Fight for Love (4 page)

“Will… Where are you will…”

My mind teetering on the edge. The doubt
creeping in numbing my brain. I started to weep. I sniffled
pressing the button again to take comfort in the light. Trying to
stay strong but my body battered by the onslaught of cold. There
were cans of mangoes strewn on the floor. I saw the frosted
weathered label. The picture of the beach and a palm tree, My heart
skipped a beat to remember the time Will and I were on the beach in
Rarotonga. I typed up the next message.

Juliet: Hi Will, it's freezing in here. I’m
thinking of that time were went for that ride around those islands
in Rarotonga… Gosh, what I wouldn’t give to be on that beach right
now. I remember how you made that makeshift tent out sticks and a
sheet! Ha-ha. You were so into it all that survival training. Do
you remember that fish you caught? Then you collected all that wood
and dug a pit to make a fire. It was something out of a castaway
island! The irony is that guy, who talks to soccerball, is kinda
like me talking into this phone. Missing you heaps will. Thinking
of you to keep me warm CC

***

William

I lifted the briefcase to see the pile of
Heroin on the floor. I immediately called up GP to let him know
that Natalya is a smuggler. I rang his number there was a long
pause.

“George Speaking…”

“GP!”

“William?”

“GP! They have Claudia!”

“Calm down Will, What happened?”

“When I arrived home there was a man who
wanted me to carry out an assignation on an afghan warlord. They
took Claudia and threatened to kill her if I didn’t comply.”

There was a pause when he said, “William
where are you?”

“I’m at the penthouse apartment in the City.
I followed the man where he met with Natalya she’s been smuggling
opium on the Desert Petrol vehicles.”

“What?”

“Yes sir, she’s working with them. She’s got
Claudia.”

“Okay, will have you called the police?”

“No sir, you know they won’t be of any
help.”

“Affirmative, Will. Meet me at my house, well
go in together to confront Natalya.”

“Thanks, GP see you soon.”

I hung up and left the penthouse, to see the
same taxi driver outside again. He drove over the other side and
wound down his window.

“Hey, brother I figured you might need a
ride.”

“Cheers” I got in and gave him another
hundred bucks and gave him directions to GP house who lived on the
farm in the rural district of Tuakau. An hour drive from the city.
I took out my phone to read the next message from Claudia. Her line
of ‘Thinking of keeping you warm’ made me reminisce the time we
love in that love shack I made. Damn… I remembered the way her body
responded to my kisses with the orchestra of waves hitting the
beach. The humidity was hot. But the night breeze made it bearable.
I remember Claudia wearing a blue rose patterned V-neck smock dress
that came halfway up to her thighs. The material was like a
cheesecloth the contrast of rough to smooth when I would caress her
skin.

I was lying on my back with Claudia next to
me on her front. She was watching the line on the rod, her elbows
planted her hands cupped to sides of her face. She said, “This is
good…” I remember opening my eyes to see her breasts drop down, the
sun kissed skin of her beautiful assets had stray grains of sand
that sparkled like little diamonds.

I raised my arm and swept them away.
Claudia’s eyes widened when the side of her face rest on my palm. I
whispered “You’re getting sand all over your body…” She smiled then
said “Really?” then I nodded. My fingers trailed down to her
shoulder where I began to loosen the strap of her dress. I
whispered “There’s sand there too…” I sat up with my left arm
holding weight. Claudia began to lower her front half of her body.
Her hands were intertwined the side of her face facing me. Her face
flushed a crimson red. I climbed over my knees on each side of
her

I ran the palm of my hand down her back, she
moaned when I began to remove the buttons exposing her bronzed
bareback. I unsheathed the dress slowly, applying soft pressure to
the points of her back. I let the dress gather at her lower back
when I began to massage her back slowly up to her shoulders. Her
moans were arousing me, my arousal twitched and became hard with
every gasp Claudia made. I leaned forward my chest on her shoulder
blades my mouth nuzzling against her neck.

