Agon (11 page)

“
You’ll get your cock wet
soon enough.” He looked at the man who sat next to him. “They’re
all here for our pleasure, but not right now. We have things we
must discuss before you are free to get your knob
polished.”

“
Pleasure?” He nodded, and
that’s when Jerry realized who he was. “Lindale? What are you…?
You’re dead.”

Lindale laughed and leaned back in his
chair. “We all are. Not you, not yet at any rate, but we’re all
dead. By you.”

“
Me?” Jerry looked around
the table and realized that his brother was correct. They were all
dead, and now that he could see that, he noticed something else.
Most of them were sporting the way they had been killed. Looking
back at his brother, he could see the bullet hole in his forehead.
He wanted to wake from this dream but was almost afraid not to hear
what he had to tell him. The story of some Christmas show came to
mind, and he laughed. But Lindale looked at him as if he knew what
he’d been thinking.

“
No one from your present
or future is coming here to show you the errors of your ways. You
were a great shot and that’s all the nice things I’m going to say
about you. As most of us can tell you.” He laughed, and Jerry
decided that he’d had enough of this dream and wanted to wake. “But
we haven’t even gotten to the good part yet. Do you not recognize
the woman, too?”

“
I don’t want to.” Lindale
pulled one of the women to him and she sat on his lap. It took
Jerry several minutes to release who she was. There was no
mistaking his own wife. “She’s dead. I know she is.”

“
You should, you moron,
you killed me.” He started shaking his head even as she stood up
and showed him her neck. “Strangled me in my bath. What the hell,
Jerry? I was good to you. I gave you whatever you
wanted.”

“
You were fucking
Lindale.” The two of them looked at each other, and Jerry felt his
body quake with anger. “You fucked him in our bed. In fact, you
fucked him right before I killed you.”

“
His dick was so much
bigger than yours. Wanna see it?” Before he could say no, Burl, his
wife, dead these past seventeen years, knelt down in front of his
dead brother and pulled out his cock. She was fisting him to
hardness as Jerry felt his stomach twist up. When she took him into
her mouth and gave him head, Jerry stood up. Before he could move
out of this nightmare, he was pushed back down, and the young man
from earlier was pulling Jerry’s cock free.

The man had him in his mouth before he
could push him away. He was sucking him like a vacuum, and Jerry
closed his eyes to the nightmare around him as his cock was being
polished. When he lifted the man’s head to look at him, Jerry
screamed. His lips were gone and one of his eyes had bugs falling
from it. But it was the smile that had him screaming. Something
that looked like meat was in his mouth, and Jerry looked down and
saw that a large chunk of his cock was missing. The man spit it in
his hand and handed it to him. Jerry started screaming
immediately.

Jerry woke in his bed still screaming.
Tearing from the bed, he went into the bathroom, stripped off his
clothes, and stepped into the shower. He filled his sponge five
times, scrubbing his cock as hard as he could every time. Then he
poured the soap over his body and scrubbed it as well, the water as
hot as he could make it until he was pink from it. When he got out,
his cock was sore from all the scrubbing, as was his entire
body.

As he was getting dressed, checking
his dick every five minutes to make sure it was whole, something
made him look at his bed. Jerry fell to the floor when he saw what
was there, and threw up twice before he could make it to the
bathroom. Two worms and a small bug were nestled in the middle of
his bed, right where his ass would have been. Jerry knew he’d never
sleep in that room ever again.

Chapter 6

Judith knew that Agon was close but
not exactly where he was. She’d woken this morning to the phone
ringing and had answered it without thinking. Starting her day off
with speaking to her uncle had not been the highlight of her day.
Now she was making blackberry preserves and things were not going
well. The berries seemed to be turning to mush much faster than
she’d expected.

“
Of course it could be
because I’m taking my aggressions out on them.” She looked over at
the bowl she’d been using and smiled. “Poor things. It’s not their
fault that my uncle is a fucking prick that thinks the world
revolves around him.”

Judith tossed the bowl of fruit across
the room and watched it hit the wall. The art work it left behind
made her laugh. She should have emptied it before getting that
frustrated with it. But then, of course, she’d have no reminder of
how shitty her morning was. And turning the berries into jelly
instead of preserves wouldn’t have been that difficult. She looked
over at her monitor when someone knocked at the door. She should
have known that Kala would be back.

Ignoring it wasn’t an option. The
woman was more determined to get in than Judith was to deny her
entrance if her knocking was any indication. But when it stopped
abruptly, she looked again. She was simply gone and Judith had a
feeling it was not because she’d given up. Going to the door, she
looked out the peep hole and tried to see her, but saw nothing but
the back of her own home. Opening the door cautiously, she nearly
screamed when Jerry was standing there. He was holding the woman
with a gun to her head.

“
Let her go and this will
go much easier for you.” He held a limp Kala in his arms, and
Judith wondered if he’d harmed her children. “If you let her go,
I’ll come with you.”

“
You’ll come with me all
right. But she’s my insurance.” Judith crossed her arms over her
chest and cocked a brow at him. She was terrified if she were
truthful, not for herself but for the woman she’d come to like a
little. “You think you can talk me out of taking this bitch with
me, you’re fucking insane.”

“
I don’t even like her, so
if you kill her then so be it.” Judith tried to hide her fear from
her uncle, but she wasn’t sure it was working. “But if you don’t
let her go, you’ll get shit from me even if you were to kill her.”
She started to close the door in his face, hoping to Christ she
wasn’t making the biggest mistake of her life when he spoke
again.

“
Then why do you care?” He
put his gun to Kala’s temple and held it there as he glared at her.
Judith didn’t move, not even to blink. She knew that it would be
over if she did. Finally, Jerry tossed Kala at her, and she lowered
her to the ground. Judith stood up and stepped around the fallen
woman to move his attention from her. She’d made sure that the
children were all right, and now she’d do what she should have done
years ago. Fucking mess him up.

