In The Marketplace, the slaves up for auction are placed in a kneeling position on a pedestal. They are not bound, but the non-voice-trained slaves are gagged. Voice-trained slaves must answer questions. They each have a collar around their neck, with a lock and ID tag on it, but the lock is open, with the key in it. The bidding takes place in a separate room. Preferred bidders are allowed one last chance after bidding is closed to outbid the high bidder.
In front of the slave is a table with three copies of the contract, as well as their file for bidders to look through. The winner signs all three and takes one copy, and then closes the lock on the collar and takes the key. "The slave does not need to sign, they signed when they were free."
Chapter 23
Claudia's owner arrives, and Alex has her show off her new skills. First caning Brian, and then Claudia accompanies her mistress upstairs to show off her "other" skills. Her owner is impressed.
Sharon, gagged and kneeling, is agitated, and wants to be the center of attention around the buyers. She is jealous of the attention paid to Robert.
Robert is anxious that he won't be pleasing. He answers questions, not really hearing any of them. He feels unready.
Bidding ends. Twenty minutes before they confirm bids.
The woman who purchased Robert is a woman in an elite circle of mistresses. She was introduced to him as "a friend of Madame" (Claudia maybe?) and when she signs the contract and closes the lock on his neck, a single tear rolls down his cheek. She thinks it is sweet that he views the process as romantic.
Sharon is purchased by a man in his late 50s, who is in good shape, but not one who had used her sexually before., only read her file. He is a widower, lives in Texas, and travels east. She assumes he is rich. She is very happy and wants to smile at him, win him over, but she is still gagged. Then she hears a woman's voice. The mans daughter.
Sharon finds out that the man bought her as a wedding present for his daughter, although the ownership still belongs to him since her contract required she be purchased by a single male. He plans on sleeping with her when he visits his daughter, maybe four times a year. Other than that she will probably use her as kitchen staff.
Sharon sees Chris looking at her and expects him to be happy that she is in a shitty situation, but he looks sorry for her.
Chapter 24
Chapter 24
The house made money on the sale of the two slaves (Sharon's good looks drove up her price) and on Claudius retraining. Grendel feels Sharon got what she deserved.
Alex listed two weeks as resort vacation.
They plan on training two more slaves (and Brian) before then. Brian is in the room, doing endurance training.
They are both happy with each other at the moment because they just enjoyed a reunion after being apart, or at least unable to get together around the slaves in training.
Chris comes in and sends Brian to bed. They have him replace Brian at the foot of the desk. Then they ask Brian if he would like to join them at the resort. He says the typical slave response, then inquires why he would be there to be able to better answer if he would like it.
Chris would be able to be their slave at the resort. They want to reward him for his good work with the four slaves. He accepts the offer to join them, even though the collar comes off when they come back home, as painful as that will be.
They go to bed, and Chris gets up, takes care of the house and returns to his own bed.
"Have I told you that the mark of the best slaves is patience? Infinite patience."
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