This is not happening, she thought to herself, as the taxi took her to an unknown destination. "Where are we going?" She demanded.
"Just sit back and enjoy the ride doll," the driver said in an amused voice. Desperately she lunged for the driver to get him to stop the vehicle. The car severed dangerously on the road, and the driver took a swing at her, catching her on the side of the face knocking her back in her seat. "You crazy bitch! Are you trying to get us both killed? Try something like that again, and I'll make you wish you were never born," he said in a tone that was dead serious. Emily had never been more frightened in her life. She had never felt a fear as intense as the fear she felt at that moment.
She huddled in the corner of the cab to get out of his reach in case he chose to grab her. Escape was the only option, but at the rate the cab was going she knew that if she tried to get out of the vehicle while it was moving she might not escape alive. Finally she decided that when the car stopped, she would jump out as quickly as she could and run, but every mile that was driven made her heart sink because her surroundings were becoming less as less familiar as they went on. More than anything she wanted to give into the luxury of tears but the anger took over. There was no way she was going to let this bastard see her cry so she sat there thinking of what she would do if she got away.
To his credit, the driver didn't offer any conversation which was just fine with Emily, but now and again, she could feel the cold stare of his eyes in the rearview mirror. She knew that if she got out of this ordeal alive she would never forget those eyes. They were the lightest blue that she had ever seen, and set to his dark features, it made him quite menacing. From the glimpses that she seen of his face, he could have been a handsome man, with his dark hair and rugged features, but like his eyes, there was a coldness about him that made her shudder.
He was certainly a big man, not overly tall, probably no more that six feet, but he was muscular as if he worked out frequently. She could tell this even through his clothes. Poor, poor Mike, he couldn't have stood a chance at this guy, Emily though about Mike's more slender frame. At the thought of Mike, anger took over the fear and the self-pity.
"What did you do to Mike?" She asked with more calm and control than she actually had at the moment. The driver didn't say anything. "Hey! I'm asking you a question."
"My name is not Hey, it's Zeke, and you'd better learn it quick girlie." He commanded, totally ignoring her other question. Zeke. The name meant nothing to her. Who was this guy, and why had he chosen her? She decided to try a different approach.
"Zeke, why did you do this. I haven't done anything thing to you. I don't even know you. Come to think of it, I can't think of anyone that I've done wrong." This only cause him to burst into a peal of laughter.
"Life's a bitch isn't it? Why don't you just sit back and shut your trap? We're almost there," he instructed. Emily sat back and let her mind return to ways of escape.
What seemed like another half an hour, Zeke pulled the cab to a halt. "We go no farther until we lay some ground rules here." He got no further than that before Emily was out of the cab in a flash. She ran down the road as far as she could not knowing where to go. It was one of those winding roads surrounded on each side by woods, with not a house or building in site. Why he chose to stop the she didn't know but she didn't want to stick around to find out. She kept running despite the feeling of pain in her lungs from running so hard. In no time at all however she heard footfalls behind her.
Despite the head start that she had had, Zeke had no trouble catching up with her. She was ran even harder, but was finally tackled from behind to the ground. Zeke flipped her over to pin his body underneath his. If she could she would have screamed but she didn't have enough breath left within her to summon one. "That wasn't smart. I guess you've already figured out rule number one though, you can't escape me, so don't try. If you do, you'll be punished." He got up dragging her up with him. "Come on."
"No...let...me go," she said breathlessly still struggling against him. Her struggles were nothing to him. He simply grabbed her and hauled her over his shoulder like a sack of flour and started walking back towards the cab. She squirmed still. Zeke brought a palm down stingingly on her bottom. Tears of pain and humiliation welled in her eyes, after while she made herself go limp knowing that her struggles, were useless, at least at that moment.
"Thatta girl," he laughed in amusement. "Sooner or later you may find out that you don't want to struggle."