"Mom, have you seen my new bikini?" Clare shouted from her room.
"I washed it, it is in the laundry room on the drying rack." Alisa shouted back from her bedroom down the hall. "Don't let your father see it until we get to France, otherwise he will not let you take it."
"I know, why is he so strict about things?" Clare asked.
"He is just trying to protect his little girl."
"I'm not little anymore mom, well, except for my height, I'm 18 now, I'll be going to university soon."
"Your father still thinks of you as a 5 year old. He'll come around."
Clare grabbed her bikini from the laundry room and went to put it into her suitcase. Clare was really looking forward to this trip, spending an entire month in southern France in a nice villa on the coast. It was her high school graduation present from her father. "There are going to be so many cute French guys there." When her sister Kate graduated two years ago their father took them to Sweden. "I don't know why my sister wanted to go there, it was nice, but not very warm. Oh well, it is my turn to choose, and France it is, and Kate isn't even going."
"I'm home!" Daniel shouted as he came in the front door. Alisa walked out to greet him.
"Hi honey!" Alisa said as she kissed him and hugged him. "You are home a lot earlier than I expected. It's great."
"Yeah, Malcolm has everything covered, that guy is great. I feel I can leave the company to him to take care of while we are gone, he has been doing the day to day operations for the last year." Daniel said while hugging his wife. "Are you two all packed?"
"Just about, I'm just finishing your suitcase and Clare is almost done." Alisa said while walking back down the hallway.
"Have you heard from Kate?" Daniel asked.
"Yeah, she texted me earlier, she will be here to watch the house on Sunday."
"Watch the house, I'm sure, and have a party or two with her friends." Daniel muttered under his breath while following his wife to their bedroom and walking past Clare's bedroom.
The three had an early dinner and went to bed early since they had to catch their flight tomorrow morning at 6 AM.
***
Knock Knock "Get up Clare." Alisa said while sticking her head in her bedroom door.
"What? What time is it?" Clare said as she squinted and looked at her mom standing in the doorway.
"It's almost three, Get up and get dressed, we are leaving in 45 minutes."
"Okay mom, I'm getting up." Clare said while blinking her eyes. She quickly put on a pair of shorts and tank top then went to the bathroom to quickly brush her teeth and check her hair. Clare fished around in her purse on her side table digging out her birth control "Can't forget these, hopefully I will need them."
"You want some toast Clare?" Asked her mother when she walked into the kitchen.
"Sure. Where's dad?"
"Oh, he is in the garage loading the car." Alisa said.
The door to the garage opened and Clare looked over to greet her dad, but it wasn't her dad. Clare suddenly sucked in her breath and took a step back. Alisa looked around the corner and saw a man standing there in a light jacket and slacks.
"Who are you? Where's Dan?" Alisa asked with a worried expression.
"You must be Alisa and Clare." the man said calmly, still holding the garage door open.
"DAN!" Alisa shouted.
"Your husband is currently with my associates outside. He will be in shortly."
"GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!" Alisa shouted at him while backing into the kitchen.
Terror was slowly creeping up Clare's spine making her whole body shiver.
"Alisa, Clare, why don't we go have a seat in the living room." The man said. Alisa turned around and grabbed a knife from the rack on the counter.
"STAY AWAY YOU FUCKER! GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!" Alisa shouted again.
Clare was looking around for her phone quickly but realized she left it in her room on her night stand. Clare didn't see her mother's phone anywhere either, the normal charging spot was empty.
"Alisa, please put the knife down. My name is Richard. I will be working with your husband's company." Richard said while slowly walking towards the women.
"STAY BACK!" Alisa shouted.
Clare was back against the kitchen counter and her mom was slowly backing up to stay away from the intruder. Suddenly Richard's right hand shot out and grabbed Alisa's wrist holding the knife and pulled her towards him. Using his other hand he pulled the knife from Alisa and spun her around and pulled her close to him and put the knife to her throat.
"NO!" Clare shouted. Richard was staring at Clare while holding the knife to her mom's neck. "Don't hurt her, please!" Clare wailed.
"Now why don't you two join me in the living room." Richard said while backing out of the kitchen and forcing Alisa to walk to the living room. Clare slowly came out of the kitchen and went to the living room scared to do anything else, she didn't want him to hurt her mother.
