Eternal bondage (Book One of the Eternity Series)

Chapter 19 | Part 2

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I had decided to get my mistress breakfast from the buffet downstairs in the hotel when I was approached by Emily.

“You there, slave.”

My heart hurt as she called me and I was again reminded of my place. I turned to face her.

“Ma’am.”

“You’re Jayda’s boy?”

I nodded. 

“You’re to come with me to the auction house.”

To that my heart broke.  I thought I had found somewhere that I might be able to spend my life; apparently not. 

“I should check with mistress.”

“Why do you think she sent me moron? She doesn’t want to see you.”

I breathed in to steady myself.

“This is what she wants?”

“Of course it is” 

The woman sneered at me. I nodded and followed her out of the room, leaving behind the plate I had made for the one who had rejected me.

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Jayda woke to find Hayden missing.  She didn’t know why, but she had been angry with him, for coming with her when he had found his parents.  

She couldn’t justify what reason he could’ve had.  

He’d rejected her whenever she tried to be kind to him.  

She got ready and tried again to find him.

She needed to know why he had made the decision that he did.

She couldn’t find him anywhere around the hotel.  She began to worry.

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This auction house was different than any I had seen before.  

Smaller than most, it scared me even more than any had before.

I followed Emily to the side of the stage.

"Just one to sell sir.”

I was going through the motions I had been through time and time again, but they had never hurt so badly.  

I was chained to a bar in a corral with all the others who would be sold.

I snapped.  

I began to cry uncontrollably.

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Hayden wasn’t anywhere.  Jayda began to feel frantic, she ran to the front desk.

“The boy that came in here with me yesterday, have you seen him anywhere?”

The man behind the front desk asked her to describe him then told her, 

“Yeah, yeah, he just left here about 20 minutes ago with the lady that's getting married.”

 

“What?”

“I said-”

“No I heard you.  Thank you.”

She ran from the front desk.

Where would Emily take him? She knew Emily didn’t like her,  but why would she do anything to Hayden?

She pondered the circumstances until something dawned on her, the only way Emily could use Hayden to get to her, would be by getting rid of him, and the most efficient way of doing that would be by selling him.  

She ran outside and frantically called the limo driver to take her to the auction house.

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I walked across the stage as I had done time and time again, I didn’t want to look into the crowd.  

I tried as hard as I could to hold the tears back but as soon as I left the stage they began to flow again.

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Jayda ran into the auction house just as the auction was ending.  

She was too late, it was over.  

She lost.  

She sat on one of the chairs and squeezed her eyes shut.  

She didn’t want to cry, but she had lost the one who had become her friend, and the one who she had grown to love.

 

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I had been sold to a young couple, newly married and they spoke happily as they paid their due.  

The man unchained my hands and placed a collar with a lead around my neck.

As they began to walk out I looked back one last time to see Emily smiling wickedly behind me.

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