“Sir, I’ll be okay, and Ralph isn’t going anywhere soon. Make your calls and do what you need to do. If we can get back our citizens and many others, that is what we came here to do and they are more important right now.”
“Thank you Agent Str…thanks Mercedes. Are you sure you’re okay?”
“I have some things to consider going forward, but I will be okay. I’ll say goodbye to Ralph in a while, and pick up my things at the hotel.”
“Forget going to the hotel. We will take care of your belongings. I have arranged a military guard until you are on that plane.” He hugged her and left.
Scott might not be okay, unless he has a very good excuse why he wasn’t home.
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I was only hearing some of what Mike was saying. My mind was trying to deal with Mercedes’ kidnapping. The recurring dream kept coming to mind. Melanie’s torturing me and cutting the arrow into my body caused me to relive the pain. Deep down, I couldn’t shake the feeling that Mercedes might be suffering the same consequences or worse.
“Scott, did you hear what I said?”
“No, I’m sorry Mike.”
“I said the doctor’s house is right down the street. Let’s go check it out.”
I was glad Mike was with me, but I wanted to be with Mercedes. I needed to save her life like she did mine.
This is your investigation remember? So, is that what you want to do next?”
“It sounds like the right plan. Shouldn’t we call the police first?”
“You, who wanted to do this entire investigation all by yourself, now want to get the police involved.”
“Stupid, huh?”
“Earlier no, now, yes. Let’s go. Take the revolver with you.”
“Do I really need to do that?”
“No, not really. You can let this guy, whoever he is, stick his gun in your mouth and blow your brains out. Asking him not to do that might be a little out of the question. Take the gun and remember how I told you to use it.”
I reached under the seat and picked the gun up. “Got it.”
“Good, stick it in your pants and don’t blow your balls off with it.”
“Tell me that doesn’t happen.”
“Okay, it doesn’t happen.”
“Really.”
“It certainly changes the perspective on life. Come on Scott let’s go see if our investigation…correction…let’s go see if your investigation is making any progress.”
“Mike, I’m worried about Mercedes.”
“That is tomorrow’s problem. Right now I’m worried about your focus. Wait. Before you open that door.”
“What?”
“Promise me this is the last investigation you are going to get yourself involved with.”
I looked at the revolver in my hand. “I think you’re right Mike. I promise.”
“That makes some real progress for such an early Monday morning.”
I opened the car door and wondered if Mercedes, and even Ralph, were doing as well.
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He had mixed emotions about seeing Alexis. Seeing her beautiful face and body was a dream come true, but seeing what she was carrying was a different kind of a dream.
“Doctor Adler you don’t look pleased to see me. Don’t you have to empty your bladder?” She started to tickle him.
“Please don’t do that. Where have you been? I’ve really needed to go for hours.”
“Why doctor, you have forgotten all those lessons you learned?”
He started to rephrase the statement, but she had her finger pressed against his lips. “Maybe more time will change your focus, or maybe my fingers will help you.”
“Please don’t do that. I’m sorry. Will you please allow me to go to the bathroom…master?”
“Are you questioning whether I am your master, or whether I will allow you to go to the bathroom?”
He could feel his anger building. “No master I have no question about that, I was asking if you would please let me go to the bathroom.”
“That is much better. I’m sure since you’re not excited to see me, you will have a much better chance of going in the bottle.” She put the bottle on his stomach and he felt her fingers insert him into it. A moment or two later, “Well?”
“I’m having a problem going while you’re watching.”
She climbed onto the bed and sat on his thighs with her knees on either side of him. “That must be an interesting picture. Junior in the bottle and my counterpart just inches away.” She ran her fingernails of both hands down his waist. “Did I detect some reaction?” She bent down. “If I keep that up you will have some real problems going. Do it.” She slapped him where she just kissed.
He felt himself going and going.
“Oh shit, we have a problem,” she announced.
He felt her slide the bottle to his hip, but it was impossible to stop at this point. He felt the moisture running down his hip.
She lifted the bottle and they both looked at it. “Wow, you really did need to go. Feel better now?”
“Yes, much better.”
“You were a bad boy and wet the bed. I’ll be right back.”
He was worried now as to what she might be up to. He heard the water running in the bathroom and then she came back in. He noticed how comfortable she seemed to be walking around without clothes.
She climbed back on him and had a wash cloth with her. “Problem solved.” He felt her wiping his hip and just under him and then she came back and washed other parts. She was doing it very gently and his body was reacting to her attention. He felt the cloth now raking at his body and cried out. “Was I not doing it correctly?”
He thought about the correct answer. “No, you were doing it okay.”
She quickly resumed the treatment.
“Owe, that hurts.”
“Not good my dear doctor.” She took the wet face cloth and struck him across the face and then back again. Then she was striking him across his chest and then stopped suddenly.
