Davis, Keyonna - Nowhere to Hide [Pine Valley] (Siren Publishing Ménage and More) (22 page)

“That’s the point, Cane,” Sam said as he grabbed a handful of her hair and pulled so that her face was even with his. “Now that I have found my sweet Ali over there, I don’t need you anymore. You still deserve to be punished for walking out on me and stealing my money though. Once I finish giving you your punishment, then I am going to kill you, and Ali and I are going to go away together. The way I see it, I started too late trying to train you, and it didn’t work, but Ali over there is innocent and young enough to be trained. She will make the perfect wife for me, unlike you who are nothing but a whore.”

Cane was at a loss for words. In all the years that she had been with Sam, she had never seen him like this. Looking at him now, she could see that his eyes were glazed over.

Oh God, she thought, he has lost it.

Cane knew that Sam was truly crazy, and the thought scared her more than anything. She knew what torture a sane Sam was capable of, but now he had truly gone off the deep end, and there was no telling what he was going to do.

“Don’t you have anything to say, Cane? Why so quiet?” Sam’s voice was light and playful, like he was having a normal conversation with a friend and not in the middle of torturing a person. Pulling her back up to her knees, Sam slapped her again, splitting her lip, and punched her in the stomach. “Answer me, damn it!” he yelled.

“What do you want me to say, Sam?” Cane gasped trying to suck air back into her lungs. “I’m not sorry that I left you
.
I couldn’t take the beatings anymore. Please just let us go. You don’t love me, and you can find someone else to make you happy.”

“I told you that you are mine, and I will never let you go. I will kill you before I do that,” he yelled as he gripped her hair so hard that Cane could feel each individual strand as they were ripped from her scalp.

He threw her back to the floor and began pacing the room. She could hear his ragged breaths and realized that he was trying to calm himself down. She knew the routine
.
I
f he got too excited, then he would lose control and the torture would be over too quick for him, but by keeping himself calm, he could torture her for as long as he wanted.

Please hurry, guys, she thought again and kept repeating it over and over in her head as she lay on her good side and curled up into a ball trying to stay conscious.

She watched Sam as he paced and stopped by the bed that Ali was on. She held her breath as he leaned down and gently rubbed the lump that had formed on her head where he knocked her out.

“I didn’t mean to hit her that hard,” he said as he stroked her hair
.
“I just didn’t want her to scream. I would never hurt her. She is different from you. She is pure and innocent and doesn’t deserve to be disciplined like I had to do with you. I have been watching her for a while now, and she is perfect for me.”

He let go of Ali’s hair and began pacing again, and Cane let
out
a sigh of relief that he had moved away from Ali. Without another word, Sam turned and walked out the door, closing it behind him. Cane heard the click of the lock and his footsteps as he walked across the cabin and out the front door. Taking a deep breath, Cane lay her head down and closed her eyes.

“Cane,” Ali whispered as she knelt down
to
her. Cane opened her eyes to see Ali with tears trailing down her face. Her hands were trembling as she reached out to touch Cane, but she stopped like she was scared to hurt her. “Cane, the guys are on the way. They will be here soon
.
P
lease hold on and we will get you out of here.”

Cane didn’t have the strength to lift her head, so she just smiled and whispered, “It will be okay. Just stay in the bed and keep pretending that you are unconscious so that he will leave you alone.” Cane watched as Ali pulled a bobb
y
pin out of her hair and began to fiddle with the handcuffs. She gritted her teeth to hold back a scream as pain shot up her injured arm.

Gasping for breath, she whispered, “What are you doing, Ali?”

“I’m trying to open the cuffs. Sorry if I hurt you, but they make it look so easy in the movies. Please let me help you, Cane. You don’t have to do this by yourself. Let me take some of the attention for a little while,” Ali sobbed.

“No! I couldn’t live with myself if he laid a hand on you. This is my fault for bringing him into your life. I will handle him, and the guys will be here soon. What I need you to do is to try and call Duncan again to see how far away they are.”

Cane tried to smile to convince Ali, but she was sure it came off as nothing more than a small tilt of her lips. She was in pain, and it took all her strength just to stay conscious.

Taking a deep breath she whispered again, “Promise me, Ali, I can’t do this unless I know you are safe. Duncan and Logan will take care of me, you will see.”

Closing her eyes again, she lay there and tried not to focus on the pain that was radiating up her arm while Ali worked the handcuffs and cried quietly. She truly believed that Duncan and Logan would find them. She just hoped that they were not too late.

Cane was not sure how long she dozed when she heard the bed squeak and opened her eyes to see Ali climbing back in. She heard footsteps across the floor, but they didn’t come toward the room. She heard the refrigerator door open and then water running. Soon she could smell something cooking. Sam has truly lost his mind, she thought. Maybe he needs to keep his strength up
.
T
orture
must be hard work.

