Chapter 15
"IT'S A GOOD THING HE WOKE UP," Beatrice said. She was in the passenger seat of the Fiat, with the other two girls behind her. The back of the morgue van was occupied now by Andre, with Marie beside him administering IV.
"Maybe," Rachel said. "I feel, like, I don't know. Unfulfilled? I was really getting into it."
"You would never have pulled it off. With no lube? You know, it's not like a dildo. A real prick will squish if you're too tight. And then what?"
"I had plenty of lube." In fact, she was still dripping. Of course everyone had wanted to leave at once, everyone had wanted to pee before they hit the road, one toilet in the women's rest room, so they had gone off to pee in the woods. She hadn't been able to clean herself up. It was getting sticky.
"Well, maybe you can go visit him in the hospital and give it a try."
"It wouldn't be the same."
"Maybe you could get the nurses to come watch."
That from Beatrice was enough to make Rachel blush. "What about you? In the restaurant? You chose a spot where everyone could see you. With mirrors, even."
"You know what they say," Marissa drawled. "It takes one to know one."
Beatrice was trying to come up with a retort when Rocco's phone buzzed.
"Answer that." He handed it to his sister.
"
Ciao
? This is Melanie. He's busy driving. You work for who? Oh, of course. Tonight? We're on our way back to the Cape. We were at a funeral but the guy woke up in the middle of it."
"Who is that?" Rocco asked.
"It's someone who works for the sheikh. His abeed."
"Male?"
"So it would seem. Maybe a eunuch?"
"What does he want."
"The sheikh has arrived. We are to be on the yacht by six this evening. Well, not all of us. Just me and Risa."
"Tell him you can't go without me."
"Okay. Rocco says he has to come along. What? Only if we get to watch."
"What was that all about?"
"He says you can come along if he gets to fuck you. I guess he's not a eunuch."
"No way."
"How much? I'll let him know."
"Twenty thousand euros. For the evening. Another twenty if we do some other stuff."
"What? What kind of other stuff?"
"He didn't say. I guess we'll find out when we get there. Wait, he sent a text message with a link.
Dio mio
!"
"Let me see." Marissa reached forward to grab the phone. "We've done some of that stuff." It was a BDSM site. "Tell him no permanent marks." She scrolled down more. "I'm okay with drinking piss but I'm not swallowing any shit. How about you?"
"Maybe a little. If it's my own, or yours. Hey Rachel, want to join us?"
"I have to work tonight."
"Yeah, I bet you do. Who knows? Maybe they'll let Andre out of the hospital and he and his buddies will come over for a celebration dinner."
"I'd like that."
"You never saw what's on his back."
"A tattoo of a woman squatting to give birth."
"Gross."
"It's worse. She's got a head coming out of one hole and shit out of the other."
"Oh. That happens. My mother works as a midwife. I used to help her."
"Oh."
"Sometimes we get our beef on the hoof coming to the hotel and I help prepare it."
"You mean like, slaughter it?"
"Yep."
"Maybe you should come with us tonight, after all."
"I really do need to work. In fact, I should be there now." She pulled out her phone. "Hi, this is Rachel. I got tied up going to a funeral. I'll be there in..."
"Forty-five minutes," Rocco said.
"Forty-five minutes. Okay. Okay. Sorry."
"Are you in trouble?"
"No. Elise is covering for me. But I absolutely need to show up tonight."
"What do you think happened? To Andre? That he woke up again?"
"I'd like to see his forehead," Rocco said. "Where the hole was."
"Was?"
"I was recording everything. Take a look on my phone."
Sure enough, there was a video, showing Andre sitting up. Backing up some, Rachel naked in front of the coffin. "Stop that," she said. She loved the way she looked, breasts jutting out, the nipples so erect they were ready to burst, her body gleaming.
"You look really hot," Marissa said. "Literally," she added with a giggle. "You should put that pic on your menu."
"I'm right there in person. What's the point?" But Rachel was rubbing herself, looking at that image.
"Back it up some more," Rocco said. "To when that woman came in."
"That woman? It was Anna. You of all people should know what she looks like. You fucked the bitch enough."
"Maybe he never looked at her face," Marissa said.