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Heather stood in front of her bathroom mirror, turning sideways to examine the curve of her hips in her jeans. At sixteen, she'd grown into the kind of body that made men stumble over their words in grocery stores, the kind that had gotten her out of three speeding tickets in the six months since she'd gotten her license. Long dirty blonde hair, full lips, and blue eyes that could flash from innocent to knowing in an instant. She knew she was beautiful. She'd known it since she was thirteen and her mother's friends started making those uncomfortable comments about her "developing figure." He breasts had not gotten huge, but they were bigger than most.
But beauty didn't pay for cars, and it certainly didn't pay for the summer trip to Enlgland her friends Justine and Marcy were planning.
"Two thousand dollars," she muttered to her reflection. "Minimum."
Her father worked fifty hours a week at the plant. Her mother cleaned houses when she wasn't managing the special programs for Heather's younger brother Derek—autism wasn't cheap, and the insurance only covered so much. They paid the mortgage, kept the lights on, made sure Derek had his therapies, and that was it. There was no college fund for Heather, no car fund, no trip fund.
"Work hard," her father had said when she complained last week. "Earn it. Nothing worth having comes free."
She'd stared at him, incredulous. "Dad, I can't make enough from minimum wage and save two grand before June. And those are the only jobs I can find. Taco Bell, Burger King and that Italian place by Target said they would hire me, but it's gross."
"Then maybe you don't go," he'd shrugged, not looking up from his newspaper.
So she'd called Uncle Gabe.
Gabe was her mother's older brother, forty-one, with his own appliance repair and carpet cleaning business. He'd always been her favorite uncle and alpha of that side of the family. He was funny, confidetn, generous with birthday money, quick with a hug that he did not like to end quickly if nobody was looking, but always felt safe when she was younger. Now, at sixteen, she understood that look in his eyes when he saw her. The way his gaze traveled. She understood it, and she knew she could use it.
She found him in his garage office, surrounded by invoices and the smell of stale coffee.
"Heather!" He stood up, smiling that crooked smile that made him look younger than he was. "What brings my favorite niece by?"
"I need a job, Uncle Gabe. A real job. Not fast food." She leaned against the doorframe, knowing exactly how the posture pushed her breasts forward. "I need to make real money. Fast."
Gabe's eyes did that traveling thing, down and up, before settling on her face. He rubbed his jaw, considering. "Your dad know you're here?"
"He knows I need money. He doesn't know I'm here." She stepped closer, letting her voice drop to something breathier, more vulnerable. "Please, Gabe. I can't work at McDonald's. I'm... I'm better than that. I need two thousand dollars by June. For a car and a trip. I'll work hard. I'll do anything."
She saw the shift in his eyes, the moment sympathy tangled with something darker, something he'd probably been fighting since she turned sixteen and started looking like a woman instead of a girl.
"I can't just give you money, Heather. Your dad would kill me. He'd think I was... he'd get the wrong idea." Gabe walked around his desk, leaning against it, closer to her now. Close enough she could smell his cologne. "But I could use help. Office stuff, scheduling. And when we do carpet cleaning jobs, you could help with the extraction, moving furniture. It's hard work but it pays."
"How much?"
"Two dollars above minimum wage. Cash." He lowered his voice. "No taxes taken out. That's almost double what you'd take home flipping burgers."
Heather did the math quickly. At that rate, working afternoons and Saturdays, she could make it. She could go to London with her friends. She could have that freedom.
"Deal," she said.
Her parents had agreed—reluctantly on her father's part, enthusiastically on her mother's, who saw it as family helping family, as Gabe taking an interest in Heather's future.
The grooming started two weeks in.
It was a Thursday afternoon, the shop closed to customers, just Heather and Gabe finishing up paperwork. The two other employees—Mike, forty-one, divorced, perpetually sweaty, and Tyler, twenty-eight, with tattoos snaking up his arms and a leer that made Heather's skin crawl—had been sent to pick up parts across town.
"My back is killing me," Gabe groaned, rotating his shoulders. "Forty years old and I move like I'm sixty."
"You're forty-one," Heather laughed, filing invoices.
"Feels like fifty. Hey, I'm studying this massage therapy book—trying to learn techniques for your aunt. She's always complaining about her shoulders. Want to help me practice?"
It seemed innocent enough. Harmless. He was her uncle. He'd changed her diapers, for Christ's sake.
"Sure," she'd said.
The first time, she'd kept her shirt on, lying face down on the break room couch while his hands worked her shoulders through the fabric. His touch was firm, professional, almost clinical. She relaxed into it, enjoying the attention, the way he praised her for helping him learn.
