“Where ... where am I?” uttered Maria.“First, from this point on you will speak only if we direct you to. Disobey and you will be punished.”�...But...” began Maria.The slap caught her across the cheek and sent her back to the floor.“Are you deaf, or just dumb?” asked the woman rhetorically. “Another word and I shall get the whip.”Maria, remembering Kyle’s whippings kept mum.“I am sure you have a thousand questions. We will tell you what we want you to know. You were bought from the young man named. It really didn't seem like much of aroadblock. I could think of thousands of names. All I needed to do waspick one."Hell, I could just stick with Tiffany. Not like it matters," I toldmyself, but the sentiment led nowhere. I couldn't see myself using thatname. Tiffany had been a disaster. Tiffany was how I'd gotten stuck inthis mess. Tiffany was ... No, I might've been stuck as a girl, but Idefinitely wasn't going to spend the rest of my life as. She was smug in the knowledge that her fake ID had allowed her to pass as a twenty-four-year-old. Gail was only nineteen.Her girlfriend Karen had been right, this wasn’t just a bar, but it had a lively crowd and the music was as good as it was loud. She bet herself there wasn't a person in the bar over thirty.Gail gave Warren a discreet glance as he approached; and to ensure capturing his attention, she leaned back in the chair, tilting it on its swivel hinge, while crossing her legs to reveal. Baker called Daddy, and told him how bad I was."I got a call today. Do you have anything to say for yourself?" He scowls up at me."Daddy, I was just kissing, it isn't like I was doing anything REALLY bad!" I protest with a sly little grin."Kissing? That's all you were doing? Nothing else?" Daddy asks me, with a quizzical look on his face."Yes Daddy, that is all. I AM a virgin, you know..."He sits forward on the couch. "I can't let this go unpunished. Bend over my knee. You are getting five.