Chapter Eleven

Before Ebony had been awake more than an hour she found herself being dragged into the centre of a room full of people on a sort of stage where she found that Bray had been right, these men were simply too strong for her to fight off, she had never been in such a helpless position yet she did not remember Bray's advise about being good and trying to be brought by someone.

Instead her hawk like eyes scanned every inch of the room desperately searching for an escape route and finally she saw one. At the back of the hall there was a large door, which was still open. All that she needed to do as walk to the front of the stage and then climb off, then she would walk up and down as if she didn't want to escape and then when she got near enough make a break for it.

Instead of struggling she looked up at one of the guards as her face contorted into the picture of innocence and then making her bottom lip quiver slightly she begged, "Please don't hurt me".

To her immense relief she saw that the guard was buying her little act, yet it also disgusted her to know that anyone could ever think of her as being so weak.

The guard nodded slightly and loosened his grip on her arm and sent the other guard away, "Nice to see that you have learnt to fear something Ebony", the guard hissed, not quite sure whether he should believe her or not although he felt himself falling under hr kittenish charm, not to mention the fact that he knew that she couldn't escape even if she made a break for it.

"We won't hurt you providing that you are a good girl, just strut around for all of the nice buys and there will be no problems", he ordered not sure how she would take this. Part of him was still afraid of Ebony after the way that she had dominated the city yet that just made the thrill of being able to make her do whatever he wanted even greater.

It was hard not to want to keep her for himself yet he knew that she would bring in a good price and that was what was most important. While he and the other men could dominate Ebony for now he knew that it wouldn't be long before she found a way to beat them and so the only thing that he could think to do was make sure that she was brought by someone before she got the chance to cause any trouble.

Therefore knowing that the back door was covered from the other side he let Ebony's arm go entirely and sent her on her way with a slap to the ass before he started calling, "See this wonderful specimen can be yours for the small price of 1,000 credits. Strong, gorgeous body and tamed attitude".

Ebony tried not to shoot him a filthy look as he slapped her and kept walking to the side of the stage where two men helped her down to the floor, she wanted to rip their heads off but knew that if she did that then she would never make it out of there and so she got a grip of herself and walked on head held high.

Yet then the announcement fell silent for a moment and Ebony realised that she had been walking with too much conviction and that if she wasn't careful then she would be apprehended before she reached the door and so she looked around at the commentator with puppy dog eyes which seemed to ask, "What am I supposed to do?"

This obviously worked as the man winked at her and continued, "She her full lips and sweet demeanour …"

Ebony had to fight to keep from letting a sigh of relief pass from her lips as she looked back around at the people and this time much more carefully made her way up the gang way and saw her target approaching, she couldn't be more than 5 steps away from it now.

She smiled and flirted with the men and then seemed to see an even better looked one a little way further up. Four steps away.

Ebony's heart began to pound as she wondered if she would get away with it, she would have to run fast in a second so that she would get there in time.

Her legs turned to jelly she made the next step, now only three steps to go until it was time to run and she had never been more scared in her life. It seemed as if everything that she wanted was just out of her reach and she knew that she would only have one chance at this and with that in her mind she closed two steps, only one step left.

She span around as if she was enjoying the attention and launched into a run when she felt herself running into something and before she could do anything about it she span around and fell backwards, yet just before she hit the fall she was held tightly and so stopped her descent.

Bewildered, Ebony looked up into the face of Lex, "What the hell?" she thought.

Lex couldn't help but smirk as he entered the auction as he saw the way in which people backed off as he walked down the hallways, it was now known that he had had a part in Ram's downfall and he was respected for that. Ever since Ebony had left him he had been a lot colder than before and had acquired a new sense of charm which he hadn't had before.

As he moved towards the door of the hall were the auction was being held, he winced as he saw the beaten body of a girl being dragged away by one of the guards around the outside of the door, evidently she had tried to escape and Lex wasn't sure how the hell he was meant to keep from beating the guy who would do that to some poor girl however this thought was not entertained for long in his mind as his eyes fell on the form of Ebony.

Her braids swirled behind her as she came out of a spin and he saw her leap a little and realised that she was about to run, she would be killed if those guards caught her which they must, he did the first thing that came into his head.

He grabbed her around the waste and using her own momentum swung her slightly before dipping her as he had seen men do in movies before the virus.

As his eyes beheld her and his arms held her he knew that he had to try and get her back.

Ebony felt like killing Lex as she realised that there was now no hope for her escape and wasn't sure what to do until she noticed the armed guard on the other side of the entrance which had before been blocked from her view.

That was when she realised that she never had any hope of escape and although she hated to admit it she realised that Lex might have just saved her life.

Not sure what to do she gasped as she felt Lex's hot lips against her cheek and herself being pulled upright.

Lex held her close even when they were both standing up again and called over to the announcer, "You had forgot to mention what a wonderful dancer she was, I thought that I would just give everyone a quick demonstration of her talents".

Ebony wondered briefly what was going on before realising that it must have looked like a dance move to the other people around them and walking alongside Lex back to the stage.

There they were both taken into a side room where one of the guards from around the stage was asking Lex, "Am I to understand that you are interested in purchasing this woman?"

"Yes", Lex answered plainly.

"Very well", the man replied, "the auction is tomorrow, then you may bid as high as you like for her although I warn you that there are much more wealthy clients here than you and that Ebony is going to be one of our most popular ones tomorrow".

These words hit Lex like a bucket of cold water, he had never thought about the possibility that there might be other people who were interested in buying her yet he did not let it show, "Alright", he answered neutrally.

He knew that he couldn't threaten to close the place down without admitting to the Technos that he had known about it before they did and that might get him killed, yet there was still one glimmer of hope. There was a rule that stated that the woman still got some form of choice in the matter and that if a man could sleep with one of the women before the time of the auction and after the time of the woman's captivity then there offer could not be beaten as he was seen as the chosen one. Note the same rule did not apply to the males who were being sold.

Thinking about that point Lex answered, "I understand that entirely but seeing as I am the Sheriff you must trust me, I think hat I will choose to take this lovely woman to my guest rooms here; you have no objections I trust?"

Normally the woman would have to suggest that rather than the man to insure that none of the woman's value was lost however as it was the sheriff he didn't argue and Ebony soon found herself being moved to Lex's bedroom.

Everything seemed to be a blur to her, she just couldn't believe that this was all happening until …