“Did Mister Harris and Miss Parker have much contact before the incident?” the detective asked.
“Well, yeah. At any given time, there are only six orderlies in the facility and we have over 75 patients. Brandon was one of our more reliable people, plus he was one of the strongest. We looked to him to handle a lot of the aggressive patients.”
“We have camera footage from the night of the attack of Mister Harris escorting Miss Parker into the bathing area alone. Was this a common thing?”
“Again, Yes. As Alexandra became more aggressive with the staff, no one wanted to escort her anywhere out of fear of being attacked. Brandon was the only one who was not afraid of her,” James said.
“Why do you think that is?”
“Brandon had a way of taking control of a bad situation. We called him our lion tamer. When he was around, Alexandra was not as violent.”
“That is strange. Was it because she was afraid of him?”
“I do not think so. He has never been an aggressive person.”
“Mister Rodriguez, do you know what happened the night of the incident?”
“Detective, all I have heard are rumors. I was not working that night. I heard something about Alexandra going into one of her fits while in the bathing area, and the next thing anyone knows is both Alexandra and Brandon were seriously injured.”
“Yes, that is what happened. But what we need to find out is what happened in the time between them arriving in the bathing area, and when they were found over an hour later.”
“I am sorry I cannot shed any more light on the situation. I wish I could though. There are a lot of questions and no answers.”
“I agree Mister Rodriguez. Thank you for your time. We will be in contact if we have any further questions. If you remember anything in the meantime, here is my card. Please call me.” The detective handed James his business card after he shut off the microphone.
Chapter 9
Alex sat on her bed thinking of the events between her and Brandon from yesterday. There was a knock at the door that interrupted her thoughts. The door opened, and a woman of average height walked in. She wore a black pair of scrubs. Her dark hair was tied back in a high ponytail, and Alex could see the disdain on her face.
“Alexandra, my name is Kate. I am here to escort you to your bath today.” Her voice was tired, and Alex could tell she was uninterested in lengthy conversation.
“Whatever.” Alex rolled her eyes as she stood from her bed. She grabbed her pile of clothes and her towel before following Kate into the hall. Kate lead Alex down the halls, navigating without a word. Alex couldn’t help but wonder where Brandon was at this moment.
They turned down the main hall where the orderly desk was, and as they walked passed, Alex couldn’t help but look for Brandon. She saw him sitting off in a corner eating a bag of chips. He looked up and made eye contact with Alex for only a second before looking away. He shifted in his seat as they continued walking.
“So you drew the short straw today?” Alex finally broke the silence as they moved away from the desk and Brandon.
“You seem disappointed,” Kate replied.
“I don’t understand why I need a babysitter. I can take a damn shower on my own,” Alex said with a huff.
“If that is really what you think, then you definitely need to be in this place,” Kate mumbled as they stopped at the bathing room. Alex paused and turned, so they stood face-to-face.
“What the fuck did you just say to me?” Alex asked.
“I said that if you really think you can be trusted to do anything here alone, you really do need to be here.” Kate scowled at Alex. “You attacked one of the doctors, you have not shown any signs of participating in the mandatory activities, and you are disrespectful to almost every orderly in here. What part of that would make us trust you?”
Alex’s eyes narrowed, and she pounced on Kate knocking her to the ground. With a scream, she began punching Kate. The orderly screamed and pleaded for help.
“Someone help me!” Kate screamed again before Alex punched her in the mouth, causing her to bleed.
“Shut up, Bitch!” Alex shouted and continued punching Kate.
“Get her off of me!” Kate screeched as Brandon and two other orderlies ran toward them. Brandon immediately looped his arm around Alex’s waist and pulled her off of Kate. The other two orderlies began assessing Kate.
“Take Kate to the medical wing. I will get Alex back to her room.” Brandon barked the orders as he began carrying Alex away. Alex screamed all the way back to her room.
“I hope you learn to keep your mouth shut! Keep your mouth shut, you stupid bitch!”
“Alex stop now,” Brandon growled when he stopped at the door to her room. He was still holding her as she struggled against him. “You fucked up bad this time.”
“Put me down!” Alex demanded as she continued to struggle against his grip. Brandon held her tighter with one hand and opened the door with the other. He carried her into the room and closed the door with his foot. He roughly put her down on her bed and then stepped back to lean against the closed door. His face was hard as he clenched his jaw, his body shaking as the adrenaline coursed through him. He stood there assessing her for a moment before he began to speak. She had blood on her shirt and her hands. Alex pulled a rubber band off of her wrist, pulling her hair out of her face and into a messy ponytail.
“What the hell?!” he shouted. He paused and took a deep breath trying to control his apparent anger. After a second, he was able to calm down a bit. “What were you thinking? They are going to have to put you in isolation now!”
“She should have kept her mouth shut,” Alex said with a Cheshire grin. “But at least I will get to spend time with you now.” Alex winked at him as she stood up from the bed.”
“That isn’t guaranteed. They may place someone else to watch you. You really fucked up, Alex.” Brandon heaved a sigh just as there was a knock at the door. Alex’s face turned angry. Brandon turned and opened the door slightly.
