Saving Dallas (Saving Dallas 1)

Cold water stunned me back into consciousness. I was gasping from the shock of it, and when I came to I noticed I was hanging by my arms from the rafters in the barn.

“Wake up sleeping beauty. I have a story to tell you. I don’t like to be interrupted so Crazy here is going to shut you up with a little something called duct tape.” He threw his head back and laughed at his humorless joke.

This man was the one who needed the name Crazy. Crazy stepped in front of me and pulled a piece of tape from the roll and placed it over my mouth. I thought he would tear it off, but instead he wrapped it all the way around my head-twice. I screamed through the tape. I kept saying Luke’s name over and over. No one could make out what I was saying, but I couldn’t stop screaming for him. My right eye was now swollen shut and the one good nostril I had limited my breathing making my chest ache from the lack of oxygen.

“Shut up!” The man with the scar yelled at me. I immediately silenced my incoherent screams at his demand. “There, that’s better,” he said sweetly. “By the way my name is Frankie the Cutter. I know you think I got it from this scar, but the truth is I get enjoyment out of cutting people,” he said laughing once again.

He must have been on drugs of some sort, because only people in an insane asylum acted like this.

“You sure are pretty Dallas. I bet you have a smoking hot body. It’s hot in here. How about we relieve you of some of your clothes.” He stepped closer and my screams began again. “Hey, hey, hey. No need to get upset. It’s not like you are bashful are you? I promise you, the more you scream the harder you are going to make it on yourself.”

His voice was so sickenly sweet I would have vomited had my mouth not been taped shut. My throat burned from screaming, but I couldn’t stop. I was scared and panicked and my natural reaction was to scream. It was the only defense I had left. Frankie placed his hands over his ears and began stomping his feet on the ground. “Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!”

Crazy walked up to me and pulled a knife out of his pocket and stuck it to my throat. I stopped screaming, scared to move an inch in fear that he would cut me. “The man said shut up, so I suggest you keep that shit down,” he whispered to me as if he didn’t want Frankie to hear. He slid the knife away from my throat, but before he could put it away Frankie walked up behind him.

“Cut her clothes off for me please,” he whispered loudly enough for me to hear in Crazy’s ear. He was back to being calm and sweet, but his eyes were still full of hate. My screams went silent, but I couldn’t help but whimper as he shred my clothes from me, leaving me hanging naked in front of them. Tears fell down my cheeks as I looked into the eyes of my intruders. They were sick-all of them. If they wanted to kill me, why not just get it over with.

“That’s better. Thank you ,Crazy. Now, back to my story.” He said walking in wide circles in front of me with his hands behind his back. “You are a hard woman to catch. Luke did a very good job of protecting you. Did you know that Luke had been hired to protect you?” he asked stopping to look at me for an answer. I stared blankly back at him. Protect me? What did he mean?

He sighed loudly and walked behind me. I jumped at the feel of his rough hands running down my back. I tried to squirm away from him, but I had nowhere to go. My wrists were already chaffed from the rope and my legs hung in the air giving me no leverage. His hand ran down to my ass, and I screamed when he placed it between my legs. I heard the snap of a knife opening and looked over to see Crazy holding it up and shaking his head. I stopped screaming, but couldn’t suppress the whimper as he shoved two fingers inside me roughly.

“When I ask you for an answer, I expect one. Do you understand bitch?” I nodded my head vigorously and he pulled his fingers from inside me. He walked back in front of me sucking his fingers and I had to swallow back the bile that rose in my throat. “Did you know Luke was hired to protect you?” I shook my head letting him know I was not informed of that. “Well, he was. He just knew I was going to get to you. I tried everything, but you are a hard bitch to catch,” he said waving his finger at me. “I tried seducing you with a good looking man, of course he had a little too much to drink and fucked it up, but hey I tried. You know that’s why Luke took you home with him. He found out that I had hired him and knew if he didn’t take you with him that I would eventually get my hands on you that night.”