by Sarah Monte
“I don’t know what to do,” said Mike. “I always know the solution to a problem but this time it’s like I am completely stuck. My mind just isn’t working.”
“That’s because you are wallowing in guilt,” said Jennifer. “You are blaming yourself for his disappearance because you feel like you should have been there for him. Get this out of your head before anything else. This is not your fault, Mike.”
Mike took a deep breath and said, “This is not my fault.”
“Good,” said Jennifer, wrapping her arms around Mike. “Now think. What can you do right now? Every problem has a solution.”
“His phone,” said Mike. “I can… I can track his phone. It’s still on so I will still be able to track his location.”
“That’s great!” said Jennifer. “That’s the Mike I got together with! How are you going to find his location through his phone?”
“My contacts in the police department,” said Mike. “I can talk to them and help them access his location.”
“Okay,” said Jennifer, “so what do you need to do now?”
“I need to call my contacts and tell them to get started on this,” said Mike.
“Good,” said Jennifer, “now you have a goal that you can work towards. You have a way to help your cousin!”
Mike rested his head on Jennifer’s shoulder and said, “I don’t know what I am going to do if something has happened to him.”
“Don’t think about that right now,” said Jennifer. “You have a solution to this problem and you have to focus on that. Come on, call your contacts. Have you eaten anything?”
“Not since yesterday,” said Mike.
“Okay,” said Jennifer. “You call your people and I will make you something to eat. Look, Mike, no matter what happens, you have it in you to find your cousin. You are the only person in the world who can actually do it. If it had been anyone else I would have given up, but because I know it’s you I am never going to give up. I am going to be with you every step of the way, okay?”
Mike looked up at her. There was a strange but not unpleasant look in his eyes that Jennifer had never seen before. It was a look of warmth and affection, a look of passion and ecstasy. Jennifer did not know it yet, but Mike had fallen in love with her right then and there. Mike did not even know this yet, and Jennifer had no idea that she was also deeply in love with him. It was a love that was going to end up shaping the rest of their lives.
Chapter Ten
Mike called up Ted, his contact at the police department. His heart was racing and he felt like if he did not get an answer to all of his questioned soon he would end up tearing all of his hair out in frustration. Thankfully, Jennifer was here to help him through this. If it had not been for her he felt that he would have done some rash or stupid and that would have made everything so much worse. He wished that he had the words to tell her how he felt. Maybe later when all of this was over he would try to figure out how he could tell her how much she meant to him, but at this point he knew that there was no point. He had to focus on the task at hand. It would help him to focus on what really mattered later on in his life.
“Hello, Ted?” said Mike when his contact picked up. “It’s Mike.”
“Mike!” said Ted, “So good to hear from you. How can I help you?”
“I am going to have to call in one of the favors you owe me,” said Mike.
“Sure,” said Ted. ‘What do you need?”
“I need to find my cousin,” said Mike. “He has been unresponsive for twenty four hours now but his phone is still on. I need you to track its location and tell me where he is right now. Can you do that for me?”
“Yes,” said Ted. “Just text me his number and I will locate the phone right away.”
‘Okay,” said Mike. “I’ll be at the station in an hour. Just found out where he is and keep me posted, when I get there I want to know everything about where that phone has been.”
Mike cut the call and went into the kitchen where Jennifer was cooking something up for him. While he knew that he just couldn’t eat anything right now, he knew that he was going to have to at least try. If he didn’t eat, Jennifer would get very worried indeed and he did not want to cause her any more grief than he already had because of his irrational behavior. Additionally, he knew that if he did not eat he would end up becoming weak and he could not afford to lose his mental faculties at this moment when he needed them the most.
He ate a little bit of the sandwich she made him and wrapped the rest of it up for later. He and Jennifer exited his condo and made their way to the police station.
“You know,” said Jennifer, “this is really good. You have a contact that can help you out a lot. Even if he doesn’t have his phone, you will find out where David has been. This will help you to pinpoint where he might go, where he might have been taken. I think everything is going to be just fine.”
She reached out and held Mike’s hand. Mike returned the pressure and smiled at her. “I hope everything turns out okay,” he said. “I wish that it wasn’t like this. I wish that you hadn’t been involved in this too, I am so sorry that I am causing you so much stress.”
“Oh shush,” said Jennifer. “This is not your fault at all. This is just something that happened, you had no control over it at all. You were just trying to be a good friend to David, you were trying to help him out. Now that he is in even more trouble you are still trying to help him out. I am not just here for good bits, Mike. I am here for it all, and I know that you feel the same way about me. I know that you are going to do whatever it takes to help me out whenever I am in need. So don’t apologize, okay? I am not here because I have to be, I am here because I want to be. I am here because my boyfriend needs me.”
“Boyfriend…” said Mike, “I didn’t realize that this is what I am to you. Don’t get me wrong, I am really glad that I am your boyfriend! It’s just that you have never called me that before. It’s kind of nice to be called that, you know? It’s nice that you think of me like that.”
