I wake up and try to roll over, only to find my hands are cuffed to the headboard. I pull at them futilely, rattling them against the unyielding metal, and nothing changes. I look down in shock as I find myself in a strange bed, clad only in my bra and panties, and alone.
I try to think back to last night and everything is fuzzy. I remember being at a bar, celebrating with Julie the end of an investigation. She had gone home and I started flirting with a businessman in a tailored suit from Kansas. After that, nothing.
It looks like a hotel room. I scream for help, hoping an adjoining room or cleaning person will hear me and help me get free. I scream for what seems like hours, and nothing changes except my throat is raw.
I'm about to scream again when a door opens. A man is there, a large man who oozes power. His face is silhouetted in the opening, and it isn't until he walks in and closes the door that I see who he is. "YOU!"
"Yes, me. Good morning, Rose."
"LET. ME. GO." I was pissed as hell, I couldn't believe a man I trusted would do this to me.
"Not until you listen to me for a minute." He came over and sat on the bed next to me; grabbing the sheet, he pulled it up to my neck, saving me the embarrassment of being there in my lacy underwear. He looked good enough to eat; his muscles played under the custom-tailored dress shirt like bulldogs fighting under a rug. "Those men last night, they are the ones you should be mad at. They drugged and kidnapped you, not me."
I looked at him, staring into his eyes. There were a lot of emotions there, fear, anger, lust, but deceit wasn't among them. I had made my career out of interviewing criminals, I knew when I was being lied to. "How?"
"I was watching you at the bar last night."
"You've been following me?"
"Yes. I told you before, I love you and I'll do anything to keep you safe." He cupped my face, tingles exploded wherever he touched me. It was weird, but I had a rule; he was connected to a case and I didn't mix work and pleasure. I had rejected his advances for five days now, despite how attracted I was to him.
"I don't remember what happened." I relaxed into the pillow, trying to will myself to remember last night.
"I'm not surprised. Your drink was drugged, they slipped a roofie into it." My jaw dropped, I knew what those drugs could do. My own daughter had been raped after an acquaintance drugged her.
"I'm sorry, I didn't figure it out right away. You were at the bar, that man in a suit was talking to you. I saw you get up, a little unsteady, and head towards the bathroom with him. When his friend left and you didn't come back, I got suspicious. One sniff of your glass and I knew what happened."
"But rohypnol is odorless," I said.
"Not to me. Anyway, I followed them outside to see you being shoved into the back of a rental car. They left with you, and it took me a little time to track you down. I called Josh with the plate, then we used the GPS to locate the car here in the parking lot of the hotel. Luckily, I got here in time. When I got them to open the door, you were unconscious, your dress gone, and handcuffed to the bed just like you are now."
"Why didn't you let me go?"
He sighed. "I had to take out the trash first." My eyes got wide. "You called the cops?"
"No, I took care of the problem. They'll never touch what is mine again." He pulled a key out of his pocket and took the cuffs off my wrists, rubbing them tenderly to get the circulation back. I closed my eyes, the tingles and the rubbing felt SO good.
"I have to pee." He nodded and stood up, turning around to give me privacy. I slipped out of the bed, grabbing my dress from the floor, and ran into the bathroom. I took care of business and washed my face, taking my makeup off while I thought of what had happened.
I'd been an FBI agent for almost a decade, I'd faced hardened criminals and several life-or-death situations. I'd killed two men. I'd been scared before, but nothing like what this man could do for me.
He made me vulnerable in a way I'd never been before. The way he looked at me like I hung the moon. The tingles at his touch, his patience, and oh my GOD that body. I knew what it looked like, I had seen the video. Apparently, at sniper school he had lost a bet with a beautiful young woman, and had to walk naked back to the parking lot. I had watched that video repeatedly a few nights ago, while bringing myself to orgasm after orgasm with the vibrator I kept by my bed.