Gateway What Lies BeyondChapter 26
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It seemed like forever before they heard the motor from a small boat approaching. The Sheriff turned off the light and ducked back in to the shadows. The small boat slammed into the dredge. Sara held her breath when she heard his feet hit the floor above her.
“You’re safe Sara.” The Sheriff whispered.
The man was singing, and she could hear him stumbling down the staircase. He didn’t even notice that the extra lock was missing from the door. The captain had used a pair of bolt cutters to get it off and they were concerned that he would notice but as it turned out, he had been oblivious and didn’t seem to notice.
“Wake up Sara, I brought you a drink and it’s time for some fun.” The man called out.
Sara had her back to him and didn’t turn over, so he moved toward her. It was apparent that he was drunk. That was a factor that they had not counted on. Just as he reached for Sara, the Sheriff reached for him and as promised, he never laid a hand on her. Once the Sheriff had him in handcuffs, Sara went to the door and called for Sloan who was already on his way down. Just as he reached Sara, the Sheriff turned on the light and they all realized that the kidnapper was Carlos. Sloan lunged at him and they fell to the ground.
“You son of a bitch, I should kill you.” Sloan was shouting as Sara and the sheriff pulled him off Carlos.
“It’s over, I’m safe.” Was all she could say. Sloan had no idea were all that violence had come from, but he just couldn’t stop himself. Sara stood before him, weak, and frightened and needed his love not his anger. “I am so sorry baby, I was just so scared for so long that I couldn’t stop myself.” She smiled at him and he pulled her into his arms. “You’re safe and that’s all that matters.”
A patrol boat came out and took Carlos in for questioning in his own boat. The rest went back to shore in the patrol boat. There was an ambulance waiting for Sara. Sloan was again torn. He wanted to go to the interrogation but the thought of leaving Sara was just out of the question. Warren went with the Sheriff and Sloan went with Sara. She was thoroughly examined for the police report and released. During part of that exam Sloan had to step out. He could not stand to hear what her responses were to some of their questions and when the exam became physical, he wanted to give her some privacy. Even though he had not assaulted her, they still needed to examine her, and that was humiliating to her, so he kissed her and stepped out. Once he was out in the hall, he needed to talk to Spencer.
The house phone rang twice and then Annie answered.
“Hello there beautiful, how is my favorite sister-in-law?”
“Sloan, I am your only sister-in-law.” She laughed.
“For now, but you will always be my favorite.” He told her.
“You Way men are so sweet.”
“Speaking of Way men, would Spencer be around?”
“No, sorry but you can get him on his cell.” She offered.
“Ok. Would Walt be hanging around anywhere close then?” He asked.
“He’s with Spencer. What’s going on Sloan?”
“Well I was going to ask Spencer if it would be ok for me to stop by for a few days or maybe a week? And if he said yes then we would run that by Walt.”
“Sloan! Well thank you for leaving me out of the decision making around here.” She told him.
“No, Annie I didn’t mean to do that, as a matter of fact, you are the reason we would be coming.”
“Me? And did you just say we?”
“Yes. I am at the hospital with Sara right now and it’s a long and horrible story, something close to yours. I was hoping we could come and stay a few days until her bruising is gone and maybe you could talk to her about some of this. I know it’s a lot to ask but I can’t lose her over this. She acts like she’s fine but I’m sure the worst is yet to come.”
“I get it, and you are right, if she has suffered a trauma, she will have to work through it. Sounds like she is special to you?”
“She is my Annie.”
“So how soon will you be here?”
“Are you sure this will be ok Annie?”
“Sloan, you are family and it sounds like she might be soon too?”
He laughed.
“Maybe, she has a will of her own, I don’t know if she is ready for something like that.”
“But you are?”
“When she is.”
“Sloan, I will talk to Spencer and Papa, so they are not shocked by any of this and I promise you, she will never feel a moment of embarrassment or feel out of place. I went through all of that and won’t let her. You two come along and we will be waiting. Do you want me to have Papa call you to confirm that you are welcome because you know if I have to, I will?” Annie told him in a tone that he was sure meant business.
“No Annie that is not necessary. I momentarily forgot who was in charge there.”
“Ok, but don’t let it happen again.” She joked.
“Thanks, Annie. We should be rolling in there sometime tomorrow afternoon. I want to get her as far away from these memories as I can.”
“Will she need to go back?”
