… he reaches, grasps the top of my panties and is about to pull when…
There is a wailing noise, eerie and strange as it echoes around the room, but to me as welcome as sunshine after rain. The cavalry has arrived…… at last.
The sound of police sirens reverberates around us.
Konner dashes to the window, peering down through clouded glass and cobwebs, then says. “There’s police cars out there. Lots of them. The building’s surrounded.”
Fury washes across Mack’s face, followed by confusion. Adele’s expression is apoplectic.
“How?” she demands. “How did they find us?”
They both look at me.
Relief washing over me, still sick to my stomach but nonetheless, relieved, I say “You figure it out. You’re neither of you all that bright, are you?”
Bafflement on both features. “Did it occur to you that mobile phones these days do a lot more than make phone calls? Of course, my friends know where I am. They only had to trace my phone signal.”
They still both look blank. “It’s a modern phone.” I continue. “A smartphone. They all have GPS built in. And they can all be set to be traceable. Usually it’s just a protection against phones being stolen, but in this case, it meant that I could be tracked if needed.”
Adele’s face twists. Mack still looks bewildered. How did he succeed in defrauding my Master for so long if he is really this stupid?
From below comes the sound of many feet running up the echoing stairs.
“Put your gun down,” I say to Konner.
“Don’t,” says Mack to him. “We’ll fight it out. We’ll….”
gun to the ground. Another follows, dropped by
about fighting it out with the
slams open and my Master bursts in, closely followed by several police officers. To the rear, I see Ross and Francis. Francis’ eyes are swollen, as though she has been crying. Ross looks at me, still
taking in the tableau. He looks down at me, his expression bland.
strange reluctance takes me. I don’t want to tell my Master about what has/was going to happen. I am his.
I must
is.” I wipe my eye, streaming fluid: tears? Or blood? “Mack
his gaze sweeping over
able to hold
Master asks “And Adele?” He glances at her. Astonishingly, she
you, but sell me anyway to someone in the third world
voice is calm, measured. “Is that
am not fooled by his calm tones. This is my Master at his most dangerous. He holds out his hand, helping me to stand, his stare hovering over
take care of Elizabeth. See if she needs
takes me by an arm, trying to lead me out of the room, but I resist. I want to see what happens next. Now that my Master is here, in charge,
he asks, his stare like the passage of the Angel
fling her arms around her. He pushes her away with an expression as though he had just
cry, dabbing her eyes. “I didn’t mean her any harm. She’s just a kid. But I wanted
up a good act, but it is all so false. Adele is a
back and watch her be gang-raped? Sold to the
She falls silent.
happens now. You and I will never be together. It would never have happened anyway, but after
to Mack. I cannot help but contrast the two men. My Master, tall, holding himself proud.
I should do about you, Mack? You stole from me. Attacked Elizabeth in her own apartment. Now you abduct her, assault her. You were about to rape her and then sell her into sexual slavery? What is the appropriate way of dealing with a man like
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