Chapter 58

After the game we made our way back to the bathhouse. Some of the men they had been playing with walked with us. The conversation was about the game, so I didn't pay it any mind, at first.

"Would you sell it?" one of the men asked. "It is so well trained, we would pay you three times what you bid at the auction."

I kept my breathing even like Rose had taught me to do. They had said they would not sell me, I had to believe that.

"No," Master Damien said, "we have grown to enjoy it and do not wish to sell it."

"We could watch it for you when you go on your next coupling," another man offered.

Master Damien chuckled, "And what incentive do you have to return our property unharmed. If you had a slave we would be asked to watch, we would allow you to keep it. That is the only way the trade can be even."

I felt dizzy I was so nervous, despite my breathing technique. Thank goodness I was considered valuable property and not passed around the compoun