The First Time

By Jenika Snow

The year is 2135 and young women are bid upon at the Virgin Auctions, a city-wide event that allows wealthy men to purchase young brides for an exuberant price. They are trained to be the docile and submissive wives that will please their future husbands. Once they are bought, they are at the mercy of their owners.

Veronica Dubois doesn't know what to expect when it is her time to be in the Virgin Auctions. When she is purchased by Kristoff St. Michaels, a man twice her size and age, Veronica fears her new husband is as cruel and heartless as the other wealthy men that come to the auctions. When Kistoff reveals a part of him that goes against every horror story she's heard, she has hope that maybe her life isn't over.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Evernight Publishing
• Release date: Apr 7, 2013
• ISBN: 9781771303521

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Copyright© 2013 Jenika Snow

ISBN: 978-1-77130-352-1

Cover Artist: Sour Cherry Designs

Editor: Marie Medina

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This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, and places are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

DEDICATION

It's only frightening if you allow it to be.

THE FIRST TIME

The Virgin Auctions, 1

Jenika Snow

Copyright © 2013

Preface

The year is 2135, and young women are bid upon at the Virgin Auctions, a city-wide event that allows wealthy men to purchase young brides for an exuberant price. These females are prepped from a tender age to be the docile and submissive wives that will please their future husbands. Once they are bought, they are at the mercy of their owners.

Chapter One

Tonight Veronica Dubois would be rid of her virginity. For the past three months, as she was primped, tweaked, tucked and pulled at, that was the only thing she could think about. Since she was old enough to understand what would happen to her on her twentieth birthday, she was prepared to be the perfect wife for her future husband.

Tonight was the night when she would be displayed for a room full of wealthy men. The robe the attendants were tying around her hips would be slowly undone and she would be on display. There would be nothing on her body that the prospective buyers wouldn’t be able to see. There would be absolutely no touching, and she was glad for that. She might have been trained to be the good little submissive, but she didn’t know if she could stand and allow strange men to fondle her while she was forced to take it.

You are quite the beauty, Miss. The attendant who was as old as her mother ran the brush once more through her brown hair. She set the brush aside and went to the tedious task of twisting and wrapping her hair in a dainty chignon that would showcase her neck and facial features. The attendant left tiny wisps of hair framing her face, which only seemed to enhance her innocence.

The fact she would no longer be a virgin frightened her, but not as much as whom her future husband might be. She tried to focus on the positive aspects of this chosen lifestyle, one she had no say in but was expected to follow. The whispered sighs and squeals