by Nanea Knott
She pulled it from his fingers and he beamed at her as if he was pleased she obeyed his request. She wiped the blood off her face knowing the bruising was already starting. There was blood on her shirt, but she couldn’t do anything about that. After this ordeal, she would throw these clothes away. She would certainly never wear them again. If I get out of here she thought, then she let go of that thought. They will find me.
“Anna I’ve brought you here for a reason.” Zachary said taking the towel from her and throwing it at the fat man who hit her. Anna didn’t respond. She sat there staring at her hands in her lap.
“Let’s just sit here for a few minutes and I can explain everything.” He assured her. There was no doubt in her mind he was crazy. The two goons stood near the front door. Probably to make sure she didn’t run.
“This place isn’t much to look at and it was even less the first time I stepped in here five years ago. Did you know this was the very same apartment Christopher shared with Keoni? They lived here for two years. When Keoni moved out after the unfortunate incident, I started renting it.” Anna didn’t understand why he was telling her this.
“I’m such a sentimental bastard. I’ve made this place my love nest. A few of my trusted friends and I come here to make the fantasy a reality. We come here to have sex with no guilt, no regrets, and no attachments.”
“Is this the same apartment where you nearly raped Keoni?” Anna accused.
“I did not nearly rape anyone.” He protested. “All of the people I have had sex with or nearly had sex with consented to it.”
“You drugged him and tied him down.” Anna couldn’t believe he had the nerve to lie about what he did.
“It was all part of the game. I wouldn’t have hurt him. I loved him, I still do. Did he tell you I gave him a gift once?” Zachary pulled on the chain he was wearing around his neck. It was a necklace made from a shark’s tooth. The kind of thing a local guy would wear.
“He gave it back to me. Christopher threw a hissy fit. I never take this off. If he would have given me a chance I would have done whatever he wanted. Even after I had to get married, I still would have taken care of him. Now that Christopher is back, no one else matters, not even you.” Anna looked at him like he was crazy. Zachary saw her disbelief.
“Anna, don’t you see? Once they start screwing each other again, they won’t need you. You are the third wheel.”
“They love me.”
“How can they? They’re gay. As much as they say they love you, they could never really love you because you’re a woman.” Zachary said. Anna’s expression told him he was full of shit.
“If you are still in love with Keoni, doesn’t that make you gay?” Anna knew she shouldn’t push, but she couldn’t help herself.
“No, I’m a special breed of man. I’m not on one side of the fence or the other so to speak. I straddle the fence.” He smirked.
“Why am I here?” She gritted out.
“You’re here because I want to have sex with you.” He said as if stating the obvious. Anna’s skin felt like it was going to crawl off her body. “I have decided to be generous and fulfill your dream of becoming my lover.”
“No.” Anna said sharply. Zachary continued as if she hadn’t spoken.
“You are going to love it here. I’ve seen the way you look at me. There’s no need to play hard to get, I know you want me.” He said.
“No, I don’t. What I want is to go home.”
“This is your home. I’m doing the old fashioned thing and setting you up as my mistress.” Anna’s mouth dropped open. “Once you get used to being here, we can change it anyway you want. I will be sad to get rid of the furniture because it reminds me of Keoni, but I don’t need him because now I have you.”
“What does your wife think about this?” Anna said hoping that mentioning his family would make him rethink doing this.
“Oh she thinks this is another office space for me. The kid can get noisy at home and Daddy needs some peace and quiet to work. Truthfully, Daddy needed a place to get his rocks off.”
“You’re not hearing me.” Anna said, “I don’t want to have anything to do with you.”
“You’re going to love it here. I’m not much for pussy licking, but Michael over there,” he gestured at the guy who hit her. Anna noted Michael was over six feet tall, balding with beady eyes and a flaccid face. His stomach lapped over his belt. “He comes every time he buries his face in a pussy. Donny, on the other hand, he screws like a freak.” Donny was fit with tattoo sleeves on both arms. His eyes were sharp and mean. He looked like someone who had no problem hurting others. “He fucks like a piston and comes like a volcano. The women practically shower in all the cum he shoots on them.” Zachary smiled at the fond memories. Anna looked at Donny who smirked at her and grabbed his crotch. Anna felt sick. Michael chuckled.
“So the way we play is Michael’s going to lick your cunt, and Donny’s going to fuck it. I want something else.” Anna closed her eyes trying to stop her imagination from going nuts. Zachary kept talking.
“I like to fuck ass. That’s why I can do both men and women.” Anna cringed. Not only were they intending to rape her, they had it all planned out.
“You’re going to love it here.” Zachary said for the third time. Anna wasn’t sure he was trying to convince her or himself. “Since you’re with Christopher and I know what a horny fuck he is, you should be used to being fucked a lot which is good. The last girl we brought here didn’t last long. She was okay in the beginning but when the fantasy got to be too much for her, well, we had to let her go.”
“What?” Anna wasn’t sure if was more afraid or disgusted.
“Michael licked her and made her come, and then Donny fucked her pussy while I fucked her ass at the same time. I think we gave her so much pleasure she passed out. We carried her out of here and left her near one of the hospitals in town.”