He gave thanks she stopped hitting him knowing where she was headed and the pain it would cause.
“You can open your eyes now. I stopped.” He opened his eyes and regretted it. She had managed to pick up the belt and had the end right in front of his eyes. She touched his nose lightly from one side, and then hit the other. He felt her pick up speed and with every hit it hurt more. She was now hitting the side of his face, lightly at first and then with more force.
His eyes were closed and he felt her body lean down onto his. She kissed his nose and then his cheeks. “Pain and pleasure doctor. You must know the difference by now.”
He knew where this was going and felt her sit up.
“Well, what a surprise. You wouldn’t have thought that junior would be sticking his head up to see what the noise was. However, he’s more than looking around, he looks pretty focused.” She leaned down and kissed him there. “I just love how it has a mind of its own.”
He felt the pain from her nip. It was a mixed blessing.
“Do you want me to stop?”
He didn’t answer and he quickly regretted it. She hit him hard twice with the belt. Then quickly put her lips and mouth against him. “Do you want me to stop?”
He didn’t answer her and felt the pain followed by a soothing kiss.
“Do you want me to stop?”
He realized the pain was getting more severe and the kisses more focused. He could hear her asking him questions but he was not answering—he couldn’t.
When the pain was almost to the point he couldn’t hold back yelling any longer, he felt that special warmth of her body as it engulfed him. He realized she was more excited than he was.
He looked up at the window and saw two men looking at them, and another standing naked in the doorway. It was Chris, but he had no idea who the other men were.
“We have company Alexis.”
“I know, he’s been here for a long time.”
“No, not him.
Look up at the window.”
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Heads turned in our direction and they obviously looked shocked to be discovered.
“Scott this is not what I expected to see. Two naked people having sex and one tied to the bed,” Mike said.
“Make that three people. There’s another standing at the doorway.”
We already knew one of them was the blackmailer since the gold Pontiac was parked in the driveway. Now we knew it wasn’t the older man tied to the bed. I had no idea what our next action was. “Mike what do we do now?”
“Well, if we call the police to have the blackmailer questioned, it will become public knowledge about what he was doing and what Stephen’s secret was.”
I watched the woman climb off the man and stare at the window. It was Melanie. I knew that couldn’t be, but her face and definitely her body were what I remember from my captivity in Boston. The naked man tied to the bed brought visions of my own captivity.
Mike was saying something, but it sounded like he was far away. I had no idea what he was saying. I had an urge to get to my feet and run. I watched the woman grab the straight razor and point it right at me, and remember Melanie cutting the arrow in my body.
Mike said something, but I was frozen in place.
The man tied to the bed must be Doctor Adler and she must be Alexis, Melanie’s twin. I couldn’t hear what he was yelling, but he was pulling against his ropes.
She lowered the razor and turned to the man on the bed. She stepped over to the bed and waved the razor in front of his face and then grabbed him between the legs. The panicked look on his face was replaced by pain and I looked to see her remove his manhood. She held the bloody parts in front of his face and then turned and held the parts up to us.
I felt Mike move and he was running to the front of the house. She turned back to the man whose groin was covered in blood and leaned towards him. She paused and must have said something to him. I saw her hand with the razor move from one side of his neck to the other. She sliced his throat. Blood was spurting everywhere.
The other man, who was holding the bag of money from the drop-off, came running over to her and yanked her away from him, and then pulled her out of the room. All I could think of was that could have been what I looked like when Melanie had me captive. I thought of Mercedes and her being kidnapped and wondered if she was suffering at this very moment.
I knew I should be moving, but I couldn’t move. I watched the helpless man losing his grasp on life. One minute he was satisfying Alexis’ needs, and the next he was being killed for some reason.
There was some noise behind me and when I turned I briefly caught the image of a rock being swung at my head. I heard the sound it made and then the lights went out.
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He came running out the back door to see the Pontiac barreling backwards out the driveway. He could see a man driving and the woman in the passenger seat. He ran around the back of the house and Scott was not at the window. In less than a minute he realized they had taken Scott.
He looked in the cellar window and realized the man was beyond any help. He considered running to his car to give pursuit but it was parked too far away. He quickly ran in the house. He thought about the new 911 system and wished it was implemented, but no such luck. He dialed Paddy’s number instead.
“Hello.”
“Paddy, its Mike. We have a big problem.”
*.*.*
Paul Brosque was one of the early police officers to arrive. He had called and specifically asked for Paul to explain what happened. Ten minutes after his conversation with Paul the area was swarming with police cars and officers.
He spotted Paddy flashing his identification and went over to him.
“Paddy this is not a pretty scene. Like I said we have Doctor Adler dead downstairs and Scott kidnapped.”
“Any word on the vehicle they took off in?” Paddy asked.
