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Chapter 13
Over the past several years Natasha had been focusing most her energy on trying to put her beloved Stonebriar on firmer financial ground. In the past her business model had been solely predicated on stocking the facility with a steady flow of kidnapped young women, a good percentage of who were from overseas. While clearly that business model had worked well in the past, it was becoming obvious that some new methods had to be employed to secure new girls. This was because “acquisition costs” were getting out of control. The expenses incurred to nab Susan (and Missy) were well in excess of $200,000 even before a commission was paid to the acquiring team of Larina and Allison. These skyrocketing costs made it necessary to look at alternative acquisition methods.
One such method was known internally as a “private placement.” Such a process involved a girl being selected by a customer and then being transported, usually by the customer, to Stonebrair, where they would undergo the same conversion procedure. In previous years Natasha had always declined such offers. One reason was operational security, which could be compromised by a girl being brought there, since there was no way to know with 100% certainty if the girl was a plant from some suspecting law enforcement agency. That was never an issue with their current snatch and grab process.
Another factor working against such an arrangement was the quality of the girl being brought in. The standards for the slaves were extremely high, to bring in someone who was less then gorgeous could lower staff morale as Natasha’s people were used to working with only the prettiest girls.
But perhaps the single greatest reason Natasha had for declining such steady work was the potentially large financial loss at auction time, since private placement girls by definition were to be sold for a pre-set fee when their training was complete. Natasha was a master auctioneer and she was loath to give up any of her girls without some type of bidding process being involved.
But like most business people, Natasha occasionally bent the rules for her best customers. In this case it was for a woman named Lily Xiao Hong. Ms. Hong, in a relatively short period of time, had become one of Natasha’s best customers. She made 2-3 purchases per year, almost always of Asian girls, and all had very high average selling prices. It was customers like this; friendly, loyal and wealthy that Natasha had a hard time saying “no” to.
The question came a few months back when Ms. Hong called to ask if Natasha would be willing to put a girl that she chose through her lesbian conversion process. As stated earlier, such offers were almost always declined. But in this case Natasha did not dismiss the request out of hand, instead she asked for more information.
It seemed that one of Ms. Hong’s most trusted employees; a high-ranking female financial controller for one of her large manufacturing companies, had been embezzling large sums of money for several years. Ms. Hong had not yet gone to this woman to let her know that her scheme had been discovered. Such a crime would be dealt with in a very harsh manner in China, likely to include immediate termination, public disgrace, loss of house and personal possessions, and very likely a lengthy prison term.
As Ms. Hong explained over the phone to Natasha, she had concocted a plan to spare her long time employee this unpleasantness, but it would come at a high price indeed. Natasha was enthralled by the idea and agreed to move forward, but only on the condition that the entire confrontation between Ms. Hong and her employee be caught on a hidden camera and videotaped. The reasons for doing so would be made clear at a later time. Lily readily agreed upon this condition and their plan was set in motion for the following day.
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Asian girls, as a rule of thumb, were the easiest ones to break and train at Stonebriar. These reasons for this were highly speculative but it was the general feeling by upper management that centuries of subservience in their culture made them much less likely to question authority and thereby submit to the will of their captors. It was for this reason that they were intensely popular among the staff, as minimal work was needed to break them and they almost always turned into perfectly trained slave girls. An added benefit was that Asian girls were becoming increasingly popular at auction time and tended to fetch high prices. This was no doubt symptomatic of the fact that that part of the world was becoming increasingly wealthy and the women there enjoyed spending their newfound wealth on luxuries like lesbian slaves.
#468 was anything but the typical Asian slave brought to Stonebriar. She was feisty and hot-tempered and had proven to be anything but submissive. For a girl from Latin American, or even one from the United States, this kind of behavior was to be expected, but for a Chinese girl it was highly irregular. Usually girls from those regions were handled by increasing the levels of punishment to a point that submission became the only option. This typical course of action however was not working and both Dominique and her rival Teresa had struggled for an agonizing 16 days with this particular girl. Now running out of patience, Natasha asked both of her two commandants to join her for a strategy session, which was now taking place in her office.
