"Well I have to say Jerome, you did a very good job," Ana says as she interviews the man in front of her. The slight sheen of sweat that is forming on his forehead confirms what Ana already suspected.

"I don't understand, boss." Jerome says and is pleased that his voice hasn't broken to give him away. But his breathing has.

"You hid yourself and your betrayal very well from me. How long did you betray me to Spider? What did they offer you?"

"I wouldn't betray you, Boss! There is nothing that they could offer me to make it worth my while to betray you." Now his eyes are wide in fright. Being accused of betraying Ana would make anyone go wide eyed with fright that in itself wasn't confirmation of guilt. But Ana knows more about her men than any of them could possibly believe. She knows their secrets.

The smile she gives him makes him get sick. "You know you can't lie to me." She turns from him to Damon. 

"I'm done. This is the one." 

Damon nods and calls Calum in. "Take Jerome to the cells and hold him there until Ana is ready to take care of him. She will likely be dealing with him tomorrow after the slaves are dealt with."

Calum roughly takes Jerome in his grip and pulls him out of the room. None of them take kindly to traitors.

"Now what Ana? You ready to go to bed now or do you want to deal with your guests upstairs first?"

Ana gets a glint in her eyes, "I think now would be a good time to deal with them. However, I really don't think it's fair to stick Jezey's mother in with her all night."

"I'll have the bedroom across from mine made ready for her. She seemed like she has been treated rough for some time."

Ana smiles at him sweetly, "She has been. She definitely deserves to be treated well now."

Damon and Ana wait for the two ladies to join them. Shortly Jonah brings the two to the study and leaves.

"Jezey, how nice of you to join us tonight." Ana's voice is laced with poison as she faces her rival. Then she turns her attention to the other lady and her smile turns sad and her voice sincere.

"I am very sorry that you've been caught up in this. This next little bit will be humiliating and I apologize for it."

Damon takes over at that time coming up to stand at Ana's side. "Time to strip ladies." The older woman immediately starts disrobing. Years of abuse had taught her well to do what you're told when you're told to do it.

Jezey on the other hand didn't try to take off any of her clothes. Ana smiles, she thought that would be Jezey's reaction and so she takes her knife and cuts off Jezey's clothes.

Jezey looks at her with wide frightened eyes. "What are you doing you freak?" She screams as she tries to hide herself from their eyes.

Ana loses her patience and slaps her. "Things have changed, Jezey. I told you that you are nothing without your father. Well as of this morning your father is dead. You are mine to do with as I see fit."

Jezey is so astounded that she just stares at Ana in a deep shock.

"Damon?" Ana asks turning to him.

Damon smiles and starts evaluating the two before him. He finishes the evaluation of the mother before he turns to Jezey and smiles cruelly at her.

"You can get dressed now, Ma'am." Ana says as Damon turns to Jezey. 

Jezey's mother doesn't waste anytime getting dressed.

"I've finished, Ana," Damon says finishing his evaluation as the other woman finishes getting dressed.

"Well?" Ana asks.

"The only thing Jezey has going for her is the fact that she is a virgin. If she is, still not sure of that." Ana just looks at him and waits for his evaluation. He shrugs, "I don't know, not much, possibly five hundred. She's to old to be wanted by the peds, she's starting to get her adult figure. But she doesn't have enough of it to be wanted by the others either. Add to that that she has no skills or abilities and she really doesn't have any value.

"Her mother on the other hand has a quiet beauty and has the skills of a dancer. So although she is older could still bring in the better part of a million. Perhaps eight hundred."

Ana turns from Damon and turns thoughtful eyes back onto the two before her. She addresses the older female. "I have no wish to sell or kill you. I now find myself in a bind." She turns from the lady, "Have Calum take her back to her room. I will need to think of what to do with her tomorrow. Have Calum know to treat her kindly though, she's been through too much already."

Damon nods and calls Calum and whispers his instructions to him.

When he's done Calum gently urges the older woman from the room and silently closes the door behind him. Damon returns to Ana's side.

"Well, Damon, do you accept my deal?"

Damon goes deep in thought and then nods his head. He takes out his phone and has Calum send Jacob in and then has Jenny brought in as well.

Jacob knocks and enters the study nervously. He's not sure what to expect. Things have been strange since last Christmas and unpredictable has become the password around here.

"Jacob, come here." Damon says when the young man makes no move to come in further.

