by Claire Adams
“Ouch!” I let out as he pulled my arm.
“Skinner,” Gino said, “try to be nice.”
“Yes sir,” Chris said to Gino.
Chris threw me into the room and I fell against the old metal table that was in the room. Chris banged his hand hard against the metal desk and it made a loud noise that echoed throughout the warehouse.
“Skinner, that didn’t sound nice,” Gino yelled from the other side of the warehouse.
“Sorry boss,” Chris said.
I just stayed there sitting on the floor up against the metal desk. I couldn’t move. My body was overcome with the fear and adrenaline of the situation and I was just slightly relieved to be in a different room than Gino. Chris walked out of the room and shut the door behind him. I let my head lay up against the desk and I closed my eyes and took a few deep breaths. I wanted to be in control of my body again. I just had to figure out a way to get control over the fear that pulsed through me. I needed to relax.
Gino and his group of workers stayed out in the main warehouse for another thirty minutes or so. Then I heard the crowd disperse and Gino’s voice outside the door to the office I was in.
“Can I trust you to watch over the girl and not kill her?” Gino asked the man next to him.
“I won’t kill her if she doesn’t try to escape,” Chris said in response. “I don’t have to feed her or anything like that do I?”
“That’s a good idea actually, no don’t feed her. She can drink water and there’s a toilet over there, but that’s it. I’m going downstairs to talk with a few of these assholes and see if I can figure out who it might be. In the morning, I’ll bring a couple of them up and you can help me give that sweet thing some pain and see if we can get a confession from someone.”
“I’d love to help with the pain,” Chris said. His voice sounded different and he actually sounded like he enjoyed inflicting pain. I had chills as he said it. Chris was very convincing as the right-hand man to Gino, I could see why he was able to get so far in Gino’s organization.
“Ok, but leave the girl alone tonight. No torture until morning, understood?” Gino said firmly.
“Yes, sir.”
I sat there and anticipated Chris coming through the door as I heard Gino walk away. Any second Chris would come in and help me escape. I looked at the door intently as I waited for him. My mind raced with thoughts of how Chris and I could make our escape without being heard. We could climb out the window and make our way down a drain pipe, or maybe sneak quietly down the stairwell and make a run for it. I thought about every mob movie I had ever seen and how people escaped from their murderers. Surely, Chris and I would be able to make a swift escape.
After a few minutes, it became apparent that Chris did not intend to come into the office at all. I saw him pull a chair close to the office door and he sat down. I didn’t want to yell at him or say anything for fear that there was someone else out there with him. The door was closed so I couldn’t see what was going on. For all I knew there could have been other people still out in that room with him. As the night wore on I could feel myself as I became extremely tired and finally grabbed a work coat that was on a nearby chair and used it to curl up on the floor and go to sleep. My body was exhausted from the fear and stress from the day. I felt my eyes as they got heavy and I closed them in hopes that I would be able to get some sleep.
I took a couple deep breaths and said a little prayer that everything would work out in the morning. I didn’t want Chris or any of his men to get shot and I certainly didn’t want to be tortured by Chris or anyone else on Gino’s team of killers. I hoped that Chris would find a way to save me and we would both make it out of the situation unharmed.
Chapter 54
“Are you alright?” Chris said in my ear quietly.
I opened my eyes to find Chris kneeled down next to me on the floor. I sat up quickly and looked at him. He held a finger to his lips in a motion to be quiet.
“I’m fine,” I whispered. “Where is everyone?”
“They are all downstairs.”
“Can we get out of here?” I said, desperate to leave that warehouse and get to safety. I sat up and started to stand, but Chris put his hand on my leg and held me in place.
“Not yet. We have to wait until morning for backup to arrive.”
I felt my heart sink at his words. My whole hope had been on him to rescue me. The idea of sticking around all night long and waiting to be tortured in the morning did not sit well with me. We had to leave, we had to get out of the building before Gino and his men woke up and started to torture me, or kill people. Didn’t Chris understand the gravity of the situation? Surely he knew this could all end very badly for me.
“We could just sneak out now,” I said hopefully.
“Babe, we can’t. I have three guys in the group downstairs and I’ve worked for years to catch Gino. This has to end with him in jail and I’m going to be the person responsible.”
I shook my head in understanding as I looked at Chris. He seemed intent on staying for the night and I couldn’t argue. I didn’t have enough energy to move on my own so I was going to be at his mercy. I had to trust that he knew what he was doing.
“Are you hungry?” he asked as he handed me a sandwich. I looked around to see if anyone was coming since I had heard Gino tell him not to give me anything to eat.
“Don’t worry, I checked. Everyone is asleep downstairs, even Gino.”
I ate the sandwich quickly and then drank the bottle of water that Chris gave me. I was starving and it felt great to get some food.
“So what’s the plan?” I asked Chris as I finished drinking.
“Well, there is a large swat team coming to raid this place in a couple hours. They should get here just before dawn, so we just have to tough it out and sit quietly for a couple hours. Should be easy, everyone is asleep and the raid will wake them up and Gino can be taken into custody before he knows what happened.”
