Most of the women on the island had already eaten, but were still in the dining hall and gathered at the tables conversing. Maya smiled at him as he made his way off the elevator, and he made his way to where she was and sat down next to her.
“Hey there,” he said. “How did you sleep?”
“To be honest, I didn’t get much,” she said. “I had…a lot on my mind.”
Maya averted her gaze, and then brought it back, meeting his eyes for a moment before flinching away again. Julius didn’t say anything else to her, and instead turned his attention towards the group of women at one of the other tables.
Jess, Dr. Andreas, and his mother, were all sitting together and whispering about something. The three of them suddenly broke into laughter, and then seemed to notice that Julius was downstairs for the first time.
“Alright, so we have everybody here now,” said Dr. Andreas.
“Not everybody,” said Dana. “I guess Allison must be sleeping in pretty late today.”
It was true. The second body guard was nowhere to be found. Anna was sitting next to Dana, and seemed to be lost in thought. That was everyone else.
“Well, be sure to catch her up to speed later,” said the doctor. “Not that I really have much to announce. Julius, Laura, you’re free to do what you want, as usual. Dana, make sure Allison knows that I want you guys actually doing your jobs as body guards today, okay?”
“Jeez, fine,” said Dana. “It’s not like I was slacking off yesterday. I was just getting settled.”
Jess stood up next, and cleared her throat to quiet the group. She was a meek, but intelligent woman, and though her voice was small, every word seemed to be expertly chosen and convey her exact meaning.
“Maya and Anna, please take care of your duties first thing,” she said. “After that, you’re free to do what you want, as long as you check in with me at least twice throughout the day.”
The girls nodded, and then Jess began moving from table to table, clearing plates. Julius hurried to finish up his food, which he had only received a moment ago. He thought for a little bit about just what he wanted to spend his day on.
“So other than the beach and the resort, what else is there further in on the island?” asked Julius. “Is it unexplored, or…?”
Maya seemed to think for a moment.
“To tell you the truth, I’ve never really had the urge to look around too much,” she said. “I’ve walked up and down the beach a good distance before, and seen a little bit off the road leading to the airport, but nothing beyond that.”
Jess was loading the remnants of breakfast from their table onto her cart, and picked up on their conversation.
“I talked with the old owner a couple of times about what else Granos holds,” she said. “There was an indigenous population here back a couple hundred years ago, but they all seem to have died off or disappeared. I know that way back when the island was owned by her husband, an expedition was planned to look for traces of them, but I don’t think they ever carried it out.”
“That is fascinating,” Julius replied. “I know what I’m going to spend today doing.”
“Ooh, let me come with you!” said Maya. “Please!”
Julius nodded, and she clapped her hands like a little girl. At the other table, Julius could see his mom, who had a look on her face as though she wanted an excuse to tag along. Anna was also listening intently, but said nothing.
“Hey, just make sure you stay safe, okay?” said Dana. “I won’t babysit you Julius, but that means I’m trusting you to be smart.”
He nodded, and then turned to Dr. Andreas. She was writing something in the notebook that she always had on her.
“Julius, be back by late afternoon,” she said, “Around the same time as yesterday. I’m going to need to run another test.”
“Alright, will do,” he said. “Does anyone else have any concerns?”
Nobody in the room said anything, and Julius felt his mind begin to race with ideas. Nature had always been his religion, and he felt like it was long overdue for him to practice his faith.
CHAPTER 15
After breakfast, Julius found a large backpack in one of the hotel storage rooms and began packing it full of supplies for the day. Part of him was tempted to bring equipment for a longer stay, possibly several nights, but with the situation the way it was, he knew it was impossible.
Maya was with him, and her excitement was clearly evident. She was singing a song as she made them both sandwiches in the kitchen for the trip. Julius felt much the same way, even to the extent that he began to get a little nervous at the prospect of being out on the island alone with her.
“Do you mind if we have a picnic lunch, Julius?” she asked. He smiled at her and nodded.
“That sounds like it would be a lot of fun,” he said.
Julius was searching through one of the storage closets for something rugged and tough, something he could cut things with. He had a hatchet back home that he’d carried with him through his survival trip, and wanted to find something that would serve a similar purpose.
There wasn’t much to choose from, but he eventually spotted a decent looking serrated edge knife with a nicely sized blade, and tucked it into his bag. He made his way into the kitchen. Maya was putting their food into a paper bag and dancing as she moved around.
“I’ve actually wanted to see more of the island for a while now,” she said.
“Yeah, so have I,” said Julius. “So…how long have you been working on Granos for, exactly?”
Maya washed her hands off in the sink and then dried them with a towel.
“Oh…I’d say about seven or eight months,” she said. “Not quite as long as Anna, and not nearly as long as Jess.”
She took the bag of food and set it inside a small cloth shoulder bag.
“I’ve always been a bit of a homebody,” she said. “I don’t really mind hanging around the hotel, it’s definitely nice. But on occasion, I get into the mood for a nice adventure, your know?”
