Sheturned her head to the left and saw a large poster. It was a VictoriaSecret poster with her in it. She saw her image wearing a bra andpanty's adver...ising their full body line of products. She rememberedtaking that photo, she remembered the agent in Prague asking her to cometo NY to be a model for Victoria's Secret. She remembered feeling likeit was a gift from God to have an opportunity to travel and make a lotof money to support her grandparents and family who always had no money.She felt. She was now just lying across the bench softly sobbing.“How much would you be willing to pay for her?” John asked, not really considering selling her, but was curious.“Ten thousand is a nice round number,” the man replied.“I don’t think so,” John said, to Allison’s relief, as she’d heard the conversation, but kept quiet in fear of being struck with the leather leash again.“I’ll go twenty-five thousand, but that’s my final offer,” the man said.“That’s a reasonable price, I’ll discuss it with my. We chose to stay and regardless of how things have turned out for some of us, we should live with that fact and accept it. I, for one, am happy to be living here.”I smiled at that piece of information. Hendrick had fitted into life here easily. He’d taken up boat building both for our community and for the communities that lay about our settlements. His abilities had made us friends and his success had made him an important member of our tribe. He’d even taken a couple of local women as his. I felt naughty and aroused already. Still I acted as if all was normal.Finally, Tom reacted.“Kerrie,” he said. “I hope you know what you are doing Skyping me in a bikini.”“Oh,” I answered, acting as innocent as I could, “am I being a little arousing?”“A little,” Tom laughed. “How about a lot, you sexy one!”I had him! But I teased a little more.“Sorry,” I responded. “I’ll go get a cover up.” And, then after a pause, “unless you’d like me to take the top off?”Tom was silent. Slowly I reached.