Chris seemed so calm and at ease about the situation. It was hard for me to fathom being able to control my body and calm myself as well as he was able to do. I leaned in and let my head rest against his chest. I felt safe there. At that moment, with his arms wrapped around me, I felt safe. Even though there were dozens of people just a few hundred yards away that would easily kill us both, in that room and at that moment, I felt safe.
Chris moved to sit down next to me and pulled me up next to him. He looked at my arm which was black and blue from him dragging me into the room earlier. His lips moved down and kissed the bruise. I could tell he felt horrible about it as his lips gently moved across my skin. I wanted to tell him it was alright, I wanted to tell him I understood he had to play the role that Gino expected from him. Instead, I leaned down and grabbed his chin and pulled it up to meet my lips.
Our lips moved together in passion and I let my hands hold onto the scruff of his beard. Chris grabbed my hips and placed me on his lap. One leg sat on each side of him as I straddled his hard body. I felt at home next to him. It had only been a few short months before that I had been overwhelmed by the wealth of muscles he had. Now, I felt more comfortable there in his lap than anywhere else in the room. My hands moved down to stroke his chest as we continued to move our mouths in unison. His soft lips were such a contrast to the rough fir of his beard. I felt my body reacting to the passion in his hands as they moved up and down my back.
His long fingers cupped my ass in his hand as he played with my jean shorts. I felt his hands go up my back and then try to slide down the back of my shorts, but the tightness of them prevented him. I continued to enjoy his tongue as his hands made their way around to the front of my shorts and unbuttoned them. Then I felt him unbutton his own pants and heard the zipper as he lowered it.
My lips separated from his as I stood up and took off my shorts and watched as he pulled his throbbing cock out of his pants and pushed them down to his knees. I couldn’t help but lick my lips as I looked at his pulsing organ and his
desire for me. With my legs on either side of him, I lowered my body over him and let my lips meet his again as I continued to lower onto his throbbing cock. A moan left my mouth as he filled me up completely and I moved slowly against him. His hands returned to my ass and spread my cheeks as he played with me and forced me to rock back and forth on his cock as I bounced up and down. The intensity of his body as it pressed inside of me felt like heaven.
We were quiet, making sure not to moan or make noises as much as possible. The silence was erotic and drove me to pay close attention to my body and how it pressed up against his. I felt everything differently, more intensely than I had ever felt before. Soon I felt his hands pressing my hips to move harder and faster against his body. He thrust his own hips into me as we continued to kiss each other.
The kissing provided a way to muffle the low moans that left my body as I felt the buildup of excitement. As we moved harder and harder against each other, it became impossible for me to keep quiet. The pleasure was just too much. Chris reached up and put his hand over my mouth as I continued to moan and thrust against his raging cock. Harder and faster we moved together until I thought for sure someone would hear us. My body shook with pleasure as one final thrust delivered by Chris sent a surge of ecstasy throughout every last inch of me.
It was unsafe to be there, it was dangerous to be fucking him; but it was the perfect moment.
Chapter 55
I fell asleep wrapped in Chris’ arms and feeling safer than I had ever felt. But when I woke up, I certainly did not feel safe. There was loud popping noises going off downstairs and I heard screams…the popping was gunfire. Chris opened the door to the office and stood there for a minute. He looked at me and then back at the stairwell across the warehouse.
“Get under the desk and don’t come out,” Chris said as he closed the door and sat back down in the chair outside of the office. For a minute I thought it was already morning and the raid had started. But there had not been enough gunfire. Only a couple shots. I did as Chris told me and went under the desk and waited.
“Where is the girl?” Gino yelled from across the warehouse as he came up the stairs.
“In the office,” Chris said calmly.
“Get her.”
“What’s up?” Chris asked Gino
“I found the mole; I’m going to kill her now.” There was silence and then I heard the door open. I stayed under the desk and tried not to move. I didn’t know how it would be possible to make it out of the situation alive. There was no sign of daylight outside yet and I had no idea if the swat team would be able to get to us in time or not.
“So no torture?” Chris said as he opened the office door.
“No. I killed that Kyle kid after I found him trying to sneak out the back door. It had to of been him,” Gino said.
Chris stayed at the entrance to the office but continued to talk to Gino. I couldn’t believe Gunner was dead. Why would he of tried to sneak out? I thought, but then remembered that was exactly what I had tried to convince Chris to help me do only a few hours before.
“You think he was the only one?” Chris said to Gino. He was silent for a long moment, obviously contemplating the situation. I didn’t know where Chris was going with this, but it didn’t seem like a good idea to start giving Gino the idea that there was more than one mole in his group.
“Well anything is possible,” Gino said. “Get the girl out here; I want to talk to her.” Chris came into the room and walked over to the desk. He pulled the chair out and leaned down.
“Get your sweet little ass out here,” he said.
“Oh, she’s hiding under the desk? That’s smart,” Gino laughed.
“I know…like we wouldn’t find her or something,” Chris joined in with the laughter.
