Chapter Thirteen
The days passed. Ron wasn’t sure how many. He hadn’t been out of the building they called the Office since he’d brought The Female into it. Her time in their custody was growing short, but he wasn’t sure how much time was left. They always kept women for a specified number of days, anywhere from five days to two weeks, depending on what they’d signed up for. It was standard procedure to break up their normal sleep cycles to keep them disoriented and unsure of the passage of time. Usually, there were several men on the job. He’d been doing it all by himself, which meant that his own normal patterns had been broken up as well.
He had some help from the Office staff, true. They made sure that The Female was fed and watered when he just couldn’t. They kept an eye on her at a