Richard pushed Alisa onto the couch and pointed for Clare to join her, which she did. Richard sat down on the antique coffee table facing the two and stabbed the large knife into the table top next to him, causing the women to jump a little. Alisa grimaced looking at her stabbed table.
"I approached Dan with a business opportunity recently, but he turned me down. Maybe I didn't make it clear to him that he didn't have a choice in the matter. Malcolm, Dan's 2nd in command was much more willing to work with us. So we have been forced to take some drastic measures and remove Dan from his business temporarily." Richard said slowly looking between the two women.
"Where's Dan?" Alisa asked again with tears in her eyes.
"Oh, don't worry Alisa, we aren't going to hurt Dan, he is the sole owner of the company and we need him alive, but he doesn't actually have to be at the company for us to get what we want. Now I know you were supposed to go on a nice trip to France today, but we are going to need to cancel that. You three will need to stay home this summer. Sorry." Richard told them.
The door to the garage opened again and the two women turned around on the couch to see who was coming in. Two strange men came in, one was half carrying Dan who looked like he was knocked out.
"Oh god!" Alisa said.
"Daddy!" Clare shouted.
Dan didn't look up, one of his arms was around the man's neck and head was hanging down. The man carrying Dan was a large muscular man with a shaved head. The other guy was skinny with short brown hair and squinty eyes.
"These are my colleagues that I told you about. The big guy is Gus and the other fellow is Mark. These two fine gentlemen will be staying with you for a while." Richard said. Gus brought Dan around and sat him in the rocker recliner chair in the corner. "These two men will be in control of everything. They are very good at what they do, but they do have some sexual fetishes that I don't particularly enjoy, they are free to enjoy whatever they like. Whatever floats your boat is what I say." Richard said while Alisa wrapped her arm around Clare and pulled her close when hearing this.
"Let my daughter go, please!" Alisa begged.
"Sorry I can't do that, if Dan had accepted my offer things would be very different, but it is what it is. Now I'm going to look around your house. While everybody gets acquainted." Richard said while getting up and walking down the hall towards the bedrooms.
Gus sat on the coffee table where Richard was earlier and pulled the knife out. "You two are quite the lookers. Man just look at their tits, they are huge." Gus said.
"Please no, let us go." Alisa asked again while holding Clare.
"No, no, can't do that, boss says we need to keep you here for about a month." Gus said. "Hey Mark, you just about got their vitamins ready?" Gus asked.
"Yep, one second here." Mark said.
Alisa and Clare looked behind them to what Mark was doing. He had a small overnight bag on the kitchen table and was holding a syringe that he just finished filling from a vial that he put back into the bag.
"Oh god, please no." Alisa begged, both women were actively crying now, tears streaming down their cheeks.
"Don't worry, we won't hurt you, like Gus said, these are just vitamin shots. First one is for mom." Mark said while walking over to the back of the couch that was facing the dining room where Mark was.
"No, no, NO!" Alisa started yelling while moving away.
Gus leaned forward with the knife and grabbed Alisa's neck. "Hold still, we wouldn't want to hurt you." Gus said. Clare moved away from the large man and scooted over to the far end of the couch. "Don't you go anywhere either." Gus said while pointing the knife at Clare.
Mark lifted up the sleeve on Alisa's silk blouse and dabbed her arm with a small cloth and jabbed the needle into her arm and pressed the plunger.
"Mom" Clare wailed.
"She is fine, soon she will be better than fine." Mark said. Gus released her neck and sat back down on the coffee table. Mark grabbed a second syringe and came to Clare.
"Time for daughter's vitamins shot." Mark said. Clare didn't try to fight back, just took the shot in her arm. "There we go, you are all set for a while." Mark said. "We will have to give you a booster each day while we are here, but you will soon like them." Mark said while putting his medical stuff away.
Richard came back into the living room carrying some stuff. "I found their phones and I have the internet router, nobody will be contacting anybody. I also found a text in mom's phone saying Kate will be here tomorrow. So it looks like you will be having somebody else to play with. Lucky you." Richard said.
"Not Kate too..." Alisa mumbled with her head resting on the back of the sofa.