“They want her down in Doctor Torres’ office now.” A gruff voice came from the hall; Alex recognized it as James’.
“I am still calming her down. I will bring her down in a minute.” Brandon was short with James before closing the door again. He turned back to Alex. “We have to go down to Doctor Torres’ office now. You need to stay calm no matter what is said. If they assign someone else to you during isolation, I won’t be able to see you. But either way, you need to get out as soon as you can, and that will only happen if you are on your best behavior.”
Alex nodded and a brief look of fear crossed her face as she stood and walked toward the door.
“Don’t look afraid,” Brandon groaned, “you have no idea what that does to me.” Alex was now face-to-face with him.
“I’m pretty sure I have more than an idea.” Alex brushed her fingers along the throbbing erection within his pants.
A deep growl erupted deep from within Brandon’s chest as he grabbed Alex by the back of her neck and pulled her into his kiss. His mouth was rough and demanding, and then as quickly as it started, it was over.
“Now let’s get you down to the doctor for your punishment.”
Chapter 10
“A broken nose, two black eyes, a chipped tooth, two broken fingers and several bruised ribs,” Doctor Torres read aloud from a medical file on his desk as Alex sat across from him. Brandon stood in the doorway with his arms crossed looking angry.
“Damn, that’s it?” Alex asked sarcastically.
“Do you understand the severity of this situation?” Doctor Torres asked as he put the file down and leaned toward Alex. “You attacked and injured a member of the staff. This is something that we have to take action on due to the fact that this comes on the heels of your attempt to attack another staff member not long ago. In light of both of these events, I have no choice but to put you in isolation for the next week. You will be in your room with the exception of bathing ti
me. You will be escorted to the
bathing area by Mr. Harris.” He gestured toward Brandon and said, “and your food will be served in your room.”
“So far I haven’t heard the punishment part. You are just giving me a vacation from all the bullshit. I won’t have to sit in a room and listen to a bunch of crazy people talk about how fucked up they are, and what happened before they snapped. I won’t have to deal with the crazies fighting over what show to watch on TV. I won’t have to listen to everyone in the cafeteria.” Alex yawned and rolled her eyes. “Unless the punishment is not getting to watch TV.” She narrowed her eyes at doctor Torres as she leaned toward him. “Are you grounding me, Marc?”
“Alexandra, this is not a joke, and no we are not grounding you or punishing you. There are protocols that will be put in place while you are in isolation. These will be to protect those around you as well, as well as to protect you.”
“If your protocols are anything like your punishments, they are a joke,” said Alex.
With a weary sigh, the doctor looked at Alex.
“While you are in isolation you will have a new medication introduced to your daily routine. Gabapentin will hopefully help with your explosive tendencies. We will monitor you through isolation, and hopefully when you are released from isolation, we will see an improvement in your temper.”
“Joy.” Alex sneered as she crossed her arms over her chest and began tapping her foot in annoyance.
“I see there is no getting through to you at the moment, so I will have Mr. Harris take you back to your room. I will meet with you at the end of your isolation period, and we will discuss the new protocols in more detail at that time.” With a nod in Brandon’s direction, the doctor turned his attention back to the file on his desk. Alex stood and followed Brandon out of the doctor’s office.
As Brandon closed the door behind him, the doctor mumbled, “I hope they can figure out what to do with this one.”
“Yay! You got assigned to me!” Alex began jumping up and down in excitement once they were away from everyone. Brandon stopped, his jaw clenched and his eyes narrowed in anger. Alex noticed and stopped jumping.
“Not yay. You really don’t get it, do you? You are in a lot of trouble here!” he said, his hands clenched into fists. He felt his entire body shaking with rage.
“Why are you so mad? It's not like you can’t see me while I'm on lockdown.”
“That's not the point!” Brandon shouted as he punched the wall next to Alex’s head. There was a crunch as the wall broke, and with a grunt, he pulled his fist from the rubble. His knuckles were bleeding, and around the open cuts, the skin was turning black and blue. “Fuck!” he yelled in pain.
He grabbed Alex by her arm and pulled her to her room down the hall. The tension was thick between them. Alex kept looking over at Brandon, expecting him to freak out again. She couldn’t stop thinking about how sexy he was when he was mad. The hard set of his jaw made Alex think of how he looked when he exploded in her mouth before. She felt her thighs immediately get slick from the thought of Brandon cuming for her. She couldn’t help but bite her lip as she thought of his cock.
“You really need to stop doing that,” Brandon said without even looking at her. Instantly, Alex stopped biting her lip as Brandon stopped in front of her door. “Not everything is a joke, Parker. You need to realize that.” Brandon’s face was hardened, and his blazing emerald eyes stared into Alex’s.
“Why is this such an issue for you? Before we walked in there, all you were worried about was if you would be playing guard with me. Now you are so pissed off that I’m pretty sure you broke your hand back there with that freak out you had.” Alex stared back into Brandon’s eyes as she waited for an answer from him. But instead, he looked away from her and unlocked the door to her room. Alex pouted as she began to stomp into her room toward her bed.
“I didn’t tell you to go sit on your bed.”