Anna remembered a story she saw on the news. A woman had gone missing a couple of weeks ago. She turned up beaten and raped. There were no suspects in the case. The woman wasn’t talking.
“You’ve already done all the things we want to do to you. Since Christopher and Keoni are back together I’m sure they’ve fucked you both at the same time.” Anna couldn’t stop her expression of surprise before Zachary caught it.
“You have had two cocks in you at the same time haven’t you?” Zachary asked. Anna said nothing.
“You’ve at least had a cock up your ass. There is no way you could be with those two and not get fucked in the ass.” Again Anna said nothing.
“Well, look at that Donny. We get to bust a cherry. Dammit this is going to fun. I can’t wait. Too bad we can’t play tonight. We all have family things to do. I have to find Michael a Santa suit. He’s going to dress up and hand out presents for the party we’re doing for the kids over the vacation. Let’s get you set up in the bedroom. Tomorrow, we start the adult party.”
Anna glanced at Michael again and he waggled his tongue. She shuddered. Donny pulled her off the couch and dragged her into the bedroom. He tied her to the bed. One end of a piece of rope was tied around her ankle. The other end was tied to the bottom of a bed post. It was long enough for her to go to the bathroom and nowhere else.
“There is some fruit there next to the bed if you get hungry. We’ll pick up something good for you tomorrow. If you get bored, you can always watch some of the videos of our past sexual fantasy partners. You never know, you might find something you like.”
“You taped them?” Anna was horrified.
“Everyone has home movies.” Zachary said and left. Donny trailed behind Zachary long enough to say, “I can’t wait for tomorrow. I hope you like it rough.” As soon as they left, Anna started to cry.
19
Keoni and Christopher searched file after file and so far they had found nothing.
“We’ll be here all night.” Keoni complained, “We need to narrow this down.
Is there anyone you can think of that might do something like this?”
“No.” Christopher pouted.
“What about Zachary?”
“He’s a prick to be sure, but kidnapping?” Keoni stood there and looked at him. Christopher could feel the blood drain from his face after making such a stupid comment. “I’m sorry.” He dug through the cabinet and found Zachary’s daughter’s file. “He owns a black BMW, it’s got silver rims.”
“We need to find that car. What’s his address?” Keoni asked. Christopher wrote it down on a piece of paper and handed it to Keoni who figured out they were headed for St. Louis Heights.
By the time they got there, it was after dark. There was nothing to see, the car wasn’t home. They parked across the street and watched the house. It looked like every other house on the block. It was well kept and was decorated with Christmas lights. There were icicle lights hanging from the eaves and colorful garlands around the trees and shrubs in the yard. There was a small light up Santa on one corner of the yard.
“What do we do?” Christopher asked.
“We wait until he comes home and check out the car. When he goes out, we follow him.”
“This is stalking.” Christopher stated.
“We are not stalking anyone. We’re looking for a connection, that’s all. We could be barking up the wrong tree, but I want to be sure, and if we have to eliminate him from our list of suspects, we will.” Keoni stated. Christopher looked at him like he was crazy.
“List of suspects? Listen to you. We don’t have suspects. We don’t have anything. We’re guessing. Anna could be in real trouble and we’re fucking guessing! And what were we doing when Anna was being abducted? I was leaning over the bathroom sink while you were shoving your cock up my ass.” Christopher grumbled. Keoni suddenly got very quiet and still. Christopher noticed Keoni’s fist tightened on the steering wheel.
“Do you regret what happened?” Keoni asked softly. Christopher realized what he said and gasped. He was forever putting his foot in his mouth.
“No, and I never will. It was amazing to feel you inside me and I can’t wait for you to do it again.” Christopher saw the tension leave Keoni’s hand. He leaned over to stroke the side of Keoni’s face. “I’m sorry. I’m scared. I love you. I wouldn’t trade anything for what happened between us today. What will we do if something happens to her?”
“Nothing is going to happen to her. We’re going to find her before then.” Keoni said with conviction.
They waited for a few minutes talking about anything to keep themselves busy. Keoni was feeling anxious, but he didn’t want to show it. He could see Christopher was practically climbing the walls. He always was a worrier. He reached for Christopher’s hand and squeezed it. Christopher raised Keoni’s hand to his lips and kissed the back of it.
“I’m glad you’re with me.” Christopher said. Keoni nodded, he was enjoying this new, expressive Christopher. In the past it was hard to get him to say how he was feeling. That would be Anna’s influence. Keoni thought. The same had happened to him. He could always speak his mind, but not his heart. Anna made it possible.
After another hour or so of watching and waiting for something to happen several cars went by, and then finally a car pulled into the driveway of the house. Keoni could see Zachary get out and take a Santa suit out of the backseat. Zachary closed the car and locked it, and walked into the now open garage. As soon as Zachary was in the garage, the door closed.
“What do we do now?” Christopher asked. Keoni made a suggestion.
“I could sneak over there and take a picture of the car and hope we see something.”
“I should go. I have the better camera on my phone,” Christopher offered.
