Part 2
Chapter 1
The daylight was fading as Traci walked out of Old Navy in Augusta, and turned right toward the side parking lot; another few private hours spent shopping. She tossed the empty large cup that had contained lemonade into the trash as she headed for her car. A semi-trailer was parked across the first half dozen slots, shielding her car from the front parking lot.
She reached into her Michael Kors bag as she approached her Chevy Impala and noticed that a gray GMC Suburban was parked next to the Impala, so large as to almost hide her car. On the other side was a dark red Ford Explorer with the tailgate down. There was no one else visible in the lot. A large red Snap-on tool chest was in the back. Kneeling almost under the tailgate was a man, head down, searching through a tool bag. Brown Carhartt jacket, jeans, boots, ball cap. Identical to most of the other men around town.
As she clicked the remote door lock control and reached for the door,S she noticed a flicker in front of her face and felt a line tighten around her throat. Her breath was cut off. There was no way to scream!
She dropped the keys and reached for her throat. A hand grabbed her wrist, twisting it behind her and another hand grabbed her hair. Suddenly her knees were hit from behind and she started to fall...the hand in her hair and the one holding her wrist slowed the fall but she still struck the pavement with her knees, the impact jarring her. The hand holding her hair turned her head to rest almost under her car...no way to see who was assaulting her. The hand holding her wrist released it...but as she tried to pull it down his foot came down on her back, blocking her wrist. His hand still held her hair as the strangest thought went through Traci's mind "Did my new shoes get scuffed when I fell?"
This thought was so alien to her predicament that it startled her until a hand covered with something sticky covered her mouth. Stars began to swirl in her eyes as a dark coarse bag was pulled over her head. Before it was pulled completely over, the constriction around her neck disappeared. She felt his hand moving around her throat and the constriction came back; but not quite as tight and she was able to grab a quick breath. The line around her neck was snug but at least she could breathe. Her lips wouldn't open - he had taped her mouth shut!
The bag blocked most light and the fading daylight didn't provide light enough to see through it. The pavement was cold against her cheek, the open jacket she wore did nothing to prevent the cold from soaking through her sweatshirt; she felt her nipples harden from the cold and fear.
A hand found Traci's left wrist and pulled it behind her. She felt a line go around it and her right hand was pulled beside it; the line was cinched tight. She felt her hands start to swell immediately as the circulation was partially cut off. She felt her ankles pulled-together and lifted, they too were bound together then pulled up to her thighs. His hand slid under her and she felt something being tightened around her hips and round her ankles. The line tightened holding her feet tight to her ass. She felt him shift and he fumbled at her wrists then her ankles and she was drawn into a tight, arching hogtie.
Traci felt his hand, then his arm worm under her body just below her breasts, then his other one under her hips. He lifted her up. she thought
"No effort. This bastard is strong!" She felt herself rise into the air slowly; then he moved quickly, feeling herself moving through the air then she felt herself settled on to a solid surface. She felt a slight sag as his hands withdrew then she felt that she was moving sideways. A solid surface was against her right side, she felt as if she was in a small space. Something was happening around her neck and she felt a pressure against the bag at her ear:
"You are in the tool box in the back of my truck." He said in a low, hoarse voice. Hot foul breath accompanied the voice.
"I modified it just to hold a little slut like you. I connected the cable tie around your neck to a line within reach of my hand. You better hope that we don't get stopped. If we do I give the line a little jerk and the tie gets real tight. And stays tight. That way you won't have enough breath to struggle or make any noise. If he takes too long the best you can hope for is to be a vegetable from lack of blood flow to your brain. Or maybe you'll just die...which actually might be better from your perspective. I'll drive carefully just for you."
She felt the side close around her. She was in a tight, painful hogtie, a line too tight around her neck, locked into a small box. She felt the truck move, backing out of the parking slot and pulling away.
Traci had no way of knowing what was happening outside of her prison. As the truck pulled away a rollback car carrier pulled up. The driver got out, picked up the keys that Traci had dropped and pulled the Impala out of the space and behind the rollback. A minute later the car was on the truck, secured. A car cover went over it. Within 5 minutes of Traci leaving the mall she had disappeared without a trace.
At least there was air. The tie around her neck was tight but she could breathe. The tape across her mouth pulled the skin, her thighs started to burn. Her wrists pulsed with each beat of her heart. Her shoulders ached and she felt tears trickle down her cheek; the bag was moist on her face.
The burn in her thighs grew, her wrists felt swollen; her shoulders ached more. He drove and drove. There was no concept of direction or even of time. There was pain and darkness, fear and dread. It wasn't warm yet she felt perspiration run down her armpits. This was nothing like the fantasy of consensual non consent that she had dreamed. This was kidnapping. Pure kidnapping. Her mind raced and she remembered that this was Thursday, her ex had the kids until a week from Sunday. Her parents were out of town and no one knew that she drove an hour away to shop! Her cell phone was in her pocketbook. And there was no way to get close to it.
At last, the truck slowed then stopped. In the distance she heard the sound of a garage door operating. The truck moved as he got out. She felt as much as heard the tailgate open. A blast of cold air swirled into the box with her as she felt the surface she was on slide sideways out into the open. Her legs and shoulders were thankfully released as he cut the tie joining wrists to ankles and a new burn began as she straightened out; the movement bringing a groan to her taped mouth.
Light shone through the bag and the tightness around her throat went away. The bag was pulled off; a bright light was shining into her face and she closed her eyes involuntarily. Something cold and wet with a chemical smell wiped around her eyes and as she tried to open them, she caught a glimpse of a Darth Vader Halloween mask before she felt him press something against the edges of her right eye then her left. The light was cut off again. She could open her eyes but could see nothing. He had attached black out lenses over her eyes.
Traci felt the man lift her and settle her onto her feet, holding her as she swayed, blood rushing to her feet. Pins and needles burned her feet and ankles as they recovered. She felt him lean her against the truck and the tie between her ankles was cut. She staggered slightly as the tension was released, his hands holding her steady. She could smell cigar smoke and alcohol and breath that smelled foul. Her stomach turned both from fear and the revulsion that this asshole who had kidnapped her also had poor hygiene practices.
She turned her head away from the odor, but it came back into her range; apparently, he followed her movement. Traci felt him doing something, tugging at the edges of the tape over her mouth. He stopped for a moment then he pinched her nose shut. Her mouth was still taped, now her nose was closed! After half a minute she began to panic and struggle. Another fifteen seconds and the tape was ripped away. As she opened her mouth to gasp and suck her lungs full of air, the hands inserted a ring gag behind her teeth and pulled the strap snug behind her head. The gag was buckled as she breathed deeply.