”A good-looking man of about fifty with dark hair and a white lab coat entered the room. I knew I should close the door quietly and leave the rest r...om, but I couldn’t take my eyes off my wife and desperately needed to watch this man examine her.Roni crossed her legs and pulled on the hem of the short gown trying to cover more of her exposed thigh. That didn’t work. I saw lots of leg.The doctor introduced himself, thumbed through the medical forms attached to a clipboard and asked a few routine. The one with the moustache was Aazim, he and my father did business together.’ Alec sat up suddenly, his eyes widened when he heard Laila’s news. ‘Did I just screw up?’ ‘No. Aazim has wanted me for some time. He’d make some offers to my father but he always turned Aazim down.’ ‘So he was here. . .’ ‘Yes, he was. Thank you.’ He shrugged slightly. ‘Well, I just figured there weren’t here to get us out. It wasn’t like I was, I don’t know, uh, protecting your honor or anything.’ ‘But you did. She fought the darkness for a few minutes. She had to remember.Today there were photos. She didn't recognize all of them, but some of the models now had names. From the photos on the driver's licenses she had taken from the storage area. It was now locked, but she had been in time. She had studied the small plastic cards in secret, memorizing the names. She recognized all of them. Now, as they flashed on the screens, happy, gay and beautiful, she talked to them.She heard their voices, dubbed. He went to the bed and put his freshly shaven legsin to the swimsuit type body suit making sure everything fit right. Heslotted in the foam inserts for his breasts then pulled the head over hisface and shook his head making sure the hair fell into place.Next he went to the vanity table looking at the face of Beth in the mirrorand thinking wow. Steve started applying makeup to the mask until itlooked exactly what Beth had been wearing that morning. Steve closed thered lipstick lid and thought.