Chapter 2

ELEANOR

The room was still full of chattering when Mr. Paulo dragged me backstage to get prepared to be handed over to my new owner, I could see how eager he was to get the deal closed and sell me off. After all, the more the price we were bought for, the more money he made.

Paulo was an unbelievably greedy fat man who only cared about how much got into his pocket.

"Pack up your stuff quickly while I go get the papers for you to sign. You had better be done before I got back!" He said as he left me in the dressing room.

I could overhear as the rest of the auction went on while in the dressing room but all my thoughts were clouded with was what I had coming ahead of me.

Who was this Armando that sent the whole room into oblivion through the sound of his voice?

"There's our lucky girl! I heard you were bought for a huge sum" Camilla, one of the oldest ladies in the trade said immediately she stepped in with a few others just like her. "And for a whooping fifty million infact!" She continued.

Camilla and her clique were the oldest to be in this game. I wouldn't be wrong if I said they must have all been bought by all the men that frequented this auction ceremony, they were just too loose and open to anything.

"Who would've thought?" Ese, Camilla's right hand girl chimed in and then they laughed, with Camilla accessing me irritatedly from my head to my toes.

"Just get ready to get fucked like a slut that you are, he paid fifty million for what you have between your legs," Ese continued.

"Hell no! And please never you use that word on me ever again, you hear me?" I fumed. How dare Ese?

"Oh, che angelo! You really thought Mr. Armando paid fifty million to get you because you're special? Wake up from your fucking dreams child!" Camilla cut in. "Armando is a predator who would go lengths to acquire whatever he pleased, everyone knows that. No one here is special, slut."

I could feel both my hands roll into fist balls as I couldn't take it any longer, but Camilla noticing this still kept pushing regardless.

"Only he can tell what he saw in you that made him pay such a huge amount, but trust me, he's going to get it back." She continued, this time demonstrating sexual motion while an evil smile played all over her face.

A girl named Eliza who was also a part of them tagged in almost immediately. "I'm sure he's gonna get it so good out of her, after all it's for a year and we all know that the more money they pay, the much more they expect to take. He's definitely going to want fifty million dollars worth of her pu—"

"Shut it!" I cut Eliza off, sending her a cometing slap that had her nursing her cheeks for a good number of seconds while I turned to face Camilla.

"Just because you give yourself easily to these men doesn't mean everyone else would do so too, so please, never refer to me as a slut ever again. You can let them have you for a penny or even for free, I don't give a damn, but never in your life use that language on me again" I warned as my disgust for Camilla's words surfaced into a frown.

"Who do you think you are?!" Camilla yelled as she made an attempt to slap me, but her hand was stopped right in the air by Mr. Paulo.

"What the fuck is going on here?" Paulo asked, his tone fully expressing his anger. "What are all you girls doing here at once? Didn't I tell the rest of you to remain outside?"

"And you! I thought I told you to be ready before I got back here? Or did I speak in Latin?" He turned to face me this time around. "Get the fuck over here and sign these papers before they're taken to your owner! You girls are all trouble. Sometimes I just want—"

"Want to what exactly Paulo?" Camilla cut in before he could finish his sentence, "Let us out on the streets? Oh please" she scoffed, "we all know you need us here as much as we need you. Or else who's going to make the money for you to fill up your pockets with you greedy pig?" She said as she stared into Paulo's fuming orbs, sending the room into what seemed like an infinity of silence.

Camilla was the only one Paulo had given free will around here. Sometimes he went as far as defending her whenever she got into a fight with the other colleagues, and as much as I always avoided crossing her path, she had crossed the line with me tonight and I wasn't just going to let it slide.

"Now you all get the hell out of here before I lose it! And as for you Camilla, watch how you wag your tongue at me before I cut it! Leave immediately!" Paulo yelled instantly, seeming already too vexed to control himself any longer.

"And you, sign this goddamn papers!"

My entire body shook as I picked up my pen to sign the papers while Paulo watched me closely. Was this really going to be my life now?

"Sign here, here and here," he pointed out, and I put the pen to paper immediately, not wanting to annoy him anymore than he already was.

"Good." Paulo said as his frown slowly transformed back into a greedy smile. "Now, you follow him and he'll take you to your new owner, I have other important business to attend to." He said, pointing through his back to the person right behind him.

I looked up to see a tall muscular figure with an intimidating look behind Paulo, his stern gaze swept a wave of uneasiness all over me.

He wore an all black tuxedo with a long black jacket to compliment it, a pair of black leather gloves, a mask, and his pockets seemed to be housing a gun in it as well.

"Follow me," his ordered in a stern tone that didn't seem to welcome any form of delay.

"Y—Yes, I'll be right there soon..."

"I meant now! When Mr. Armando needs you you don't keep him waiting" he ordered again, sending several frequencies of terror down my spine.

"Eleanor leave with him now!" Paulo joined in yelling, not minding the how disorganized I seemed to be.

I rushed after the guard, leaving the room in a hurry. A few of my belongings spilled from my bag, but I didn't have the time to stop and collect them any longer. And that was it, I was going to face the man who now owned me.