by Corby, Linda
Sultan’s ears pricked up as he heard the sound of the low pitched whistle and the other Puma’s followed as they padded silently up to surround Andrew and his men. Andrew sensed something was amiss and had taken his flick knife from the lining of his Jacket pocket as he gave instructions for the patrol to be spread out to some of his men, and informed the others to put the inflammable plastic into the vents to ensure the inside floorboards of the mansion would set alight rapidly when they set fire to them.
Andrew suddenly realized that the Puma’s were behind him as Simon blew the whistle for Sultan and the other Puma’s to have their feast. Andrew threw himself into the mansion through a window slicing his arms in several places on the way, he dropped his knife when he saw Simon Peter’s shot gun aimed straight at his chest.
Simon made him watch as his men were torn to shreds and their mutilated bodies were spasmodically jerking while the Puma’s devoured their bloody meals, watching this not only terrified Andrew but made him vomit on the spot. Simon did not enjoy the spectacle but knew he could use it to terrify Andrew into giving him all the information he needed.
Once Andrew had given him all the information Simon contacted Zaneen asking her what she wanted done with Andrew. Zaneen considered the options and decided that he should be kept alive as he could have further information that might be of general use to her at a later date or if they needed someone to swap in any future hostage situation.
Zaneen always tried to be prepared for any eventuality that might crop up and she did not see this should be any exception to the rule just because it involved Andrew; after all he had been disloyal and deceitful to her and had intended to cause her harm.
Simon informed Zaneen that Andrew had not been alone in his scheme against her; he had been in alliance with Trevor Sutton the son of the north east sectional Godfather, Trevor had been planning to overthrow his father, by helping Andrew to disrupt the other families with the intention of turning them all against each other.
Disposing of various high up members of each family, they could have made it appear like return vendettas therefore making it easier to make their takeover bid and gain the power they so desired.
Simon had put a tail on the two driver’s that had been waiting for Andrew at the bottom of the drive, they were brothers Frank and Mick Draper, they had hidden their two Bedford vans on the path behind Zaneen’s rhododendron bushes at the end of the long driveway to her mansion.
It had occurred to Simon that it wouldn’t be a bad thing to place a tail on them so he had set one of Zaneen’s guards the task of following Mick Draper and James Levre was trailing Frank, as James was better qualified in the practice of not being noticed, and Frank Draper always kept an eye open for such things.
Lora Preston awoke to the sounds of the sea as she had stayed the night at Ray Colts, as she watched the beautiful sea views from the spare bedroom’s window the events from the previous day flashed through her mind. She felt unsure of herself for the first time in years; she wondered through the adjoining bathroom and had a refreshing cold shower she quite often did this as she believed that it toned up one’s muscles giving one a better start to the day. As she walked back from the adjoining door from the bathroom to the bedroom she caught the sound of Ray’s distinctive knock on the bedroom door, her heart missed a beat as she opened the door and let him in.
Ray smiled at her as he came into the room breakfast tray in hand; he remembered how she liked to have breakfast in bed when they had been together. Lora started chatting as he came in and put the tray down on the bedside table.
“Good morning Ray, I see you have a good memory, thank you my love I shall enjoy that, you could always make a lovely cup of tea, and I see you’ve remembered how I like my toast, you know that is something I’ve missed about you, you always were thoughtful and always seemed to take note of peoples likes and dislikes, even if you did on occasions use them to your own ends.”
As Lora ate her breakfast wishing that Ray had made her listen to the truth instead of saying nothing when he had left, if she had known that he was going in order to look after his son and that there was no other woman she would never have made him divorce her, and she felt they could have had a good life together, she thought it was a great shame as she found Paul a very acceptable young man. Her thoughts were interrupted when Ray got up to leave the room; she looked up at him as he spoke with a twinkle in her eyes.
“Well, I’d better leave you in peace as you’ve nearly finished breakfast and you’ll be wanting to get dressed, if there is anything you want I’ll be in my study as I’ve got some bookwork to sort out and if I don’t do it soon it will start to pile up again and you know how much I love to do it when it gets like that?”
Lora didn’t feel she wanted him to go without clearing the air as far as their personal lives were concerned. It seemed a shame to have sorted out the other disagreements and not those. Thinking that with those sorted out as well they could well have a good relationship again or at least be friends. She quickly spoke out to stop him leaving the room.
“Ray don’t go, I’d like to have a word with you. I’m not sure how to put what I have to say so I’m just going to come straight out with it even though you know what I’m like I’ll probably say it all wrong if you know what I mean.”
Ray did know what she meant and he watched her face as he butted into speak to her before she could say something she might regret or he would take the wrong way as he did not want her to miss anything out that could be of an interesting nature to him.
“Look Lora I have no intention of jumping the gun and you know yourself that we would have been much better off in our marriage if we had stopped to talk and listen a bit more, instead of holding our feelings inside and then exploding when we couldn’t keep things in any longer.”
Lora could feel the large lump in her throat as she answered him, she had never been very good at expressing herself in words but knew it had to be done and she thought she may as well get it over with and break the remainder of the ice.
