Thanks to ashleigh_xoxo fpr editing.
Roy was impressed. They had made it and established a camp deep in the snowy forests. He shuddered thinking of the cost of getting everyone and everything here. This had not been cheap and would only get more expensive as they went along. Hunter had already told him that it was going to be cheaper just to leave most of the gear here when they were done, assuming they all survived.
White tarps strung between the trees hid them, though Hunter had assured him that The Studio did not send out patrols. "They are sitting nice and warm inside. I haven't seen any tracks coming in or out of the compound yet," he had assured them. But, just to be sure, he had someone keeping watch on the place.
They had contacted The Association about what they were doing. The Association made some vague promises about "future consideration," but offered nothing substantial. Roy did not think that they would see any money from the council, but he tried to console himself that the good deed would be rewarded somehow. There was always the fact that they were doing a great service and a good deed was its own reward, but, that didn't help pay the bills. Roy saw more arms deals in the future, and Hunter was thinking of some new work.
The Studio was in the next valley over from their camp. Hunter wanted more information, especially about any slaves in the compound. If there were none then they could just shoot up the entire camp without any subtlety, but if they had to try to get people out alive they were going to have to take more chances. This is where Hunter really missed Leon; Leon was great in the snow and had a great sense about non-combatants.
Roy had not picked up any messages from J.J. or Delrin Ringe in the past few days. J.J.'s phone had not moved and gradually the signal had faded. Hunter sent Bruce and Bligh to check out his last location. They were arriving back now on the snowmobiles the team had acquired.
"Well, we found him," Bruce said as he helped himself to a cup of hot coffee.
"It took a little digging, though." Bligh added and made a cup of tea.
"Digging?" Roy asked.
"Yeah," Bruce chuckled wickedly. "He was buried under a foot and a half of snow. Rigor set in pretty early. He still had his pecker in the hand. From the looks of it, someone stabbed him while he was taking a leak."
"The stab wound in his back was our first clue," Bligh laughed.
"Any sign of Anna or Elaine?" Hunter asked.
"None," Bruce and Bligh answered in unison.
Roy and Hunter looked at each other.
"Then we have to assume that Elaine is alive and somewhere in The Studio," Hunter said.
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Amanda stared out the window at the lights of The Strip. She could be there having fun partying, or at least cruising for (or as, depending on her mood) a piece of ass. Or better yet, both. Instead, she was locked in a tower room, alone in the big house waiting for everyone to get back, hopefully with Elaine.
The little blonde was never far from Amanda's thoughts. She had no regrets leading Elaine down the path to slavery, in fact, Elaine should thank her. It was Elaine's natural state. The thought of all Elaine had had to endure just excited and aroused Amanda, she only wished she could have seen or been a part of it all. She loved the thought of her former roommate and submissive lover being gangbanged or repeatedly raped by Sam.
She sighed. Elaine was such a good little pet.
Well, she was a slave now, too, and she had better get used to the idea of it. She was owned, but she was owned by Hunter. Why did that make her suddenly wet? She should be mad at him for raping her and enslaving her, but instead she wanted him back here right now. If you were going to be someone's slave, it was good to be his. She could never submit to a man who could not best her and Hunter had easily bested her. He had beaten her, toyed with her, conquered her and raped her. And she wanted him to do it all over again.
Amanda smiled and said out loud "I am the property of Hunter." It made her feel special, elevated above other slaves. Now she just had to make sure he kept her so she could keep her exalted position as Hunter's Slave. Maybe she could talk Hunter, Master, she corrected herself, into letting her find more slaves. Amanda laughed, she had a vision of the cat she had once owned bringing her a dead bird as an offering. Only now she was the cat and the dead bird would be a beautiful woman.
Amanda realized she was already devoted to her Master. Maybe it just took the right man. She did want him to cut down on the whipping, she was not a fan of that and the best way to cut down on being whipped was to be a good slave. She could do that, she thought and stared out the window wondering where her Master was.
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Hunter was a little distracted. Not much, but Roy could tell his friend had other things on his mind as well as their current operation. No one else had really picked up on it, but Roy knew the cause: Hunter had a slave. Owning a beautiful woman tended to encourage one's deepest fantasies. Anything you ever dreamed of doing to a woman or having a woman do to you could be done.
Roy missed his slave. Technically she was no longer his slave, but he would always think of her as his. He was willing to admit that he loved his slave. He had always been obsessed with her. There was something about the way she carried herself that made him want to conquer and own her. And her body, what a wonderful, sexy, beautiful, fuckable body she had.
He was also starting to admit that there was a very real chance that she would not be coming back to him. It left a big empty place in his life. He could always buy another slave, but it would not be the same. He had found Elaine; he set her up, carried her away, raped her and enslaved her. A slave he bought would not have the same emotional weight. Make no mistake, he would buy another slave if he did not get Elaine back, a slave was a luxury to which Roy had become accustomed. But Elaine was so intoxicating and addicting.
Well, all of that was later. Right now it was cold and he needed to get ready to kill people.
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Elaine awoke with that familiar feeling that she had been drugged. There were still some tinglings in her extremities and a wave of narcotic induced pleasure slowly made it through her body. She could understand some of the appeal of drugs, but her thing was her body and things people did to it. Chemicals were a tool to help her get through the hard use of her body, not for recreation.
She scratched her nose. Odd, she thought, her hands were not tied up. She stretched her legs and found that they were not bound either. Out of habit she reached up and touched her neck. Even her collar was gone. That was very unusual and she was not sure what meaning, if any, it had. One thing that was the same was that she was naked. She tried to remember the last time she wore clothes and thought that it was when Hunter took her to the Association bar in Las Vegas. How long ago had that been? She had really lost track of the days, weeks?
It was dark. So she was dark, naked and unbound. She realized that it was dark because the covers were over her head. Taking a deep breath and steeling herself for whatever was out there, Elaine pulled the covers down. She had half expected to see Anna or J.J. or one of her tormenters to be standing there waiting to do something to her, but there was no one.
She sat up in bed and the covers fell from her naked body. She flinched as the blankets rubbed her raw back. She thought of J.J. and snorted. There was one man she could go without ever seeing again. She thought back to what she thought she saw out of the window and realized that she had not seen the curly haired man again. Could Anna have gotten rid of him? That would be too much to hope.
It was light, but not very. A diffuse grey light illuminated Elaine's surroundings. She seemed to be in a cabin of some sort. That did not bode well. Between Roy's line shack and Sam's cabin, cabins had not been kind to Elaine. She was on a couch in the main room of an A-frame. A high ceiling was above with a loft in it. A fireplace was across from her, dominating the room. There was a fire burning, but it had burned down almost to coals and the cabin was getting chilly. Elaine saw a stack of firewood and made the decision to warm the place back up.
She stood and quickly ran across the room to the fireplace. She put a few more logs on then climbed back into her still warm bed while the fire warmed the cabin up again. She dozed for a few minutes then woke again with the heat from the fireplace on her.
She stood and wrapped the blanket around her like a robe and began to look around. There was a kitchen off the main room and three doors. The first was obviously the outside door, she would check that last. The second went to a bathroom and Elaine gratefully made use of that. The third led to a bedroom, somewhat generic looking but Elaine did note the lack of rings on the bed. She thought that that might be a good sign. The cabin was small, tidy and lacked any sort of character.
Elaine had no idea where she was or in whose cabin she was.