It was creepy how quickly Chris was able to change from the man I had started to love into this crazy creep that worked for this guy Gino. I looked at the two of them as they laughed and I walked out into the main room.
“Alright sweet thing, was that kid Kyle the man you know?” Gino asked. I just looked at him and shook my head no. I didn’t know what I was supposed to do or say. Maybe I should have just said yes since Gunner was dead now. Maybe I was right to say no? I had no idea. When I looked at Chris, I didn’t see any response from him.
In fact, when I looked at him I didn’t really see Chris at all. He had turned into Skinner and didn’t respond to me one bit. The way he held his body, even the way his eyes looked; Chris did not look like the man I knew.
“So you know someone else in my group then?” Gino asked. Again I shook my head no.
Gino reached up and grabbed me by the throat and pushed me up against the wall. It happened so quickly that I didn’t know what to do. My hands darted up to meet his and I tried desperately to pull them away.
“Listen here bitch, I will kill you. Do you understand?” Gino said as I shook my head yes. “Now tell me who the fuck you know in the group.”
“Maybe we should bring her downstairs so she can show us,” Chris suggested.
I shook my head yes again.
Chris appeared so calm and withdrawn from the situation. He didn’t react to Gino strangling me, he didn’t even make a motion to come rescue me. It was disturbing. I didn’t know who I was going to show Gino, I didn’t know what was next, but I did know that I needed his hand off of my throat.
I felt the pressure on my windpipe and I couldn’t inhale. The pain increased the longer his hand was wrapped around me and I felt myself getting dizzy as I went longer and longer without oxygen. My eyes got bigger and I looked from Gino to Chris and back again. Chris looked calm and didn’t seem to care at all that I was in the midst of being killed by this man. He kept his cool and kept his attention on Gino.
“Yeah, let’s just bring her downstairs and let her point out the guy. I’m sure by this time she is ready to cooperate,” Chris said as he inched closer to Gino.
I didn’t know if he had intended to actually do anything if Gino continued to strangle me, but luckily Gino released me from his grip. My body collapsed to the ground and I gulped in air as much as I could. I grasped onto my neck and felt the sharp pain that rushed through me as I tried to fill my lungs back up with the sweet oxygen that they had been deprived of.
“You better not fuck with me bitch,” Gino said as he walked toward the stairs at the other end of the warehouse second floor. I now knew why he was such a feared man. His kindness toward me at first had only been an act; that man was clearly willing to murder me without a second thought. I searched Chris’ eyes for some sort of help or understanding as he grabbed me and pulled me to my feet.
For a second I thought I saw something, but then he turned back into Skinner and pulled me roughly toward the stairs.
“We need to stall for about twenty more minutes, do the best you can. I promise I’ll keep you safe,” Chris whispered as we moved down the stairs. There he was; there was the Chris I knew. Now I just had to figure out how to stall a killer for twenty minutes.
Chapter 56
When we reached the bottom floor, no one was asleep anymore. I saw Gunner’s body near the door and it looked like he had a gunshot to his head. I looked away quickly. There was no time to be sad about his death; that would have to come later.
“Line them up,” Gino said to the man who stood next to Chris.
Everyone lined up quicker than I had hoped and within a moment they were ready for Gino. Chris still held onto me as Gino moved toward the line of people.
“This is over, I’m going to kill the girl if you don’t step forward,” Gino said as he looked at the group of people.
I saw the guy from the bed and breakfast and he looked at me and then at Chris. I didn’t know who the third guy was that Chris said was undercover. I also didn’t know how on earth I would be able to stall this situation at all. Chris and the other guy who Gino seemed to trust brought me up to the line of people and stood me next to Gino.
Gino held onto me an
d Chris and the other guy let go and stepped back. I felt more unsafe than I ever had. Gino clearly had no concern for my life at all; he didn’t care about me or anyone else in the room. He just didn’t want the mole to continue to feed information to the police.
He grabbed me by the hair and pulled me down to the first person in the line.
“Do you know him?” Gino asked.
I shook my head no. We stepped next in line.
“Do you know him?” he asked again.
I again shook my head no. I felt relieved though, if this was how it was going to go, we would easily take twenty minutes and the raid would be here by the time we got to the end of the line. But I wasn’t that lucky. After about ten people, Gino got frustrated and threw me onto the ground.
“Just tell me which one of these guys you know,” Gino yelled.
Chris and the other man came and picked me up from the floor.
“I know her,” the man from the bed and breakfast stepped forward from the other end of the line. I looked at him with urgency; I couldn’t understand why he had stepped forward. Why would he put himself at risk if he knew the raid was coming?
I broke free from Chris and the other man holding me and tried to cause a commotion, but Gino was there quickly and grabbed me by the hair and pulled me toward him. His face was only a few inches away from mine and I could smell his breath.
“You’ll be dead in a few minutes sweetheart, no running away now.” His eyes were cold and void of any emotion. I felt the fear as it took over my body and I couldn’t move. I didn’t know what to do. I couldn’t stand the thought of him killing the guy that worked with Chris. I closed my eyes and felt Chris and the other man grab onto me again.