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prepared it did a good job. Thank you.”
    “Ladies, it’s time for me to learn all of your names, get a little of each of your history, and to answer questions about myself. We’re going to be together for a while, let’s get comfortable with each other. First let me tell you my plan for you girls, see what you think of it. I’m pretty sure that’s on the top of your minds right now, isn’t it?”
    Almost every girl nodded their heads up and down, some saying quietly, “Yes, sir.”
    Adrian rubbed a hand across his forehead. “Ladies, I am at a bit of a loss how to act here. I’ve not been around young girls before, and I don’t know how to treat you. If you were boys, I think I’d be fine, but…obviously you’re not. Here’s what I need to know: How do you want me to treat you, and in return have you give me your instant obedience to any order I give you? It’s not that I want to boss you around, but if we get into a bad situation, I need you to do exactly what I say and when I say it, without hesitation or question. I don’t want to yell at you like I would men or boys, but I don’t want you standing up after I yell ‘hit the dirt,’ either. Does that make sense?”
    When Adrian finished the girls all looked from him directly at Racy, expecting her to answer for them.
    She looked at them one at a time, then turned to Adrian. “I think if you treat us the way you have so far, it’ll be just fine. We’ve been treated like cattle for so long we’ve forgotten what being treated with respect feels like. I can’t remember the last time anyone asked any of us our opinion about anything. You just did, and I think we are all in a bit of shock over it. We just kind of assumed that you would boss us around like everyone else has.”
    She looked around at the girls again before continuing. “In fact, I think we would all like to hear why you’re helping us instead of either using us or abandoning us.”

Chapter 7
    A drian cleared his throat. Finding sixteen pairs of young girl’s eyes glued to his every move and expression unnerved him. He cleared his throat again.
    “I guess I don’t see any choice in the matter. I don’t think any decent man would have any better luck dealing with this than me. I would have left you behind if I thought you’d been able to take care of yourselves. Or if you had all been older and there voluntarily. But, I don’t think you would have been okay for long, and you weren’t there voluntarily. You were all there against your will, being raped. It sickens me that you’ve been put through that. Tell me, have all of you been raped?”
    Racy replied, “Everyone that has had her period. Lacy watched for that, and as soon as it happened she put the girl up for auction. I guess we were lucky she waited that long. When we knew a girl had her first period, we hid it from Lacy as long as we could. Sometimes we could hide it for several months, but she always found out sooner or later.”
    Adrian nodded. “Okay, so here’s the deal,” he said. “One of these days you’re going to run into people that will judge you, and consider you to be low-life’s, even trash, because of having been prostituted. It won’t matter to them that you were forced, that you were raped. Their little minds won’t comprehend that you had no choice. Certainly they have no right to judge a girl for what she has been forced to do.”
    Adrian looked at each girl for a moment, locking eyes with them one at a time. Some of them blushed and looked down, some held his gaze. A couple held his gaze defiantly.
    He continued, trying to be gentle, but firm. “When you’re back around other people, it’s up to you whether you bring up your past. You can talk about it, or not, as you personally see fit. But, if you don’t want to talk about it you’ll need a consistent cover story. If you don’t want to discuss it, just say that you were in an orphanage for girls, that the head mistress died a week before