Rage Against The Machine: Special Edition (Dan & Chloe Book 1)

by Flamank, Nathan L.

  Back on the street she looked up and down the shopping area and smiled when she saw a sign above another store. ‘My sort of place,’ she said aloud and carrying her shopping bags moved quickly up the street smiling at the other shoppers around her.

  Dan parked the Volvo and studied the house across the street. It was a standard two story ranch-style home with a porch and well kept lawns. A new Ford was parked on the drive. The residential area he was in was standard middle-class America. The sort of place where men mowed their lawns and the women raised good healthy kids. Looking around him at his surrounding Dan said, ‘Desperate Housewives.’

  He got out of the Volvo, locked it and walked across the street and up the path to the front door. He rang the bell and checked the street as he waited. A man was trimming a hedge three houses down and he could see a postman heading in his direction, but the man was still a good two dozen houses away.

  Dan rang the doorbell again and he heard movement from inside, footsteps moving along the hallway.

  The door opened and Dan said, ‘Tyler; how are you?’

  The man that opened the door was in his forties, medium height and a little over weight, the man’s hair was thinning and his eyes looked tired. Wearing a purple body suit Dan instantly thought of Barney the Dinosaur but kept this to himself.

  ‘Holy fucking Mary mother of God!’ Tyler said and shook his head and said, ‘I don’t believe what I’m seeing; Daniel Constantine alive and on my doorstep.’

  ‘Let me in Tyler before the neighbours see.’

  Tyler nodded his head and let Dan in. Tyler closed the door and ushered Dan along the hallway to a recreation room. It was tidy and clean but Dan could tell that Tyler still lived on his own.

  ‘What brings you here, I heard you disappeared ten years ago, I thought you were either out of the game or dead.’

  ‘I got out.’

  Tyler sat on a recliner and waved at Dan to sit. Dan walked around the room and sat in a chair that faced the only doorway.

  Tyler laughed. ‘You’re still a cautious man.’

  ‘Old habits.’

  ‘Man, when you vanished my takings went down by about three million a year, your brother never liked me, would never use me.’

  ‘What can I say Tyler? Terry’s his own man; I guess he found a better supplier.’

  ‘Bull,’ Tyler spat, ‘Cheaper is probably what he found, better I doubt.’

  ‘I assume you’re still providing guns to half the western world?’

  Tyler may have lived in a middle class neighbourhood but Dan knew the man was worth millions. Tyler Bates was one of the biggest black market arms dealers in the USA, he had connections with high ranking military personnel and found it very easy to buy and sell military arms without raising any suspicions in Washington, and if there had been any suspicions Tyler had simply paid to have those go away.

  ‘What can I say, two more years and I’m gone, Fiji here I come.’

  ‘I need some merchandise Tyler, nothing too serious, but I need to leave here with it today.’

  ‘Dan, you know I don’t keep anything on site.’

  Dan laughed, ‘Bullshit Tyler, I know you keep enough in the basement to repel an army if they come knocking so can we just get a move on, you owe me and I’m here to collect and I’ll even pay you for what I need if you act nicely.’

  Tyler stood up quickly and stormed across the room at Dan, he was angry and his face was red.

  ‘Fuck you Dan, I owe you nothing you son of a bitch!’

  Dan waited until Tyler was within striking distance and kicked out; his left foot caught Tyler on the inside of his right knee. The man bellowed in agony and collapsed to the floor clutching at his snapped leg.

  ‘Fuck that hurts!’ Tyler screamed.

  Dan stood up and crouched by the fallen man and clamped a hand to Tyler’s mouth and spat, ‘I haven’t got time for your bullshit Tyler, now you can either help me and remain living or I can just kill you now, you owe me a favour and I’m not even going to remind you what it is that you owe me for, if I even think about what you did I might just have to kill you anyways.’

  Tyler nodded his head and Dan removed his hand. Tyler was panting and sweat had broken out across his face. Through clenched teeth he said, ‘Dan, you’ve broken my goddamn leg!’