The second time, a week later, he'd suggested she take the shirt off. "Can't learn the techniques properly through fabric," he'd explained, his voice casual, almost bored. "Just your bra. I won't look. I'm your uncle, Heather. I'm trying to help my wife here. Also I got this vanilla massage oil and got you some vanilla perfume for home too, so nobody things it's weird if you come home smelling like vanilla. That will just be your smell now."
"Well I guess." She'd done it, feeling a flutter of something dangerous and exciting in her stomach as his warm hands touched her bare skin for the first time. He was good, but she felt weird about it. His fingers found knots she didn't know she had, worked them until she melted into the couch cushions.
"You good at this," she mumbled, half-asleep.
"You're just responsive," he'd replied, his voice strange, thick. "Very... responsive."
The third time, two weeks later, he'd sent Mike and Tyler home early. "Slow day," he'd announced. "Might as well practice that sensual massage chapter. For your aunt. It's supposed to be very... relaxing. Very intimate. Builds trust."
She'd lain on the table in the back room—the one usually used for cleaning equipment, now covered with a fresh sheet. She was down to her bra and jeans, and his hands moved differently now. Slower. Exploring. Tracing the line of her spine, the curve of her waist, dipping lower with each pass.
"You should take the jeans off," he'd said softly. "Just keep your panties on. The book says skin contact is essential for the energy transfer."
She'd hesitated. She'd known, on some level, that this was crossing a line. But he'd been so nice. He was paying her cash under the table, helping her when her own father wouldn't. And there was something intoxicating about being touched this way, being seen this way. She was beautiful. She deserved to be admired.
"Okay," she'd whispered.
His hands on her bare thighs had been electric. She'd bit her lip, eyes closed, as they moved higher, closer, teasing at the edges of her underwear.
"Heather," he'd breathed, and she'd heard the want in his voice. "The book... it says that for a truly sensual massage, there should be... reciprocity. Energy exchange. I need to feel your hands on me too. To understand the pressure."
So she'd sat up, topless but covering herself with her arms, and touched his shoulders while he sat in front of her. She'd felt his muscles under her palms, the heat of him, the way his breath hitched when her fingers accidentally brushed his neck.
Then he'd stood, and she'd seen the hardness straining against his jeans, and she'd frozen.
"The book has a chapter," he'd said, his voice trembling, "about oral stimulation. For complete relaxation. For the woman. It says... it says the masseuse should use his mouth. On her. To bring her to complete... openness."
"I don't think—" she'd started.
"Heather, I'm doing this for your aunt. I'm trying to be a better husband. And if you want to keep this job... if you want to keep earning that money..." He'd stepped closer, his hand brushing her cheek. "Don't make me beg. Don't make me fire you."
She'd let him lay her back. She'd squeezed her eyes shut as his mouth found her through her panties, then inside them, hot and wet and shockingly intimate. She'd told herself it was clinical. Educational. She'd tried not to moan, not to arch into him, but her body betrayed her, responding to his tongue with helpless shudders.
When he'd finished—when she'd finished, crying out despite herself—he'd stood up, unzipped his jeans, and she'd seen him for the first time.
"Touch it," he'd commanded. "While I taste you. The book says the energy flows both ways."
She'd wrapped her hand around him, feeling the heat and weight of him, watching his face contort with pleasure as he lowered his mouth to her again. He'd lasted only minutes before spilling over her fingers, groaning her name like a prayer or a curse.
After, he'd handed her an extra hundred dollars. "For your discretion," he'd said. "And because you're special, Heather. You've always been special."
She'd taken the money. She'd taken the showers in his office bathroom, washing away the evidence. She'd come back the next day, and the next, because she needed the money, because her body craved his mouth even as her mind screamed warnings, because she was eighteen and confused and he was family and he loved her, didn't he?
By the fourth week, he was fucking her properly. Bent over his desk, against the wall in the supply closet, on the carpet cleaning van's bench seat. She learned to take him in her mouth, to swallow, to angle her hips so he hit that spot that made her see stars. She learned to be quiet when Mike and Tyler were in the front of the shop, learned to read Gabe's signals when he wanted her to stay late, learned to accept that this was just how it was if she wanted her Miami trip.
She told herself she was cool with it. She was sexually experienced now, sophisticated, while Justine and Marcy were still virgins, still awkward, still waiting for some high school boy to fumble at them in a backseat. Heather had a man—two, really, if you counted the way Gabe made her feel like his woman, his special girl. She was ahead of the game. She was winning.
She didn't realize Mike and Tyler knew until the Tuesday Gabe had to rush to his son's junior high. Ethan—Heather's cousin, twelve years old—had gotten in a fight, was being threatened with suspension, and Gabe had to go play the concerned father.
