Consumed

by Leslie Sansom

  “You think I don’t want her back? You think I am thinking of myself and not her? Do you really think I’m not climbing the fucking walls thinking about what he could be doing to her?” I let her go and walked away. “And I don’t have experience with buying women.” I ran my hands through my hair just as Will ran through the door.

  “I’ve got it! I found the metro!” Tiffany and I looked at each other and Will put his hand on the back of the couch to catch his breath.

  “The Metro is a Rotating Sex Party hosted by a man named Abdul Sayid. He is a small time player in the human trafficking game. Sayid has these parties where there’s food, sex, games, torture and auctions. Only his closest friends and associates get invited. He has them once a month and they call them rotating because they are never in the same place. Guests get the invitation but they don’t get the address until 30 minutes before the party.” He stopped talking but I wanted more.

  “So how do we get in? Who can we contact about getting an invitation? You got in to that dreadful auction a year ago, you can get into this party!”

  “Are you crazy? You’re not listening to yourself? This guy might be low on the sex trafficking food chain, but he will still kill you and not blink. You can’t show up not knowing anyone, an outsider. They will take one look at you, know you are up to no good, and kill you. Or you’ll see Nick, make a scene and they’ll kill you. Any option you take ends in death with these people. And you’re not thinking about the most important thing here.” I looked up at him not knowing what he was talking about. “The date was June 3rd, Liam. That was 2 weeks ago.” No one said anything for a long while.

  “I think it’s time to call the police,” Tiffany finally broke the silence.

  “Well there is one more option but it isn’t a good one.”

  “What’s the other option?” I asked.

  “The metro is usually held in New York. With only 30 minutes’ notice Nick would have to live close by, right?” I took my phone out of my pocket and hit a few buttons. I didn’t even wait for her to say anything.

  “Marcy, put me on the next flight to New York!”

  Norah

  “We’re going out, get ready.” He yelled loud enough for me to hear over the hairdryer. When I walked out to the bedroom I saw he had laid a red outfit on the bed and left the room. Red leather boots, skirt, tight fitting sequin top and horns. Horns? I shrugged my shoulders and powdered my legs for the boots.

  “What’s the powder for?” he asked walking back in wearing only black leather pants. I slid on the skirt, then turned to face him. “It makes the boots fit better. You should try it for your pants. It helps when you start to sweat.” I pulled the top over my head and it kinda got stuck. It was very small, and tight. I wiggled and tried to pull my way out but not having sleeves didn’t help. With the tube top over my head and my arms over my head, I felt his hands touch my stomach, then he kissed both of my breasts, finally he helped me pull the top on. He arranged it on me the way he wanted then walked over to his dresser.

  “What are the horns for?” I slid my feet in the long boots and zipped them up. He pulled out a long black cape, black hat, and black button up shirt. “It’s a costume party.”

  I looked at myself in the mirror. “So I’m the devil?” I turned to face him. “So what does that make you?” He snorted and walked to me and handed me a red mask. I looked at his entirely black outfit, black boots and black mask. “A pirate?” He walked to the trunk in the corner and pulled up a belt with a sword attached to it. “Zorro,” he smiled. I just rolled my eyes and hoped he didn’t have the same distaste for eye rolling that Liam did.

  As we drove I got nervous. After our last party and beating session, this could be very bad. He was slowly making more and more demands of me and his punishments were getting worse and worse. I panicked thinking he might request me to take part in the entertainment tonight and I shivered thinking what the torture would entail if I refused. I decided to voice my concerns.

