'I'm sorry. I'll try not to hurt you too badly. Nothing that I'm about to do to you is your fault. You didn't do anything wrong and you probably don't deserve for this to be happening to you. It was by chance that I caught you. It could have been any woman, but I caught you first.'
His words were no comfort to her. She was terrified, horrified and humiliated. He had caught her, literally, as she was jogging in the park. He ran her down like a wolf chasing a deer. Once he had caught her, he had put his gloved hand over her mouth and whispered into her ear that he would cut her throat if she struggled against him.
He dragged her through the brush, out onto the street and up to his car. She tried her best to memorize the licence plate on the dark blue sedan. Now he had a dark cloth bag over her head and her hands tied together with zip-ties. Laying in the back seat of her kidnapper's car, Kyrie prayed that he might crash as he was driving and she would be found by the police or EMS and be saved from this uncertain nightmare. No such luck. Her kidnapper slowed and made a right-hand turn, he drove slowly for a little distance, then stopped the car. He shut the engine off- must be a standard- Kyrie noted, he didn't click the shifter into park.
She could hear him unbuckle his seat belt and sit still for a second. She could hear him take a deep breath and the creak of the leather seat as he turned to look at her, his prey, helpless in the backseat. She could hear him open the door and the crunch of his boots on the gravel outside as he stepped out of the car. Once the door was closed again, she could not hear anything distinct. Maybe his footsteps fading away, maybe not.
It seemed like an eternity for Kyrie as she prayed and wished with all of her heart that he had just left her there. Soon enough, too soon in fact, her kidnapper opened the car door at her feet. Deftly, he seized her ankles and pulled her across the soft leather, out into the cool, damp night. Kyrie stood up instinctively and it wasn't until she had been led into what she thought might be a warehouse that she even considered that she should have resisted while she was outside and there might have been a chance of someone saving her from this beast.
With the man's strong hand on her wrists behind her back, she was directed through a large, hollow-sounding room. Then down a hallway, yes, she could hear the change in the acoustics, she was trained to know these things as a theatre director. Now, a door swings open and a light is flicked on. Kyrie was led across the room and he told her to sit down. His was a voice that she would not forget, deep and rough, but beautiful, rugged, sounded like a smoker but didn't smell like one. She sat down on what she assumed to be a bed and was left alone in the room with the hum of the florescent lights. She hadn't heard the door close, so she didn't dare struggle to get free, just in case.
She felt him returning to the room, he must have taken his boots off, he was very quiet. He clicked on a smaller light and flicked off the long, bright bulbs that Kyrie could see in her mind's eye. She could feel the bed dip beside her and her kidnapper ran his fingers through her soft auburn hair that was hanging below the hood over her face.
'I'm sorry. I'll try not to hurt you too badly. Nothing that I'm about to do to you is your fault. You didn't do anything wrong and you probably don't deserve for this to be happening to you. It was by chance that I caught you. It could have been any woman, but I caught you first.'
Kyrie's mind was racing with questions. What is he going to do to me? Will he kill me? Will he let me go? The fear of the uncertain was almost driving her to panic. Her swirling questions were stilled with his next statement. Again, in that beautiful, unforgettable voice, he spoke:
'I need you. I need you to be honest. I'm sick of frauds and liars. I want an honest response from a woman. I need it. I need to know...' he trailed off. He cleared his throat and cut the ties from Kyrie's hands. She did not fight him. She did not dare to. She knew how strong he was by how he handled her. Besides, she was stunned by his words.
Gently, and without removing the bag from her head, he lifted off her hooded sweater over her head. She complied with his unspoken directions. She sat on the edge of the bed as he slipped off her running shoes without untying them. She laid back on the bed as he untied her jogging pants and pulled them down over her hips and off of her feet.
Still and silent, Kyrie remained laying on the bed, in only her sports bra and white cotton panties and, of course, the black bag hiding his identity and hers as well. Kyrie had been jogging, yes, but she never considered herself to be 'fit'. She had wide hips, an ample bottom, breasts that she was satisfied with, and an eternally soft belly- not flabby, but she could never get the tone that she wished she could. She was humiliated. She had never let any of her boyfriends see her completely naked, not even while having sex. She had always insisted that the lights be off and the sheets be pulled up; self- consciousness at its best.
Here she was, laying back, unguarded, still somewhat clothed, but not trying to cover herself up. She had been shocked by what he had said and it was still ringing in her head 'I need you to be honest.' She was snapped back to reality when she felt a cold metal blade quickly sliding between her breasts and her bra popping open from the strain of her bosom. She quickly brought her arms up to cover her nakedness. This action earned a gruff grunt of satisfaction from her captor. Quickly, he sliced the sides of her underwear and she frantically grabbed for them as he pulled them from between her thighs.
'Oh fuck...' Kyrie heard him say under his breath 'you are beautiful. So real...'
Kyrie was certain that her whole body blushed at his statement. She was so humiliated and terrified at what she knew was about to happen. His rough hands slid under her lower back and he rested his face against her stomach. She could feel his beard stubble sharp against her soft skin. Now she was truly dazed. This was not what she was expecting. The thought ran through her mind that rapists were men who could not have normal relationships with women. Maybe this man was not loved enough by his mother, maybe he was loved too much.
Either way, Kyrie dared not move. She only breathed as shallowly as she could and made no sound. She was sure that her heart pounding in her chest would drown out any sound that she did make, but she wasn't taking any chances. Her kidnapper took a deep breath and stood up, Kyrie could hear the soft noise of his clothes dropping to the floor. She stiffened and resumed her attempts to preserve her modesty as best as she could with her hands.
The man swiftly separated her legs with his knee and knelt on the bed between her legs with one foot still on the floor. Kyrie clamped her legs shut on his knee and was rewarded with another gruff chuckle. In one motion, he took one of her wrists in each of his hands and manoeuvred them over her head so that he was now what would be face to face with her. Tears of fear and shame rolled down her cheeks and she was glad that she was protected from his gaze by the darkness of the bag that was over her face.
He breathed her smell in deeply and sighed a satisfied sigh. Then he brought his other knee up and separated her legs so that he could see her delicate opening. Almost overcome by his lust for this woman- a woman who would have no reason to lie, no reason to impress him- he nearly took her right then. He resisted. He must remain in control.
His whole life was about control and frequently he was not the one holding the reigns. First, he went to law school to please his parents, but his heart wasn't in it. He left university and ventured out on his own, starting his own company and rocketing to the top of the business ladder as a powerful CEO. Reflecting, he realized that he was at his happiest when he was slaving away for his own interests. A time when nobody cared who he was and had no interest in sucking up to him. Now it was just a parade of moochers and Yes-Men, plastic sluts and gold-diggers. He was told where he had to be and when he had to be there. What he had to do and say and what he had to wear. Fuck, wouldn't he just like to go back to that time long ago.