  Dan shook his head and said, ‘I’ve dislocated it, there’s a difference, and you’ll be fine once you visit a hospital.’ Dan offered Tyler his hand. ‘Here,’ Dan said and wiggled his fingers. Tyler grasped Dan’s hand and Dan helped Tyler to his feet.

  ‘Which way to the basement?’

  Tyler pointed and Dan put Tyler’s arm over his shoulder and helped the man to walk.

  ‘I need a doctor man, I’m in agony!’

  ‘When we’re done, come on, it’s not that bad, it could be a lot worse.’

  Chloe felt her mobile phone vibrating and answered the call.

  ‘Hi sexy.’

  ‘Hey baby, how’s it going?’

  ‘Fine, I managed to get everything on the list, and you?’

  ‘No problems my end, where are you?’

  ‘Now heading back to the hotel room, the taxi driver just dropped me off.’

  ‘Okay, I should be back in about an hour, maybe a little longer.’

  ‘No worries, I’ll be waiting for you.’

  ‘Okay, love you.’

  ‘Love you too baby,’ Chloe replied and blew a kiss down the phone and cut the call. She opened the room door and closed it behind her. She piled their bags on the double bed and began to unpack each bag. She took the tags off of everything and laid all the items out on the bed ready for Dan to inspect them when he got back. She checked her watch; she had forty minutes before he’d be back and she picked up the last bag and walked in to the bathroom. She closed the door behind her and started the shower up; she stripped quickly and got in under the hot spray, she had a lot to do before Dan showed up.

  Dan parked the Volvo in the underground parking structure and opened the boot. He lifted out the canvas bag, closed the boot and locked the vehicle and started walking towards the hotel

  Out on the street a few people passed him but he wasn’t concerned, he knew that he looked like any other man going about his business. The canvas bag was slung over his shoulder and he hummed an old Black Eyed Peas tune as he walked across the road. A police cruiser passed him as he waited at the central reservation to cross to the far pavement; the two uniformed officers within the car paid him no mind.

  Dan reached the hotel and headed through the small foyer and said good afternoon to the desk clerk who merely nodded in return and then he turned the corner to the lifts. Dan called one down and climbed in to it when the doors opened. He pressed for the third floor and stepped out on to a newly carpeted hallway.

  He swiped his door card and went in to their room; he closed the door behind him and put the canvas bag down on the floor on the other side of the bed where it was hidden from view.

  On the bed were various apparels of clothing, two good coats and hiking boots.

  ‘I’m in here,’ Chloe called from the bathroom, ‘I’ll be out in five.’

  ‘No problem,’ Dan called back and tried on the coat she had bought for him. It fit perfectly and the hood was snug and his ears felt insulated. If it was snowing down south this would keep him warm. The shoes were strong and sturdy looking; ideal for their needs. Chloe had also bought thermal underwear, scarves, insulated gloves, outdoor goggles (ideal for winter-sports or hunting the clerk had told Chloe) and a pair of night vision binoculars. She’d also bought a box of cereal bars, a six pack of bottled water, a four pack of Red-Bull and a small first aid kit.

  ‘You thought of everything,’ Dan called out as he slipped off the coat.

  ‘I also found time for other things too,’ Chloe said as she opened the bathroom door.

  Dan turned at her voice and the vision before him made him go physically weak at the knees.

  ‘Oh. My. God.’ Dan
said and sat down on the edge of the bed.

  ‘I take it you approve?’ Chloe asked with a smile on her face.

  Dan nodded. ‘Oh. My. God.’

  ‘You already said that,’ Chloe said as she walked over to him.

  Dan shook his head from side to side and repeated what he’d already said twice.

  Chloe laughed. ‘That good?’

  ‘Fuck yes.’

  Chloe had seen the fashion boutique and knew that she had to pay the place a visit; she bought the clothes and footwear knowing that on seeing her in it that Dan would want to fuck her. After paying with the credit card she was about to find a taxi when she’d seen the hair salon across the street and on impulse decided to get her hair cut.

  Dan went to stand up but Chloe told him to stay where he was and to enjoy the show. Dan just nodded his head as she walked over to the television and channel flicked until she found a music station playing an old Pussycat Dolls song.

