Chapter 1
110ΒΊ. Thank god for air-conditioning, Anne thought. West Texas. Flat stretch of endless desert and burning blue sky. Rest Stop Cafe. Red neon sign to the right. She pulls in on the gravel lot. Sign in broad window says, 'Enjoy a hearty meal in air-conditioned comfort.' Not many customers. Anne takes a booth and orders a turkey sandwich with salad and a glass of iced tea with lemon slice. A Mexican, early twenties, is watching her. She's used to men watching her. She's good looking and knows it, but isn't hung up on it. She ignores the Mexican and gazes out the window. When she's through she dials a number.
"Hi, hon, it's me."
Barry looked up from blueprints on his desk and leaned back in the swivel chair, a smile on his face.
"Where are you, babe?"
"Somewhere in West Texas at the Rest Stop Cafe. You won't believe how hot it isβ110Β°."
Barry whistled. "Bad time to go visiting your mother."
"I miss you already."
"I know, me too, but I haven't seen mom for years. Megan wanted to go with me, but she's got a bug. She's always calling Megan and me to come see her. She's lonesome. It won't be long. A week and I'll be back."
"I'll be here, and the first thing I'll do is rip your clothes off with my teeth and lick your naked body all over until you're begging me for it."
"You shouldn't talk like that. You'll make me hotβand it's already 110Β°.
"I'm serious."
"You'd better be. I might do some licking too."
The Mexican was gone when she got through talking. Two rednecks had come in and were sitting at the counter. They stole glances as she left. Outside, as she got into the car, she noticed the Mexican in a white van with another Mexican.
Santana dialed a number as he watched the pretty gringa drive off.
"She coming, Cobra. Gray Honda, WRA183. Blonde, blue eyes; 36C-22-33 or 34; five-five there bouts.
Anne saw the patrol car sitting on the side of the road and slowed until she was certain she was well under the speed limit. What in the hell anyway? The road was as straight as an arrow as far as the eye could see. Surely the officer knew he wasn't going to catch anyone speeding while he was sitting right there. Stupid. She drove past making a point of not glancing at him then heard a whoop, whoop. A glance in the rear view mirror. She saw the patrol car pull out, blue lights flashing. She pulled over. Her heart was pounding. Men with badges...all that deadly hardware around their waist, frightened her. You've done nothing wrong, she told herself. Calm down. It's some kind of mistake. Maybe something wrong with the car. What? In the mirror, she watched him get out from the patrol car. He was big with a pot belly. He swaggered toward her, his hand resting on the butt of his pistol. She scrolled down her window feeling the furnace heat of the desert rush in. Wavy lines rose up off the highway. The sun was everywhere. A blinding radiance. She squinted looking up as he stopped at the window.
"What's the problem, officer?" She smiled weakly. He had a crude, insensitive face.
"Well. I'll tell you what's wrong, little lady. You were speeding."
"But that's not possible because--"
The officer grinned. It wasn't a nice grin. "Because you slowed down when you saw me, didn't you?"
"I wasn't speeding."
"Ugh."
"Well, just write me a ticket, then, and I'll be on my way."
"Oh, so now you've got a smart mouth. I want you to get out of the car."
"Officer, I wasn't being smart with you. It's just so hot, and I've been on the road so--"
"Lady, I'm not gonna tell you to get out of the car again." He jerked the door open, grabbed her arm and pulled her out. "Now don't make me charge you with resisting arrest."
"Arrest? But I haven't done anything. Please..."
"Turn around and face the car. He forced her wrist behind her back and cuffed it then the other one. "Spread your legs."
"What are you doing? Why?"
He kicked her feet apart. "I said spread 'em." He began frisking her. "Wearing a miniskirt. You women disgust me." He rubbed his hand up between her legs feeling the smooth cunt through the thin panties.
"Stop it! Stop it!"
He grabbed her by the hair and forced her toward the patrol car, shoving her in back. After a minute or two a white van pulled in behind the patrol car. The Mexican who had been riding with Santana got into the Honda and drove off. Cobra and Santana followed. Where a sign read: LAST EXIT TO TRAVISVILLE. They left the Interstate and pulled in at an abandoned gas station. Cobra got out of the patrol car and dragged Anne into a gutted room that had once been the office. The only furniture now was a filthy double wide mattress lying on the floor. The Mexicans watched as he forced her down on the mattress, pushed her skirt up.