“Ladies, thank you both for joining me. I brought you in here to discuss a new tact I would like to take with #468. I know she has given you both fits with her stubbornness and both of you are likely to say she is close to capitulation, but because she is a ‘private placement’ girl I see no need to continue the torture process without trying this new plan first. The last thing we want to do is return her to her new owner with any amount of visible damage”
Both of the girls glanced at each other with a befuddled look. Occasionally the two rivals agreed on certain things. Wouldn’t that fact that she was a “private placement” slave lessen the time constraints on them? By definition that is what these types of girls were, they were shipped to their new owners when they were ready and thereby avoided the auction all together and the rigorous scheduling demands that the auction placed them under.
The Mistress though, clearly with much more of an eye the financial side of the business, thought much differently. Since #468 was already pre-sold to a client for the relatively bargain price of $500,000, it made no sense to have her assets tied up processing this girl for any longer then was absolutely necessary. Extended processing time for #468 was an opportunity cost to Natasha, the opportunity to bring in another girl, house her in a valuable cell and then ultimately train her, a girl that could indeed fetch a higher price then the $500,000. Had she known that this particular slut was going to give her and her staff so much trouble she would never have agreed to this transaction in the first place. At best she was going to make a small profit on this little bitch, but she made a deal with Ms. Song and she had no choice now but to live up to it.
Enough was enough Natasha decided; it was time to teach her two assistants a valuable lesson in both economics and the benefits of using psychology over brute force.
“Ladies, come with me please.”
Natasha led the two women to a dimly lit room at the end of the hall. Inside was #468, nearly naked, and securely bound to a chair. She was also completely gagged. There were also 3 other chairs inside, surrounding a heavy wooden table. A large flat panel monitor hung from the wall.
“Hello #468 how are you?” Natasha said in somewhat of a mocking tone as the three women took their seats. “We are not here to hurt you today, that I can promise you. I am going to even take this out of your mouth if you can promise not to scream. I hate it when my girl’s scream, it gives me such a headache. Do we have a deal?”
The girl nodded her head and the Mistress pulled the gag from her mouth.
#468, her real name was Mingmei Chung, was a very pretty and slender brunette from Chongquing, located right in the middle of the enormous country. The thriving metropolis directly boarded the Yangtze River. The 19-year-old girl was a very independent young woman who had just finished her first year of college when she had been abducted and flown halfway around the world to Stonebriar. She still had no idea how she had ended up here, and that was exactly as Natasha had planned it.
“I know these last few weeks have been very difficult on you my pretty young thing, and we all want this entire ordeal to end don’t we?”
Unsure of how to react the somber, yet stout, girl simply nodded her head.
“Of course you do. You know #468 your name in your native tongue means smart and beautiful. But I am sure you already know that don’t you?”
Impressed and unsure of where this was going, she could only manage a “Yes Mistress.”
“There is no question you are beautiful, now we need to see how smart you are.” The Mistress continued, “Please tell me #468 why you continue to fight us? You must know that every girl here eventually surrenders to us. Please be honest with me, why do you accept such pain?”
Mingmei just sat there for a while, unsure of what to say. What difference did it make what she said? They were going to torture her anyway until she broke. Tears started to come down her cheeks and she struggled to catch her breath, with everything they had done to her already it was hard to let her guard down and to be honest, but what did she really have to lose?
Most of the slaves there, if asked the same question, would give any number of answers. They were afraid of the process of being converted into a lesbian, afraid of giving up their freedom to someone they didn’t know, afraid of being sold and shipped off to some far-flung corner of the world, afraid of being treated like a sexual plaything. These were the standard answers that the staff heard over and over again throughout the years. It was up to the personnel on Level II to help to redirect the girls concerns about those issues.
Before she could answer though, Natasha interjected. “#468, let me try to answer for you and please just nod if I am right, there is no need to speak. I know it is hard to talk about these things. Are you afraid that you may never see your family again, especially your mother, is that why you hold out, is that why you will not surrender your body to us?”
