Dear readers,
This chapter was too long so I'm breaking it into two chapters. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. Reina's story is getting longer than I anticipated, and I'm sure Reina wishes it were shorter. Thank you all for the wonderfully supportive feedback, and don't worry, I will start working on Agent in a week or two.
xoxo
Tanuki
"Ellis, it
is
you!" Reina cried with a huge sigh of relief, her happiness to see a familiar face overcoming the shame of being naked before her boss. "You can't imagine how happy I am to see you!" She looked around for the caravan slaver, but he wasn't around, and the driver wasn't looking in their direction. Ellis was now standing a little closer than was comfortable for Reina. Her boss had never seen her naked, and the way he kept looking at her made her blush and want to cover herself. Then she turned suspicious. "Uh Ellis, did you . . . how long were you standing there?"
Ellis smiled sheepishly. "Well, I must admit, I was curious to see how you would handle three sets of male hands touching you."
"Ellis!" Reina gasped, reddening from head to toe. She gave Ellis a pleading look. "Can you get me out of here now?"
Ellis chuckled. "You want me to buy you? I'm flattered."
Reina groaned. "Ellis, don't joke! You have to do something, the woman said I'm to be sold at auction!"
"Well, of course," said Ellis. "That's what they do to corrupt government officials. Well, the pretty female ones anyway."
Reina's eyes went wide. "Corrupt? What are you talking about?"
Ellis looked at her strangely. "What's wrong with you girl, did you get hit on the head or something?"
A light bulb went on in Reina's head. Maybe she was suffering from some kind of concussion. "I don't know!" she exclaimed, keeping her voice down. "I was pursuing a suspect, and I went into this like, costume store . . . and there was this old woman, who . . . uh, well she got me to try on this slave girl costume - stupid I know! And the next thing I knew, I was here, in this crazy place, in a cage! This guy put me in his slave caravan, thinking I was a slave! Can you believe it? What a nightmare!"
Ellis was just looking at her with a strange expression. "So . . . you really don't remember what you did to get thrown in chains?"
"I didn't do anything, Ellis!" protested Reina. "That old woman tricked me into . . . stepping on this stone platform, and, the next thing I knew, I was here, in a cage!"
Ellis shook his head in amazement. Suddenly he reached up, past her ear, and placed his hand gently on the back of Reina's head.
"Ow!" said Reina, when he touched a sore spot on her head. She hadn't noticed it before.
"Yes, you hit your head," said Ellis. "You must have memory loss, it happens sometimes when you hit your head too hard."
Reina's eyes widened. She didn't remember hitting her head in the store, but maybe she'd forgotten that also? "Wait a minute," she said. "You saw me hit my head, in the store?"
Ellis shook his head. "I don't know what store you're talking about. You hit your head when you fainted, when they told you your sentence."
Reina gasped, her stomach dropping in fear. "Sentence? What sentence?"
Ellis sighed. "To slavery, dummy. You don't remember the official who showed up at your father's estate to arrest you?"
Reina felt her stomach drop out. "No! I don't remember any of that!" She looked up at her boss with her big brown eyes wide open in fear. "Please, Ellis, tell me everything! What happened? What do they think I did?"
Ellis took a step back, chuckling. "Calm down, girl, it'll come back to you. Just give it a day or two and you'll remember everything." Then he put his hand to his chin. "Although by then, you could be on your way to some port city whore house. Oh, sorry, whores get paid, so you wouldn't beโ"
"Ellis!" hissed Reina, frantic. "Please be serious! You have to tell me, I'm begging you!"
Ellis smiled at the pleading look on her face. "Well Reina . . . to beg properly, you really need to be on your knees, no?"
Reina looked at him as if he'd grown another fat head. "Ellis, for once, cut out the innuendo, please! Look at me!" she said, trying to gesture with her hands behind her back.
"Oh, I
am
looking at you," smiled Ellis, making a motion of looking her body up and down. "And you're even finer than I imagined. You've been holding out on me, keeping yourself all bundled up at work. If I'm going to help you, I'd like something in return. Get on your knees."
Reina stared at him, looking into his eyes. After a moment, she decided he was serious, and when he was that way, he usually got his way. This was Ellis after all. He never missed a chance to tease her, or to ogle her. With a sigh of annoyance, Reina got to her knees, an awkward maneuver with her hands bound behind her. "There," she said with a huff. "Now tell me what happened to me!"
Ellis ignored her order. "Assume the pleasure slave position first," he commanded.
"Ellis!" hissed Reina. "Stop fooling around, we don't have much time!"
Ellis didn't smile this time. "No, dear. You don't have much time. Spread your legs as wide as you can, and push out your chest. That's the position." Reina just stared up at him, incredulous, but he just stood there expectantly, waiting for her to comply.
"Oh hell," said Reina, finally. She spread her thighs wide, balanced on her ankles, an uncomfortable position, she soon realized.
"Get down off your ankles, they don't do it that way," said Ellis. "It would get uncomfortable after a while."
"Oh, we wouldn't want that!" grumbled Reina, before she went down on her calves, wincing at the feel of the hard stone.
"Wider, and stick your chest out like you're presenting those lovely titties to me," commanded Ellis, waving his hand down at the kneeling girl.
Reina opened her mouth to protest, but what would be the point. Instead she just tried to widen her thighs a little more, then pushed her chest out. When she looked up at Ellis to see if he found her posture acceptable, she blushed at the appreciative look he was giving her. The position was clearly designed to display and humiliate females, and it was working. Kneeling like this before her boss, she truly felt like a slave, and the feeling was unnerving. Even worse, there was a growing crowd behind Ellis that was getting a spectacular view.
"That's very nice," purred Ellis. "I didn't know you had such nice big round breasts, girl. You're always hiding them from me. And if you were mine, I'd shear that cute little tuft of hair between your legs, keep you nice and bare." Then he leaned a little closer. "You know Reina, you look a little wet down there, is this turning you on?"
"Ellis!" gasped Reina, snapping her thighs shut, her face burning with heat. "Please, this is humiliating enough without your comments! I . . . I did what you asked, now can you just tell me what happened?"
Ellis was silent, but he gestured with his hands, and Reina reluctantly spread her thighs wide again. She did feel wet down between her legs, and she felt lightheaded. The crowd of onlookers wasn't helping. It was so unfair, she couldn't control her body's reactions. "Please, Ellis?" she said, quietly.