Karen
The way he carried me to the car sickened me. He was gentle, thoughtful, as if he had my best interests at heart. But after years of knowing and being tormented by him I knew that wasn’t the case in the slightest.
He lowered me tenderly onto the backseat of the car and gave me an apologetic half-laugh. “Sorry honey. I’d love to have you ride shotgun next to me, but it might looks suspicious. What with the tape and all?” He raised his eyebrows at me as if looking for acceptance from me — perhaps a wry smile and a little shake of the head indicating the absurdity of the situation.
I just glared at him. My mouth was covered up anyway.
“We’ll have a chance to talk soon, to fix it, to make it right. I promise.”
I wasn’t interested in his promises, much less talking to him. And “make it right”? What did that mean? What could it mean? Was he so delusional that he thought I could forgive him? Did he not realize I had despised him even before his last psychopathic act which landed me in prison and all but destroyed me?
When the car door closed my world turned black and so did my thoughts. It was obvious. There wasn’t a plan, there never had been a plan. The bikers had sold me. Bottle was a bastard. A handsome, lying, criminal bastard. How could they fucking do that to me?
Tears began to form in the corners of my eyes and roll down my cheeks and soon wracking sobs began to form deep inside, but fail to be released satisfactorily due to my gagged state. Have you ever tried to cry, really cry, with a rag shoved in your mouth and then taped up? It sucks.
As my body spasmed I let out a keening wail as the car started off down the potholed road.
“I’m sorry, Love,” Dewey’s voice called out from the front, “It’s a terrible road. We’ll have you untied in no time though. Don’t you worry though, Love.”
As I bounced around on the backseat a thought struck me. Where the fuck was Red? Wasn’t he supposed to have been dropped off in my place?
If the bikers actually had made a deal then Dewey should have made the trade.
Perhaps this was still part of the plan?