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him exploded. “You are a fat pig and a coward! You are hateful and cruel beyond words! You stink of sweat! In the past it was beneath me to even acknowledge you! To kneel naked before you is unthinkable!”
    Ruben’s face blanched then turned dark red. He rose out of his chair prepared to strike her, but she moved back. Staring across the space that separated them, he roared, “You will pay, Mrs. Ryan, you will pay dearly!” He pressed a button next to his chair. Jane and a muscular black man who was her son, suddenly appeared. “Take this insolent bitch to her room and chain her over the cage!” he shouted.

Chapter Two
    Jane and her son, Willy, dragged Kathy, screaming, from the room and up the curving staircase to her windowless room. She struggled fiercely but was not a match for them. Soon she lay face down over the cage, her ankles and wrists secured to its four corners, her small breasts pushed through the holes so that they were inside the cage just out of reach of the squealing rats who jumped up toward them clawing and biting. Willy and his mother grinned down at her. “We need jus lift the floor about a inch an rats get her nipples,” Willy said.
    They left her like that. She screamed until she had no voice left. The starving rats continued to squeak and rise up on their back legs and claw the air just beneath her bare breasts. After an hour she flinched when she heard the door open behind her and the heavy thud of Ruben’s boots. He loomed over her, Jane at his side. In his hand he held a small rectangular device that was connected to the base of the cage. She lifted her tear stained face. He held out the device, which she saw contained a red button in its center. “Noooo!” she croaked, “please, I beg you, Master.”
    “You refuse to obey. You insult me in my own house. And now you plead for mercy,” she could hear the anger in his voice. “I warned you, Mrs. Ryan. Now watch!” He pressed the button.
    Kathy stared horrified, as the floor of the cage rose half an inch, bringing the rats almost within biting range of her distended nipples. “My God,” Kathy rasped, “forgive me, Master. Please forgive me. Anything. I’ll do anything. I’ll be your slave, your most grateful slave!” The rats, knowing that food was closer, squealed and scrambled about in a frenzy. Kathy tried again to scream but nothing came from her throat but choking sobs.
    Ruben waved the control in front of her again, “I’m torn between wanting to see the rats tear open your breasts and the satisfaction of having your unconditional and complete obedience and gratitude.”
    “Yes, yes,” Kathy whispered, “unconditional and complete... I promise. And...grateful...so very grateful to you...grateful to Sheila.”
    He put down the device without lowering the floor of the rat cage. “I’ll need to think about it,” he said. “Jane will come back in an hour. I’ll tell her to let the rats at you or to release you and prepare you to service me.
    “Please, Master,” Kathy’s voice was lost among the noise of the rats, “I’ll suck, I’ll spread my ass cheeks, I’ll worship you at your feet...” She heard the door close behind him. Kathy closed her eyes but couldn’t blot out the sound of the hungry rats nor could she avoid the change of air on her sensitive nipples as they leaped toward them. By the time she heard the door open again she was on the verge of hysteria, choking and trembling.
    Jane stood before her for a moment, then bent down to pick up the control. “Oh, my God, Jane, please don’t,” she whispered.
    The thin black woman remained expressionless. Kathy became aware that Willy was standing behind his mother. He stepped up and Kathy felt his hand stroking her ass, “Be a shame,” he said, “to let them rats eat such fine tits.”
    Jane continued to stare down into Kathy’s tear streaked face. “She nothin’ but a uppity white bitch. Serve her right.” Jane shook her head.
    “Please,