Cane couldn’t help but to giggle at that thought, earning her a strange look from Ali as she held the phone to her ear.

Hell, maybe I am losing my mind, too, she thought as she passed out again.

* * * *

“Faster, Duncan
,
damn it!” Logan yelled. It was the hundredth time he yelled it, and it was driving Duncan insane. He was trying to stay calm
.
H
ell
,
one of them had to be, and it certainly wasn’t Logan.

Taking a deep breath
, he said
, “I’m going as fast as I can, Logan. We are about ten minutes out, so look in the back and make sure we have everything we need.”

Duncan knew he had everything because he checked his supplies every morning, but giving Logan something to do seemed to help. He glanced in the rearview mirror and watched Logan until he heard his cell phone ringing. He answered it, not bothering to see who was calling and hit the speaker button so he could keep both hands on the wheel.

“Duncan,” Ali sobbed. He could barely hear her as she tried to whisper.

“Squirt. Are you okay, baby? We are coming. We should be there in about ten minutes.”

“Duncan, you have to hurry. I’m scared for Cane. He beat her and broke her arm. He says he is going to kill her.”

Duncan felt his heart pounding in his chest. He couldn’t lose Cane. He would kill that bastard Sam when he got his hand
s
on him for what he did to Cane.

“Ali, honey, where is he now?” Logan asked as he climbed back in the front seat.

“I think he is in the kitchen cooking.”

“Okay, that’s good
,
W
here are you and Cane?”

“He locked us in the bedroom
.
I’m on the bed, and he had Cane handcuffed on the floor. I was able to pick the lock on the cuffs after she finally passed out from the pain, but she told me to call you before she passed out. You guys have to hurry. I’m so scared. He says he is going to kill Cane and then take me to be his wife because he thinks he can train me like he couldn’t train her.”

“Son of a bitch. Ali, just hang on. We will be there soon
,
W
e’re
at the turnoff now,” Duncan yelled.

“Okay, but, Duncan, hurry please. She made me promise to pretend to be unconscious so that he would focus on her, but I don’t know how long I can lay here and listen to him beat her. I don’t even think she knows that she doesn’t have the handcuffs on anymore.”

“We know, baby, just hold on five more minutes, and we will be there. Ali, did you hear me?” Duncan could hear her breathing, but she wasn’t saying anything. “Ali! Answer me,” he yelled.

“He’s coming. I
gotta
go,” she whispered and hung up.

Duncan gripped the steering wheel until his knuckles turned white. He was trying to keep the pure rage that he was feeling from taking over. He knew that he had to stay sane if he was going to help his sister and Cane. “I’m going to kill him, Logan.”

“Not if I get to him first.”

* * * *

Whistling, Sam finished putting the food on the plates. It was time to get to know his future wife. He smiled. He liked the sound of “his wife.” He would have made Cane his wife, but she turned him down, and then after her little indiscretion in college he never had the urge to marry her again. Now that he had Ali, he didn’t need Cane anymore. Things were looking better and better
.
W
ho says you can’t have your cake and eat it, too, he thought as he walked to the room. Walking over to Cane, he kicked her in the thigh and then pulled her up by her hair, enjoying the scream he got from her.

“Wake up, Cane, there is no time for sleeping right now. Trust me you will have plenty of time for that later.” He laughed at his own joke. No doubt she would have time for that after he had his fun and killed her.

“Here, I brought you dinner
.
Y
ou
need to eat to keep your strength up.” He laughed, sitting the plate down in front of her. He knew she wouldn’t be able to eat with her hands cuffed behind her back, but it would be fun to watch her try.

“Sam, please, why are you doing this? Just let us go and I promise I won’t tell anybody about this. You just go on and live your life
,
and I will live mine.” Sam couldn’t stop himself when he slapped her across the face.

Damn, that felt good
,
he thought.

“Shut up, Cane. You had your chance, and you chose to run away. Now, you have to suffer the consequences.” He squatted down and wiped the trickle of blood off Cane’s cheek where he opened it up with his hit. “Playtime is over, Cane
.
I have found your replacement, and you are no longer needed. Now,” he sighed as he stood up, “eat up. Even prisoners on death row get a last meal, so consider this yours.”

Sam walked over to the bed where Ali was laying. He had a nice romantic candlelight dinner planned for her. She should have woken up by now, and he was getting a little worried. She looked like an angel, he thought as he looked down at her. Reaching out, he stroked her cheek
,
bent down to kiss it
,
and felt her flinch.

“Ali, sweetheart, wake up for me,” he said in her ear.

“Leave her alone, Sam, she has nothing to do with this,” Cane yelled at him. He ignored her
and
watched as Ali’s body tensed.

“Ali, honey, I know you are awake. You don’t have to be scared of me. I would never do anything to hurt you.”