Chap 56

Amelia's POV

The room was silent and even though we could hear the cheers from outside and the auction prices, I was numb.

After Lydia had been taken, it had felt like I had been taken there with her.

Ten thousand dollars. Someone had bought her for ten thousand dollars.

Tracy hiccuped beside me and when I turned, I realized that she had not stopped crying. I didn't know why I expected her to when it had just been thirty minutes since Lydia was taken. Perhaps it was because it felt like years since we have been sitting on the ground in this dark room, like prisoners awaiting execution.

The large doors opened and as usual, anxiety gripped all of us as the two men responsible for dragging whoever they were about to sell entered after the woman who surveyed all of us like we were cattle being led out to the slaughter.

A boy was dragged out and the rest of us, excluding me, screamed in terror because they were sure that they were next. The large doors were shut again and I knew that i