All Chapters of The Reluctant Golden Wolf: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

The small child cowered in the corner of the room under the table her hands over her ears as the adults shouted at each other again, her whole short little life this was all she had known. The arguing came closer and the little girl trembled trying to sink into the wall behind her covering her face with her hands, if she could not see them then they could not see her she thought with a small child's intelligence. 'Come here you fucking brat.' A large calloused male hand grabbed her by the hair and dragged her out from under the table banging her head on the table top as he did so. 'You're always fucking hiding you little fuck, now make yourself useful and go and fetch me the whisky.' He tossed her toward the kitchen door and she banged her leg on it as

Children as traumatised as Melody needed structure and rules to follow as they tried to make sense of their new world. It took the couple a month to break down some of the walls the little girl had erected, slowly she told them about the abuse she had suffered. The doll Simon had bought her remained untouched on a chair in her room while the teddy bear on the other hand, never left her side wherever they went the bear went. She refused to be parted from it, to the point if anyone tried to take it from her she became hysterical and screamed the place down. Everything was written down in her 'diary' so the experts knew what they were dealing with and slowly Melody began to blossom when she realised no one was going to take her from this kind, caring couple. She could eat and sleep to her heart's content as the fear left her and she put on the weight she needed and even grew a couple of inches. Th

When the female Social Worker took her small hand and said it was time to go she went without a murmur, not saying goodbye or even looking back at them, her shoulders were straight and her head held high. The eldest brother went to hug her, he felt so guilty about what they were doing, she looked so small and fragile. His wife grabbed his elbow and then shook her head, 'Don't make it any harder for her, just let her go.' Both brothers knew that what they were doing was wrong, their parents would never have forgiven them for abandoning their little 'sister' and it was a guilt they would carry for the rest of their short lives. Within five years of their cruel act, both had succumbed to heart attacks leaving their families destitute as neither had thought to safeguard their families in case this would happen. Their businesses collapsed

She was moved from foster home to foster home and in every single one, the adult male who lived there tried to abuse her and most of the time she was beaten because she would not let him touch her. They never believed her because she was in care and it made her an easy target for them to abuse so she kept up her self-defence classes and she always hit back when they attacked her. As she was moved around that label followed her, ensuring the homes she went to grew progressively worse and three months before her sixteenth birthday she was sent to a home that could only be described as hell on Earth. This elderly couple had run under the radar and fooled Social Services for years, they had made a huge deal out of taking in the teenage girls no one else wanted, those unfortunates that had a large red stamp on their files that read, 'Troublemaker.' It was a tag these girls could never rid themselves of and it made them the hardest to place, Melody was not a tr

These girls were so broken they were resigned to their fate, those bought by the predator men to use for their own pleasure actually looked forward to getting away from the couple. They told Melody it was far better to service the needs of one man than do what the old couple made them do. Once a month the younger girls were made to watch as the older girls were auctioned off to the highest bidder. The girls had to clear the living room and set up a dais on one side of it and then they would arrange seats around it so the men could have a good look at what they were purchasing. The girls who had turned eighteen were brought in and made to stand on the dais, all of them naked, they had to walk in front of the men one at a time and the men were allowed to touch and fondle them intimately. Then the bidding would begin as the girls were made to stand one at a time with a collar around their neck and, whoever bought them would then attach a