My Father's Friend
My Father’s Friend – Chapter 15

You must dance this way, if you don’t hold the pole tightly you will fall on the floor,” Serena repeats once more to Casey. It’s not as hard as it looks, you just need to practice.

-I can’t do that, what kind of vulgar dance is this? Casey objected from the floor, they were woken up early that morning to rehearse, and it turned out that the red-haired girl had to practice too.

-The one that will keep you from getting hit, believe me girl, you’d better learn this simple dance at least to get you started.

-Whatever you do, this stupid girl will never learn our rhythm. She looks so insipid that I doubt she’ll do anything useful on the stage,” Erika appeared out of nowhere with her typical contemptuous tone.

-Why don’t you go bother someone else, or better yet, go and swallow a snake,” Serena replied angrily.

-Is she your protégé too? Are you going to get beaten up for this bitch?

-At least she’s worth it,” The brunette watches the blonde from head to toe.

Erika frowned as she felt slighted, it was common for the two of them to argue about everything. They never agreed on anything, ever since Serena arrived both girls were in constant bickering which led to severe punishments.

-Hey, don’t fight,” Lucilda’s voice interrupted the staring battle between the blonde and the brunette, “If Otto replaces out you’re arguing over the new girl, all three of you are going to get hurt.

Serena let out her breath, but didn’t take her eyes off Erika. She was an envious busybody, the brunette glanced sideways at the redhead sitting on the edge of the dais, she was a passable girl. He had arrived a month after she had arrived, and her journey in the bar had not been the best of all, to her bad luck, her first night she got to f**k a Turkish tycoon who was considered a demon. According to the girls who had been with him, the size of his c**k was tremendous, but that wasn’t the worst of it. It was that he only f****d in the a*s.

Many girls heard the poor red-haired girl scream in despair when the man took her to the bedroom. And how could she not, when she was barely 1.40 m tall and that demon of a man was almost two meters tall. Many felt sorry for her the next day, when the poor girl didn’t leave the room because she couldn’t get up. At that Serena remembered that she had stayed awake for two cold nights, just to help her recover from the attack.

After that, well, like all the others… they got used to being used as s*x objects. The only negative thing the girl had acquired in that bar was that she had a very long tongue. You could say that she was the gossipy one of the group, but also the one who knew everything. It was a point in her favour, because if you needed to know something she was the one to replace out. Even if nobody knew how the f**k she knew so much.

-Hey you, new girl… I hear you’re a virgin.

Lucilda’s comment caught the attention of all the girls in the bar, only they were there, since at that hour they were preparing for their numbers that day.

-Are you sure about that? -Serena asked cautiously.

-Absolutely sure, she’s a virgin.” All the girls looked at Casey like she was a freak.

-Now I understand why that a*****e Otto is so protective of you, you’re his chest of gold,” Erika rants jealously.

-How old are you? It’s impossible for a girl your age to still be a virgin,” Lucilda stared at Casey, but Casey didn’t say anything.

Serena watched the girl’s face and knew she was being overwhelmed by their questions, and even more so when she couldn’t remember a damn thing about her life. What the hell would she be knowing her age? Hardly and she was just standing there.

-Stop bothering her, don’t be nosy.

-Erika rolls her eyes. You can’t be the hero of them all, Serena, remember what happened to the last one you helped. The one a month ago.

A month ago?! The brunette was thoughtful for a moment, it had already been a month since they took that girl called Claudia. So, that meant that oh no, that figured trouble.

-Your memory loss will be a big problem when the executioner comes,” Lucilda blurted out those words without any anesthetic, the new girl wasn’t ready to know about it yet, Serena thought.

-Shut the f**k up, Lucilda.

-You can’t keep it from him forever, Serena. The month is over, and he will come.

-He? -Casey takes a step forward. Who is he, the executioner?

-Don’t worry about it, I’m sure before he…

-Don’t tell the new girl, she deserves to know the truth.

Erika’s irritating and mocking voice echoed in every corner of the stage, she was so annoying that it made Serena’s b***d boil.

-Serena, what’s going on? The red-haired woman demanded to know.

-That’s what we call him, the executioner. He comes once a month, he doesn’t mess with any of the girls. He just sits at his table watching all of us, it’s like he’s hunting his prey. When he decides on one, he pays an exorbitant amount of money just to take us.

-Where? Where is he taking them? -she asks anxiously.

-No one knows,” answers Lucilda. He just takes us out of here, and no one ever hears from the girl he takes again. The guards rumour that he, after using them in the worst way, ends up murdering them.

-What?

-We can’t know that, Lucilda. Don’t say shit like that, you stupid shit,” the brunette shouts at her.

-You’re a f*****g idiot, and what else is he going to do with so many women? You think he has an eren in his mansion, no dear, he gets rid of them all. Those girls he’s taken for the last two years, they’re dead,” she replies irritated, but also scared.

Casey feels faint, if being in that place was already scary and agonizing, knowing that there is a f*****g bastard who is about to come to the bar to get one of them made her hair stand on end. There was definitely worse to come, he could feel it.

-What about when this guy gets here? -Casey asked.

-Girl, you better not think about that,” the brunette warns.

-She should know, Serena. You’re a terrible friend, how can you lie to her like that.

-What is she talking about, Serena? -The brunette glared at Erika.

-The thing is, when Otto brings in a new girl, well… the idiot usually keeps her for that man. He won’t let anyone touch her until he sees her.

-And then what happens? -Casey grabs the brunette’s arms. What happens next?

-He always buys her,” Lucilda answers. He watches her dance, and then pays for her and takes her right away. That’s what happened with the last girl. And she wasn’t a virgin, but your friend,” she smiles. You’re valuable.

Casey takes a step back, trying to assimilate the information, she was going to be taken, that horrible man was going to take her. If she really was a virgin, you didn’t have to be very smart to know that was a prerequisite for those f*****g guys. She would be sold to this executioner, and possibly he would….

-Don’t think about it,” Serena’s voice snapped her out of her musings. Calm down, we’re just making assumptions about all this. No one said it was so.

-But I’m the new girl, and he’s taking all the new girls. He’s taking me! He’s buying me! -she exclaims, on the verge of hysteria.

-Now he’s going to have the real attack,” Erika mocks.

-Shut up, stupid, it’s your fault she’s like this.

-It was this idiot who spilled her guts, don’t blame me because that bitch is a f*****g virgin and gets everyone’s attention.

Serena rolls her eyes, again she had to calm that girl down. But on the other hand, she couldn’t fool her anymore, she had to know the truth. She was the new girl, therefore the main course to be served at the bar. And the brunette was absolutely sure that this man wouldn’t hesitate for a minute to buy her.

That purity and innocence that radiated from her was a temptation for those beasts who loved to defile vulnerable girls.

-When is she coming? The red-haired girl’s question brought Serena out of her musings.

-According to my calculations, in a week.

-Oh, my goodness! She automatically covers her tear-stained face.

-At least we know none of us are leaving this month, too bad for you new one,” Erika turns around and walks back to the bar with a group of girls.

-Don’t listen to him, I’m sure something must happen before he arrives.

-Miracles don’t exist in this hell, Serena. Don’t get the girl’s hopes up, we’ve all been here for years. Whatever happens she will be bought by that man.

The redhead gets off the stage and leaves. Serena wanted to murder them all, so much so that she had had a hard time reassuring the new girl, so that those stupid good-for-nothings would spoil it.