I whispered, “Claudia when I come back, have
a surprise for you…” she moaned “I can already feel it…” Claudia
shifted and turned over to me. Her breast exposed her nipples were
taught and perky. She smirked as my body wedged up against her. She
lifted her head up to give me a peck on the lips before the head
lay down.

The sensations inside me began to stir and
needed to take her. I groaned “I want you on this beach...” My
mouth delved in like the birds that dove into the water.

The energy made Claudia’s body shudder, then
shiver from the need. I had been without her for so long.
Everything inside me thirsting for her body. My kisses began to
ravage her body and I started draw from her. She moaned and moaned
as my hands started to massage her breasts. My hands trailed down
to her inner thighs smoothing them up and down.

We stopped to reset our breath I pulled back
while Claudia watched me removed my singlet. Her hands began to run
down my chest and biceps. I started untie the string to my shorts
discarding them. I grabbed her dress and unsheathed the rest before
delving my naked body against hers.

I nudged her legs across and soon my arousal
was covered in the hot wet flesh of her. The rhythm of the
penetration I timed to the sound of the waves. Some of the strokes
were long and deep some short and compounding. The nature of it
being unpredictable made Claudia’s body gush with ecstasy not
expecting how hard or soft, deep or short I would make love to
her.

Soon her body would tense, began to tighten
around me when we both came to the twilight of the stars above. I
remember than the text she sent those words that embedded in my
heart. It fueled me again to keep fighting for the one I love

***

Claudia

I woke abruptly to the sound of the fans
spinning. The whirring and burring of the ventilation system the
onslaught of more cold began to infuse into the room. I started to
shiver and panic as the blizzard blew inside. I huddled myself more
with the clothing in preparation. I could hear the commotion
outside the sound of Trucks coming in. People panicking. Could it
be that the cops are here? I got up and went to the door.

I could hear screams of women and the sounds
of car doors closing and van doors sliding. I beat against the door
of freezer screaming. I was ignored. I had a look the thermometer
inside here it -4 and dropping. I didn’t know how long I had before
I freeze to death. My thoughts were starting to become fuzzy and
body began to shiver uncontrollably. I took out my phone and
messaged Will. My battery was down to 4% I didn’t have many more
words left to write.

Juliet: Will they switched on the Freezer in
here its -4 and dropping. Please come soon. CC

***

William

“Brother!” The taxi driver shouted.

I shuddered broken out of my day dream. The
taxi driver looked upon with a puzzled stare. He said, “I can take
you to place for that you know…”

We arrived at GP’s house parked outside his
gate. It was walk 500 meters to his two-story wooden house with the
shed to the left his quad bike and car were parked next to each
other. It was 7pm when I made the walk up the driveway to look at
the new message on the phone from Claudia.

Shit!

I started to run up to the house to find the
door open. I called out to GP to find it empty. His floorboards
creaked as I made my way to the dining room. My vision spiraled to
set of stuffed animal heads that stared at me in the hallway. The
smell in there was room was damp, before I arrived to see a laptop
and maps on the dining table. I called his number and the phone
rang the ring came from the lounge. I spotted the phone on the
coffee table as it vibrated. I walked over when suddenly I was
rushed from behind.

Thud!

I turned in time to see GP thrust at me with
the combat knife. I sidestepped him when he came at me again as he
lunged again then tried to stab followed by a slash. His sequence
and timing were perfect, but it never connected I stepped back
holding my hands up to deflect the blows. I shook my head.

“You fucking scum… I fought at your side

He panted. “You stupid son of a bitch you
should have followed orders we would never have this
confrontation.”

“Fuck you. You know we never negotiate with
terrorists.”

“Son.. I’m no terrorist far from it. I’m a
patriot.”

I raised an eyebrow “You're fucking deluded,
where is Claudia!”

“She’s dead.”

“I never thought of you as a traitor to your
country. I’m gonna do whatever to takes to expose you and kill you
and Natalya.”

“Son, what I’m doing is bigger than both of
us. You should be disgusted with what the government have done to
us, hanging us out to dry.”

