Save Riley (11 page)

I grabbed her securely around her wrists with one hand and dragged her past her dead boyfriend’s body and out of the room.

“Ms. Perry, I don’t tolerate screaming in my home. I’ll ask you to stop once and then I’ll teach you what happens when you don’t,” I warned.

Perry screamed again and I sighed. I stood her up and held her against the wall, my hand around her throat. I had to figure out how to silence her without hurting her; the pain would come later, it always did.

“If I promise to let you go soon, will you stop screaming, Ms. Perry?” I asked kindly.

“You killed Evan!” she shrieked between sobs.

“Yes, I did. Would you like to join him, Ms. Perry or will you allow me the pleasure of your company and assistance for a little while?”

She bit her trembling lower lip and nodded. To which question, I wasn’t quite sure, but she seemed to relax a bit and I pulled my hand away from her neck. I smiled at her and she turned her face away, before we continued our walk past the hallway, into the kitchen, and toward the basement door.

“I don’t trust you, so I’m going to have to carry you down the steps, Ms. Perry. Is that okay?” I asked as I hoisted her over my shoulder. To be honest, her opinion didn’t matter I just wanted to extend some form of courtesy by giving her a choice that wasn’t hers to have.  I took her to the room that held Riley and punched the code to open the door. I entered and smiled when I saw Riley’s beautiful naked body suspended from the ground just where I left her.

“I’ve brought you some company, Riley,” I said cheerfully as I dropped Perry on the ground.

I went over to her and lifted her body ever so slightly so that I could unhook her. I decided to put Perry in her place for now and give Riley’s arms a rest for a few nights before putting her back up there.

She mumbled something I couldn’t quite understand as I laid her on the bed. Gently, I pulled the silk down.

“What was that?” I asked softly, running my hands back through her hair.

“Water. Please,” she muttered.

“Will you allow me a moment? I have to put someone in your place and then I’ll be back with water. Is that acceptable?” I asked, still running my hand over her hair.

She nodded and rolled on her side. I could only imagine what her arms felt like at the moment. I had never left a conquest suspended over night the way I did with her, but then again, I didn’t see her as a conquest exactly.

I picked up Perry, bound her wrists, and hung her in Riley’s place. I didn’t bother with her clothes because it was obvious that just by the way she flinched at my touch that the chances were great that she was pure. I decided that I would save her for Riley and that locking her in this room would be best.

I left the room and made my way to the industrial sized sink on the far left wall of the basement and filled a clean jug with cool water. I reentered the room and helped Riley to a seated position, holding the jug to her lips.

Her still bound hands grabbed at the neck of the jug as she slurped loudly and sloppily, the water dripping down her body. I adjusted myself on the bed; her hungriness, her thirst was starting to cause a rise.

She finally leaned back against the wall breathing heavily and using the backs of her hands to wipe away the excess water.

“Thank you,” she said breathlessly.

“You’re welcome,” I replied gently. I hated to see her in this room, but emotional betrayal was definitely a cause for punishment, so in this room she would have to stay.

I leaned back against the wall and put an arm around her shoulders, pulling her close to me. I kissed the side of her head as she rested against me. I had almost forgotten that Perry was hanging in the room had it not been for her sudden outbreak of sobs.

Riley picked her head up and I could tell that she was trying to figure out where the sound was coming from.

“I won’t hang you back up. Not any time soon, Perry here is going to take your spot for a bit. Would you like to see her, Riley? I kept her for you; for us,” I said softly.

Riley pulled away from me and scooted back toward the top of the bed. She brought her legs up to her chest in an effort to keep as far away from me as she could. I sighed and moved toward her, I pulled the blindfold off of her and she stared at me with wild, angry eyes.

“You have permission to speak,” I said softly.

“Are you out of your fucking mind?!” she shouted. “It’s bad enough that I’m a pawn in your sex games, but now you kidnapped someone else too?”