Julius nodded.
“I do, totally,” he said.
The two of them collected their stuff, and then made their way towards the entrance of the hotel. Julius couldn’t resist flicking around the knife he had found in his hand, and Maya gave him an exasperated look.
“I will never understand why boys always have such a fascination for their toys,” she said.
Julius just smiled at her.
“Hey, who knows what we might run into out there,” he said. “This thing might end up being the difference between life and death.”
They were about twenty feet outside of the front door of the lobby when they heard the scream. It came from one of the open windows upstairs, but they didn’t have to wait long to find out what it was.
Dana came out of the elevator with a face that was blank and empty. She pointed and shook her head, but neither Julius nor Maya could decode her meaning until she began to speak.
“Allison…” she whispered. “She’s dead.”
It took about ten minutes to gather everyone together in the hotel lobby. Dr. Andreas stood behind the check in desk, frantically writing in her notebook as though she was signing in guests. Julius could see just how small of a group they really were, and now, they were one less.
“This…I don’t even know what to say,” said Jess. “How did she die?”
Dana had been crying silent tears. She was trying to force herself to be strong, Julius could see, and it wasn’t working.
“She was shot!” Dana cried. “She was fucking shot!”
Nobody said a thing. The meaning was clear from her words, even though they weren’t accusatory. They were the only people on the island. If Allison’s death wasn’t a suicide, one of them had to be the culprit.
“How could somebody do that?” asked Anna.
“Look, we don’t know anything yet,” said Julius. “Let’s not jump to conclusions, and just figure this out, together.”
“He’s right!”
said Maya. “Maybe…there is more to it than we can see.”
There was an almost haunting silence in the room for a moment. Finally, Dr. Andreas clacked her notebook on the counter, almost as if she were a judge calling a court to order.
“Dana, we will investigate what happened and see if we can get some answers,” she said. “For now, just rest. Pick out another room on another floor, one that isn’t next to Allison’s. Get as far away from the scene as you can.”
“She was my friend…” whispered Dana. “Being away from it isn’t going to…it’s not going to undo what happened.”
Nobody said anything. Maya walked over to Dana and took her hand.
“Alright, I’m going up with you,” said Jess. “I’m the senior staff on hand at the hotel. I want to get to the bottom of this immediately.”
“I’m going, too,” said Julius. “Whatever happened, however happened…I can’t dodge the feeling that in some way, it’s linked to me.”
“It might not be, we don’t know anything yet,” said the doctor. “But yes, you can come along.”
Nobody said anything as the three of them took the elevator up to the second floor. They hadn’t gotten enough time to really come to trust each other, Julius realized. Outside of the one day they had spent together, most of them were complete strangers.
The walked to the fallen bodyguard’s room and headed inside. What was immediately evident from the state of it was that there had been a struggle. A lamp was knocked over next to the bed, several sheets had been pulled onto the ground and glass shards from a full length mirror were scattered everywhere.
Allison’s body lay in the center of the room, her arms twisted across her chest as though still fighting against her mortal end. Julius saw exactly why Dana had been so shaken when she had come down into the lobby. The bullet had torn through Allison’s skull, leaving her face a mess of blood and gore.
“This is disgusting,” said Jess. “Who…who could do something like this?”
Julius was wondering the same thing. Nobody in the hotel seemed, at least from his basic impression, to be the type who could murder a woman in cold blood. Even overpowering a woman trained as a body guard like Allison seemed to be almost outside of the realm of possibility for most of them.
“We’ll figure it out,” said Dr. Andreas. “In every crime scene, there lies a story.”
She began walking around the room, examining everything that seemed out of place. Julius noticed that Allison’s gun was laying a couple of feet away from her, poking out from underneath a sheet. When he reached for it, Dr. Andreas caught his eye and shook her head.
“Don’t touch that,” she said. “In fact, don’t touch anything.”
Jess took out her phone, and began taking photos of the room. It was a morbid task, but one that the stoic hotel manager seemed to face with a neutral, unflinching attitude. Julius kept looking around, trying to see if there was anything that stood out as being particularly illuminating.
After a couple of minutes, Dr. Andreas sighed, and began writing in her notebook again. She was incredibly focused and seem to be jotting down every relevant detail she could find.
“Let’s clean up the scene,” she said, finally. “I’ll take a look at the gun and a couple of the other things in here for fingerprints, but that’s just about all we can do.”
Julius looked at her blankly.
“Are you serious?” he asked her. “A woman is dead! If we don’t find out who did this, like, immediately, then-“
“Then what?” responded the doctor. “We don’t have a motive, or a suspect, or even any real way to put somebody under arrest. I’ll take fingerprints, they might lead us to somebody, and then we’ll decide as a group what to do about it. But there is no way off the island at the moment. This situation needs to be handled very delicately.”
Julius sighed, but relented. She was right.
“Can I at least go around and see what I can figure out on my own?”
The doctor nodded at him.
“That’s fine,” she said. “I need you down in my lab for a test first though, since you aren’t going on your hike.”