Jennifer smiled and bent over to give Mike a quick kiss on the cheek. The rest of the drive was rather tense as neither of them knew what to say to the other in order to make things a little less stressful, so they just held hands and played some music while they made their way to the precinct that Ted worked at. When they got there, they parked their car and rushed in immediately. Mike had texted Ted when he had been close and Ted had come to the front desk to meet them.
“Hey,” said Ted, shaking Mike’s hand.
“Ted,” said Mike, giving his contact’s hand a firm shake. “This is Jennifer, my girlfriend. What have you found?”
Ted gave Jennifer a polite nod and said, “I have found out where the phone is. It’s not moving, it’s in one place, but I don’t think you are going to like where that place is.”
They rushed behind Ted and went to a room filled with computers. They sat down at one of the computers and Ted showed them a map of the city. There was a little blue dot that was pulsing on the center of the screen.
“That is where the guy’s phone is,” said Ted. “Right in the middle of mafia territory.”
“I knew it,” said Mike. “I knew that he was involved with the mob, there was no other reason for him to be so afraid all of the time. I just wish that he had trusted me enough to tell me what was going on!”
“So what should we do now?” asked Jennifer. “Should we go to where the phone is?”
“We can take a full SWAT unit and be there within the hour,” said Ted.
“No,” said Mike. “It’s too dangerous. If we go there guns blazing they might hurt David and that is not something that I am going to be able to deal with right now. We need to be smart about this. Before we do anything else, show me where this phone has been over the course of the last forty eight hours.”
Ted pulled up the data and Jennifer and Mike saw that the phone had been all over town.
“Okay,” said Mike, “so that means that David was okay until yesterday. He got t
o his current location yesterday about four hours before I sent him the money. I am pretty sure that no one has checked his phone yet, or have they? If they had checked it they would have called me, right? After all, I sent him texts saying that I had sent him some money, this would tell them that I am someone they would be able to extort.”
“Unless they are not looking for money,” said Ted. “If David was as scared as you said he was, this might mean that he was in deeper than you know. It might not be about the money at all, it might just be about him having slighted the mob in some way and he is getting his comeuppance for it.”
“Okay,” said Mike. “That makes sense. We need to go to this location but without any cops. We need to be discrete about this. I’ll go on my own and make sure that everything is clear before I give you the signal, Ted. If David is there I will find out how heavily guarded his location is and relay this information to you. Keep the SWAT team on standby but don’t dispatch them yet. The phone is in the heart of Mafia territory, they won’t be able to get anywhere near that location without arousing suspicion. No, it would be better to just keep them ready and dispatch them when I give the signal, that way they can quickly come in and handle the whole thing.”
“I am coming with you,” said Jennifer.
“Absolutely not,” said Mike. “You are going to stay here. I can’t have you risking your life like this!”
“I am not going to let you go there on your own!” said Jennifer. “What if something happens? What if you are hurt and you need help? You are going to need someone to back you up.”
“I can handle things on my own, Jennifer,” said Mike.
“Oh for fuck’s sake, can you stop with this macho act for just a minute and realize that you are jumping right into the lion’s den? This is not something you should do alone! It’s way too dangerous, you are going to end up getting really badly hurt. Or even worse, you could have something terrible happen to you. Mike, you could be killed!”
“I am going to be just fine,” said Mike. “Look, I have been involved in dangerous situations before. I have been involved in things that you can’t even imagine. Just let me handle this. Stay here and watch the GPS. You can track me, too. That way you would always know where I am! If you look through the GPS you would be able to track my every move, and I will stay in contact with you as well. That way you won’t just know where I am, you would know that I am safe too.”
“Mike…” said Jennifer but her boyfriend was not going to have any of it. He was headstrong and stubborn and he was not going to put her in danger. He left the room and Jennifer rushed after him.
“Listen to me!” said Jennifer, grabbing Mike’s arm and turning him around. “You don’t have to do everything on your own anymore! You don’t have to handle everything by yourself, you have someone with you that cares about you and wants you to help you as much as possible. Why can’t you just let me help you out?”
“Because I can’t put you in danger, Jenny,” said Mike. “Not any more than I already have. If this is as dangerous as I think it is, you might end up getting killed if you come with you. I am going there for my cousin, you don’t have to get involved.”
Jennifer was going to say something in protest but Mike kissed her hard. “I need you to be safe,” he said. “If you come along I am just going to be constantly worried about you, I won’t be able to concentrate on what I have to do. Please, Jenny… try to understand. I really care about you. I… I care about you more than I can describe. You mean way too much for me to allow you to risk your life like this. Please…”
Jennifer looked into Mike’s eyes and saw the desperation there. She really wanted to go with him but at the same time she knew that he was right. There was nothing really she would be able to do to help him, she would be a liability.
“Fine,” she said, “but please, for the love of God, stay safe. Don’t do anything stupid or heroic. Just make sure he’s there and then tell Ted that he can move in. Let him handle it.”
“I will,” said Mike.
“Promise me,” said Jennifer, “promise me that you won’t do anything stupid or heroic.”