Jacob flicks his eyes over to Jezey's naked form and smirks as he goes over to Ana.

He gives her a quick kiss, "You finally are able to give some payback, huh?"

Ana smiles and waits patiently for Calum to return with Jenny. The wait isn't long and her screaming could be heard as soon as the door is opened. The screaming abruptly stops as she sees both Damon and Ana standing before her and then her eyes catch hold of the naked girl as well.

"Jezey, for years you've tried to torment me bragging about how you are going to marry Damon and have me sold as a slave. Well you will be getting neither thing. In point of fact, you are now the slave and I'm giving you to Damon." The smile that finds it's way to Jezey's face falls when she hears the rest of what Ana and then Damon has to say.

"Damon will be free to do with you as he desires, including kill you." The smile that comes onto Ana's face is absolutely angelic. She's been waiting for this for a long time.

"And in return for this slave I give you Jenny as a slave and since she isn't equal to the value of the gift you have given me, I release my faithful man, Jacob, from all his oaths to me and allow him to go to work for you." Damon hopes that this is what will help heal things between them.

"Calum, take my new slave to the slave rooms. Since I can't trust her on her own make sure that there is a guard on her door. Anyone that touches her will be punished. Make that known, she is my personal slave. I'll be breaking her in tonight." Calum keeps his face expressionless but he couldn't be more stunned at the turn things have taken. Especially since Ana looks like a cat that found the cream and enjoyed a luxury meal.

Ana faces and directs her next words to Jenny, "Jenny, come here." Her words are pleasant and almost purring. Jenny's eyes go wide and she starts shaking. The men have been sure to tell her every story of Ana and her casual brutality that they could think of and make up some that never happened.

She starts walking forward on shaking legs, not daring to ignore Ana's orders.

"Very good, I see you've taught her obedience Damon." Ana says as she does her own walk around.

"Strip," Ana orders and is pleased at how quickly Jenny obeys.

Ana turns to Damon and raises an eyebrow to him. In return Damon carelessly shrugs. "I've taught her that if she doesn't follow the order to strip immediately then like Jezey she'll be stripped forcefully."

Ana smirks, "You cut her clothes away before?"

"Yes, then made her do a few things before slowly walking back to her room without covering herself in any way." Ana nods slowly smirking at what she's hearing.

"Jacob, do you see anything you like?" Jacob manages to reply but it was a bit strangled. Ana smirks some more.

"Come and inspect her then. Then I will listen to your oaths if you are willing."

"I will speak my oaths now, if you will hear them." Jacob tears his eyes from the buxom female in front of him. He can't believe Ana was able to fulfill everything that she had told him over a year ago.

The oath giving and taking didn't take very long and Damon looks on undecided by it all. He's glad that Jacob is going with Ana, he no longer doubts Trinity's loyalty, but as today has shown Ana needs further protection.

"Jenny, I will be giving you a detailed list of what your new duties will be in the morning. From now until after breakfast where I'll be requiring your presence, you'll be with Jacob. You will do everything he tells you to. If not you will be harshly punished. Since you've threatened my life I will make sure that it is extra painful. Do you understand?" 

Although she is still somewhat in shock Jenny manages to nod. She has no doubt that the younger girl would have no problem hurting her even more than Damon did.

Ana smiles at the older girl and Jenny shudders in fear. She goes willingly with Jacob even as she can't help looking back at the younger girl with frightened looks.

"What the hell have you told her about me? Last time I saw her she was smirking and giving me smug looks. Now she looks at me like I'm the devil incarnate. Afraid of me even more than she is of you." Ana asks chuckling as the door is closed behind the two teens.

"My men made sure to tell her of your remarkable abilities you've learned with Shawn and what you did to Hawk. Then they made up a few stories. It was a competition among them to see who could terrify her more with their story." Damon replies amusement heavy in his voice.

"It's almost like they are proud of me." Ana says wistfully. She had always wanted that kind of acceptance here.

"They are, Ana. The fact that we still haven't been able to find your new headquarters, the flair with which you've dealt with Calum," the anger comes back with that. There had been rough times with Calum for some time when he was sent back. "You've taken over Hawk and even though Spider kept trying to take pieces of it you held it together and now added Spider's territory as well. They are very proud of you. You've done very well." Damon says with his own quiet pride evident in his voice. She is the youngest ranked member to be able to keep a group together and then take over a second as well. Then she turned down his offer to give her Phoenix.