Never Broken

Chapter 6

Rhenn

I am dozing in the corner of the cage when I am awoken by a sudden wave of activity. I have lost all track of time while here. I watch as the men scurry around trying to look busy when I see a woman walk through the open door, flanked by two guards. I look her over, she is tall, willowy, and dressed in a designer suit with tall expensive looking heels on. I watch as she barks orders to various men in the building before she walks closer to my cage.
"Oh good, I heard we had a new arrival." She coolly says as she looks me over with a critical eye. She turns to ascend to the first level to what I assume must be her office.

"Roman darling, bring her up to the viewing room for me. I need to inspect her for processing." She calls from the bottom of the stairs.

I watch her briefly as she walks up the stairs before moving my attention to Roman who is rapidly approaching my cage. The door clanks and squeals loudly as he unlocks it and pulls it open.

"Up we get princess." Roman grabs me by my arm and pulls me to my feet before leading me out.

I look around to see every one of the men watching me with leering eyes, wanting to get a look at me. Roman pushes me in front of him as we ascend the narrow staircase. He then pulls me to a room near the end of the warehouse and pushes me through the door. The room is small with a small stage at one end and a single chair in front of it. Behind the chair is a long, darkened window that runs across the expanse of the rear wall.

"That, darling, is the viewing room." I turn to see Meredith standing in the dark corner by the stage.

She signals Roman to position me on the stage. I feel my body start to tremble as I stand alone in the centre of the stage, feeling her critical eyes on me. She sits on the chair and looks me over like you would an animal you are thinking of buying. She signals for me to turn. I look to the side where Roman is standing in the dark, he nods slightly. I slowly turn around as if I was showing off an outfit.

"I need to see everything, darling, take that off." I look at her in shock at what I heard. She rolls her eyes as she indicates my ragged clothes. When I don't move she turns to Roman, "Give her a hand, Roman, darling."

I look at Roman as he approaches with fear. He doesn't stop until he is directly in front of me and reaching for my top to lift it over my head.

"It's better if you play alone, Princess. These people you don't want to cross." I look up at him and see a hidden message in his eyes again. Before I can work out what it means Meredith tells him to hurry up.

I stand there shaking as Roman strips me of my jeans as well. Soon I am standing there in my bra and panties.

"Roman, you know better than that. All of it, darling." She scolds Roman softly.

I close my eyes trying not to cry as he removes my underwear. I stand there shaking. Meredith stands and walks closer to me, closely examining my body as a doctor might. She walks around me. My eyes raise to the darkened window just knowing some of the men are watching this, especially Frank and Seth. Meredith sighs in disappointment as she reaches the front of me again.

"She is damaged. I take it she was like this before we got her?" she turns to Roman waiting for an explanation.

"Yes, he was abusive physically and sexually. He didn't mind marking her. He would avoid the face though. The bruising and lip are courtesy of Frank." Roman explains. "he didn't like it when she fought back."

"God damn it Frank." Meredith says under her breath as she grabs my chin and turns my face to the light. "Now we have to wait before we can post her on the sales." She sighs and turns to Roman, "take her and put her in room 4, no one is to touch her until she heals and there are no visible bruises. Make her comfortable, give her a nightgown," she looks me up and down, "and give her some damn food. She needs fattening up, no one likes the emancipated look anymore."

Meredith turns and walks out without a backwards glance. Roman turns to me and starts to lead me out, not even bothering to collect my clothes. I try to protest, but the residual of the drugs have me still feeling weak. It is a short walk to room 4. Roman leads me inside and I look around to see a sparse bedroom. The room is dominated by a bed with red sheets and blankets. In the corner is a dresser with four small draws. Roman opens the top one and throws a short, lingerie-styled nightgown. I don't hesitate to put it on feeling exposed and vulnerable. Roman pulls out a walkie-talkie and orders to have some food brought up. I sit on the bed, wrapping my arms around myself.
"what is this place?" I turn to Roman and ask in a small voice.

"I think you have probably worked that out by now Princess." He looks down at me and I can see an apology in his eyes. "You are here to be trained. Once that is down you will be put up for sale. There is already quite a lot of interest in you already, so Meredith is going to work you hard to ensure that she gets the best price."

"How is there already interest in me? I don't understand."

"Your father was asking on a forum how much money he could make by using you. Meredith's boss happened to be in that forum. He was watching the thread closely. Once your father showed your picture the number of replies increased massively. He reached out to your father and made an offer."

I feel myself spiraling into despair, my father was looking to do this for a while. I never had a chance. Before I fall too far into my sorrow there is a knock on the door. Roman opens the door and takes a tray of food. He places it on the bed next to me.

"Eat, you need food." He sighed when I didn't make a move. "The food will help get the drugs out of your system quicker. Frank and Seth have been known to use too much."

"Why are you so caring towards me?" I ask genuinely curious. He has helped me more than once already.

"I... I can't say. I have managed to get you a bit of a reprieve from training while you heal. I can't do much more."
"how bad will training be?" I am afraid of the promise of pain Frank made.

Roman looks away. "It will be bad. I will do my best to ease it for you, but I can't stop it completely."

I nod my head, expecting the worst. I reach for the food and start eating as Roman stood by near the door to the room. After I finished, I laid down on the bed, happy to be off the concrete floor. As I fell asleep, I felt Roman pulling the blanket over my sleeping form.

Roman

I watch over her sleeping form. I wish I could do more to help her, to protect her and take away her pain. Unfortunately, I need to keep my cover. I can't afford to fuck up now. I have worked my way up to be Meredith's first in command. It is only a matter of time until she takes me along to join her when she meets with the boss. I will not settle for anyone lower. I am going to cut off the head of the snake. I just wish I could save Rhenn from all the pain she is set to endure. I really want to get her out of here, if only I could do it in a way to not draw attention to myself. I need to bide my time and plan.

I walk out of her room, closing the door softly as she sleeps. As I walk down the hall, I come across the men who were in the viewing room talking. Frank was particularly vocal.

"Damn Meredith and her rules. I can't wait to get my hands on her... the things I will do... I'm gonna make her scream so loud the next block over will hear her." The other men all laugh as they listen to the disgusting things Frank wants to do.

I lose my cool and grab him by the collar, slamming him against the wall. I want to rip his balls off and feed them to him. Lets hear him boast then.
"you will not touch her!" I growl in his face, hand around his fat neck, "You do, and I will do all those things to you and more, you hear me. ANSWER ME!"

"Yeah, sure Roman, geez... we all heard Meredith, she is off limits until we get the green light." He wheezes back at me before I let him go and continue on my way downstairs.