"JUDAS KISS" - Three- Ruby ☯ ☯ ☯

In the next one and half year that Helen Lived with

Roger, she was

treated like a princess. She had everything she wanted, from clothes to jewelry; however she felt like slave to Roger, his money, his beautiful home, and his caprice and whim. She had left the simple life of minimum pay, working at grocery store, sleeping in the shelter, and her good, poor friend, Jacob for this life of slavery and bondage, but glamorous. She made a lot of money. But the money went to Roger. She never saw it; and if she asked for it, Roger would say: "What do you need? Anything you need, tell Mark to take you to the mall and buy it for you!"

Her customers were mostly older, rich men. They even gave her tip which she tried to hide it from Roger, but he always searched her and did not allow her to keep even the tip for herself. Once that Mark was the one, who saw her first after a night of party, she put the tip in Mark's hand and closed his fist and put her finger on her lips, so mark would be silent about it. During this time, she was able to give some of the tips to Mark since she knew that he had family and young children.

Roger named her Ruby. Helen did not like it, but he said that Helen was an old- fashioned name and she needed a stage name; so she became Ruby. The only one, who still called her Helen was Mark. Once Roger got so angry at Mark that Helen thought he was about to kill him. Mark was always very careful to call her Ruby in front of Roger, but he knew better not to make a mistake in front of the boss, that was how Mark called Roger.

Roger had prohibited her to go anywhere by herself; that was how her friendship with Mark began. He was the guard, Roger's personal valet, and slowly became Helen's best friend in that dreadful house. He drove her anywhere she wanted. Some days, they spent all day out. He took her to different restaurants for lunch. He showed her the city of Dallas. Helen was very curious to learn everywhere just in case if she could run away one day, but she even was afraid to tell Mark about her intention. She had to be home not later than five in the afternoon. That was the time this woman, Joyce, who was her personal assistant, a white woman about forty years old, with artificial blond hair that you could always see the dark hair at the top of her head, always wearing very short and tight clothes, always showing her cleavage, and always flirted with Roger, would come to get Helen ready for the evening and the night. Helen knew that she had to be very careful with Joyce, since she already found out and Mark had warned her that she was a snitch and a spy. She would tell any thing that Helen told her to Roger. She would insist that Helen tell her about her day with Mark. As young as Helen was, she learned quickly to avoid this woman. Her answers to the bombardment of questions of these women was always the same: " Oh, we didn't do anything particular; just went shopping." "I don't see anything that you bought!" She quizzed Helen. " You know me, I am hard to please, I didn't like anything!" Helen learned very quickly that she could not trust anyone in that big house of horror.

At the beginning, in fact the very first day when Mark drove her with the limousine to that house and took her to her room, she was all alone for many hours before Roger came home; and when she finally saw Roger, she said:

Where have you been? I didn't know what to do!"

Roger frowned and gave her a look that frightened her:

Don't you question me again? Do you understand?" And then he continued with a little calmer manner:

"You're going to work for me; but I keep your money so you can't leave me. That will break my heart sweet heart! But I give you spending money."

Helen questioned him about this arrangement:

"Where does the money come from? What kind of work am I supposed to do? What do you mean by my money?" She asked many other questions. She had no idea what she had herself into!

" Don't tell me that you don't know what I expect from you? You already know. That is why you came with me! But because I like you personally, you'll be my personal girlfriend. Everywhere I go, I take you with me. So you need to learn to act and dress in a certain way. Joyce will be your personal assistant. You meet her tomorrow and she'll teach you everything. She help you how to dress, how to act, ...! I normally don't choose my girls as girlfriend, so you're very lucky that you have that privilege." It was that night that he told her about her new name. He slept with her that night and any night that she was not with a customer.

Almost immediately Helen found out what all these things were about. He was doing to her what her father had done for years, except now she would get paid, but she was not supposed to see the money. Roger would keep the money so the thought of running away would never come to her mind.

She also danced in this place that Roger owned. She never learned where the place was. Its customers were almost all men. Roger had had all furnished bedrooms which were beautifully decorated on the second and third floor of the establishment. The place even did not have a name. From outside, it looked like a regular house. There were many other girls, who danced and went with the customers upstairs; but none of those girls lived in Roger's house. So Helen assumed that she was Roger's special girl.

To Be Continued