“Save me the story you are a nothing but a
crooked drug dealer.”

“Sometimes you have to embrace evil to
finance the good I’m doing. Ever since the defense cuts and
draw-back from Afghanistan the suits undid the progress we fought
for. Lives lost in vain.”

“Why you set me up?”

“I had no choice. When you refused to join
the PMC, I devised the plan to capture your girlfriend so you could
carry out the kill on the afghan warlord. I wanted you on my team
Will and I Wasn’t going to take a no.”

“So you think by deceiving me I would come
back to fight for you? Why the afghan warlord?”

“Askar Mohamed is undermining Cerberus
Petroleum activities in West Afghanistan.”

“What the fuck are they doing there? There is
no oil there.”

“Son, it's not oil thereafter it’s the vast
untapped resources of Lithium-ion they are after.”

“What?”

“It powers everything from your smartphone to
your cars. The demand for the ore is set to saw with electric
vehicles and hybrid cars on the increase the ore is both rare and
valuable commodity. Askar Mohammed has been illegally allowing
other companies in, taking their bribe money to finance his network
of terror.”

“Why hasn’t the government intervened?”

“Why would they when they only care about the
bottom line of their defense cuts. Calling it a victory when the
war on terror isn’t even over. Those bastards don’t realise that
the money from it is ten times worse than the opium that use to
finance them.”

“GP! I don’t give a fuck. Just tell me where
she is!”

“Son, I can’t let you live. You will
jeopardise the lives of millions in years to come. She will be dead
soon enough.” He lunged at me again then screamed “And soon you
will join her!”

I blocked the thrust by deflecting it by
kneeing him in the stomach he dropped the knife when I went to grab
it GP dived knocking me to the side. He grabbed the knife his whole
weight on that single thrust. The end of the serrated blade inches
before my chest. I held back holding as the tension pumped up my
biceps and forearms. I panted “Damn you GP I turned the knife on
him piercing an artery he clenched my wrist when red-rimmed eyes
realised he was going to die.

“Damn you GP why could you fucking leave us
alone!”

“Sorry will…” he coughed up a thick syrup of
blood. “

I sniffled the pain of killing my friend. I
understood why he did what he did.

“GP your gonna bleed out but at least do
something right and tell me where Claudia is.”

I shook him “At Least have some fucking
dignity and honor that you died doing the right thing.”

GP stared at me his soul deep stare made him
realise who much I loved Claudia. He whispered

“The location in my ear, but I was unfamiliar
with it. Then he held my shoulder “Son, I’m sorry.” He coughed
blood “I should have remembered the look the first time and known,
you would do anything for her…”

I ripped some gau
z
e
“GP I need you to take me to the location. I’ll take you to the
hospital after I get Claudia, you’ll be okay as long as you don’t
take the knife out.”

He nodded when I wrenched him up on my
shoulder to take him to his car.

From there his breathing stopped his head
dropped down and his hand fell off his wrist. I got up and left
commandeering his vehicle. I replied back to Claudia

Romeo: Baby I’m on my way now! Please hold
on.

***

Claudia

Icicles started to form, my head felt fogged.
My body shivered. I culminated all the memories of Will and I and
realised this might be the end. I shook holding up the phone to see
the batt at 1% when I his message came on screen.

It was like my whole body became warm from
the boost in morale I tried to reply, but my fingers couldn’t press
the button to respond.

Romeo: Baby I’m on my way now! Please hold
on

Juliet: K

Then my phone died.

It was then I heard the sound of the locks of
the doors being opened when I stood up to stagger against the door.
My heart beat furiously as the heavy door began to slide open, it
open a little then a little again. Then it slid right open.

It was the masked man.

I screamed when he grabbed me and took me to
the car that was in the warehouse. The masked sat me in the chair
when he started to remove his mask. It was no man but a woman.

I shivered in the chair as she begun to spear
her hair to the side. Shaking her head. She took out the cable ties
and tied my wrists. I watched as she licked her tongue.