"Stay here," he'd told Heather, grabbing his keys. "Close up at five. Don't let those two slack off."
But Mike and Tyler hadn't slacked off. They'd waited until Gabe's truck disappeared down the road, then they'd locked the front door and turned the sign to Closed.
Heather had been in the back, organizing invoices, when she heard the lock click. She'd emerged to find them both standing there, Mike with his phone out, already recording, Tyler leaning against the counter with a smile that made her stomach drop.
"Your uncle's been keeping you to himself," Mike said, his voice thick, his eyes crawling over her body. "That's not fair, Heather. Not fair to the team."
"We know everything," Tyler added, pushing off the counter, moving closer. "Heard you last week. You weren't exactly quiet when he was drilling you in the supply closet."
"Gabe will fire you," Heather said, backing away, her voice shaking. "He'll—"
"Gabe will do what?" Mike laughed, advancing. "Fire us for fucking his little niece? The niece he's been fucking? I don't think so, sweetheart. We got leverage now. But more importantly..." He held up the phone. "We got proof we fucked the hot little office girl. Bragging rights for life."
They'd cornered her in the break room. Mike had been rough, grabbing her hair, forcing her to her knees while Tyler held the phone steady, capturing every humiliating second. Mikes penis was smaller than she had ever seen. If fit fully in her moth barely touching her tonsils. But Tyler's was the biggest. Then they'd bent her over the couch, taken turns, Mike groaning about how tight she was even as he licked his finger and pushed it into her anus, how Gabe was a lucky bastard, how they were going to enjoy this for a long time. Then the whispered to each other and nodded, smiling big.
They had decided to sandwich her. Tyler pulled her on top of him as he laid on the rug. Then Mike got on her back, crushing her onto Tyler's chest. Then he raped her anally. She screamed at first. The pain.
But as the kept going she was overcome with the atomic mixture of sensation and her body got too hot and felt like she was being shocked. She screamed do loud. Only afterwards did she realize she had just had a savage orgasm the likes of which she did not know was possible.
When they finished, Tyler had zipped up and grabbed her chin, forcing her to look at the phone screen. "See this? You tell Gabe, we send this to your daddy. To everyone. You keep your pretty mouth shut, and maybe we only need this once a week. Consider it... job security."
Heather had showered for an hour that night, scrubbing until her skin was raw, but she couldn't wash away the feeling of their hands, the way they'd laughed, the permanence of that video existing somewhere on Mike's phone.
She'd told Gabe the next day, expecting rage, expecting protection, expecting him to be her savior.
Instead, he'd gone pale, then gray, then he'd sat down heavily in his office chair. "Jesus, Heather. Jesus. If they have video... if they tell your dad..."
"Fire them," she'd demanded, tears streaming down her face. "Call the police. Do something!"
"I can't." He'd looked at her with something like pity, but mostly fear. "If this comes out, I'm ruined. Your dad will kill me. I'll lose my family. I'll go to jail."
"So what do I do?"
"I'll... I'll try to keep them away from you. Schedule you different days. Just... just don't provoke them. And for God's sake, don't tell anyone. Anyone, Heather. This would destroy us both. There's now way you'd get to Europe."
He'd tried to kiss her then, to comfort her, but she'd shoved him away and run from the office.
She'd kept working—she needed the money, needed it more than ever now, needed to get away from this town and these men and this life that was suffocating her. She avoided Mike and Tyler, took different shifts, spent her breaks in her car with the doors locked. Her Uncle's sex was no longer fun or mutual. She just let him use her to get his rocks off. Something warm and pretty to cum inside of. It was still "part of her job."
But she couldn't sleep. Couldn't eat. The secret was eating her alive.
Two weeks later, at Justine's house for a sleepover, she'd cracked and reached out for help. Justine and Marcy were upstairs playing video games, laughing, innocent, while Heather sat in the garage with Justine's father, David.
David was forty-five, a police officer who built a massage chair in his garage workshop. The rule was one person at a time—"It's not a toy," David had joked when the girls arrived. "It's serious relaxation equipment."
Heather had wanted to go first, needing the solitude, needing the mechanical kneading of the chair to try to unknot the tension in her shoulders that Gabe's hands had once soothed but now only exacerbated.
But, she did not call it in time. "I call first!" Justine has said, With Marcy immediately blurting out, "Second!" Inside she had played Mario Kart and Call of Duty on Justine's multiple video game consoles with each of the girls while waiting and laughing about girls stuff. But having decided to tell the only cop she knew about the two rapists at her work, the half our each of them took to come back seemed longer. Not only was he a policeman, but she had known him for years.
David had stayed in the garage, tinkering with his tools, giving her privacy. But when the chair cycle ended, she hadn't gotten up. She'd sat there, wrapped in a blanket, and the words had just started pouring out.