"Hey, man, take her clothes off. We wanna see pussy."
"You can do what you want when it's your turn."
Cobra slid the panties down and tossed them aside among other dusty stale articles of women's apparel lying on the gritty floor then bunted her thighs apart. He unzipped his pants and thumbed his cock out. She gave a wounded cry. He jerked open the front of her sleeveless blouse, buttons popping, then pushed up her bra.
She wailed with animal ferocity as he cupped her tits, thumb nails denting hard into the soft pink nipples. He was strong and held her in check as if she were a child. Cupping her ass he lifted her off the floor as he strained to force in the knotted head of his cock. She was dry. Tight. Her blue eyes froze on him as he spit on his hand and rubbed it over the purple veined organ. He pressed against her again. Slowly she spread. She clenched her teeth as she felt the width and length of him; squeezed her eyes shut; twisted her body beneath him, sliding and kicking her spiked heels against the floor, the soles making a scrapping rasping sound like sandpaper. Her face red from struggling. Sweat beaded, trickling down into her hair. She arched her back, bucking against him, her struggles only intensifying his eager thrusts. The weight of his fat body, slamming against her, forced air from her lungs as if she were a bellows. Guttural whines puffed her cheeks. He began moving in and out more easily. Suddenly he grew rigid. He groaned, then exploded with short quick thrusts and collapsed on top of her. After a moment he rose up and shook his dick off on her belly then stood up. She lay on the floor looking up, her eyes hot, her breasts rising and falling rapidly. Naked to their gaze.
"Tight."
He walked outside and lit a cigarette leaving the two Mexicans with her. A lone car swished by on the Interstate. The naked desert shimmered in the heat. A bird made a black dart overhead. When he finished his cigarette, he strolled back inside. She was totally naked now. Santana's switchblade lay on the floor next to the mattress. She was sandwiched between them. Santana on top fucking her in the ass. Jorge beneath. The rest of her clothes had joined the scrap pile scattered on the floor. She no longer struggled. There was heavy breathing, grunts, the sound of flesh against flesh. Her blonde hair hung down curtaining her head. Jorge had his hands on the sides of her face kissing her hungrily. Cobra could imagine her slack mouth and greased cunt accepting his wet thrusts.
He walked back outside and opened the door of the Honda. Her purse lay on the passenger seat. He opened it, saw the cell phone and took it out. He dropped it on the concrete and crushed it with his heel.
After awhile Santana came out buttoning his shirt a toothy grin on his brown face. "To think we get paid for this, bato."
"Is Jorge about done?"
"Aw, you know that fucker, man. He go on forever. He like his pussy." He lit a cigarette and stood with his hands on his narrow hips looking out over the desert.
"Well, he's gonna have to rush it. I wanna get an ice cold beer and something to eat. Get out of this fucking heat."
Santana nodded. "Manana." He got in the van and left.
The sun moved imperceptibly across the sky. Half an hour dragged by before Jorge came out, a shorter man than Santana and pudgy. He nodded, got in the Honda and drove off. Cobra tossed his cigarette and went back inside. She was sitting up, strands of long blonde hair hung down to her nipples. Pink lipstick smeared her cheek. Her body was wet with sweat. The greasers had taken her wedding ring, watch and gold necklace. He lifted her up, walked her out to the patrol car, and put her in back.
Sheriff Jane Kitten sat at her desk, pointed boots propped up, clicking a ballpoint pen against her smooth, white teeth while studying a crossword puzzle. Long red fingernails tapped the folded magazine. Piercing blue eyes moved over the columns. Red lips smiled faintly. Beneath a gray Stetson, tilted low on her forehead, long black hair was fixed in a ponytail. Custom fitted jeans and a long-sleeved western shirt, with small brown and white checks, cleaved to her perfect five-foot-seven figure. On her hip was a pearl-handled .357 revolver.
Her Smart Phone buzzed on the desk. She picked it up.
"Got another one for you," Cobra said. "Prime this time. Blonde, blue eyes."
"Okay. Bring her round back. I'll be here."
She dropped her feet off the desk and slid back in the swivel chair, got up and opened the office door. Gladys, the dispatcher, was playing poker on her computer. She went to the right, down a corridor, opened a steel door with a key, passed two empty cells and opened another steel door marked EXIT.