  “I’ve been good lately. I’ve done everything you have asked of me.” I said it in a hushed breath. I wanted him to know I was scared but I didn’t want to make him mad. I kept my head lowered and his hand came over to touch my thigh. “Do you think this party is a punishment?” I shrugged but that was what I assumed. “If it isn’t a punishment, I’m sure it’s another request or warning.” I knew he probably wanted me to do something new and this was his way of warning me about what would happen if I didn’t do it. He chuckled. “Norah, you think you know me so well, don’t you?” I looked up at him. “You forget, this isn’t the first time I have played games like this.” He made a satisfying sound. “Ahh, so Liam did hurt you to get you to do what he wanted.” I turned my body away from him. “Liam never hurt me!” It wasn’t true. Liam had smacked me the first night we were together and spanked me for trying to kill myself. He was very forceful with me. But he had apologized so many times for his treatment of me before he fell in love with me. His most recent attack on me which took place just before this lovely situation happened, I could have stopped with a safe word, but chose not to. I looked down at my wrists and ran my fingers over the new scars from being suspended in Nick’s room of torture.

  “Are you going to hurt me tonight?” I asked in a whisper. He made a humming noise like he was thinking of his answer. “Well I think you have learned by now that my actions depend on you.” He sounded so much like Liam. I began to wonder if there was some kind of cocky smartass dictator handbook.

  We didn’t go to a private party. This was a club. I could hear loud techno music from the driveway. We walked inside and the hallways were lined with people with lots of tattoos, piercings and crazy hair. I wasn’t sure if they were wearing costumes or if this was the dress code. In the main room there were large platforms with cages and people dancing in and around them. People hung from the ceiling in swings and twisted themselves on ropes. I saw a few fire breathers and lots of people being pulled around by leashes. On the main stage was 3 red velvet couches. One man was receiving a blow job by 2 different girls, and a couple was sitting next to him going at it. Nick ordered us some drinks from the bar.

  “Looks like things haven’t gotten started yet.” He raised his eyebrows as he took a sip of his drink. I wondered what that meant, it looked like things were going strong to me. A very attractive blonde walked up to him and whispered something in his ear and he smiled and whispered something back. I looked away then he took my hand. “Come with me.” He pulled me through the crowd and down another dark hall. We entered a room lined in chairs with a big glass window that was all black. He pushed a button on the wall and lights behind the glass came on. Behind the glass was a man on his knees getting nailed from behind by a woman wearing a device that looked like a penis. I winced and hid my face. “Don’t like this one?” He took my hand and we went in another room. We went in 3 different rooms and I saw nothing I liked. I saw a woman being fucked by 2 midgets, I saw a woman with a whip, smacking whatever a man on the floor put in his mouth and I saw a threesome involving a man and 2 women. Finally we got to room where women were dancing like strippers around poles and I told him I wanted to stay in this room. It was least of all the evils. I stood and watched the women dancing on the stage and swayed to the music. I finished my drink which tasted like diet coke but with a hint of coconut and asked for another. When he brought me my drink he looked happy and relaxed, playful even. “I think you like this music, Norah.” I nodded. “I do. I love music, and I love to dance.” He moved behind me and pulled me closer. I didn’t stop moving my hips for fear he would get angry. “You look amazing in this outfit and I love the way you are moving your body right now.” He had to lean over to talk in my ear due to his height. “I think you should go on the stage and dance, have some fun.” I laughed and pulled away to look him in the face.

  “Are you serious? Me? Up there? I can’t do that. I’m not sexy enough to dance in front of the room.” I laughed again and took a sip from my drink.

/>   His smile dropped and he took his hands away from my hips, which I didn’t mind. “I’m going to another room. Don’t try to leave.” He walked away and I was completely confused. He was leaving me alone? That was weird. I stood and watched the dancing a little longer then decided to explore some. I walked up some stairs and saw more sex rooms and peep shows. I saw torture chambers with people getting beaten. I even saw people who thought they were vampires biting each other’s necks and drinking what looked like blood. I walked into a room that was all black, had slower techno music playing and people everywhere doing various sexual things. As I moved further in the room I saw the back of Nick’s head sitting on a couch. “There you are. I thought you left me.” I walked in front of him and saw he was kissing one woman and another was giving him a blow job. I crossed my arms against my chest and he looked up at me as the women changed places. Instead of kissing the other woman he made her kiss his neck and locked his eyes on me. I wondered if he thought this was my punishment for not dancing.

