Save Riley(30)

“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.”





Seventeen


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.