It seemed an eternity from the moment she realized she was not alone to being on the ground with his hand clamped over her mouth and his legs wrapped around hers so she could neither struggle nor scream. Even years after the traumatic events that would follow she wondered why in the chasm of time that seemed to pass between realizing someone was in her house to being grabbed she had not cried out.
"Hello sweetheart or should I say Rachel", he whispered into her ear. "Now listen carefully I am going to take my hand away from your mouth. You will not scream or struggle. If you do, I will hurt you badly, the knife in my pocket will cut you up. No second chances, you got it, dear sweet Michael and Ivy will get hurt too. You got it!"
She sensed how calm and measured he was, and that terrified her more than the fact he knew her name, but most terrifying of all was he knew the names of her children.
"Got it, have you got it?" He repeated and finally she managed to nod.
Slowly his hand came away from her mouth.
"Please take my money," she begged. "I have lots of jewellery too. My husband will be home soon. If you go now I won't say anything. I won't. Please take what you want and go. Please."
As she pleaded she watched him break into a small smile and then he calmly placed one finger on her mouth and she immediately fell silent.
"Take what I want," he said still smiling.
"My purse is," she began again, but slightly more pressure from his finger again stopped her speaking.
"What I want is you to be quiet," he said, the smile widening.
My god he is enjoying this she thought. What's he want? Deep down she knew.
"Understand also that I want no more lies," he continued. "Lies make me very mad Rach. I guess I can call you Rach. We both know your husband is away for a week, off on one of his business trips. He won't call will he? He never does and poor Rachel, lovely, sexy Rachel is left at home minding the kids. Well don't worry about being ignored today, I am going to royally entertain you. Oh yes, we are going to get to know each other very well this afternoon."
"You see my darling," he continued. "I know everything about you. Your nickname. All about Michael your husband too. So no more lies. Lies make me mad and you don't want to see me mad. You know the only thing you will want is me gone before 3pm. At 3pm your lovely kids will be dropped home, won't they. Don't think you want me and my knife meeting them do you. DO YOU?" he said more firmly.
"No," she said very quietly.
"Hmmm, lets see if you can be a good girl then. Are you a good girl Rach?" He repeated the question and when there was no answer he quickly slapped her across her face. "I said are you a good girl Rach?"
"Yes," she said, the tears from the slap welling up in her eyes. His hand gripped her neck and he reached down to kiss her, his lips feeling her lips hard and unresponsive. He lifted himself off her, raising his hand to slap her again.
"No please, don't hit me again. I don't know what to do," she screamed.
"Kiss me back when I kiss you or you'll get another one," he said. This time briefly her lips responded to his kiss, but at the moment her lips froze again, he again slapped her. Whilst the shock of the slap distracted her, he moved right on top of her sitting back on his haunches.
"I didn't tell you to stop Rachel. You stop when I tell you, you understand. Lets try again and this time I want your mouth open when we kiss. I want you to act like you like it. Got it!"
"No please, no more please," she cried. "Please go, I can't do this, please take my money and go," she cried.
Calmly and slowly he took his knife out of his pocket and the blade flicked out. Smiling he wiped the blade down both her cheeks.
"Look," he said very slowly, "all you have to do is spend a few hours pleasing me. I have watched you for weeks, preparing and planning. You do this and live, or you don't and you die, along with your kids. It's really up to you. Now the knife goes away, but I will cut you up if you don't play ball."
He slowly snapped the blade back and put it into his pocket again.
"If you are a good girl I will go well before three and all will be well." He said.
"How do I know that?" She cried. "How do I know you won't just kill me anyway."
"Oh my darling you don't, you really don't," he said laughing, "but I will do as I say if you please me. If you don't, I promise you, I will kill you and the kids. You see you really have no choice. You will do what I say, when I say, how I say, or its bye bye for you and the kids. Get it, I am getting angry, so get with it."
"Now where were we, oh yes you were about to kiss me," he said.
This time she co-operated although her stomach tightened and she felt sick as the kiss went on and on. Stop, please stop, her brain screamed out. Another voice in her head told her to do as he had told her. His mouth explored her soft lips and his tongue pushed into her mouth. She forced herself to cooperate with him, hoping it would be good enough and trying hard not to think about what he would make her do.