  Chloe turned the volume up so that “Don’t Cha Wish Your Girlfriend” blasted out in to the room and Chloe turned away from him and bent over until her fingers were touching the floor and she began to move to the music, dancing provocatively.

  Dan was mesmerised, she looked amazing; Chloe was wearing a black leather bra, a short black leather skirt that was little more than a belt, it stopped where her ass curved in to her thighs and she was also wearing a pair of black PVC shiny thigh-high boots; zips ran up from her feet to the tops on the inside of her thighs.

  Chloe swayed and moved to the music and moved closer to Dan. She shook her head when he went to touch her and he put his hands at his side and just watched. Chloe was shaking her ass and caressing her body, working up a sweat.

  Dan liked her new hair style too; it had been cut very short in what reminded him for some reason of a pixie, he remembered years ago seeing the celebrity Victoria Beckham wearing a similar style but she hadn’t looked one tenth as good as Chloe now did.

  The song ended and Chloe said, ‘I hope you like my new haircut.’ She ran her fingers through her hair and Dan said that he did, that she looked stunning.

  Another song started, he didn’t recognise the song but he knew it was by Christina Aguilera and Chloe moved to the song and then stepped between Dan’s legs and lowered her face to his and kissed him.

  Dan grabbed her and pulled Chloe down on top of him and his hands moved to her ass and she giggled as he stroked her and she could feel his hardness through his jeans. She broke away from him and moved down his body and undid his jeans and reached inside.

  Dan pulled her up and they fell back on to the bed and Chloe turned and put one leg over his body so that she was straddling his chest and once more she lowered her face to his groin.

  Dan reached up and pulled her ass back on to his face and ran his tongue along her cheeks and down the crack of her ass until his mouth found her wetness and she ground her ass in to his face as she took his cock in to her mouth.

  Dan moved his hands down her sides to her breasts and squeezed them through the leather. His tongue pushed between her lips and she squealed in delight.

  Chloe used her hand as well as her mouth and Dan quickly came and she swallowed and continued to work his cock as her hips shuddered and then she too exploded.

  Dan was lying next to her on the bed, her ass in his groin as he ran his hand up her boot.

  ‘My God you’re beautiful,’ he whispered in her ear and she took his hand in hers and moved it to her bare breasts and said over her shoulder, ‘I’d like you to fuck me in the ass.’

  Dan obliged.

  ‘It’s a shame you can’t keep those on,’ Dan said as he came out of the bathroom.

  Chloe was sat on the edge of the bed in just the thigh-high boots and she looked up at him and told him that she could keep them on for as long as he’d like.

  Dan dried his hair with a towel and said, ‘I can’t see how, we’ll be on the road soon and I think you’d be arrested leaving the place in just those.’

  Chloe stood up and walked in to the bathroom to clean herself up after the mess he’d made of her. Dan turned to face her and she squatted over the be-day and turned the jets of water on. She smiled at him and said, ‘I have no shame around you.’

  ‘Honey, I wouldn’t want you to change for anything.’

  Dan got dressed and Chloe came back in to the bedroom and rifled through one of the bags until she found what she was looking for; a black knitted dress and pulled it on over her head and shoulders. She worked her arms through the sleeves and straightened it out; the sleeves ended just below the shoulder joint. It was cut low in front and ended at her knees and had a very slight transparency to it.

  Chloe saw Dan looking at her and she said, ‘I bought it earlier, it’s a cashmere blend, I thought you’d want the boots left on for a while.’ She kissed him and patted his ass. ‘When we get nearer to Santa Fe we’ll find a rest stop and we’ll change in to “Mr. and Mrs. Snowman”, this way on the drive you get to see the boots more.’

  Dan shook his head and laughed at the absurdity of it all.

  ‘I give up, we must be fucking nuts, but seeing you dressed like that, your nipples poking through, the light from the window showing your ass through that thin dress all I want to do is fuck you again.’