Alex looked at him in confusion as he walked in and closed the door behind them. “What do you want me to do then?” she asked.
“Get over here on your knees,” Brandon spoke as he pulled his throbbing erection out of his pants. Alex sauntered over to Brandon, kneeling in front of him.
She took his cock into her mouth, and Brandon could not help but groan as she did. She began the steady pace with her tongue, teasing his shaft each time she took him deep into her throat.
“You will never get her to listen to you if you always go to sex,” a voice echoed in Brandon’s head. His eyes shot open, and he pulled away from Alex.
“What’s wrong?” Alex’s face was flushed as she looked up at him.
“Tell her what’s wrong Brandon.” The voice only mocked Brandon in his head.
“I just realized I have to go report in at the desk,” Brandon said without looking back at Alex. He quickly adjusted himself and zipped his pants back up.
“Report back to the desk?” Alex questioned while eying him.
“I will come back soon, I promise.” Brandon quickly opened the door and left Alex’s room. The door slammed behind him, and Alex heard the click of the lock.
She stood from where she was kneeling and walked back over to her bed, only in a greater state of confusion.
Chapter 11
Alex sat on the black leather couch that was across from the mahogany desk where Doctor Kirlin faced her. The doctor was an older lady who was short and had blonde hair with the beginning of wrinkles around her eyes and mouth, most likely a frequent frowner. Alex listened to the doctor as she went through the normal talk.
“Alex, while we want you to be able to do things on your own, we need you to prove to us that you will not hurt yourself or others.” The doctor paused for a second, ruffling through some paperwork. “It says here you attacked an orderly this week. You cannot continue on this destructive road any longer. Because of you, we have had to implement several protocols. One of which, as you know, has been a daily blood test. Now, there was one issue with your tests. It appears that for the past two days you haven’t been taking your medication,” she said factually.
“I don’t like it. It makes me feel weird.” Alex sounded bored.
“Do you want to get out of here? Because if you do, you need to start acting like it, Miss Parker.”
“Who would want to stay in a place like this?” Alex asked as she shifted in her seat. The leather groaned underneath her.
“Then you need to start showing an effort when you are allowed to return to activities. I have discussed with Doctor Torres, and we have agreed that starting today you will take your medication in the presence of either him or myself. After you take your medication today, we will allow you half an hour out of your room. If you comply with the rest of our instructions for the remainder of your isolation period, then you will be able to transition back into your daily routine without an orderly with you at all times.”
Alex sat on the couch for a second, seriously considering her options. “Well seeing as all of these so called ‘activities’ you plan for me are pointless and infuriate more than you could understand, and this whole conversation about transitioning and your terms is pissing me off, I would like to go back to my room and stare at the sterile fucking walls.” Alex jumped off the couch and lunged at the doctor. Alex wrapped her hands around the doctor’s throat. “I have nothing to lose in this hell hole. What more can you do to me that I haven’t already done to myself?” She pushed the doctor back, and she fell out of her chair, hitting her head on the corner of the desk. Alex stood above her and began laughing as the door swung open. Three orderlies, all men, came charging into the office. One of them, along with Brandon, grabbed Alex’s arms and began to drag her out to her room; the other went over to the doctor and was checking for a pulse when the door was closed. Alex screamed at the top of her lungs and thrashed against the grip. “Get off of me you bastards!”
Once in her room, the two strapped her to the bed. Brandon stood next to it as the other orderly left to re
turn to check on the doctor.
“You had better calm down before shower time.” Brandon growled at her as he walked back to the door. He turned back and took in the sight of Alex restrained before him.
“Fuck you!” Alex spat at him, and he closed and locked the door.
After lying in her bed and staring at the ceiling for what seemed an eternity in the silence, she finally heard footsteps coming toward her room. A set of keys jingled as her door was opened. Brandon walked into the room, over to the bed, and looked at the restraints on Alex’s hands and legs.
“If I take the restraints off, are you going to attack me?” he said with a mixture of anger and frustration.
A smile crossed Alex’s face. “Sounds tempting.”
“Alex, don’t play around. You need to promise me that you will be calm for the next hour during shower time.”
Alex rolled her eyes. “I promise I will not hurt you.”
“Good girl.” Brandon leaned in with a smile on his face. Alex was hit by his intoxicating scent. It was a mix of Irish Spring soap and Obsession by Calvin Klein. She missed his smell over the past few days. Today was the first day she had seen him since she was put into isolation three, long days ago. He ran his hands up her arms and slowly unfastened both wrist restraints then slowly trailed his hands down each leg, unfastening her ankle restraints. Alex closed her eyes as she felt his hands trail along her body.
“My god, the things I would do to him,” she thought to herself.
As Alex stood and moved toward the door, she could not help but appreciate how Brandon’s clothes fit his body. The sleeves of his shirt hugged his biceps, and the waist of his pants rode low; when he moved the right way, Alex got a peek at the trail of hair leading down below his belt. The white starch of his clothes brought out his bronze complexion, and his short, spiky brown hair made his chiseled features stand out from his brilliant, emerald eyes. Alex thought back to the last time she saw him when she had his cock in her mouth.
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