"Something happened," she'd whispered. "At work. With my uncle. And his employees. I can't... I can't tell anyone. I can't sleep. I feel like I'm drowning."
David had set down his wrench. He'd pulled up a stool, sitting close, his face concerned, fatherly. "Heather, slow down. What happened? You can tell me. I'm a dad. I know how to keep secrets."
So she'd told him. Everything. The grooming, the progression, the sex with Gabe that she'd convinced herself was consensual until it clearly wasn't, the rape by Mike and Tyler, the blackmail, Gabe's cowardice.
David had listened, his expression shifting from concern to something darker, something that should have warned her but she was too broken to see. His hand had found her knee, squeezing gently.
"That's... that's terrible, Heather. Those men... they took advantage of you. You know that, right? You're just a kid. An innocent kid."
"I'm sixteen," she'd said automatically, the reflexive defense she'd used on herself so many times.
"Still. Still innocent. Still..." His hand had moved higher, to her thigh. "And beautiful. So beautiful. You are a kid in this society, but you are also a woman now. Fully functional. Full sexy. Every man wants you. Do you know how hard it is, having you girls here? Seeing you in those little shorts? I've watched you grow up, Heather. I've had... thoughts. Crushes. Things a father shouldn't have."
She'd frozen, realization dawning too late.
"David—"
"You're telling me all this," he'd continued, his voice dropping, growing hoarse, "and I want to help you. I do. But hearing about you with those men, with your uncle... God, Heather, I'm only human. I'm only a man. And you're sitting here, telling me these things, looking like that..."
He'd stood, and she'd seen the bulge in his jeans, and she'd understood that there was no safe place, no adult who would save her, only men who saw her as a thing to be used.
"David, please," she'd whispered, tears spilling over. "Please, you're Justine's dad. You're my friend's dad."
"I know," he'd said, and he actually sounded sorry. "I know, and I hate myself for this. But you've already done it with three other men. What's one more? What's one more if it helps me get this out of my system? If it lets me be a better father to Justine after?"
He'd pulled her up from the chair, gentle but firm, turning her around. She'd gone limp, dissociating, as he bent her over the bed of his pickup truck, shoving the blanket aside, pulling her shorts down.
"I'm sorry," he'd grunted, entering her from behind, first massaging her breasts as she was forced to arch her back to accommodate him, then so quickly he felt his eruption was already happening, his hands gripping her hips with desperate strength. He came with some grunts and low pitch groan. Then he just stood with his cock still thrust full in. "I'm so sorry, Heather. I'm no better than a man. Just a man. Just a weak, pathetic man who can't resist you."
She'd cried into the truck bed, her cheek pressed against cold metal, listening to the sounds of the house—Marcy laughing upstairs, Justine calling out something about the game, the normal world continuing while David used her body with choked, desperate thrusts.
When he finished, spilling inside her with a groan that sounded like defeat, he'd pulled up his pants and handed her a shop towel. "Clean up," he'd said, not looking at her. "And Heather? Don't tell Justine. Don't tell anyone. I'll give you a hundred bucks. Just keep this between us."
"I wanted you to maybe arrest those men, not become one of them." She sniffled as she pulled up her panties and the skimpy loose shorts she was wearing for the slumber party.
"Heather you're the hottest girl I ever fucked." He started. "You see, people get dealt such different hands in life. Some are born handicapped, or retarded, or insane. Some really ugly or deformed, and that's worse. They never get to know what it's like to be desired, and they would kill to be like you. But being a hot young girl who already got started by your uncle.. hell. You're just going to have more sex with more guys who need you and can't help it. You should enjoy it. Get used to it. It's not so bad compared to most people. I'll give you a hundred next time too. And I need it to be soon. Real soon."
She'd taken the money. She'd cleaned herself up. She'd gone back upstairs and played video games and laughed with her friends like nothing had happened, like she wasn't full of another man's seed, like she wasn't broken beyond repair.
That night, lying on Justine's floor in her sleeping bag, Heather stared at the ceiling and made a decision. She would get her two thousand dollars. She would go to Miami. And when she came back, she would never speak to any of them again—Gabe, Mike, Tyler, David, her father who'd pushed her toward this with his hard-work lectures. She would disappear into a world where her beauty was her own, where she decided who touched her and when, where she was more than a collection of holes for men to pour their weakness into.
She was sixteen. She was available.
But she was done being available for free.
Making the $2000 minimum seemed like child's play now.
What other men did she know that she could sell herself to? Men who clearly lusted after her?
She thought of four right away!
She wiped at her fountain of tears and tried to sleep.
But it was hard to adjust to the idea that she was a whore now.