  Chloe smiled and walked over to the window, she pulled the dress up and bent over so that her ass was on show, and looked over her shoulder. ‘So; what’s stopping you?’

  And as it turned out, nothing was and so he did.

  The Volvo was a very good vehicle to drive and once Dan had gotten used to driving on the right he settled behind the wheel and turned the air conditioning on.

  ‘We’ll join the highway in about twenty miles; it’ll be good to get off this freeway.’

  ‘I’ve never seen so much traffic,’ Chloe replied from the passenger seat.

  Dan glanced at her and not for the first time since they’d started off he smiled at her. Chloe was reclined back in her seat, her heels on the dashboard so that her legs were slightly elevated, her boots on show, a little bit of bronzed thigh and then the black knitted dress.

  ‘If a patrol car passes us he’ll pull us over for lewd behaviour,’ Dan said with a grin.

  Chloe lifted her sunglasses from her eyes. ‘And we care?’

  ‘Not really.’

  They had checked out and stowed all their belongings in the spacious rear of the Volvo, on the backseat immediately behind them was the canvas bag that Dan had returned from Tyler’s with. Chloe had received a lot of attention as she walked out to the Volvo and Dan had watched as she had climbed up in to the vehicle. He and a couple of other men on the street had caught a glimpse of Chloe’s left bare buttock before she closed the door behind her.

  Chloe had taken ownership of the road atlas and had quickly and proficiently guided them on to the freeway that would eventually join the highway heading south away from Los Angeles.

  Dan indicated and pulled out in to the fast lane and kept to the speed limit, with what they had in the car they’d have a hard job of explaining it to the authorities.

  Chloe passed him an opened can of coke and he took a few mouthfuls and handed it back to her.

  ‘Thanks.’

  ‘I wonder if McCreedy knows about us yet.’ Chloe asked.

  Dan was a little surprised at the sudden change in topic but shrugged his shoulders.

  ‘I don’t know, maybe, but we can’t get to him yet, so we’ll just take each one as they come, Devon McCall may know about us, I don’t know that he’d expect for us to turn up here out of the blue.’

  ‘I haven’t really thought that much about any of it really, it all seems a little unreal, if it wasn’t for the fact that we’re experiencing all of this I’d have my doubts if anyone else told me this sort of thing goes on.’

  ‘The Brotherhood is well protected, but I have thought a couple of times about what sort of men could build such an organisation.’

  ‘I know, so far they’ve
all been sick, twisted bastards, and if Hantaki and Nakatomi are anything to judge by, I’d bet that none of them feel any remorse, what makes men behave like that?’

  Dan pondered the question for a half a mile. ‘Greed, hunger for power, and a blatant disregard for humanity.’

  ‘And according to that website there are dozens of them, are we really going to go after all of them.’

  Dan shook his head. ‘I’ve been thinking about that a lot too, I don’t think we’ll have to, once the big hitters are out of the way, the ones with the real power and money to bribe people I think it’ll crumble away, the remaining players will feel threatened and I doubt that the authorities would be as easy to bribe with the top brass out of the equation, but the men will still be at heart who they were when they were a part of the Brotherhood, so maybe we will have to go after each and every one of them, I haven’t given our long term plans much thought.’

  ‘However long it takes I’ll be right beside you.’

  Dan glanced at her and her face was serious. He stroked her right thigh and smiled at her.

  ‘I know you will.’

  The Arizona desert passed by outside the windows as the Volvo ate up the miles. The interstate was empty except for a truck hauling lumber on an open flat bed. Dan looked at the scenery out of his side window; it reminded him of the red hills of Western Australia.

  ‘It sure is pretty,’ Chloe said as if reading his thoughts.

  ‘Damn hot though,’ he replied and adjusted the air conditioning.

  They passed a bullet ridden road sign that told them that the New Mexico border was 211 km ahead.

  Another sign read “last gas for 200km, 10 km up ahead; best steaks in Arizona”. Dan saw the sign and told Chloe that they’d stop and get gas and if she was hungry grab some dinner. It was four in the afternoon and he felt rumblings in his stomach.

  ‘Sounds good to me.’