Taming a Tempest

Chapter 17

Tempest knew that she was rationalizing. She always had a habit of finding reasons to accept situations that she knew she shouldn't and she was doing it again.

Life as a slavegirl, she was learning, was not so bad. She was lying in the warm summer sun in the expansive yard of Kate's mansion, looking out over Lake Michigan. When she woke up after the plan ride that brought her back to Chicago six months earlier, she had been kept in a cage. So things had definitely improved since her arrival.

For the first week, she had stayed in the cage whenever Kate was not around to oversee her and Elke. After that, shock collars kept them in the house but at least they did not have to stay in the cages. Several weeks later, their perimeter was expanded and they were given the freedom to roam around the property. Now, they had no constraints at all. They still had the capsules embedded somewhere in their bodies and they knew that they would be killed if they escaped and could not be found, but they had the freedom to go where they chose now.

The sex was good and frequent. She and Elke were often summoned to Kate's bed, either individually or together. At parties, she and her slave sister performed in some erotic way and then were available for the guests to enjoy. Kate's guests were told that she and Elke were submissives who had entered the lifestyle willingly for all of the erotic pleasures that it offered. All of the guests believed that story although some were amazed at how obedient the two girls were.

And they were occasionally loaned to others. In fact, Tempest had just returned from a visit to the Caribbean office. Kate had loaned her to Cedric for a week and he had an insatiable appetite for sex with her. It had been her first trip solo. Kate was increasingly trusting her girls.

The two slaves had been given new identities, complete with drivers licenses and passports. After all, they had been reported missing in Aruba when the cruise ship had stopped there. They couldn't very well just show up in Chicago. How would they explain the other four missing girls?

The only person from her former life who knew about her new one was the managing partner of the law firm where she had worked and where Kate still worked. He was heavily into domination and submission and Kate had introduced him to the organization's auctions. In fact, he turned out to be the one who bought Carrie over the internet. So Tempest got to see her friend frequently. Carrie did not enjoy as much freedom as Elke and Tempest did, though. She was always bound or caged in some way whenever Tempest saw her.

Adam, the managing partner, frequently borrowed Tempest for a day or two. She was always exhausted and sore when she was returned to Kate. He practiced a very different style of ownership than Kate. Whips and paddles abounded and sex was simply a means to humiliate and degrade. It was at his house that Tempest was first fucked by a dog and it had been one of the most embarrassing experiences in her life. He never asked for Elke. It was always Tempest. She assumed that he must get some kind of thrill out of degrading and abusing his former associate.

Their minds were also kept active and stimulated. After they had been slaves for about a month and Kate realized she could trust her girls not to escape or reach out to the authorities, she put them to work on one of the organization's new business ventures.

Tempest's first job was to research laws to make sure that the Master/slave matchmaking service would not break any laws. Then, she was asked to determine the best place to domicile the headquarters for the business. She found that Russia and most of Europe would not present problems for the new company. The US proved to be the most difficult to research because of the confusing labyrinth of federal, state and local laws and regulations. But she eventually concluded that all states but one would be fine with the business.

She came up with a list of six locations for headquarters. One was in the US and the other five were off shore. Despite the tax advantages that the off shore ones provided, the organization selected the US one and now the business' headquarters were in suburban Chicago. They chose Chicago for ease of oversight since Kate was already there.

The next job for Tempest was to draft the slave contracts and the release from liability forms. Kate had already started these so it was a simple task to put the finishing touches on them.

Elke was operating as a sort of product manager for the business. It was her job to put the program or programs together and to figure out how to market them. She proved to be a genius at the business side of things.

After conducting extensive market research, she developed the first product offering. "No Escape to Paradise" was the brand name that she chose. She was very excited when she returned from Europe after presenting the plan to the main office of the organization.

"I've given lots of presentations before," Elke told Tempest. "But I've never been naked for one. It was so exciting! I almost climaxed a couple of times." Tempest would have been mortified if she had to do it but for Elke, it was an adventure.

The logo was a profile of a naked woman kneeling with her head bowed and a chain dangling from her neck. Tempest had posed for the artwork. Two publications had been chosen for advertising. New Mother Magazine was read almost exclusively by women with the average age of the readership being twenty seven. If the business plan was correct about the target markets, this should reach them. To reach the other market segment, women approaching forty, she selected one of the entertainment/celebrity magazines that are always in the checkout lines. This would actually cast a wider net and would provide her with data to analyze to identify other attractive market segments.

Those magazines should attract the slaves. To attract owners, she planned an internet advertising campaign. She bought space on several websites that she thought her audience would frequent. She also created a website for the product and filled noescapetoparadise.com with all sorts of information that would help people make an informed buying decision. She then created a personality profile test that would allow her to match buyers and slaves and this was on the website.

All of this activity required Kate to modify the programming on the chips in the capsules inside of the girls' bodies. She did this from her laptop and allowed the girls to use a telephone. She left all of the other triggers active, though.