“Yea. She will have to testify and that won’t be pretty, but I want her as strong as possible, before we have to deal with all of that.”
“I understand. So, what would you like for dinner tomorrow?” She asked trying to lighten the mood.
“Anything you make is always good, so surprise me.”
“See you tomorrow.”
“Thanks Annie.” And he hung up.
When the nurse came out of the room, he went back in.
They had even taken pictures of her bruises. There was little physically wrong however she was given a mild sleeping pill in case she had trouble sleeping from the trauma. Sara was proud of herself, she had been strong through the whole ordeal and she was not breaking down now that she was safe. Sloan took her back to Annie’s beach house and fixed her some tea. They sat on the deck and watched the boats go by; some of them were patrol boats, coming and going to the dredge. Sloan had offered her dinner and she had just picked at it, he didn’t push the issue. They just sat quietly until Warren appeared.
“You have news.”
“Some, but we can talk about that later.” Warren answered looking at Sara.
She knew what that meant. They wouldn’t discuss any of this in front of her, but she wasn’t upset.
Sloan offered Warren a drink and he had a beer. They talked about cases, sports and even the weather until Sara declared that she was tired and wanted to turn in. Sloan waited until she went inside but then he had to know.
“What did you find out?”
“Besides the fact that this guy is scum.”
“Yea!”
“Well I don’t think he has anything to do with your ring of thieves, however; he has his own ring to worry about. Let’s just say that it was a good thing that we found her when we did.”
“No, let’s say more. Damn it Warren I need to know.”
“I know you do but there really isn’t an easy way to say any of this.” Sloan waited for him to continue. “He was pretty upset that it had all come to this. Apparently, he was in to a big-time bookie. The guy had come to threaten Carlos and had spotted Sara. Carlos had used up all his friendly warnings and the next visit he got from the bookie would have been very painful, so he made a deal. Things were happening too fast for him, so he got drunk.”
“Yea well that was obvious.”
“He said he got drunk to get over what he was doing and by getting drunk it gave him the courage to do what he was about to do.”
“Warren, just spell it out, you’re giving me a headache.”
“I’m not surprised you have a headache. I know for a fact that you haven’t slept in days. I’ve had reports all over the island that you were walking the beach and checking with anyone who would talk to you. Several people even mentioned that they caught you peeking in windows again. You do know that is against the law don’t you.”
“Yes, I know but I had to find her, I was so afraid that something bad was going to happen to her.”
They both went silent for a minute. Warren rubbed his hands over his face and then said, “He was going to sample the merchandise tonight and tomorrow he was going to deliver her to her new master.”
“What!” Sloan jumped up. “Are you serious?”
“Yep, he had sold her. He swears that he has never done this before, but don’t they all say that. He said it was her or him. Don’t worry, I called a couple of our old buddies and they are interrogating him right now. They want to know who bought her and everyone involved in the ring. Don’t worry they will get them. Sara is not the only woman they were selling, and we may have just saved some other women. Warren could see the look on Sloan’s face, and it actually scared him. If he had touched her it would be different, but she will be ok now, won’t she?”
Sloan was so completely outraged that he hadn’t notice Sara standing in the doorway but when he did, his whole world came crashing in on him. He was in love with her and probably had been since the beginning. Her perfectly chiseled face had lost all its color and her eyes were deep hollow wells of black, she had obviously heard what Warren had said. She was trembling, and he had to hold her. They could sort out his feelings later; right now, she was terrified and needed comfort. She broke down into tears as Sloan’s arms closed around her. When the trembling and crying had stopped, it was because she had fallen asleep out of sheer exhaustion. They had moved to a lounger and although it was not the most comfortable place to sleep, she did. Warren had slipped out while Sloan tried to comfort her. They could talk later, maybe over the phone, so she couldn’t hear all the gory details. Sometime later, Sloan fell asleep holding her. Just after mid night, Sloan woke and carried her in to the house and put her on the sofa. He was getting a drink when he heard her voice.
“Good morning, I think.” She said.
“It’s still very early, too early to call it morning, day break is still hours away, why don’t you try to get some more sleep?” Sloan suggested.
“I’m afraid I’ve had enough sleep in the past few days to last me a while but I’m sure you must be exhausted. What are you doing up so early?”
“Well I was just thinking about heading home and couldn’t wait anymore to start the day.”
“Heading home?” She asked, “I hope it isn’t because of me?”
