to call him?"
"Nope." Kareena said flatly "I don't give a fuck."
Romeo came down while Kareena was still eating. He sat down and watched Karishma feed her.
"Actually, if I knew you were going to behave yourself I would have kept you upstairs in the guest room." He commented.
"You would not." Kareena told him "You are enjoying keeping me like an animal in a cage."
"We are all animals, Kareena." Romeo said softly "That's our base level. The mind, the education, the upbringing all these things help us elevate ourselves above that base level. But alcohol, drugs, anger...reduce that level of intelligence and discretion, pushing us back to the base level. Right now, I need to help you through your animal phase so that you can become what you were again."
Kareena made no reply.
Romeo waited until Karishma fed her and took her to the bathroom. Then he went back upstairs. Karishma stayed with him.
"He's such a smug bastard." Kareena said after Romeo was gone.
"No, he is not." Karishma protested this time "Do you know how he got you here?"
"I was in a club, he kidnapped me from there." Kareena said flatly.
"Oh my God, no!" Karishma said and told her the whole story of her phone call, the frantic drive, the fight in the club. Kareena didn't make any response.
When Karishma came down in the evening, she was dressed in a glittery deep-cut gown with a slit up one leg.
"My, my!" Kareena said from her cage "Looks like you are going out somewhere."
"Yes," Karishma nodded "Sir is taking me to a premiere."
"Which movie?"
"A new one called 'Dil', Amir Khan is in it, and a new girl."
"I have heard of it." Kareena said "Her name is Madhuri."
"Yes, Madhuri Dixit. I won't be gone long." Karishma assured her "I will come back after the premiere. I won't go to the after-party."
"Go, go." Kareena told her "I am fine. Just because your bastard boss has put me in a cage doesn't mean you have to live here with me, too."
Shaking her head, Karishma said "It's not like that..."
"I am joking only, Lolo." Kareena cut in "I am fine. You go enjoy yourself."
"Sir is only taking me, Aish and Priyanka." Karishma told her "The other girls are here. Rani will come and check on you soon."
As promised Rani did come down and checked on Kareena. She brought her dinner. Instead of feeding her herself, she just opened the cage door and untied Kareena's hands.
"Eat, go to the bathroom, or run away," She told Kareena, I don't give a shit."
Kareena went to the bathroom, then came back, sat in her cage and ate the food. When she was done she went to the bathroom again. Then she came back, crawled into her cage, sat down and held her hands up to be cuffed.
Rani raised her eyebrows "Are you sure? This is your last chance to escape. Lara won't be so understanding."
Without saying anything, Kareena just nodded and kept her hands up. Rani sighed and cuffed her hands to the cage. Then she closed the cage door.
"You don't like me very much, do you?" Kareena said just as Rani was picking up the plates to go back.
Sighing again, Rani put the plates down and sat back down on the chair.
"I don't have anything against you, except that I think you are incredibly stupid." She said dryly.
Kareena lowered her head and nodded "Can't argue with that."
"Sir had already claimed you in France," Rani said "but instead of being a good whore and reporting to him like your sister, you became a rebellious bitch, went on a partying spree, got yourself in trouble and Sir had to come rescue you."
Kareena's silence seemed to make Rani more angry.
"Now, he has to keep you here, we all have to take care of you and you will probably just go out to the same shit club again when you get out of here. Oh, well that's closed, but you'll find another one."
"Huh!" Kareena's head jerked up.
"Didn't your sister tell you?" Rani was surprised "Sir got that club closed down within 24 hours after he rescued you from there."
"But why would I go there again?"
"I don't know what stupid thing you would do when you leave the cage." Rani said harshly "But I am sure you'll do something stupid."
"No!" Kareena protested "Why would I leave?"
"You will live in the cage the rest of your life?"
"I mean...but ...no, but,..." Kareena was finding it hard to put into words but she had kind of assumed that after Romeo fixed her, he would simply claim her as his whore. Her face turned red as she tried to say it to Rani.
But Rani guessed it "Oh, wow, you think you just became his whore because you were stupid enough to get in trouble? I mean, come on! We all worked hard to get a place in his stable, and you think you can just walk in?"
"No, no, I didn't mean that." Kareena was blushing hard as she tried to backpaddle but there was nowhere to go.
Rani was laughing all the way to the stairs as she picked up the plates and went back upstairs.
Kareena found herself sinking into a dark, despondent mood. Suddenly she was feeling lost and vulnerable. She hooked her fingers in the bars of the cage and held on to them for comfort as she cried quietly in her cage.
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True to her promise, Karishma came back from the premiere and didn't go to the after party, but it was still almost 1 am when she got back. She immediately changed and went to the cellar to see Kareena.
She found Kareena lying down and moaning in pain.
"Oh my god! I will get the injection!"
"No!" Kareena cried out and Karishma stopped.
"I will get addicted to that if I keep taking painkillers." Kareena whispered between breaths.
"But.."
Kareena said "It's ok. It's not that bad tonight."
"What can I do? You want me to let you out?"
"No!" Kareena shook her head. "Sit with me."
Taking a seat beside her cage, Karishma opened the feeding window and passed her hand through. Kareena held her hand and the two sisters sat like that, side by side in the near-darkness of the cellar, separated by the cage wall.
When Kareena felt the pain, she squeezed Karishma's hand. When the pain was a little less, they talked.
"Is it true he said 'The car is not important.'"? Kareena asked.
"Yes. Who told you?"
"Lara." Kareena said ""What did he say?"
"Well, Lara asked him if she should stay with the car because the neighbourhood was rough. He said 'No, I will need you inside. The car is not important, the girl is."
"I have never met a man who didn't treat his cars like his baby. Have had huge fights with boyfriends about that."
"Yes, me too." Karishma said.
Kareena fought back tears in the dark "It's nice to know someone thinks I am important."
"He wouldn't have dropped everything and rushed there like enraged lightning if he didn't think you were important."
"You are right." Kareena agreed "How did he know I was in trouble?"
"I asked him that. When you called him, he heard some guys talking near you. They were using words like slut, whore etc. in Russian. Sir guessed their intentions were not good."