The girl hesitated for a moment and then under her breath whispered “yes.”
“I thought so my dear”. She reached over a put her hand on the girl’s tender thigh. “That is a common reason many of the more stubborn girls like you give to us. The thought of not seeing your family again is very difficult to accept. It is entirely natural for you to feel that way. Perhaps watching this short video will help you make rethink your decision.
Natasha took the remote control that had been left on the table and turned on the monitor. A black and white, but nevertheless crystal clear video came onto the screen. In it a Chinese woman sat at her desk, going over some figures on a ledger. Mingmei instantly recognized the woman as her mother. As the video rolled on, three other women stormed into her office, startling the executive. “Hello Mrs. Chung, working late tonight?” The obvious leader of the group asked.
“Yes Ms. Hong, I have some paperwork to catch up on.” The obviously nervous woman answered.
“Of course you are that is one of the reasons I have made you my Vice President of Finance. Your work ethic is second to none Chen. In fact it is so good that I have not felt it necessary to pay close attention to what you have been doing for many years now, and as an owner that can prove to be very costly when someone you trust betrays you.”
As Mingmei looked on she could see her mother become very uncomfortable in her seat.
“Oh, don’t act so surprised my friend, I think you know exactly what I am talking about don’t you?” Ms. Hong grabbed her employees’ arm firmly as one of her associates pulled out a second ledger. Opening it and going over the numbers she started berating her executive.
“Do you think you could get away with this!?” She screamed. “You have been stealing money from my companies for years. It is all right here in black and white, over 10,000,000 Yuan! That is nearly $1.5 million US dollars!”
The older woman said nothing. What could she say? She knew she had been caught red- handed. Like so many other embezzlers, she never thought this day would come, she thought she had covered her tracks carefully, but clearly she was mistaken.
There was an awkward silence in the room as the powerful woman got up from the desk and circled the small office.
Finally she broke the unbearable silence “How could you do this to me? I took you from nothing. You were a mere peasant; I showed you how to run a business, how to make high-level decisions. I made you a wealthy woman and this is how you repay me? You ungrateful bitch!!!”
Chen just kept her head down, saying and doing nothing.
“You know Chen with this information I can go to the authorities and have you arrested immediately. You will lose everything, your house, your bank accounts, and your cars, everything, just like that gone. Then you will go to penitentiary for a long time, a horrible prison where you will be treated like an animal. That is how it will end for you; your whole life will be gone. But perhaps there is another way…”
At this point Natasha reached over and held Mingmei’s hand, but the girl hardly even noticed as she was too mesmerized by the events unfurling on the screen.
The business owner somehow managed to ask what the alternative would be. Lily waved her hand and her two intimidating companions immediately left the room, leaving the two women alone.
“Let me tell you what your one and only option is Mrs. Chung. First of all, if you chose to continue working for me you will be immediately demoted to a forklift operator in one of our remote warehouses, working the third shift of course.”
All things considered that did not seem so bad Chen thought to herself.
“But that is not all, not by a long shot, oh no your punishment will be much stiffer. You of all people know that I have some unique sexual proclivities.”
Chen was well aware of her boss’ taste for young female flesh; she kept a number of such girls at her sprawling estate in the country, where she herself had seen firsthand the number of nubile maidens running around.
“If you wish to remain out of prison and not have your life turned upside down then you will give me the one and only thing I want that can make this problem disappear.”
“And what is that?” the worried woman asked.
“Your daughter Mingmei of course! She is a very beautiful girl and I have wanted her for my own personal use some time now.”
Mingmei screamed out now. “No! No! No! This can’t be, my mother would never do such a thing.”
Natasha pressed pause on the video and held the girl’s hand tightly. She knew this was not easy to watch but for her purposes it was so important that they continue and Mingmei see for herself this shocking act of betrayal. “I know it’s hard to see this #468, but you must know the truth.” After waiting for a moment she hit play and the four of them in the tiny room continued their viewing.
“No you can’t make me make this decision,” Chen screamed back.
