The first card turns up- she receives her first task master. (It might be better to read the previous chapter to make sense of this chapter.)
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Sunday morning Brooke awoke still fuzzy from a night of intense dreams. A deep feeling of loss turned to anger as she became aware; yesterday wasn't just a dream but a real nightmare of a day.
The knocking on the door with the doorbell ringing pulled her aching body from the bed. The impatient knock and bell ring! It could only be her friend Carlene. That bastard of a thug had let her go! She ran to the door and wrenched it open. As suddenly as the door was opened she slammed her arms around her naked body.
"Brooke?" the young man stammered.
The anger overflowed and she shouted at him. "What the hell do you want nerdy boy?" Brooke looked him up and down with an obvious look of disdain. She recognised him from school so he was nineteen, the same as Brooke, but she didn't know him well.
Last time they met he had smiled shyly at her while trying to make conversation. They had been at the same high school and would be in the same college next week so he thought they could hang out together. She had shrugged her shoulders and turned away, spurning his attempted friendliness.
Standing naked before a guy of her own age would be embarrassing but she felt infuriated and he was about to receive the full venom worked up from yesterday's disgusting degradation. He stood before her looking like a startled rabbit in the searing light of her fiery temper.
Before she could give him the benefit of her acid wit she noticed the blue card in a trembling outstretched hand. "Where did you get that? Talk!"
"My uncle," he managed to stammer.
"Shit! Who's your uncle?" she spat angrily.
"Freddy," he said, sounding apologetic.
"A bald guy, with a swimming pool, fancy house out in the sticks, with body guards in black suits built like brick walls?" she demanded.
"Yea, I guess so," he spluttered.
"You had better come in," Brooke ordered.
"It's OK!" he said anxiously. "I didn't know it would be you! Sorry," he said in confusion.
He had enough presence of mind to hide the card in his hand but just stood staring at her.
"Don't stand there with your tongue hanging out looking stupid. I want a talk with you," she said, with more than a hint of a threat in her voice.
She turned quickly, expecting him to follow. He took a tentative step, following it with another, until he was through the door not thinking to close it. His eyes were on her ass, mesmerised by a dimple in the left cheek, formed with every stride.
"Close the door," she shot at him over a shoulder.
He hurried to comply then tripped along the corridor to catch up, only to fall into her bedroom.
"I'm getting dressed!" she complained.
"Here, give me that damn card," she ordered. Ripping it from his hand she cared little that he had, what was for him, a tantalising close up view of her naked body. He had seen everything when she opened the door and at the moment there were more important things than covering her nakedness.
One glance told her it was one of those cards. When someone presented one of these damnable cards she would have to obey them. Otherwise, her friend would suffer. The thought of Carlene held as a hostage by that mobster sent a shiver of fear through her. If she didn't play his cruel game her friend would be punished. The thought of what he might do to her brought her down.
"It's OK! I won't, I don't want to, I mean. I'll just go," William suggested. He didn't make a move while torn between ogling her body, feeling guilty and curious. What did his uncle have over her that she was working for him like this? It was bound to be over money but how did she get mixed up with him?
Brooke shook herself. She didn't notice his eyes following the bounce of her breasts as there were more pressing matters. "So, when did he give you that card," she asked, at last becoming calmer.
She picked up a dress from the floor to sniff a pit and shrugged it on over her head. It was less sweaty than she was.
"Last night. My father took me there on one of his rare family visits. He slipped me the card," William said, while following her into the kitchen. He remembered the smirk and suggestion that he could do whatever he wanted with the woman. He felt belittled by the suggestion that he could lose his virginity at last.
"I didn't know it was you. I don't want you," he hesitated, unable to continue with uncle's vulgar words in his head.