“Alright,” said Julius. “But let’s make it quick.”
Jess came back into the room, followed by Maya and Anna, who brought with them a wheeled gurney and a host of cleaning supplies.
“Should we talk to Dana about what’s best to do with the…” Jess started to trail off, as though it was too painful for her to finish the sentence.
“Yes,” said Dr. Andreas. “I think we might end up having to bury her on the island. We don’t exactly have easy access to the outside world at the moment.”
She walked out of the hotel room and bid for Julius to follow her, and he did, feeling a guilty sort of relief at being able to get away from the carnage inside.
CHAPTER 16
Dr. Andreas led Julius down into the basement, for the second time in two days. Julius had not been bothered by the original test. Rather, he found himself enjoying it, in a strange sort of way. The doctor had him sit down on the examination table again, and then turned to face him.
“I didn’t just bring you down here to collect another sample,” she said. “Julius, the situation is much more serious than I made it out to be upstairs?”
“What do you mean?” he asked.
“At this moment, I don’t have an idea of what could have happened,” said Dr. Andreas. “The only thing I know for sure is that it is definitely related to you being here. We need to get to the bottom of this and fast, or everything could be lost. Everything...”
The doctor looked a Julius for a moment, her eyes imparting onto him the seriousness of what she was saying. Then, she fixed her glasses, and began flipping through her notebook.
“I don’t mean to cause any panic,” she said. “Especially because I need you calm in order to take care of this test. Would you mind stripping down to your underwear, Julius?”
He followed her directions, and removed his clothing. Julius began to feel a little excited. The way that Dr. Andreas was looking at him was almost stimulating in its effect. She had the expression of a woman who was getting ready to do something that she knew on the inside was a little bad.
“Alright, good Julius,” she said, walking over.
Just like the previous day, she took his blood pressure and heart rate. Julius didn’t say anything while she was doing it, and a strange and powerful tension settled down into the room.
“Julius, would you please remove your boxers now?” she asked him. The way she phrased it was technically a question, but sounded much more like a command. Julius pulled them slowly down his legs and off his feet, feeling his dick begin to spring up, excited and free from its confines.
“What I am going to do now is going to be a little different from what happened yesterday,” said Dr. Andreas. “I am still trying to find a way to collect the…sample, a way that will keep it totally unspoiled and preserved.”
She pulled a small bottle out of her medical closet and walked over Julius.
“Sorry, this might be a little cold,” she said, beginning to pour some of the contents of the container onto his crotch.
That was the truth, and Julius flinched as he felt it drizzle down onto his sensitive area. Strangely, the cold began to shift into a warming sensation, and as Dr. Andreas walked over to the screen and turned on a porn clip, he felt his cock beginning to almost prickle with an amazingly pleasurable sensation.
“Doc, what’s going on,” he asked. “This feels, oh man, this feels really good!”
Julius watched as his dick began to harden upwards, almost as if compelled by some type of magical force. It felt as though the liquid, and even the very air around his hard member, was suddenly affecting it in an almost sexual way. He groaned, and Dr. Andreas stepped back over to the examination table, with a small vial in her hand.
“Alright, just try to relax, Julius,” she said. Her hand wrapped around his cock, and Dr. Andreas beg
an stroking him, slowly and steadily.
“I know this is a little bit beyond the boundary of what a doctor would do…but desperate times, call for desperate measures. I have to get your sample fresh, whatever it takes.”
Dr. Andreas was stroking Julius off, deliberately and effectively, and to him, it felt more arousing and dirty than almost anything else he had experienced. The liquid she had poured on made an effective lubricant, and on top of that, it caused his cock to throb at even the slightest touch.
“Oh god, doctor,” whispered Julius. “Please, do whatever you have to. The sample, get the sample.”
“I will, don’t worry,” she said. “I was never this hands on with my patients before the crisis began, you know?”
Her voice was like an aphrodisiac to his ears, but Julius could barely hear the words that she was actually saying. He felt his crotch beginning to warm up and overflow with pleasure, and thrust his hard cock up and into the doctor’s hand one last time before spurting out a large load of cum.
Dr. Andreas missed the first stream, but managed to clamp the vial into place for the second and subsequent ones, getting what she needed. She continued pulling her hand up and down his shaft, milking every last drop out of Julius.
“Let me know next time when you’re close,” she said. “There is no reason for us to waste any of this.”
The doctor put a cap on the vial, and then brought it over to a small freezer in the corner and stored it away. Julius quickly got dressed and then sat back down on the table, letting his heart rate calm down before leaving to head upstairs.
“Like I said Julius,” said the doctor. “We desperately need to figure out who is behind this. If you can find the time today, just see what you can find out. The girls will be more willing to open up to you, I think.”
Julius nodded, and then headed back up to the lobby. Dana was leaning against the wall next to the elevator, and seeing the look on her face instantly brought him back to the situation at hand.
“Hey,” he said as he walked over. “How are you holding up?”
Dana shook her head, and then leaned against him.
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