“Oh yes I can. Your choice is a simple one really; you can trade your freedom for that of your daughter. You have two other children you need to think about as well. Do you want them to only see you from behind bars for the rest of your life? They have done nothing wrong and yet their home and their mother will be taken from them forever, they will be outcasts. Is that really fair to them?”
The woman was obviously thinking of that unpleasant possibility, she hesitated for a long time before finally speaking. “What will happen to her?”
“She will be taken far away. There is a place there that specializes in turning young girls into lesbian slaves. She will be trained to my exact specifications. It will not be easy on her, I will not lie, but it only lasts a few months and then she will shipped back here to serve as my personal whore.”
The sobs coming from the young girl were getting louder now, but Natasha only turned up the volume up so the pretty Chinese girl could both see and hear her mother give the go ahead that would lead to her inevitable enslavement.
“You have 60 seconds to make up your mind or else I will instruct my people to call the police.” The older woman demanded.
There was no need to guess what happened next, but Natasha kept the tape running anyway. Mrs. Chung picked up the phone on her office desk and asked Mingmei to come immediately to her office to help her with something.
Mingmei remembered this moment all too vividly. She remembered being surprised that her mother would ask her to come out so late to a relatively dangerous part of town. She remembered making it to the dark office building and onto an elevator where she was quickly overpowered by a group of strange women and stuffed first into a van and then later onto an airplane for a long trip. It seemed so long ago to her, but in reality it was only a little more than two weeks back. Natasha looked over at the stunned and now weeping girl next to her. There was no other way to look at this from Mingmei’s perspective then this was a complete and total betrayal by the person that she thought could trust more than anyone else in the world. Her mother had placed more value on her own life than on that of her oldest daughter.
The three women and the now incredibly demoralized girl just sat there for a while until the video ended and the screen went blank. Natasha broke the seemingly endless silence first, “I am so sorry you had to see that my dear”, she said without the least bit of irony. “It must be very difficult for a young girl to know that her own mother was the reason that she ended up here. But now that you do know the truth I want you to think carefully if your struggle has the same meaning now. The person that you thought cared about you most in the world now doesn’t appear to at all.”
Natasha stopped for a moment to let that crushing statement sink in. Mingmei cried a bit harder now, knowing that in her own twisted way The Mistress was right. Natasha stood up and hugged the poor girl for a moment before continuing. “There is someone now who does care about you #468. From the moment she laid eyes on you she wanted you, wanted you enough to take ownership of you. Now the opportunity has presented itself and she is spending a great deal of money sending you to us. I know this is not what you wanted #468, no young woman wants this. But that is not a choice you can make for yourself now. But what you can decide to do now is stop fighting us and let us get on with the inevitable. You are going to become a lesbian sex slave for Madam Lily Xiao Hong, your mother’s boss. Nothing will change that fact; the only difference is how long it will take for you to accept that so we can move forward with the conversion process.”
Natasha took a breath a motioned for Teresa and Dominique to join her in the hallway. Once out there and with the door shut Natasha said, “You see ladies, that is a perfect example of mind over matter. A tough, determined girl has now seen that further obstinacy is no longer in her own interests and I did not even have to lay a finger on her. I expect that she will surrender to us as soon as we open the door.”
“I grant you that this was a perfect situation and we will almost never have such a wonderful piece of hidden camera footage again, but the point I am trying to make is that brute force used to induce capitulation is often counterproductive. Get to know your subject, read their files, know them as well as you can before torturing them. Often times the truly intractable girls are easy prey to well thought out psychological tricks.”
The two rivals looked at each other and said nothing. What could they say? A master was plying her craft and they had just witnessed it firsthand. Interpreted another way though and Dominique clearly had another notch on her belt as she had always been thought of as the more cerebral of the two rivals.
Natasha opened the door and waited for #468 to look up. She finally did and looked directly into Natasha’s eyes. She gave an almost imperceptible nod, but it was enough for Natasha to say, “Thank you my sweet, you have made a wise decision. I will send Madam Hardings in with the necessary paperwork.”
The Mistress closed the door behind her and gave a wink to her two understudies before walking down the hall to Madam Hardings’ office.
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