I shrugged. The truth was that in a way I
did
feel as though I were out of my mind. It took so little to catch my eye but yet so much to keep my attention long enough to invest time into what I did. I considered it an art really; a sexually charged art in where I would test the limits of the female  body and if they broke too soon or before I felt I was done with them then I would dispose of them. Depending on the conquest or the length of time it took me to break them, some would get dumped while others, the ones that survived the longest, would get quite poetic send offs.

“I thought you would like some company is all. I actually resisted the urges I had earlier with this one. I think that says a lot about how I feel about our arrangement,” I replied clearing my throat.

“Good for you,” she spat sarcastically. Apparently the water had given her all of her fire back.

I crossed my hands behind my head and sighed deeply. I was obviously in a bit of a predicament. I assumed that by keeping little Anberlin, Riley would do anything,
anything
, to gain her freedom from this room, but it seemed that I was mistaken.

“I have a proposition for you,” I said resting my hand on her ankle, which she promptly pulled away. I raised my eyebrows at her gesture and she hesitantly put them back within reach of my hand. “Thank you. As I was saying, I have a proposition for you.”

“What?” she barked.

“I will let you out of this room once you prove us to be equals. Perry will be your test. Either fuck her or kill her to prove it to me. I’ll give you all the time you need to make your decision Riley. And I will be watching,” I said, pointing to all four corners of the room in turn.

Perry burst into hysterical tears. I got to my feet and snatched the silk wrap I had used to quiet Riley and roughly shoved it into Perry’s mouth.

“I told you I don’t appreciate shouts and loud noises in my home. Now be quiet!”

She closed her eyes and whimpered. I stared at her dangerously for a moment before I shook my head and turned around. Riley was on her feet and she actually looked like she wanted to
fight
me. I smirked as she stood there looking as fierce as an angry small creature who would kill to gain freedom.

“Have a go, Riley. I’ll allow it this once,” I said in amusement holding my arms out to my sides.

She stared at me for a moment, and I could see the contemplation creep across her beautiful face before disappearing. She sighed unhappily and sat down on the bed, crossing her legs underneath her. She looked up at me with defeated eyes and held up her wrists.

“Please?” she asked.

I nodded and made my way back to the bed and sat next to her. She turned slightly and kept her hands still while I undid the rope and set her wrists free. I watched her wrap her arms around herself and look at Perry with tears in her eyes.

“Why are you doing this to us, Jax?” she asked avoiding my gaze.

“I’m only doing to you what was done to me, Riley,” I explained quietly. “Eventually you will have to prove yourself to me to stay alive and this is the easiest way I could have you do it without breaking the cardinal rules.”

She looked at me with a shocked look on her face.
Always; they always think I woke up one day and decided to be this way,
I thought unhappily. I didn’t enjoy being pitied for it.

“You have your instructions,” I said getting to my feet. “Fuck her or kill her.”

I
went back to the study and stepped over Evan’s body. History had taught me that I had at least two to three days to dispose of the body before it started to decompose and smell. I sat in my chair and turned the computer back on. After it came to life, I opened the program for the security cameras and typed in the password before picking the basement. I leaned back in my chair and watched the scene unfold in front of me.

Riley had her hands on Perry’s sides trying to figure out how to get her down. She had already pulled the gag out of her mouth and she was telling her that she would find a way to get them both “out of this alive” but she would have to trust her.

“I don’t want to die!” Perry shrieked over and over. Riley assured her that she wouldn’t kill her to get out of the predicament I had put them in.

I leaned forward with childish anticipation as Riley wrapped her small arms around Perry’s legs and tried to lift her off of the hook.

“Ow!” Perry screamed in tears as she slid out of Riley’s arms and her body jerked down on the hook.

I laughed in amusement. Little Riley thought she was strong enough to get Perry down. But what happened next showed me just how cunning and devious she could be. She looked around the room desperately until she found something to stand on. Then she ran back to the bed and pulled something out from underneath the pillow that I couldn’t quite make out.

