After years of searching, making connections, using connections and expending a lot of money it came down to this, this instant, this last movement, this final push to retrieve his wife, his soulmate, his partner, his friend.
Years went by and he never faltered, never strayed and was focused only on getting her back from those that took her. Many told him to move on, to give up and that she wouldn't be the same as she was. But he believed that all would be well that he would save her finally, rescue her and hurt those who hurt her, they would pay, have paid, but their debt still needed settling.
"Ready Jerry?" a man in a jumpsuit asked him. This man was a friend, a colleague and has been there for him since that day, four long years ago. Gary Carlisle, a friend from his past, they were both special forces.
Jerome smiled at the name. "As ready as I'll ever be, these bastards will pay." he growled.
They counted and released their supply cache then jumped out of the transport plane. The freedom of the air liberating them for a while as they fell towards the ground below.
* * *
Four years prior Jerome was in command of a squad and tasked with taking down a trafficking ring. Rotten people only in it for the money, not caring about anything but themselves and the job. This was to be his final mission, he was going to retire from the special forces and grab a cushy job with the secret service.
No more muck, risky operations, or constant moving around the world as the job required, which was often. He would settle down with his wife Darlene, make a family, collect a substantial paycheck and just live life as it went. Barbecues, warm afternoons at the lake, fishing for fun and being the family man.
These people were horrible men, stealing and selling people to the highest bidder, selling weapons on the black market and continuing the stream of drugs into his homeland, selling killer drugs to teens and polluting the streets with filth. They were the whole deal.
This was a risky mission, they've spent years tracking these guys, this world renowned criminal organization. The pieces were in place, the counter was ticking and the checkmate was very soon.
"Ready Jerry?" his friend said.
"Let's do this!" another man said.
"Go, go, go!" He responded!
They were falling from dozens of miles above the Earth, their ground assets moving in as they fell. It was like a symphony of perfection, they saw the flashes of gunfire below them through the visor of their high altitude jump gear. "Too soon damn it, too fucking soon, fuck!" he said angrily through the radio.
They were right on target but had to speed up their fall due to whoever tipped them off. The rampart of the ancient refurbished castle clearly in their sights from the lot floor lights lining them thanks to an inside asset, they saw the helicopter on the castles helipad starting up. "Shit!" he said as he pulled his ripcord way past when he was supposed to.
The parachute grabbed the air with a jarring snap of the straps knocking the wind out of him momentarily as he plummeted to the rampart. His training kicked in as his feet made soft contact with the ground, he released the parachute, tucked and rolled onto the floor of the rampart as if he had done this a billion times before. Roll, flip, rifle in hand as he made way back to his knees.
The sound of gunfire echoing all around and then the alert as the parachute he was just wearing fell into the courtyard of the castle. Bullets hitting metal and stone echoed off the rampart walls right by him.
The helipad was on the opposite end of the courtyard built on one of the previous castle turrets. He couldn't get a clear shot at the helicopter due to the men below shooting in his direction. He tossed a grenade over the wall and they yelled grenade and the gunfire stopped momentarily and the grenade exploded.
He popped up looking through his scope and saw a face, a face he clearly recognized with flowing red hair draping over her shoulders, a face full of worry, of fiery anger, the face of his wife, his soulmate, his friend and partner.
"Shoot him!" she yelled. "Kill the bastard!"
There was a gun against her head and he knew if he pulled the trigger so who that man, Darius Pavlovic, would also pull the trigger and his wife would die.
"We got him in our sights, just take him out, forget about the hostage." Gary said to him.
"That fuckers got my wife! How the fuck did he get my wife."
"Your wife?" He looked through his binoculars, "fuck! How the fuck did he get her."
"If I knew I wouldn't be asking. She was supposed to go to her sisters." he said and then spoke into his radio. "Hold fire, do not shoot at the helicopter, hostages on board. I repeat, hostages in helicopter, do not shoot."
A variety of rogers, copy that and ten four was heard through the radio headset.
"So close to finishing this hunt, now we're gonna have another hunt on our hands, but at least we got this place." Jerome said.
The helicopter left and the rest of the forces cleaned up the hostiles and Jerome sat there, wondering where the bastard took his wife and what he was planning on doing to her. "That bastard's gonna pay for this Gary, damn whatever the orders are, he's gonna pay with his life." he said puffing on a Cuban Cigar found in Darius' study.
* * *
Darlene was locked up in Darius Pavlovic's mansion somewhere else in the world. She was blindfolded and gagged shortly after she was strong armed into the helicopter that day when the castle was stormed by UN Special Forces.
She knew the reason for her abduction, her husband was the commander of that unit, how this ass found out about it, she didn't know.
She was taken far away and told to behave on many occasions if she wanted to live. Behave in this context meant so many things, including and not limiting to sexual favors, forced to otherwise.
She fought like hell the first couple of weeks but gave up the fighting soon after and behaved. She knew in her mind that one day Darius and his cronies would pay for their crimes. So instead of fighting she cooperated and found enjoyment in her predicament. Whenever she was asked, she gave it up, it made her life much better because of it, considering the situation. She wasn't proud of it but she was determined to survive.
One day when it was right she would stab the bastard and chop off his man bits then leave what's left for her husband to finish off. But that time hasn't come yet and she had no idea when it would come. But she fantasizes none the less and let him take her however he wanted. She had to do some strange things and it opened her mind to the world beyond vanilla sex, a world she would gladly go back to with maybe a few more tricks she could introduce after.
But for now she was a sex slave, the sooner she gave herself into that idea the sooner she could plan and try to heal, he would understand she kept telling herself. He was still searching for her, she hoped. She was given many favors due to her acceptance of this current fact, from jewelry to greater trust within. She was free to walk the compound with certain limitations. She was given a lavish room with all the amenities a woman could ask for, with the exception of internet and telephone, which considering the circumstances she could accept. She even had satellite television in her room with all the premium channels.
The climate was subtropical and the mansion had a beautiful garden and well maintained grounds including an indoor and outdoor pool where clothes were optional, she had many fun times with some of the locals in that pool, her captor allowed any man who treated her with some semblance of respect to bed her wherever and whenever she felt like it, she had little choice, she had to bed these people, but at least she had some sort of choice, better that then having them forced on her because her master felt slighted. He protected her even though she secretly loathed him. Any man that disrespected her went missing.
She was safe here, well safe in that everyone was carrying automatic weapons of some sort or another. Some trusted her that they actually taught her how to use the weapons. She was smart enough to know that if she turned on any of them her trusted reputation would vanish and that would not work for her plan.
Many of the woman on the compound viewed her with venomous glares, they saw her as a sellout, a traitor. She accepted this because she knew one day she would have her revenge. She didn't trust anyone with her secret plan, most of the people here would rather sell-out others just for the sake of it. It was her plan, her fantasy, hers alone.
As great as her life had been here, she wanted to go home, to be back with her husband, assuming he still was her husband. To make love with him, not just have sex, to do things with him, to walk in the park like they used to, to have a barbecue in their back yard with all their friends and family, just to be free with him at her side. That was her dream every night that she can remember. She had many other, erotic dreams that woke her up, begging to be finished, physically. She had toys for that, more gracious gifts from her captor.
She would wake up sweating and moist between her legs, her covers a mess from the dreams. She would reach into her night table and pull out a deep pink vibrator. One of those vibrators that had the teasing tongue positioned for her clit, and rotating beads midway up the soft semi-flexible ribbed shaft. With multiple speeds for shaft vibration, rotation, bead spin and clit vibration. It was not one of those cheap ones. It was one of her favorite and most reliable toy. She also had a stash of fresh batteries in the same drawer.