Bought By The Billionaire

Chilled by the implicit threat in my captor’s words, nonetheless, I keep talking. “What are you going to do with me? Ransom me? Is that it? You want back the money you stole in the first place?”

Mack swings around again to look at me. This time the car almost comes off the road. “I told you. Shut it.”

He drives to a less appealing part of town; old abandoned warehousing and industrial units. The area is depressing, with very few people apart from a couple of what look like homeless types, curled up in sleeping bags atop, or under, old cardboard boxes. Broken bottles and hypodermic needles are scattered over the ground. No reputable person is going to wander here accidentally. Do they intend to hold me prisoner here? In this awful place?

Mack pulls up at the back of an old warehouse, brick built, run down and empty, several stories tall, but long unused and falling into disrepair. Broken windows access black spaces and pigeon nests. The remains of an old hoist and winch groans in the wind from the top storey.

As I am escorted out of the car, a thug firmly holding me by each arm, Mack says “Don’t get any ideas. Konner here….” He indicates the ape to my left. “… has a nasty side and he would love to start celebrations with you early.” Again, the tacit threat.

I look at Konner to see the ‘gun’ still showing through his pocket, aimed right at me. Glancing around, hoping for help from a couple of the lost and the lonely curled up in their cardboard shelters, no-one even looks at us. We could be invisible for all the notice they take.

I am escorted into the building and up several flights of stinking and graffitied stairs, the pungence of human urine hanging over everything, making my eyes sting. Now that we are finally isolated from the rest of the human race, Konner pulls the gun out of his pocket to where I can see it clearly, loosely trained on me. The other of Mack’s toughs is almost twisting my arm out of its socket as he forces me up the steps.

At the top of the stairs, paint-peeled door swings open, to reveal the room’s solitary occupant. Adele stares out at me at me from a chair.

“How lovely to have you here Elizabeth. And poor Mack there, is so pleased to have you visit us too. You are going to compensate him after all for the trouble you cost him, put things to rights for him.”

“You’re ransoming me?”

“Yes, Dear. We’re going to ransom you. Mack here just wants his fair payment for all that he was robbed of. I’m sure Richard will be happy to pay for you.”

“Of course he will pay to get me

won’t be getting you back

moment. “I thought you said you

your precious Richard. Adele here

freezing my guts, I say to Adele “Richard’s not interested in you.

I did make some mistakes with him. But I know better now. I’ll get him back alright, once you’re no longer

the satisfaction of asking, so I remain silent. That way too, I can keep

quite sure where they intend to take you. Somewhere in the depths of Asia, I believe. Or was it Africa? I forget, but

cocks do you think she’s going to have to suck off to pay

obviously. Several dozen a day I should

terror pooling in the pit of my stomach. If my Master should not find me

can smell his sour breath. He always made my skin crawl, but now, as his hand slides over my breast, I could

watch? While we educate Beth here in what

the world Mack,” she replies. “Will it

promised some

of me where suddenly, the two thugs are flanking me once more. Each takes one of my arms, holding me fixed between them. Mack presses himself against me, sliding

rising to a panicked crescendo as the reality of what they intend for me sinks in. Fruitlessly I try to resist, but I might as well fight a mountain. The men holding me don’t budge, I cannot escape and

yell.

now, Sweetie. Your choices have been made for you. I’m going to