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"You need to smile," Mother told her. "Barbie dolls are all supposed to smile.
Elena forced a smile on her face, and Mother gave a curt nod. "Try to make it look more sincere. Mr. Jacobson paid very good money to marry you."
Elena made her smile, but inside, she was dying.
Eighteen years ago, during an attempt to recover the Chernobyl Exclusion Area, the scientists in question allowed the release of an exotic molecule that had unforeseen consequences. A handful of female infants across Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, all under the age of six months, found themselves shrunk.
Eighteen years later, the seventeen surviving shrunken women were all in good health. Very good health. They were trim, fit and vibrant, and possessed very healthy curves.
And all of them were six inches tall, give or take a sixth of an inch.
Not all of the families were equipped to take care of their newly shrunken daughters, financially or otherwise. Elena and four of the other girls were adopted by the Rhodes family. Although acquired might be a better word.
The Rhodes saw the girls as assets, to be trained to be shrunken wives/courtesans, and who would be sold to the highest bidder on their eighteenth birthday.
Elena was the last of the Rhodes "daughters" to be married off. Her four sisters had been lucky enough to be bought by rich, kind caring men.
Elena wasn't so lucky. The highest bidder was Mr Jacobson, a balding fat man who looked greasy and smelled of cigars. He had small piggy eyes set in deep rolls of fat and was always leering at her.
Mother had a firm policy of no touching until the check cleared and the papers were signed. But she had money in her account, and the marriage ceremony/contract signing was today.
Elena had her waist length auburn hair artfully arranged, with a white wedding gown displaying an ample amount of her ample bosom on display. She didn't know why she should be dressed in anything nice. She knew Mr. Jacobson couldn't wait to get his grubby fingers on her tiny body.
Wiping the tears from her hazel green eyes, Elena mentally prepared herself to endure her upcoming honeymoon. Little did she know that she was about to be rescued from a fate worse than death by
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