“I have never understood why you didn’t say that Paul’s mother had died giving birth to him. If I’d known that at the time things would have been very different and we more than likely would not have split up. You see, it was mainly the thought of you living with another woman that upset me, I felt betrayed and jealousy made me behave the way I did. If I had known the true circumstances instead of thinking you were simply keeping another woman at the time we could have sorted things out, now I’ve meet Paul I know I could have accepted him as my own… I find he is so much like you in his mannerism’s, plus he has got your steel blue eyes that hold a magnetic draw which yours always have for me, I know that I’d have grown to love him. What I can’t understand is why you didn’t force me into listening to the truth and let me meet Paul, surely our marriage was worth that little extra effort on your part? I know I jumped to the wrong conclusion but most women would have done the same thing.”
Ray was flabbergasted by what Lora had come out with, he had not considered for a moment that Lora would have accepted Paul as theirs, he thought that any woman put in that position would have felt horrified at the thought of bringing up her husband’s love child, as they were married at the time she found out he had considered it unfair to force her to stay with him and unwillingly look after Paul. He felt that Lora would become resentful and bitterly begrudge both of them making life unbearable for them all, so he had taken it upon himself to shoulder the blame and had said nothing.
Ray sat down by her on the edge of the bed and cupped her chin in his hands noting the sad look in her eyes as he replied…
“I’m Sorry Lora, God only knows I had no idea that you would have felt or behaved in that way. I didn’t think it would be right to tie you down with a child that was bound to remind you that I had been unfaithful to you every-time you looked at him, whether he looked like me or not didn’t occur to me at the time. I was too confused and unhappy to think straight. You had alre
ady said you wanted a divorce, especially as you had stressed that you wanted to be left alone so that you could start a new life and that I should take Ricky with me as you didn’t want to be reminded of me. It’s not that I didn’t love you, just the opposite in fact you are a beautiful woman and I did not feel I had the right to ask you to suffer and be unhappy because of my own selfish needs.
I considered it would be wrong under the circumstances to hang on to you, I hope you can find it in you to understand why I did what I did; I really thought I was doing the best thing for all of us. If I’d known then what I do now things would have been very different as I wouldn’t have let you go without letting you have the details and decide for yourself what the best thing to do would be.”
Lora replied and Ray knew by the sentimental softness in her voice that things were going to work out for the best after all, even after all the time they had wasted.
“There is one other point I’d like to understand Ray, and that is why you didn’t let me see Ricky, I know I sent him away with you out of spite, but I did contact you on several occasions as to when we could sort out my seeing him every now and again. I don’t know why you had to be so hard as to not even let me come and see him, as he is bound to feel inside as though I did not love him or even really care, even though you have told him the truth I should be very surprised if he doesn’t have misgivings as to what the truth really is.”
Ray kissed her on the nose and she knew by his voice that his reply was sincerely meant from his heart.
“Lora I just simply couldn’t stand the pain of seeing you or Ricky coming home and talking about the things you had been doing together, he’d have been coming out with my mummy this and mummy that and I didn’t think I could take it. It was enough to know you were with another man but to have to see you and talking to you knowing it was my fault that we parted in the first place would have sent me up the wall to say the least. I didn’t think it would be good for Ricky to be torn between the two of us and as you had remarried it was bound to happen sooner or later. You see, Ricky was the only thing I had left that was a little bit of you, he even looks a lot like you and to lose him as well as you would have broken me. I just couldn’t face that alone, let alone have another man around our son if only for a short while.”
Lora gave a half hearted laugh, and Ray felt the soulful emotion in her voice, he wished he had tried to sort things out long before but then he wasn’t to know just how much she really cared for him.
“Ray, you have no idea how I’ve longed for you to come back, and rescue me. You see I married Rustle Preston on the rebound from our divorce, he was nothing but a brutally savage animal, you couldn’t have wished to meet a more loving gentle person than Rustle when he courted me, we had never even had sex, he said he didn’t want to push me and said we should wait until we got married so that we could become friends as well as lovers.
It wasn’t until after he’d got the ring on my finger that he showed his true colours. It was obvious then why he hadn’t pushed me into having sex with him, you’ve never seen such a huge member on a human being it looked as though nature had made a grotesque mistake and had handed him one out that should have been given to a horse rather than a man. At first he had not used force on me or for that matter the full size of his member, he waited till after Stephanie was born I couldn’t stand him coming near me, I had only got pregnant to keep him away from me in the first place, and after she was born I used her as an excuse to keep him away from me simply to keep him at bay.
