"Hurry, let's gag the bitches!" Ben growled to J, who swept into action.
Before Skylar or her mom realized what was happening, J had re-attached Charlotte's gag while Ben had retrieved a bright pink ball-gag from the duffel bag and stuffed it firmly between the younger blonde's lips, fastening it in place.
"You sluts behave yourselves while we go check on our uninvited guests," Ben hissed.
Then the two men disappeared.
Her heart pounding, Skylar tried to think. 'They're gone. This is our chance to escape.' She looked down at her mom. Charlotte's wrists were both cuffed to the bed's headboard, just like hers. But her and her mom's legs were no longer tied down. Skylar moved her legs up and crouched for leverage now, yanking hard on her cuffs. The wooden headboard creaked. Skylar pulled harder.
'Mom, help me!' she thought. 'If we pull together, maybe the headboard's weak enough. Maybe we can break it loose!' Her frantic gaze met her mom's.
But Charlotte didn't seem to have the same fight or sense of urgency she did. 'Come on, Mom. Help me!' Skylar pleaded inwardly. She could understand her mom being too frightened to move, the power of terror to make a person freeze up, but it still disappointed her all the same.
Meanwhile, Charlotte looked up at her naked daughter frantically trying to break free. Her mind was racing, but for a very different reason. She didn't want to escape. She wanted the night to play out as she'd planned, with her two hired thugs giving her and her daughter a rough night to remember. But no one else had been part of Charlotte's plan. She didn't want anyone else to get caught up in the intimate ordeal she'd painstakingly arranged for her and her daughter to experience together.
'Oh my god,' Charlotte thought, a thunderbolt of panic suddenly hitting her right through the heart. 'What if it's Zane? What if he came home early or decided not to stay out with Mia?'
That thought now not only haunted the beautiful MILF, it terrified her.
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MEANWHILE, DOWNSTAIRS
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It took Zane forever to extricate the key from the lock and shut the front door behind them.
"So this is your place?" Mia said. The short, petite 20-year-old Asian girl did a quick twirl and took in her surroundings - the spacious living room connected to the dining room and kitchen, all open concept, which greeted her as she walked in.
"Welcome to my castle," Zane joked.
Mia Chang turned toward her boyfriend. Her HOT boyfriend. She still marveled that the two of them had started dating. He was a misunderstood artist, a young, successful editor just out of college and already dissatisfied and jaded a bit by his first 9-5 gig. As for Mia... well, Mia was complicated. The idealistic college student dreamed of working for a big publisher someday, and dating someone who already had a foot in the publishing biz seemed like a good idea.
"Again, I'm really sorry about my apartment," she said, apologizing for the tenth time. The tenant next door had accidentally started a fire, the fire department had been called...and it had all turned into one big mess, not to mention the ubiquitous smell of smoke on her entire floor hadn't exactly put the two of them in the mood after their dinner date. So, after much nudging and cajoling, Zane had convinced Mia to join him and come back to his place.
"I can't believe you still live with your mom."
"And my sister," Zane reminded her with a proud, cocky grin. "You do realize that extended families or adult children living with their parents, not just idealized nuclear families living together, used to be more the norm, right? It's only in our hyper-individualistic western society with its 'two parents, two kids and a white picket fence' mentality that humans stopped doing that."
"Whatever," Mia giggled. "But seriously... do you really think we can...?" She let the question hang, and his smile shone with confidence.
"Trust me. My mom and sis will be so caught up in their Christmas movie marathon, they'll hardly notice us. We'll pop in, make with the small talk for a bit, and then sneak upstairs to my bedroom."
Mia frowned. "It still seems so... high school though. Sneaking in sex with a parent downstairs. Ugh! Remind me, why do you still live with your mom?" she said in a pointed effort to tease.
But his grin just widened as he shook his head with a sigh. "Look, this is a relatively recent development, OK? Mom came back in town for her new book tour and she's staying at the house here just until she finds a place of her own."
"But you don't mind having her, do you?" Mia accused.
"No," he admitted honestly. "I don't. Ever since Dad died, when Mom disappeared on us and lost herself in her writing career, she basically just left my childhood home as it was - left it for my sister and me to live in and maintain. This big old house has always felt too empty without my parents ever since. I guess... I don't know, I guess it just feels more like a HOME with her in it. Does that sound silly?"
Mia's features softened. She reached out and caressed the top of her boyfriend's hand before leaning over and pressing her lips to his.
"No, it doesn't. Not even a little," she said. Mia's vivacious brown eyes were warm and filled with love, and it was times like these that Zane was grateful that he'd mustered up the courage to ask her out.
"So... you ready?" he said finally, jerking his chin at the expansive three-storey house which surrounded them. "You ready to find my mom and sis and then sneak off like two horny high schoolers?"
The Asian girl nodded with a giggle. "OK, fine Sure. Let's do it."
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BEN AND J'S PERSPECTIVE