“Fine, wait a few minutes and then go. He might come back if he forgot something.”
They waited at least ten minutes before Christopher pulled his phone out of his pocket and got ready to get out. He looked at Keoni to tell him when to go when the garage door opened again. They quickly ducked down to watch. It wasn’t Zachary; it was a woman they assumed was his wife. It was too dark to see her face. She got in the car and started it.
“What now?” Christopher whispered.
“We follow her?”
“What if she’s just going to the grocery store?”
“Then we follow her there and back. We need to be certain about whether or not Zachary is involved.”
Zachary’s wife pulled out and started driving away. Keoni let her get ahead of them and started the car. He followed further back when they were still in the Heights area. They didn’t want to spook her. Once she pulled onto a main street, they stayed close. It was getting later and the mall would be closing soon. He knew she wouldn’t be heading there.
She got on the freeway heading for Kahala. She went to the end of the freeway and kept driving. She went right past Hawaii Kai and started up the hill to Hanauma Bay. She rounded the top and kept going. They hung back and followed at a distance. It was a two lane road. If she turned off, they would see her. They followed her around the tip of the island to the Windward side. She drove straight into Waimanalo.
“Where the hell is she going?” Christopher asked. They quickly got their answer. She turned onto the street where they used to live. They expected her to drive past the apartment building and maybe go to one of the houses at the end of the street. She turned into the building’s parking lot. Keoni kept going down the street and turned around to park.
“Hurry up! We need to see where she’s going.” Christopher was anxiously waiting for Keoni to park the car.
“We know where she’s going.”
“We do?”
“She parked in our old parking space. She’s going to our old apartment.”
“What the hell is going on?” Christopher asked.
“I don’t know, but we’re going to find out.”
20
Anna cried for the better part of an hour before she gave herself a headache and stopped. She grabbed an apple from the bowl of fruit on the nightstand and went to the bathroom to wash it. She didn’t want to eat anything they left for her, but she was starving. She sat down on the bed and ate the apple. She tossed the core in the trash in the bathroom.
She opened the cabinet the TV was sitting on looking for the remote, and saw several DVD’s neatly stacked inside. She knew she didn’t want to watch, but a morbid sense of curiosity took over. The DVD’s were dated and she pulled the most recent one from its sleeve and put it in the player.
There was the woman whose picture was in the paper. Anna immediately shut it off unable to watch and wiped the tears from her face.
“They’re animals, but Zach is a good provider.” A woman said. Anna jumped to her feet. She hadn’t heard anyone come in. There was a petite well-dressed woman with perfectly done red hair and cold blue eyes.
“Who are you?”
“I’m Zachary’s wife.”
“Please get me out of here.” Anna pleaded.
“No.” The woman shook her head. Anna was floored. Didn’t she understand what was going on?
“I have to get out of here. You have to help me.”
“No, I don’t.” Anna was stunned again.
“Then why are you here?”
“To tell you that if you think you’re going to take my place with Zachary, you’re kidding yourself. He’s had a bunch of girls through here and he always comes home to me.” Anna couldn’t believe what she was hearing.
“You think I want to be here?”
“Of course,” the woman answered.
“You’re crazy.” Anna shook her head.
“Why else would you let him tie you to the bed? You’re a sex toy and when he’s done with you, he’ll get another one.”
“You know what he does here?” The apple Anna ate was threatening to come back up.
“I pay the bills. I came to see what we were paying for. It’s perfectly fine if h
e wants to sleep around, as long as he’s discreet, and so far he has been. I get to spend his money, and he gets to keep his whores. It works out.”
“I am not one of his whores. He abducted me.”
“As long as he has you, he won’t be trying to fuck me. Like I said, he’s an animal. The last time I let him fuck my ass I couldn’t sit for an hour and was tender for two days. I want him to keep whores. It keeps his horny ass away from me.”
“You know he kidnaps women and brings them here to assault them.” Anna said finally understanding.
“I’m sorry if they are hurt, but they should have been more careful.” Anna was speechless. The woman walked away from her and went around the apartment opening windows.
“I came to give you some air. Sometimes it gets hot in here. He doesn’t always think of things like that. I’m going to have to close them before I leave, but at least for a few minutes, you’ll have fresh air.” Anna was numb. I’m going to die, and if I don’t, I’m going to wish I had.
21
Keoni and Christopher walked up the stairs to the apartment they once shared together.
“What a dump.” Christopher whispered. Keoni laughed. “Shut up, you loved it here.”
“I hated it here, I loved you.” They walked pass doorways slowing down as they got closer. They stopped when they saw the jalousies open in one of the windows of their old apartment. They waited to make sure no one noticed them. They could hear two women talking, one of them was Anna, but they couldn’t make out what they were saying. The window in the bedroom opened and the voices became clearer.
“Please call the police and get me out of here.” Anna pleaded again.
“And have him get arrested before I get my diamond bracelet for Christmas, I don’t think so. Just relax and enjoy the cross breeze for a bit. And don’t start screaming, I don’t want to have to gag you.” The other woman replied.