“No there’s no sign of the car. They have the full description along with the plate number. The police have gone to the care facility in Belmont and have Chris Sullivan’s apartment in Jamaica Plain under surveillance. However, they don’t think he will be stupid enough to go to either location. Alexis Strong attacked Doctor Adler with a straight razor and then sliced him ear to ear.”
“What about Scott?”
“The doctor’s house was searched as a precaution, but they took him with them when they left.”
“What else can you tell me Mike?”
“Well, Scott and I staked out Dudley Street Station after Scott left the money for the blackmailer. After the guy, Chris Sullivan, picked up the money, we lost him, but came here on a possibility he would come here. When we checked out the property we witnessed Alexis Strong and Doctor Adler having sex while he was tied up. They spotted us and that’s when all hell broke loose and the doctor was subsequently killed.”
“Any other concerns?”
“You bet. Scott has a revolver with him and there’s no sign of the murder weapon. Paddy, this is Melanie Strong’s twin and we know how Melanie was hell bent on keeping Scott prisoner and almost killing him twice. This is the worst possible scenario for Scott.”
“This has certainly gotten out of hand.”
“Paddy, before she killed Dr. Adler, Alexis took his manhood and held it up for us to see.”
“Maybe, but maybe she was holding it up for Scott to see.” He watched Paddy thinking about things. “Mike, have you called Stephen Strong?”
“No.”
“You better call him and tell him what has happened and what he can expect the newspapers will do with this. His secret is no longer going to be under wraps, but will surely be front page fodder. You might want to tell him to make his twin daughter public information before it comes out another way.” Paddy looked at Mike. “Is something bothering you about calling him?”
“No, that’s not what is concerning me. I saw what Alexis did to the doctor. Her twin sister was Melanie and we know how focused she was on Scott…I just hope she doesn’t have the same infatuation.”
“Well, she has the other guy Sullivan with her.”
“Sure she does, and she had the doctor with her too. Did you hear anything about the status of Mercedes’ kidnapping?”
“Good question. I better try to reach Robert Damelio. He might have been trying to reach me. I think we better say a prayer for both of them.”
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I could feel my body being tossed around. I took stock of my senses. My head hurt something fierce. The last memory I had was the rock being swung at my head. I opened my eyes and realized I was lying on the back seat of a car. It hurt to open my eyes but I saw the long red hair hanging over the passenger seat and the blackmailer driving the car very fast on a highway.
I reached for the gun in the front of my pants and it was missing. I could smell the scent of Gardenia and without any question it was Melanie’s twin Alexis. Then I remembered what I witnessed and my thoughts quickly went to my own captivity. It’s happening again.
“Slow down Chris. The last thing we need is to attract attention.” She turned and looked at me. “Our guest is awake. She kneeled in the seat and waved the razor near my nose. “Don’t try anything funny or it will be the last thing you do. Now stay down and don’t stick your head up.”
I noticed they were both dressed. My head continued to throb.
“Do you have a headache Scott?”
I didn’t answer and I was surprised she knew my name.
“Yes Mr. Tucker I know who you are, who you love, and what my sister did to you…not once, but twice. Welcome.”
“Alexis we have to decide where we’re going. They will obviously be looking for this car.”
“You know what is around. I don’t even know how to drive. You pick it.”
“We need to get this car into a parking garage with a hotel nearby. I know where we can go.”
“Chris, don’t go too far from the city. I need to pay my parents
a visit and you’re going to have to drive me.”
I heard what she said and wondered what they were going to do with me. I didn’t like those thoughts.
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She had the operator try to reach Scott at his apartment, but there still wasn’t any answer. It was 2 am and Scott was still not home. She had the operator try her apartment without any answer. Where are you Scott? More importantly what are you doing? She thought of their conversation and if he is with Maggie, she is going to kill him.
Despite her better judgment, she needed to have the operator try another number.
“Hello.”
“Mr. Strong, your daughter Mercedes Strong is calling from Maracaibo, Venezuela. Will you accept her collect call?”
“Yes I will.”
“Go Ms. Strong. Your father has accepted the call.”
“Dad, its Mercy.”
“My God, are you okay? You never call in the middle of the night like this.”
“I’m still in Venezuela and there have been some…complications. I’m headed home later this morning. However, we have made some progress on finding the missing people. Look, do you have any idea where Scott is? I have tried him at his apartment, and at mine, but I can’t reach him.”
There was dead silence on the other end of the line. “Dad, do you know where he is?”
“No, not exactly.”
“What does that mean?”
“I can’t elaborate. Just a minute. Go back to sleep honey, its Mercedes. She’s calling to tell me she’s coming home from her Venezuela trip. Now, go back to sleep. I’m back. Where were we?”
“You were in the midst of what sounded like you knew where Scott was, but you were covering for him.”
“You don’t stop being an investigator, do you?”
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