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One year later, Jill was in the kitchen at home when there was a knock on the door, she put down the tea towel and went to answer it.
"Errol! She exclaimed when she opened the door, what are you doing here? Come in, come in," Jill said, stepping back in order to let Errol enter the house.
After all the usual formalities and enquiring after each others health etc, Errol told Jill that he was concerned about Clare's health and state of mind.
"Could you see her and tell me what you think? Requested the black pimp, she's a mess right now."
"Sure I will, absolutely no problem," Jill agreed.
To cut a long story short, Jill found Clare to be both a physical and mental wreck. The lifestyle she was leading, coupled with abusive men and with boyfriend problems, had driven Clare to use soft drugs as a safety blanket. They didn't help, all it did was exacerbate her downward spiral. Jill told Errol that Clare was unavailable for the next few weeks and took her home with her to see how she could help her out of her predicament.
When Jill got her home, she noticed how drab and lifeless Clare seemed to be, she had lost all the lustre from her face and features, her hair dirty and lank. Jill even had to make her bathe and clean herself up before she did anything else.
Over the weeks Clare was weaned off the drugs she had been taking, luckily she hadn't got into hard drugs, or become addicted to anything, she had just become dependant on them as an escape, so fortunately withdrawal wasn't that great a problem.
Clare would sit between Jill's legs most nights whilst Jill combed her hair like she was a little girl, in short Jill mothered her until such a time she had begun to recover her normal self.
However the bombshell was about to arrive.
Errol called on Jill one day and asked when Clare would be fit to return to her work.
"Oh Errol, Jill exclaimed, She won't be ready for months and even if she was ready, I wouldn't let her return to a life that was killing her," she stated.
"Listen lady, Errol hissed, she is one of my best earners and if you think you can keep me from reclaiming her, you are more naive than I thought. Get her ready for me, understand?"
The question Jill had known would come, from the very moment Errol had first contacted her, was asked.
"Unless you want to take her place, until she is fully recovered?"
"Errol, please, I can't willingly return to what was the lowest point of my life and endure the degradation it brings, please don't try to force me," whimpered Jill.
"Then I will call and pick Clare up here at 11 o'clock tomorrow, she will be on her back again by 12, I promise you." threatened Errol, who seemed to have changed so much to Jill.
"Errol you can't do this to her, to us, please don't force us," Jill pleaded.
"Then take her place." Errol said blandly.
"But you know I can't service the same niche that Clare did, don't you? She is younger than me and would do almost anything. Errol looked on impassively as Jill continued. I won't do the 'water sports' or other degrading things than she does, you need another girl believe me." Jill finished.
"Look Jill, I don't want a like-for-like replacement, I just want another girl to provide my income stream, you can pick whichever market you want. Just get back to work or I will be here for my asset over there tomorrow."
Jill looked over at Clare who seemed as miserable and frightened as she had ever seen anyone look.
"Ok Errol, what do you want me to do?" Jill whispered, defeated.
After a discussion which lasted well into the night, Jill had agreed to return to the profession she loathed, in order to protect her 'new daughter'. Wanting to avoid the filth and degradation of the streets Jill had let Errol talk her into the escort side of the life.
"Surely men paying for a woman to be on their arm for the night and in their bed later, would want a young 'hot girl', not an old has-been like me?" Jill asked.
"Listen and I will tell you exactly why you will be a star. First you are not an old has been, you are still a sexy mature woman. Now this town is a conference town as you know, and we have always a large portion of single male attendees at any given time here. The vast majority are mature or even elderly white males. Errol continued, the new men always pick a bleached blonde, fake tits, young whore who they think will make them look good. This isn't how it works he explained, they are so obviously whores and look so stupid on the arm of these older men that they make them look pathetic."
"Go on, said Jill, I'm listening."