Leaving from a night with my friends at a bar near my house -- or my old house, I guess I should say, since my wife kicked me out about a month ago -- hearing my cell phone ring in my pocket, I pulled it out, surprised to see it was the alarm company.
"Mr. Drake?"
"Yes. Speaking."
"We have a report of a possible break-in at your residence at 311 Castleview Avenue, and wondered if you're in your home now. We've been calling your home phone trying to determine if it's a false alarm, but couldn't get any answer. And we need to know if you'd like us to contact the police."
"No, I'm not home right now, but I can be in about two minutes," I said, starting to run along the sidewalk. "And I'll call you back then, okay?"
Now all I could think of was that my wife Trish might be hurt or even in danger. If she was home, I couldn't understand why she wouldn't have picked up, or even why the alarm would have gone off in the first place. Unless someone was inside trying to rob us and set it off.
A million thoughts went through my head in the couple of minutes it took me to get to the house, most of them pretty scary. But as I approached I saw two little shits running down the street in the dark as fast as they could, with what looked like a lap top and maybe our old DVD player tucked under their arms. Now I just prayed Trish wasn't home when they got in.
Mounting the cement steps to our luxurious townhouse two at a time, I was calling out her name before I even got through the front door. But the house was deathly quiet, sending a horrible feeling of foreboding all through me. Not even our cat Jasper was around and the little fur ball never failed to come meet me whenever I walked in. Racing up the stairs with my phone in hand, I rushed into our bedroom and froze in my tracks, my heart leaping into my throat, when I found my gorgeous wife, naked and tied to the bed, with a thick piece of silver duct tape covering her mouth. No wonder she hadn't answered me or the phone. Now I just prayed she was all right.
Rushing over, I sat on the edge of the bed and carefully peeled off the tape, brushing the long blonde hair out of her eyes. "Baby, are you okay?"
"We were robbed," she said, the moment I'd pulled it away, fighting to catch her breath, her breasts heaving. "There were two of them. And I'd never seen them before. They looked like kids, only about fifteen or sixteen. I don't even know how they got in, but they must have set off the alarm. Because I know I set it when I got home, and I'm positive I locked the door before I came upstairs."
I cupped her face in my hand. "Trish, did they hurt you?"
She shook her head, nervously swallowing. "No. I'd just gotten out of the shower when the two of them walked in here. The way they both leered at me at first, scared the shit out of me, but thank god all they did was tie me up and gag me so I wouldn't be in the way or try to make any noise I guess, while they took what they wanted. I saw them taking some of my jewelry. But thankfully my best stuff's still in the safe. And I think they put Jasper in my walk-in closet. God, Chris, this is just so crazy, I can hardly believe it. How did they even get in here?"
None of it mattered, all I cared about was that they hadn't done anything more to her, and that she was safe. Everything else could be replaced. And I could care less about all the jewelry I'd given her over the years. She was all that mattered to me, just her.
As I got up to let the mewling cat out of the closet, remembering that the alarm company was waiting to hear back from me, I called and told them what had happened. But I said not to worry, that I'd call the cops myself. And I fully intended to... eventually.
Sitting back on the bed, relieved to find her basically unharmed, but understandably a little rattled. To take her mind off what had just happened, I reached out trailing a finger around one rosy nipple, smiling into her bright blue eyes. "You know I've never thought of tying you up like this, but I've got to say, you look pretty fucking hot like this."
"Terrific," she said, rolling her eyes. "Now how about you untie me?"
Of course I'd considered doing just that, but then I decided since I had her right where I wanted her, that I might just take my time and get a few points across, since she was pretty much a captive audience. Bending over her, I flicked that pert little nipple with my tongue, smiling at the sound of her gasp. I know you're not supposed to pick, but to be honest, it was my favorite, since it was the breast I'd always reached for first in bed, at least until she kicked my ass to the curb for cheating. And if I actually had, I probably would have thought I deserved it, but since I'd never even thought of straying, as you can imagine, I was still pretty pissed.
Her brow raised defiantly, she muttered, "Are you planning on playing with my tits all night, or are going to untie me?"
Shaking my head, I smiled down at her. God, she never backed down, my Trish. Even helpless and on her back, bound to the bed by her wrists, she wouldn't give a fucking inch. And truth was it was one of many things I loved about her. Her feistiness and her iron will. And I also loved her pretty tits, because in my opinion, they were spectacular.