Prologue: Grace Marie Flanagan
In the shadows there exists the Association. It is short for a much longer name that no one uses. The Association is a governing body for sex slaves. Submissive women are located and enticed to sign papers making them, in the eyes of the Association and its members, a slave. She could then be sold, like any other piece of property. The Association had strict rules about how slaves were to be treated, that they were, within the context of their role, safe. A woman signing slave papers knew she would not be murdered, whored out, or addicted to drugs. They prided themselves on a certain code of ethics and ruthlessly fought anyone intruding on their world. With many former military and intelligence among their members, the Association was willing and able to use force when it had to.
1-August 19, 1953
Tehran, Iran
Grace Marie Flanagan heard sporadic gunfire in the distance. It was less now than it had been throughout the day, but there were still pockets of fighting. She wished she knew what was going on, if their side was winning. The 23-year-old slave had not seen her owner Eddie or his best friend Chester Bradley since the 15th. That was when the shooting had started, and it had continued to some degree or another since then. The radio was no help, she could not find an English station and did not understand any of the local broadcasts She hoped they were all right. She hoped it would end soon.
Grace had been a slave for almost 4 years, but had only been Eddie's for a few months. He had bought her straight out of Warm Springs Canyon College, then promptly taken her to Iran. Her owner had arrived at the college in a big Cadillac, looking sharply dressed and urbane but with a hint of the wild in him. Grace was one of a handful of girls being sold after graduation and Eddie Maher sampled them all. There was something about the fair complected Irish lass from San Francisco that drew him back for a second round with her, and then an offer. She had been delighted to be sold to an up-and-coming, young, good-looking man, instead of some old creep who just had money.
Grace had driven away in his Cadillac feeling like she was a lucky girl. They took the train to New York and fucked the entire way. In New York she met Chester Bradley for the first time, and promptly was double penetrated by Eddie and Chester Bradley. In those first few weeks in New York, it seemed like she was constantly being fucked by one or both of them every second of the day. It had been heaven.
Then Chester Bradley had flown off to Iran, to attend to some company business. A week later, Eddie announced they were heading to Tehran, too. Since she did not have a passport or time to get one, Eddie had her flown in on an unlisted flight.
Tehran was a beautiful place, exotic and accessible at the same time. Grace loved the weather and the food and living rich (or owned by a rich man) in a strange land. Now, there were riots and revolution and she did not know where her owner was, or if he was even still alive. What would happen to her if he were dead? She did not have a passport or a visa, no legal papers of any kind. She would be alone with no one and no knowledge of the country, a stranger in a strange land.
They had to be okay: there really was no other option. She could not even think of what she would do if her owner never came back. Go to the American embassy? But where was that? How would she get there and then what would she do once she was there? No, they had to be okay, that was all there was to that.
The door to the apartment opened. Grace was hoping to see Eddie or Chester Bradley, but it was not them. The first man through was in a blood splattered Tudeh (Iranian communists) party uniform and held a Soviet made submachine gun at her. Grace froze and raised her hands. The second man through wore a western suit, a little dirty but no blood that she could see. He was tall, handsome in the aquiline way of the Iranians with a somewhat wild mustache.
Grace was not big and not strong. She was a petite strawberry blonde with big blue eyes who barely stood 5'3" and not an ounce over 105 pounds. She looked on in fear as the man in a suit approached her. She was aware of how alone and far from home she was.
He took out a length of rope.
"Put your hands together, Grace," he ordered.
Grace was surprised he knew her name, she had not met many locals since arriving in Iran. What worried her more was the man pointing a gun at her. She had been hearing gunfire for days and did not want to die as just another random burst of shots.
The lovely slave, trained to obey and afraid of dying alone here, put her hands together in front of her. The man in the suit smiled and quickly and expertly bound her wrists. He took a second to hold her hands, then turned to the man with the gun.
The man in the suit addressed his armed compatriot in Farsi. Grace was good with languages and would later become fluent, but then she knew almost nothing. The armed man nodded and left.
"Allow me to introduce myself, slave," he said and walked into the kitchen. "My name is Mostafa Maleki. Your owner is currently overthrowing the legally elected government of my country. Many of my friends and comrades are being arrested and killed." He put a kettle of water on the stove and rummaged around until he found the tea. "I could happily spend the next few hours torturing and killing you in revenge."
He strolled back into the living room while the water heated. Grace looked at him with fear as he came towards her.
"But I have other ideas," he said. Mostafa pulled Grace over to the couch and bent her over the end. The communist Iranian yanked her skirt up, exposing her bare ass to him. He caressed it with one hand while opening his pants with the other.
This was not what Grace wanted, but she was a slave, and her body was responding on its own. At some level, every submissive craved rape. By the time he had his cock out and against her lips, she was wet and ready.
"Obviously, there is this," he taunted from behind her.
She felt him kick her legs farther apart. Exposed, bound, and at his mercy, Grace hoped her submissive nature would get her through this. Her body was already responding, her lower lips swollen and wet, her nipples hard and her breath fast. There was fear, and the arousal that came with the fear and helplessness.
"English bitch," he cursed. Grace wanted to correct him and point out that she was American and more than that, she was of Irish descent, and no one hated the English more than the Irish. The sheer indignity of being called "English" just added a new layer of humiliation to the whole affair.
The bound slave cried out as Mostafa thrust into her. Any thought of the indignity of geographical ignorance was forced from her brain by the hard intrusion into her body. He roughly buried himself in her, his hips pushing her against the couch. He held her there, savoring the feeling of her, savoring his power over her. He pulled back, then slammed back into her.