“I promise,” said Mike. He kissed her hard again, it was a kiss full of longing and passion, and as stupid as it seemed right now – it was imperative for Jennifer to have him.
“This is going to sound crazy, but I’m really scared and I need you in me right now,” said Jennifer, letting the question linger in her voice. Without uttering a word even as surprise crossed his eyes, Mike pulled Jennifer against him again.
They made out very passionately while holding each other really tight. Jennifer's fear and concern for Mike's safety only made her hornier as she quickly unbuttoned his pants. While they made out they took themselves towards the nearest couch where Mike took her top off. Jennifer quickly took off his pants and began sucking his dick. Mike sat on the couch and held her hair back while he let out slight moans every time she went deep and gagged a little. This made his penis really wet and he couldn't wait to get it inside her, Jennifer licked his balls and stroked his dick really gently just the way he loved it. It didn't take more than a minute for Mike to be hard as rock and ready to fuck her.
The minute he was, Jennifer took off her pants and sat on Mike's hard dick and bounced up and down in immense pleasure. She found it difficult to manage such a motion while feeling such intense pleasure, the moment Mike noticed this he caught her by the hip and fucked her really fast. This made Jennifer scream out really loudly as Mike kept thrusting his member inside her vagina. Her screams made it difficult for Mike to figure out if she came but he did not stop. Jennifer got fucked for several minutes and came really hard several times till she couldn't move anymore and asked him to stop for a second. Mike quickly removed his shirt and switched the position, now Jennifer was lying on the sofa as Mike spreads her legs and enters her slowly. He began to slowly push his member inside her and then tease her by taking it out fast, his thrusts got harder and Jennifer just could not stop moaning as Mike kept going back and forth inside and out of her vagina. Within a few minutes Mike was thrusting his dick inside Jennifer really fast until she came after which she got off the sofa and came down to suck Mike's dick. His already wet penis was being licked all the way to his balls. While Jennifer blew his brains out he held her head and pushed it down his dick till she choked on it. Jennifer found this very sexy and asked him to do it again. As she went deep he held her head down and while she choked he fucked her mouth. When she came up she was gasping heavily for some breath, he then made her lie on the couch and spread her legs wide as he went down on her. Mike flicked his tongue up and down her clit which made Jennifer really peak to her orgasm. She loved his technique and held his head through his hair to guide him towards the right spots at the right time. All this teasing made Jennifer really restless for his dick one more time, but she was suddenly surprised when his inserted two fingers into her vagina and stimulated her till she screamed out another orgasm.
At this point Jennifer was really spent, but she was still horny enough to bend over for Mike and putting her butt in his face because she knew that Mike could never resist her naked butt. He spanked her and immediately pushed his dick inside her. Mike fucked her as hard as he could because her loud screams turned him making him crazy. As he fucked her doggy style for several minutes Jennifer had one of the best orgasms and came really hard. But Mike was not done so she didn't stop, she wanted him to cum for her and she knew how to finish him off. Jennifer now asked Mike to grab her butt and stretch it out as he enters her with his member. This always made Mike go faster and harder than he usually does. Within a few seconds Mike is screaming "Baby I'm going to cum right now" and sprayed his load all over her butt. Jennifer loved the feeling of his warm cum dripping all over her ass. Both of them were completely tired and exhausted but couldn't help but smile and tell each other how amazing the sex was.
“I really need to go now sweetheart,” said Mike as he began to get dressed in a bit of a f
renzy. Jenny too got dressed quickly, seeing Mike to the door and pulling him close for a hug.
As Jennifer watched him leave she was filled with mortal terror. What if this was the last time she ever saw him again? She pushed such thoughts out of her head. She couldn’t think this way, not now.
Chapter Eleven
As Mike made his way to the mafia run part of town he felt a chill run down his spine. He had had to put on a brave face for Jennifer so that she would not worry, but the truth was that he was terrified. He was glad that she had agreed to stay back, though. That meant that he would not have to worry about her. If worst came to worst, at the very least she would be safe and that would give him a small measure of solace.
As he entered the mafia run area, he started to notice that everything was a little different. People were a little more reserved here. They refused to meet your eye, and if you tried to talk to them they would hurry off, glancing over their shoulder to make sure that you were not following them.
Mike was started to realize that this part of town was far more dangerous than he could have ever imagined, and he was going to have to put some real effort into finding the specific location that David’s phone was at.
He had the GPS installed in his phone so he started to track it. It took him a little while to find it, after a certain point he had almost started to give up. However, all of a sudden it made sense to him when he saw an alleyway leading to another street. When he entered the alleyway he saw that to his right it opened up into a parking lot of sorts, one that was abandoned and devoid of cars.
He looked around and entered the parking lot cautiously. He saw nobody there and he found this strange. Maybe David had dumped his phone here. That would make sense. After all, he was being chased by dangerous people and he might be anxious to get as far away from this situation as possible.
Mike looked around and saw that there was a little hole in the corner of the parking lot. He put his hand inside and felt around but to no avail. He sighed with frustration. Where the hell was the phone? David was certainly not here, but there was anyone else. What was going on?