  “Are you trying to hurt me?” I asked even though it didn’t. I honestly didn’t care. I was glad he was getting some action, maybe he would leave me alone for a while. “I think you know what I would do if I wanted to hurt you, Norah.” He motioned his head toward my wrists, and I rubbed them. He held the woman on his dick down and rolled his eyes back a little. “I’m gonna come, do you want me to come in your mouth?” he asked with his smug ass grin, he was talking to me, not the whore on his cock. “What are you going to do to me if I don’t?” He smiled then came in her mouth. He stood up and tucked himself back in his pants. “Oh, I’m not going to do anything. But I will let someone else do it.” He grabbed my arm and dragged me out of the room.

  “Please don’t do this!” I begged as he chained me up in the middle of the red room. I saw another man dressed in leather assless chaps standing to the side waiting for Nick to finish. “Don’t let him hurt me, please Nick, I’ll do whatever you want.” He laughed. “We both know that isn’t true, Norah. I have asked many things of you and the only way I get what I want is to get ugly.” I cringed and squeezed my eyes shut and opened them again. “I’ll dance. I’ll dance for you and the whole party. Take me to the main room and I’ll dance in there!” I knew I sounded crazy, but I was desperate. He grabbed my chin and squeezed my face. “I learned the very first week with you that asking you to do something more than once was pointless. Ever sense then, I have asked once and either you do what I ask or you pay the consequences. I think you like the hard way, Norah.” He put a blind fold over my eyes and gave me a chaste kiss.

  I could barely sit down on the ride home. “Did you enjoy yourself?” he seemed very happy with himself. “I think I blacked out after the cane, so I don’t even know how my legs started bleeding.” I was crying. He touched my shoulder trying to get me to look at him, but I jumped when I felt his hand on me.

  “Do you think I’m going to hit you while I’m driving?” he yelled. I turned to face him and he took my chin in his hand. “I hope that heals. We don’t want your pretty face to be ruined. I was awake for the part where the whip hit my face and Nick yelled at the guy for doing it. “How many men were there?” He dropped my chin and focused back on the street. “You act like I forced you into a gang bang.” He looked over toward me. “I let a few men hit you. You’re mine now, I can do what I want.” I moved slowly in the seat and lowered my head to my lap and hugged my legs. Liam, you have to find me soon. I don’t know how much more I can take.

  “All you have to do is submit to me, Norah.” He rubbed his hand over my hair. “Submit to me like you did Liam and all of this will be over.”

  Chapter Fourteen

  Liam

  I stood in the hotel knowing Norah was here in this city somewhere, I knew it. I could feel it. I could feel she was close. I was waiting for information and I hated waiting. Will and I had used all of our old contacts to find out about the metro and any underground sex clubs in the area. My private investigator was also searching for an address for Nick Meyers in New York. Norah had been gone for 24 days. I had 6 more days to find her before I met my own deadline.

  The next morning I got the call from Will I had been waiting for.

  “Hello?”

  “I found 2 clubs. The kind of clubs you’re looking for, right there in New York. One of them you need a code or password which changes all the time. As soon as it is texted to me, I will text you. But be ready to go tonight. The other you need a key, which I am still working on. But when I get access to the key I will have it messengered to you.” We talked some more about the progress he was making trying to get me an invitation to the next metro party.

  “Will, thank you.” We both got quiet. “I don’t think I have thanked you for all the work you have been doing to help me find Norah. And I didn’t do the same for you with Jane. I’m sorry about that.” We were quiet again.

  “Don’t worry about it. Jane left me herself, and Norah was taken, it’s different.” He paused and I could hear him breathing hard in the phone. “And I was a dick. I told Norah the truth and made her leave you. I roughed her up like she belonged to me, and I knew better than that. I just want to make things right, Liam. You love her, you need her back.”

  I wore dark jeans and a black V-neck t-shirt and pulled my new leather jacket out of the bag while I waited for the text from Will. My pocket buzzed and I looked down at my phone. I had an address and the password for a club Nick had been seen in before and might be at tonight. I kissed the screen of the phone and made a silent prayer that he would be there tonight and have my Norah with him.