Elke also created the process that would be used at the beginning of any temporary enslavement. The girl would be "collected," sedated and bound. She would be delivered in a box to her owner who would sign for the package, acknowledging whatever restrictions existed. Then he or she would have a slavegirl for whatever the agreed upon timeframe was.

The business had been launched four weeks earlier and they had already made twelve matches. Three of the girls were already serving their slavery. All but one of the responses so far was from the New Mother ad so Elke would have to rethink the other market segments. But she was very pleased with the results so far.

It was decided that both of them should interview all of the candidates for the program; both slaves and owners. Tempest wanted to interview the owners because of Kate's concerns about controls. Elke joined her for market research purposes to see if she could detect any patterns that would help in marketing the product. It was one of the rare moments that they wore clothes and was the first time that they had worn business suits since before their fateful cruise.

It had been a busy week. They had interviewed over forty potential buyers. What struck Tempest was the surprising mix of buyers. She had expected that they would be predominantly middle aged males. She assumed middle age because they would have enough money at that point to afford the product and she assumed male for obvious reasons. Their sexual fantasies of having a slavegirl to fuck at will would drive them to the product.

There were some middle aged males in the group that they interviewed but they were, by far, in the minority. Females outnumbered males by two to one, which was a shocker to Tempest. A half dozen of they buyers were married couples which was another surprise. And ages ranged from twenty four to sixty three.

"I certainly hope that you are available for purchase," one of the married women said to Elke. Tempest had to bite her lower lip to stifle a giggle. She was dying to hear how Elke would handle this.

Elke smiled back at the woman and then her husband. Then she turned back to the woman. "I have already been bought once. I may get sold again, but not immediately. It is a very intense program." Tempest was amazed at the response. All of it was one hundred percent truthful. And it provided the implication that Elke had been bought through the No Escape to Paradise program. It was a brilliant reply.

"Such a shame," the woman said. "I hope our girl is as beautiful as you. Did you like the experience?"

"Absolutely thrilling," Elke replied genuinely. "It let me explore things that I had only dreamed about and let me discover aspects of myself that I never knew existed." The woman seemed satisfied with that response.

The slave interviews were also interesting and numerous. About fifty women had signed up for interviews. Again, Elke and Tempest conducted the interviews but they did it a little differently with the potential slaves. They arranged for Tempest to be in the waiting room, acting like she was enrolling in the program. Then Tempest and an interviewee would be called in to meet with Elke who was, once again, dressed in a business suit. This would allow Tempest to talk to the applicant after they had been dismissed from the interview. It was hoped that Tempest would be viewed as a confidant since they were both going through the same thing.

"Okay, I have reviewed your profile," Elke started each interview. "I know about your backgrounds. What I want to know here is why you both want to go through the program. And I want to give you an opportunity to ask any questions that you might have. We interview in pairs so that you can benefit from each other's questions and you can see that you are not unique in your desire to experience life as a slave. Now, who would like to begin? Why do you want to be a slave?"

Tempest, who was now known as Tracy since her identity change, held back, hoping the other woman would go first. When she didn't, Tempest spoke up. "I suppose we all have fantasies about being an exotic slavegirl. I have had them for years, although they have become really strong lately. I have never had an opportunity to live them out and try them before. But now I do have a way to experience what I dream about. So here I am."

"Thank you, Tracy," said Elke, who was now known as Erika. "And you, Symphony?"

Again, the woman hesitated. "I don't have any idea why I'm here. Pregnancy and motherhood have me totally whacked out. I need to get away and I need it to be as different from my real life as possible. I need to feel excitement again. I guess I'm trying to escape to No Escape."

Elke smiled. "There's nothing wrong with that. We are in business to help people escape from their overwhelming lives." The interview continued for another fifteen minutes and then the two applicants were allowed to leave. Symphony turned out to be the second customer to be placed with a temporary owner.

Figuring out the pricing was the hardest part for Elke. The business had to make money somehow but it took awhile for her to figure out how. Elke finally came up with something that she thought would work. Anyone interested in participating would be charged a one hundred dollar enrollment fee. This would cover the costs associated with analyzing the profiles and other overhead related expenses. It would also tend to screen people out who were not serious.

The owner would also be charged a fee of one thousand dollars per day that he or she wanted a slave. It would eliminate a lot of people but she wasn't concerned about that she wanted to avoid riff raff getting a hold of one of the girls.

Even though the business was still very small, it was obvious that it was going to be successful. In just four short weeks, they had interviewed ninety customers. Thirty six of the owners had been accepted into the program and all of the fifty slaves had been accepted. Twelve matches had been made and Elke fully expected that at least a dozen more matches would be made from the existing pool of applicants. No Escape to Paradise was off to a great start.

Tempest rolled over in her chaise lounge to let the sun darken her back for a while. "Yes, life as a slave is pretty good," she thought. She knew she was rationalizing, but she was happy.