“
I’m coming with you, but
you should know it won’t matter shit what you do to me. I’m not
going to help you.” He laughed, and she had to shake the fear that
it gave her off her body. “You’re going to pay for this. Maybe not
today but soon. And when I have you where I want you, strapped to a
chair with electricity going through your body, I’m going to dance
a jig and get drunk afterwards.”

“
You think you can get one
over me, Judith? I got news for you, I’ve been at this a good deal
longer, and I’m pretty sure that you’ve never hurt anyone in your
fucking life. But I’m going to…hurt you, I mean.” He grabbed her
arm and jerked her around so that she stumbled. When she was on her
knees, she started to look up at him when something hit her from
behind. Just as she was falling forward, she thought of Agon and
wondered if he would come for her. But the ground smacked her in
the face before she could think of why she wanted him
to.

~~~

Judith opened her eyes and looked
around the room. She didn’t have any idea where she was, but she
knew that she was alone. The chair she was tied to was the only
piece of furniture in the room, and there was a single bulb hanging
from a wire over her. She heard the door opening just as she
realized there were no windows either. Jerry walked in holding his
gun in front of him like a shield.

“
So you finally woke up,
did you?” Judith didn’t answer him but smiled. “I’m guessing you
think you can hold out on me. I’m thinking you don’t have a chance
when it comes to me getting what I want. I’ve perfected my ways of
getting what I want from people. You’ll be singing before
long.”

“
I don’t carry a tune all
that well, but if you hum a few bars, maybe I can catch it.” He
looked at her like he had no idea what she was talking about.
“Singing. You said I’d be singing. I was just…you know what? Never
mind. Why am I here? I’ve told you countless times, I’m not going
to help you. And where is here, by the way? Looks familiar but
not—”

“
You will. And as soon as
I get that lover of yours, you’ll give me what I want. He’s
very…large, isn’t he?” Judith didn’t say anything, knowing that if
Jerry tangled with Agon, he’d be dead. “I’m going to bring him here
and let you watch every time I slice into him when you don’t answer
me. I think it will be good for both of us. You’ll get to see that
I fucking mean business, and I’ll get to kill someone that you
love. A win-win situation for me and a…well, not so much for
you.”

“
Good luck on that shit.”
He reached behind him in the hall and pulled a chair into the room.
He had a file with him and a small tablet, but it was the chair
that had her full attention. She knew it. It had been a very long
time, but she knew where he’d gotten it and had a pretty good idea
where they were. “We’re at my dad’s old house. Well, if that don’t
make the monkey shit in the corner and say fuck me.” He looked at
her oddly, then shook his head.

“
Very good. You should
also know that someone has been keeping it up for me. The place
doesn’t look like anyone has moved even a stick of furniture since
the night I killed off your daddy. I will have to thank them. It’s
even been dusted.” She started to tell him she didn’t want his
thanks but only sat there. “Did you know that this house and all
its contents were supposed to come to me when he died? As your only
living relative, this should have come to me, not you. I was
wondering about who got it when you sent me off to prison, and went
to downtown to see who would be morbid enough to do that. And you
know what I discovered? That no one knows who owns this place. They
have a record of the taxes being paid, in cash I might add, but
they cannot find a name of the owners. Do you happen to know who
that might be?”

She knew they would never find the
name. She’d worked very hard in keeping that quiet. And the man she
had helping her would never say a word either. He would just
shuffle the files around and simply ignore any requests to find
out. As long as the taxes were paid up, he told her she’d be safe.
Paul Whittaker was a good friend.

Jerry was looking over the tablet when
she thought of Kala. She didn’t have to ask him but simply closed
her eyes. She was relieved to see that not only was she safe in her
husband’s arms, but she was spitting mad as well. When she looked
into her eyes to see if she was all right, she saw Agon there and
her heart ached to touch him.

“
I have two deals going
down tonight and I want you to tell me if I can go there to get the
shit myself, or should I send in a dummy to get it for me?” When
she didn’t answer him, he looked at her. “I’ve not hurt you yet,
but if you don’t answer me, I certainly will.”

“
I’m just trying to figure
out who else you consider a dummy besides you. I mean, you’re the
dumbest person I know if you think I’m going to give you any
information. And what if I’m lying to you? Have you thought of
that?”

When he stood up, Judith braced
herself for the hit. As soon as his fist slammed against her mouth
and her head jerked around from the impact, she laughed. She hurt,
there was no way that she wouldn’t have, but she didn’t care so
long as he didn’t get what he wanted. Spitting the blood from her
mouth onto the floor, she just stared at him.

“
You’re going to do as I
say or so help me I’ll…I’ll….” Judith laughed again. “You fucking
bitch, this is not funny.”

“
Of course it is. You want
something from me, yet you think that just because you’re not tied
to a chair and I am, that I should give it to you. I find that to
be extremely funny.” She watched him draw back again and she lifted
her chin. “You can hit me until you hurt, but you’ll get
nothing.”

The third or maybe the fourth time he
hit her, she felt herself slipping away. Pain radiated from her
head in ways that had her thinking she’d have no teeth left, not to
mention not a single rib in her body wouldn’t be broken when this
was over. She surrendered to the pain and let it pull her away from
it.

~~~

Agon paced the room several times
before he sat down. He wanted to go and find her, but no one would
help him. Looking at Kala, he felt his heart twist just a little
more. She could have been killed and no one had been there to
protect her. Neither of them.

“
I’m fine. He just
surprised me is all.” Riss didn’t let go of her hand but smoothed
her forehead again as Kala continued. “I was trying to get Judith
to come to the door and suddenly I was out. I’m pretty sure he hit
me with a gun.”