“Well yes, it is. Once Warren stepped in to investigate your kidnapping, I was free to slip between the cracks and look for you under the radar. I discovered all kinds of things.” As he poured them both a big mug of coffee, he motioned for her to move back over to the sofa. When he joined her, it was with the coffee and a small bag of bakery cookies.
“So, are you going to tell me?” She asked.
“Yes, but I’m trying to build up the anticipation.”
“Ok, sorry.” She said with half a smile.
“You were right about Molly.”
“She was involved in the robberies?”
“Well yes and no. She was but didn’t know it.”
“Excuse me?”
“She was the mastermind behind a dating service.”
“What?”
“She arranged dates for some of the guest here, and some of the dates lasted all night. That is when some of the robberies would occur. One gentleman admitted that he had a date with a young lady while his wife was on a bus tour of Charleston and he thinks that was when her jewelry was stolen. Molly has been released from her contract here and the DA is checking into prosecuting her. I personally don’t think they will have any trouble with that. She approached male guests and offered them a service. I’ll be surprised if she doesn’t spend some time in a jail cell. But believe it or not she was unaware of the burglaries. We used your condo for a sting, and they arrested her when she came to negotiate the price of Rosie spending the night with me.”
“Really! You mean I’m kidnapped, and you go out and get a hooker?”
“Well I only thought it would help me relax, you know I didn’t sleep much after you were taken.”
“And you took her to my condo?”
“Well Molly said it would be better.”
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“Gort and Unna are too perfect,” I declared in reply. “Just look at him. I might be totally mistaken, but besides the fact Gort needs a good bath and to have his hair shampooed, he doesn’t look like I would expect him to look, given all the briefings that Dr. Jenkins gave us on what the locals looked like. Oh I know that technically there really isn’t that much difference between early modern man and us; but there were a few, and I’m not seeing them in either Gort or Unna. In fact, given that...
We made it to the mouth of the valley five days later. We were all tired and sweaty and most of us just wanted to get home. It was midday and the weather was hot. Thankfully, the end of our trek was near and as we turned into the valley our spirits picked up. Then it happened. Out of the corner of my eye, I spotted something in the air. “Stop,” I cried out as my mind registered what I’d actually spotted. As I spoke I dropped the travois I’d been pulling and grabbed my carbine....
Katherine didn’t bite; or, to be more precise, she didn’t bite my cock. She did leave bite marks on my shoulder when I pounded her through her fourth straight orgasm, while she lay under me with her tits jiggling with every thrust, on a bearskin that Clara had thrown down by the stream where the women had bathed me. I didn’t mind at all. Katherine’s biting me helped to keep her from disturbing the wildlife with her cries of pleasure. The woman was definitely a screamer. I met with Rolf...
I hadn’t been prepared for that. Fortunately, Katherine was, and answered the calling flash with a quick reply. “Don’t,” I snapped when I realized what she was doing. “This could be a trap.” “It’s not,” Katherine responded dismissively, although she did lower the flashlight she was holding, shoving it once more into her coat pocket once she’d turned it off. I just glared at her sternly in the dark and then I glanced back towards the compound. By then the message was coming in. It repeated...
Kim’s people showed up shortly after Ohba and I had conversed. I had the young woman stay in the kitchen area, while I took Kim and the others into the communications centre to have a chat. The room was bigger than the kitchen area, but it was still a tight squeeze for all of us to get into it to have a chat, even after displacing the people who were already there. Kim introduced me to her four technicians before we got down to business. Not surprising to me, three of them were women. The...
The shot hadn’t come from the compound. That much was certain. It sounded a lot further away than where we were in relationship to the compound. It also sounded a little further to my left, towards where I’d fought the assholes that had shot at me. It made sense, as I remembered the terrain in that area. That was where the trail from the southwest came out of the forest on the other side of the valley where the compound stood. Obviously, whoever had fired the shot was somewhere off along that...
I held a council of war the next day, right after breakfast. I invited Kim, Clara, Dunbar and Burton, Gogra, Rugar, and Tonko, and Penny. I had matters to discuss. The fact of life was that I had to start taking Quantum a little more seriously than I had been. I had thought that we had months to prepare to confront them, without worrying that they’d show up suddenly and unexpectedly. As their base was hundreds of miles away, I had let myself treat the problem as if we had all the time in...
