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we unchain you, you aren’t going to bolt for the door?” She motioned to the large wooden door behind her. Celia nodded. She wouldn’t try. She wouldn’t get far and besides, there could be a guard out there who was ready to kill her. She didn’t know.
    All she knew was that everything that happened from here on out could be a test and she planned to be ready.
    She looked around the room once more. There were maybe a dozen beds. Did that mean there were 12 girls who lived here? Were all the blood dolls women? Maybe the beds were there just in case they became needed. Maybe there weren’t that many blood dolls. There were only three girls here now, four if she counted herself.
    “How many girls are there?” She asked.
    “Don’t you go concerning yourself with that,” Ariana said grabbing a key for the locks that bound Celia in place. “There are usually less than a dozen, but some end up staying in their vampire’s room, if they find someone they like.”
    “Do you all…do you feed different vampires?”
    “We feed all of the vampires who need us, but usually just once a day.”
    “Okay,” she could do this, Celia realized. Once a day wasn’t that bad. She could handle this. Deep breaths. She just had to remember to take deep breaths. She glanced at the bedroom door, but shook her head. She wouldn’t run. She could do this.
    Celia had been through far worse. This was nothing compared to Raymond. A little biting and chewing? No problem. It was better than the emotional scarring that came from being attacked by her stepfather.
    The large wooden door behind Ariana called to her, inviting her to step through, but she couldn’t.
    Celia couldn’t allow herself to run.
    She had been abused for a long time and during those years, she’d learned something that made her different from other girls. She’d learned a hard, terrible truth that would keep her alive here. You couldn’t run from your abuser. You couldn’t hide. He would hunt you down and find you and hurt you.
    That was why she had kept working for Raymond even though she hated his fucking guts. That was why she hadn’t run as far away as she could get. It was better to know here he was, to be able to see him coming, than to be hiding away and feel safe. It was better to know than to be blindsided.
    This was the same.
    She wouldn’t run through that door. Her feet were itching for her to. They were begging silently for her to try to escape, but she couldn’t. Celia knew that if she tried, if she ran, she would die. If not by Ariana’s hand, then by Gordon’s, whoever that was.
    “I won’t run,” Celia said.
    Ariana unchained her.
     
     
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    The attached bathroom was the biggest one Celia had ever seen. Three huge whirlpool tubs sat side-by-side, along with several walk-in showers, a couple of toilet stalls, and several large sinks. There were mirrors along every wall and every type of beauty supply Celia could think of. Several vanities sat along one side of the wall and a door led to an attached walk-in closet.
    “You guys don’t mess around,” she said in surprise. The women just laughed. It was a lovely sound, and one Celia didn’t expect to hear in a place like this. She imagined the girls here would be worn out and sullen, but they weren’t. It seemed like they were friends, and that surprised her.
    Celia didn’t know much about vampires, but she thought living among them would be a sad experience. She didn’t think she would ever hear laughter or joking around. She didn’t think she would ever hear giggles.
    “Get in the tub,” Ariana motioned to one of the huge bathtubs. Celia turned around for a place to undress, but Ariana just laughed. “Strip down right here,” she said. “You’re going to spend more time naked around us than not, so you might as well get comfortable with your own body.”
    She looked at Tasha and Jade, but they both just shrugged.
    “It’s true,” Jade said. “We spend a lot of time in