"Ruth chuckled at her joke but Joy and Regan glared at her. They knew the reality of Lupe's situation – or at least as much as Andy had confided."I'... kidding," Ruth said defensively."The reason Andy is driving the girl back and forth to school is to protect her against being raped by a rival gang," Joy explained."Are you kidding me?" Ruth asked. She looked Regan for confirmation and Regan nodded. "Who is this girl to him?" It's the girl I wanted to get a scholarship for out here," Regan. Well, not gone, but definitely postponed.But when I stripped off and collapsed into my bed, it wasn’t a dreamless night that met me.Quite the opposite.I was on a stage.I don’t think it was the stage at the club - it was too clean, for one. But there were definitely elements of it - I could smell the cigar smoke that’s always present at Marty’s, the lights looked like they were arranged in the same way, and the whole room had this weird sense of familiarity.But, unlike Marty’s, it was. This gave them something to soil and humiliate. They all seemed to enjoy this and gave them something upon which to unleash the full vent of their natural base nature. Monique was only too familiar with the degradations they would force upon their own women much less a poor foreigner that was completely defenseless. She had seen some of the poor wretched girls she had sold them after a few months in their hands and had she not been so desperate to be financially independent, she could not have. I silently approached the cage with a dog catcher'spole. She grew still and stared up at me, terrified."What's that for? What are you gonna do to me?" she asked, curling her legs against her chest, trying to keep her body as far from the door asshe could."Come to the door willingly or I will use it to pull you out." I saidwith a deep growl in my voice.She shook her head with a defiant look in her eyes, "no way you crazysick fuck!"I shook my head and opened the cage door, she squealed and.