The capture of the two Cougars changed my plans completely. I still intended to use the ‘Heather’ to land a raiding party on the seaward side of Winslow’s base, but instead of me leading that raid, I sent Burton. He took his original team plus Dunbar. They also took along a pair of guards to watch Terry once he’d dropped them off beneath the cliffs that overlooked the sea. Their orders were the same as before; capture the two shelters and the occupants of them, strike down any of Winslow’s...
We rose early the next morning to get ready to go. The women started breakfast while I went outside with Tonko and Bogdi to tend to our horses. Tikál joined us after a few minutes, offering to help out. Between the four of us, we led all the animals to the river so they could have a drink and then turned them out on the grassy area between the river and the ruined enclosure so that they could graze. By the time we were done, it was time for us to eat. I sat with Dunbar and Burton as we ate....
by Philip Johnson As the category indicates, this is a non-erotic story, so don’t get mad at me when you don’t find much sex in the following story. Chapter One The name Paradise Found sounded somewhere between somewhat cheesy to plastic luxury. But the first thing a person noticed when they pulled up to the front entrance was true luxury. Not over the top luxury, but quality everywhere. The construction made it look like an old mansion that had survived the ravages of time in nearly...
Runaways Runaways By JensenDenmark 1. Holiday Amber met me at the park. We had left our High School separately so we could not be sighted. I rode my skateboard at the path toward the park. It was a shame that we had to keep it so secretly. Amber waited for me. She was 15 like me. ?Darling. I was afraid that your mother had picked you up.? ?No. I told her that I had to study extra for a project.? I kissed her. ?Lets go down to the creek, so we can have some undisturbed time.? The creek...
Huggs surprised Rascal with a nice picnic on the Blue Ridge Parkway after she got off of work one Saturday. While Rascal was at work, Huggs prepared a small array of finger foods that they could enjoy with some wine. Once Rascal got home, Huggs told her to take a nice long shower because they were going to have a picnic on the parkway. Rascal must have saw the gleam in his eyes, because Rascal quickly asked, “It will not just be us at this picnic?” Huggs had to confess that another gentleman...
Gabby started by squatting down across from where the boy was standing so she could speak to the boy without shouting, and to look him in the eye. She started with the old stand by in trying to communicate with the pointing to herself and saying her name and then pointing to the boy. It didn’t take long for the boy to catch on. The boy pointed to himself and said, “Gort.” From there Gabby moved on to Clara’s name and then mine. Once the boy had repeated those, Gabby got into the really...
We camped by the lakeside reeds again once we’d trekked back from our hunting camp. It took us two days to get there. As I had pointed out before, the terrain was rougher on the far side of the lake and there were a number of small streams to ford. With our heavy load, it took a little effort to get back. The women settled us in, as usual. The men took up watch over the site, keeping an eye out for any uninvited guests, both two legged and four. While they did that, I took the kids duck...
The horse had speed. I think it was the first time that the horse had ever been let loose to stretch her legs, and she was making up for all those years. I hung on tightly and just went along for the ride. Eventually the horse got winded. By that time we were past the lake, and halfway to the foothills. When she did start to slow down, I decided it was time to see how willing this animal was to be ridden. I reined in gently until the horse came to a standstill. Then I turned her around, back...
It was three full days before Gabby eventually showed up at the compound with the work team that I’d requested. With her were Rugar, Tonko, Tula, Gabon, Gort, Geeta, Bogdi, Zela, and Thela. They had the three horses with them and our two sleds. Piled on the sleds and tied down, were the travois for the horses and a couple of spares. I welcomed them with open arms. They greeted me with looks of surprise. I had been expecting that. I could understand the surprised look on their faces. I must...
It took four weeks for us to empty the compound, and in truth we still left a lot of stuff behind. Unfortunately, it started raining near the end, making dragging travois and crossing fords much more difficult than they had been previously for my people. It actually rained all the way home to the cave, on the last trip. The locals moved in with little or no problem. By that point the communication issue had been resolved. It also helped that all of them knew at least half of the people in my...
November led into December and we became even more cave bound than before. It snowed almost every week for at least three to four days per week, and it was definitely cold outside the cave. Sneaking off to the latrine was a major endeavour. In fact, chamber pots started springing up in secluded corners of the cave. The women had brought them with them from the hilltop village and from the Horse People. They helped, but they needed to be emptied every day, too. Water also became a problem...