Eventually he lifted himself off her rolling to the side and gently began with a finger stroking her lips.
"Hmmm that's better," he said. "You see how nice I can be, when you do as you are told. Let's have a little more fun in the hall before we go to the lounge or the bedroom," he stated. The mention of the bedroom made her heart freeze.
"No please, I have done what you wanted," she said. "Please."
"Rachel shut the fuck up," he said, "we haven't done anything yet." She stopped pleading again, frightened by his sudden loss of calmness, but when he spoke again the calmness had returned.
"I want you to pull your sweater out from the waist band of you skirt," he said.
She hesitated.
"Rachel," he said firmly, and with no choice she slowly pulled it out for him. He kissed her again on the lips and when she responded he smiled and stroked her face.
"That's my girl," he said. "I want you to put your hands above your head and keep them there."
"Why, what are you going to do to me?" She said.
He raised his hand to hit her, and this made her move her hands above her head as he had told her too. He lifted the sweater up a little and immediately her hands shot down to her sweater to pull it down again. Expecting this, he slapped her on the left cheek and as her face rolled away from the slap he slapped her on the other side.
"Hands back," he said very slowly. Her hands slowly returned to their position above her head.
He again moved her sweater up, loving the fact that her stomach was convulsing as she tried to hold back her tears. The convulsions grew in intensity as he gently kissed her tummy. He began to push the sweater up further with his nose, kissing the soft white skin that was revealed.
"Hmmmmm very nice," he said.
"No, please god no," she said as the tears really began to flow.
He stopped kissing her and ran his right hand up inside her sweater. He cupped her left breast and gently rubbed it through her cotton bra. He could feel her nipple hardening.
"Hmmmm that feels good too. You are not wearing your black lacy underwear, but you didn't know I was coming did you." he laughed, and you can always put it on for me later."
He carried on caressing her, "is that nice baby?" He whispered, "you like that huh?" He continued to rub his hand against her bra loving the feeling. He gently pinched her nipple before withdrawing his hand.
"Now you may take your sweater off," he said with a grin.
She immediately did as she was told and lay back down again, and to his amusement she put her hands back above her head when he simply said the word "hands" to her.
"That's right," he said.
She watched with growing horror as he admired her body.
"Hmmmm such beautiful breasts Rachel. Seems to me your nipple liked my touch. Still I am sure my mouth later will make it much harder." He paused and then continued smiling. "Hmmmm, but I bet you wish you had put on a prettier bra," he mocked. "Still you won't be wearing it for too much longer. Oh my god though for a women who has had two children that is quite a body, a very fuck-able body, yes indeed. Time for some championship fucking and you do what I want or you know what's going to happen."
He pulled his own sweater off revealing a suntanned, and muscular body which certainly knew what the inside of a gym looked like. He rolled her over so she was on top of him and he began again to kiss her passionately. His lips moving to her right cheek and then kissing the nape of her neck. Rolling a bra strap off one shoulder he kissed her shoulders before unclipping her bra at the back and as he removed her bra he lifted her up his body. He took her right breast deep into his mouth. Her stomach tightened again and she forced herself to stay still. He swapped breasts and then lowered her down him again and moved back to kissing her lips. His hand pushed her bottom against his groin and she could feel him hard beneath his trousers.
"Hmmm," he groaned deep and guttural.
"I want you to kiss my tummy and then rub your hair and breasts up my body and then kiss me." He ordered.
"No, no please no," she cried.
"Do it," and so she forced herself to kiss him on the stomach and then come up his body and kiss him. When she tried to pull away quickly he pushed her head into his and kissed her passionately.
"Again, until I tell you to stop," he ordered. I want to feel your hair and breasts as you rub up me, it really turns me on," he said.
Again and again she repeated the movement he ordered her to do. At first she had counted trying to think of something else rather than what she was doing, but at 8 she lost count distracted by his orders. Sometimes he was telling her to go slowly, sometimes making her give him a long lingering kiss before resuming. Finally he rolled her back over and was back on top of her.