“I’m not strong enough to lift you, so I’m going to have to cut you down. It’s going to hurt when you fall so I’ll apologize for that now,” she said to Perry who quickly nodded.

I watched Riley climb up and brandish a
razor?
and lift herself to her tiptoes as she began to cut furiously at the ropes around Perry’s arms. Moments later Perry fell free from the hook and landed on her back. Riley jumped off whatever it was that she was standing on and quickly checked her for injuries, before helping her to her feet and taking her to the bed.

“Where on Earth did you get a razor, Riley?” I asked into the cameras. She held up her middle finger in response and I laughed. “Actually, I would love to, but you have to earn that back. You know how.”

I watched her wrap her arms protectively around the young girl and start to ask her questions. I couldn’t quite make out what they were since she was speaking in a low voice, but Perry would shake or nod her head in response. Eventually the questions stopped, and Riley held her close rubbing her arm reassuringly and looking around the room. I assumed she was looking for a way out, but I apparently had been quite incorrect on my assumptions with her as of late.

I turned my attention away from the screen and looked out the window in front of me. They both assumed I was a monster; if only they knew what a monster
really
could do then they wouldn’t think that of me.

I was a young man, barely fifteen, when I was abducted by my mentor and one of his captives. I had been drunk off my ass and stumbling down the streets of Narooma when he had his whore bait me into some “fun”. I had agreed because I was young and stupid, and a beautiful grown woman was coming on to me, so of course I thought I was going to just fuck her and go home. She had convinced me to follow her into his car and told me that he wasn’t a concern when I asked her who he was. She said he was a friend who would make sure that we would get back and forth safely. And I believed her. I was fucking stupid enough to believe that they would just let me have sex with her and take me back to where they found me.

I scowled at how the memory was starting to come back to me and decided to tuck it away for now. I would tell Riley the entire story, but only if she followed my instructions with Perry.

I leaned back in my chair and crossed my hands behind my head, letting my eyes go back down toward the screen. I raised an eyebrow when I saw that both girls had disappeared from the camera view.

“What the fuck?” I murmured to myself. I leaned forward and proceeded to click on the different rooms.

Not in the main room obviously. They can’t fit under the bed. Not in the Last Day storage room. Where the hell did they go?

I peered closely at the screen once I was back in the main room and laughed. Apparently, when I left them in there I didn’t code the door when I left. They had gotten out and now it would be a game of hide and seek and I was sure to find them.

Not that they really have anywhere to go,
I thought dryly as I got to my feet. I walked toward the door and over Evan’s body, stepping into the hallway. I narrowed my eyes and looked around to make sure they weren’t there and when I was satisfied that they were not on the same floor as me, I went over to the breaker box in the furthest corner of the hallway and pushed the code in to open it. I flipped three switches; the one to open all of the doors (with the exception of those that led outside), the ones to seal all of the windows (so that they couldn’t escape), and the one to turn the cameras on every square inch of the house.

I knew now that Riley wouldn’t harm the girl because she helped her escape, so my thoughts were that when I found them,
I
would fuck then kill Perry while Riley watched and then I would punish her severely for her transgression. It would be fun.

For me at least.

“Ladies! I’ve unlocked all of the doors to give you more of a fair chance,” I said into the intercom system that sat next to the breaker box. “I rather enjoy a good chase which is why I did this, but I also want you to know how this will end. Perry will be used and disposed of after I find you both. Now the question is this; will
you
do it Riley or would you rather that I did?”

I turned off the system and closed the box. I stretched my arms over my head and walked into the kitchen. I pulled out a box of Weet-Bix and set it down on the counter. I smiled and shook my head as I went to the sink and reached into the overhead cabinet to retrieve my favorite bowl and then grabbed the box of cereal, pouring a good amount in before returning the box to its place. I reached into the refrigerator for the milk, poured about a quarter cup into the bowl, and put that back as well. I quickly unlocked the utensil drawer, pulled out my favorite spoon, and went into the living room.