  I walked in the club. It was the kind of club I had to before. Dancing, loud music, drinking, drugs and lots of sex. Everywhere I looked people were fucking or engaging in masochist acts. It was the kind of scene I use to love and have such a goodtime around. I use to love watching sex play out in front of me. I use to love engaging in scenes in front of a group. Beating, caning and fucking woman into exhaustion. The thought of Norah being in a place like this made my skin crawl. She didn’t belong in this place or any place like it. This wasn’t her scene and she was only here because of me.

  I turned the corner and there she was, on her knees in the center of the stage. I could see whelps on her thighs and back. I saw Nick in the corner talking with another man about which cane to use on her next. Nick walked down the hall as the other man approached her. I couldn't watch this so I stepped to him and requested to take his place.

  “You want a piece of this whore, you’re gonna have to stand in line, man. There are 2 other guys after me. And he’s going to let one of us fuck her, so step away.” It took every ounce of everything I had inside me not to knock him out for calling her a whore and implying he wanted to fuck her, but I knew I couldn’t. For Norah’s safety I had to play this game until I got here out of here. I didn’t know how long Nick would be gone and I didn’t want to fight him here in this place. I would get my revenge when Norah was safe. So I responded the only way I knew how.

  “I’ll give you $50 thousand dollars if you let me go in your place.” He stepped to the side and walked off the stage. I had many eyes on me and I had to come up with a plan fast. I knelt in front of her and touched her face. She had a blindfold on but she still leaned into my hand. “Oh, baby. I’m here. I’m here now. I found you. And everything is going to be alright. I promise.” I pulled her off her knees and threw her over my shoulder. I started for the door when another guy stopped me.

  “Where do you think you’re going with her? Nick said we had to play with her here.” I forced a smile and tapped him slightly on the shoulder. “Yeah, I know. But I paid him to let me get some private time.” I winked. “If you know what I mean.” He laughed and took a sip of his beer, but he got out of the way. I moved faster so I wouldn’t get any more questions. As I approached the door, I thought the bouncer would question my taking a blindfolded and tied up girl out of the club. So I handed a hundred dollar bill to a drunk girl at the bar and aske
d her to start a fight near the door. When the bouncer left to break it up I made a break for it. After 25 days I finally had my Norah back.

  I ran the bath water as I untied her hands and took her blindfold off. “It’s me, baby.” I pulled her to me and hugged her tight. She made a noise and I knew I was hurting her back. I let her go and held her against me. I saw a mark on her face and reached up to touch it but she moved her head away from me. “Please baby, don’t be scared of me.” Listening to her cry made me cry too. “I’m so sorry this happened, Norah. I’m going to make it right, baby.” I turned her around and unlaced her corset. Her back was covered in whelps and red marks. I pulled down the little underwear she had on and her behind looked the same. I wanted to touch the marks, but they looked fresh and I knew it would hurt. I pulled off her boots and carried her to the tub. “Can I trust you to leave you alone for a moment?” She was still crying and wouldn’t look at me. I took my phone from my pocket and stood in the door way. The last time I left her in a tub when she was in distress she tried to kill herself. I wasn’t taking that chance this time.

  “I’ve got her…yes she’s safe…well she’s in the tub right now, but I will have her call you as soon as possible. I don’t know how long we will stay here….but if she wants to come home we will be there…you know I’m gonna do whatever she wants…whatever she needs, I’m going to help her, Tiffany. Yes, I will tell her.” I push some buttons and called Will to tell him about finding her.

  “Yeah it was all pretty anti-climatic. I saw her, bribed a guy to let me have a turn with her and carried her out. She’s in the tub now. No, she hasn’t said anything. I don’t even know if she knows who I am. She could be drugged I don’t know. Yeah, she’s covered in marks.” Then I turned my back to Norah and whispered in the phone. “He’s gonna pay, Will. I’m gonna find him and make him pay for what he has done to her. When she is better, healed….I’m gonna kill him,…with pain,…lots of pain.”