It was about three weeks after Stephanie’s birth that he first attacked me, I can honestly say that I’ve never experienced anything so agonisingly painful in my life it felt as though my insides were being stabbed and punched about as he relentlessly used me like I was some kind of dustbin. Fortunately he came quickly on that occasion and I only needed a few stitches to put the damage he had caused right. I felt dirty and degraded by his behaviour and he couldn’t have cared less. He actually told me that he was going to have some fun now that we had got a daughter. He only wanted one child and now he had Stephanie he could see no reason why he shouldn’t use his member without restraint, he said she may as well tell the Doctor not to stitch it up too tight as it would be a waste of time. The Doctor went mad and gave Preston a piece of his mind on the second occasion that this happened, so Rustle did leave me alone for a while. Then it happened again, on the day we had Stephanie’s christening we held a fairly large reception party, Rustle got pissed out of his mind. Silky and Rim had put him to bed for me and after I had seen the guests all leave I went to bed myself as we had separate bedrooms by this time and I always locked my door. I wasn’t expecting any trouble from him. I don’t know what time it was when he came into my room but he must have woken up and decided to have another go at me, to cut a long story short I ended up three weeks in hospital because he ruptured me and the state of my pussy left a lot to be desired. I kept a gun under my pillow after that as the thought of him coming anywhere near me was unbearable, I would have shot myself if I’d had to pick between the two of us, but as you know I would have been more likely, to shoot him in preference to myself. From that time on I went right off men and haven’t been able to face going with one since. So you see we’ve both lost out and I feel cheated but then we cannot change the past so I think we should live for the future.”
Ray had listened with disgust at what Lora had told him, and took her into his arms while she spoke of the revolting past she had shared with Preston, he couldn’t understand why she had stayed in the same house as Preston for so long as he considered that it must have been a dreadful atmosphere to have to live with. Ray held her gently into his arms and cradled her there feeling the tension gradually leaving her body as he spoke to her, wondering how on earth she had put up with so much for so long. He knew she had always had a great inner strength but had never realised how strong she really was.
“You should have contacted me Lora; you know full well I would never have put up with such goings on. Preston would have wondered what hit him if I’d have laid my hands on him and you know it.”
Lora replied calmly with her clear eyes looking straight into Ray’s showing the depth of feeling’s for him without any real need for words.
“You know why Ray, and I don’t think that I need to tell you now it is over and done with I don’t want to talk about the past or for that matter even think of it. I have a sick feeling in my stomach even at the mention of Rustle’s name let alone anything else, so I would rather we left the subject for good. I don’t mean to be funny but I don’t want to hear any more about it, ever!”
Ray said no more on the subject realizing that she had put her daughter before herself, blaming himself for her nightmare knowing that if he had been more awake as to what had been going on he could have saved her a lot of pain. He could feel her warm body leaning on him and kissed her gently to see what reaction he would receive delighted to find that she was still willing to respond to him knowing all that she had been through he pampered her and after some time made his way to her right breast working his tongue around her nipple until he felt it harden in response, then made his way to her mound stroking and licking the parts that he remembered excited her, placing his body between her legs as he did so. He opened the lips of her pussy in order to awaken her innermost desires and was horrified to see the scars around her pussy’s opening that Preston had inflicted upon her.
Lora had almost forgotten how good Ray was at oral sex and for the first time in years she felt like a whole woman, it surprised her to feel like having a man inside her again, the terror of being torn into little pieces had gone from her mind as she pulled open Ray’s dressing gown and begged him to make her once more complete as he had done so many times in the past. Ray was more than willing to oblige and did so as delicately as he knew how, slowly sliding his member in and out until neither of them could stand the burning desire to come any longer. Ray could feel her insides sucking rhythmically on his
throbbing member he allowed himself to thrust deeply inside her and pump out his seamen, now without the fear that he might hurt her as her wet secretion stung his-member.
15 TAKEN.
It was around 11 o’clock on the Monday morning that Stephanie was on her way back from doing some shopping, as she stopped at the Zebra crossing on the way to Antony’s terrace house when a very attractive blonde haired young man offered to carry her things for her. She didn’t see any harm in letting him do so and handed them over to him as he told her his name was Trevor Sutton and suggested that they would find it quicker to use his car as it was parked on their route to her home, saying the car was only just around the corner and he had to pass her door on the way out of town anyway. Stephanie remembered seeing Trevor’s face at one of her families parties so thought he would be ok.
Trevor Sutton went straight past the turning for the terrace house and Stephanie felt angry when she saw the smile on his lips as she spoke to him.
“Trevor, do you think you could pull over and stop on the next turning as you’ve just missed the one to my home and I’ve not got the time to go on a joy ride today?”
Trevor’s eyes scanned over Stephanie’s body as he replied still smiling to himself telling her how easy he had found it to get her into his car.
“Sorry about this Stephanie but we’re just going somewhere else first for a coffee and a chat, that is whether you’ve got the time or not. Don’t be alarmed though no harm is likely to befall you while you’re with me you are quite safe at the moment if you just do as you are told that is.”
Stephanie could have kicked herself for not realizing she was conned, before realizing it was too late to worry about it, she tried to open her door in order to jump out when the car slowed down at the traffic lights. Trevor saw what she had in mind before she could get away, swinging his Cortina sharply around a left hand bend throwing her back into the car seat, he grabbed her arm quite roughly to show her he was serious, gripping it hard giving one good tug. He then drove out of the town with his tyres screeching on most of the bends; Stephanie decided to make as much noise as possible in order to attract attention and possibly get help of some kind. Trevor could feel himself losing his cool as he shouted at her.
