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2021-09-02 05:45:58Stripped of my shirt and shoes, I paced the eighteenth century styled bedroom. After struggling with the locked door in hopes of escaping, I was evaluating the possibilities of what was on the other side of the tightly sealed and darkened glass windows.
They’d tossed me into the room and locked the door about an hour earlier. My muscles and joints were still stiff from the time spent in a cell with nothing to separate me from the harshness of the dank earthen floor. Without having contact with the outer world, and my worldly possessions stripped from me, time became an illusion. I could only guess how long it was since Shen and I were captured and separated. By the rumbling of my empty stomach, I surmised I’d missed more than one meal.
I wondered what had happened to Shen.
From Dumitru’s sneering remarks, I was fairly positive he was still alive, but where was he being held? Was he somewhere in this hell hole? He had to be.
The gua
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Wadim eased his way amongst the crowded casino with Jasmine snuggled familiarly at his side. Stevenson had just finished giving him the list of new captives and made arrangements to bring them to the den the next day.Stevenson always bought back the captives that Wadim rejected. It was a rather unfair deal since he did all the work to capture them in the first place, but he wasn’t about to bring that point up to the temperamental vampire. He valued his life too much. Occasionally, Wadim would have a moment of kindness and toss in a captive or two free of charge.Stevenson handed Wadim a thick pile of money. The vampire slid it casually into the inside breast pocket of his sport coat. Wadim loathed the attire he was forced to wear when he left his den, but he was wise enough to know it was in his best interest to do so. Although modern technology and ignorant scientists managed to take fact and turn it into fiction, there were still a few die hard vampire h
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Shen and Dao-Ming lay together in satiated silence. He’d just finished making love to her once again. His frustration over their situation swelled within him, but his frustration at his inability to subdue his own carnal needs overshadowed all else. He’d always been able to control his wants and desires. His whole life’s training was focused on control. Now he was no more than an animal rutting repeatedly throughout the day. What made it worse was that it was a function that he was ordered to perform for the ‘Master’. He and Dao-Ming were little more than the pigs they kept out in the yard.Shen rolled off the bed and walked to the basin. There were no mirrors in the room, so he did his best to wash up and groom myself without the visual assistance he’d taken for granted all of his life. He’d noticed that the hollows in Dao-Ming’s eyes were worsening and he wondered if the same was happening to him. He didn’t feel ri
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Stevenson pushed his way into the novelty shop. he walked boldly past the clerk to the door in back and entered without hesitating. He skirted through rooms filled with vampires huddled together in small circles around couples, trios, or singles providing never-ending sexual entertainment until he reached the large, gilded door and then paused to regain his composure. Of late, the number of captives he’d presented to Wadim was painfully limited and lacking in substance. It had been months since he’d received such a large inventory of beauties to present at once. This new shipment would certainly put him in a better bargaining position for the future. He knocked soundly, stepping back slightly while the lion’s head doorknob turned without him touching it and the door slowly opened.Ignoring the others in the room, Stevenson confidently climbed the spiral staircase leading to the observation balcony where Wadim sat regally on his gilded throne. As he rea
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I reflected on our decision as I stood in front of the mirror inspecting the marks on my neck. It was the only thing we could think of to fool the guards and make them believe Mei-Lien had finally fed. With great deliberation, she’d taken a strand of her silky hair and measured the width between her fangs. Then she carefully took a steak knife that fell off the tray when the guard removed my dishes. She positioned the strand of hair on my neck and she punctured my skin to look like her fangs had penetrated. After which, she dabbed my blood on the corner of her mouth and fought the urge to lick it.“The urge in me is strong. I am changing. Soon it will be too late,” Mei-Lien moaned in frustration.She dreaded becoming like Wadim and was fighting it as hard as she could. Soon she’d no longer have control over her body and she’d give in to the desires and ways of the vampire.“Do you want to become one of them?” I ask
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Even with the door as a barrier, there was no denying the screams of a woman in anguish that pierced the air. Dao-Ming stiffened in Shen’s embrace. Although his senses were dulled from his daily drug doses, hers were acute. She shuddered as she gently pushed her lover away and sat at the edge of the bed.“A new shipment has arrived,” she said in a voice just above a whisper.Shen struggled to focus. He was growing less and less aware of his surroundings with every dose of potion they forced him to drink. He felt as if he was living in a lucid dream where his sexual fantasies were becoming sexual nightmares. Sex was becoming so routine it held little value or appreciation for him now. It was becoming a revolting task instead of a sensual pleasure. It was just something that he did over and over and over again. It was as commonplace as breathing.The fact that he was providing stud service for the purpose of increasing Wadim’s stock d
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Sleep was impossible for Dao-Ming as she lay next to Shen. She knew all too well the reason for the wild screams coming from the new shipment. She wondered how many Wadim kept and how many were to be sold. It was rumored that the buyers weren’t vampires. She’d heard Wadim ran a large slave and prostitute trafficking business and his buyers were prominent men and women from around the globe. The black man they called Stevenson was in charge of these transactions. She saw him only once. That was when she was taken. She knew immediately by the way the others jumped when he spoke that he was in a position of power.The door silently opened and a guard stepped in. He sneered down at Shen before reaching over him to grab Dao-Ming’s wrist and pull her off the bed. Shen stirred and tried to grab for her, but the drugs sapped his strength for everything but making love.The guard laughed and held her close to him while fondling her defiantly.&ldq
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Stevenson put on his most alluring face while he bid the small group of women to enter the novelty shop. The limousine driver lounging against the building smirked as he watched some men grab the women’s arms and pull them away. Stevenson scowled in frustration and pulled a pack of cigarettes out of his breast pocket. He’d redeemed himself in Wadim’s eyes with that last shipment. He wanted to keep the flow going. It wouldn’t do to allow his shipments to fall back in size and quality again. Although his men were doing a good job, he liked to be able to take the credit for contributing now and then; especially when he spotted fine looking women such as these.Stevenson was reveling in relief after his last shipment. Wadim made it clear on more than one occasion that Stevenson was slipping in his duties and he was considering replacing him. If that happened, Stevenson would end up as dinner instead of at dinner. He’d do anything to keep that f
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