LURENE'S STORY
By younghrted2
Part 1 -- REVENGE OF THE SCAMMED - CONCLUSION
If you're just joining us, I was scammed by computer hackers last night. My favorite IT guy in the whole world, Rob, has helped me trick them into letting him get into their own system, and he's grabbed all their 'sales' files. While we're at it, he's giving them a lesson in how life works when you have no morals. Yep, Karma can be a real bitch! And revenge can be SWEET!
Chapter 3
"Not so fast," Rob directed. "Put one nipple into your mouth and suck on it while you twist the other nipple. Do that for two minutes and then switch breasts."
As I watched, amazed at the scene on Rob's computer screen, a young man whose skin seemed too smooth to yet need a razor leaned back from the nipple he'd been mouthing and gazed into the camera lens.
"You demand too much! I cannot act this way with my sister," he begged. His hands remained at his side, but his fists were tightly clenched.
I looked at the room where the young couple stood, naked except for her hijab which still draped her head. It looked like what you'd expect to get if you paid the lowest rate at the closest motel that had once belonged to a chain. From our perspective (presumably from their computer on the dresser top) the entire room was visible, including the small bathroom. There was one bed, and a table with two chairs off to one side. Curtains covered a section of wall down to the level of an air conditioning unit and ended. There was nothing remotely luxurious looking about the room; no indication that it was part of a resort of any kind.
Both were breathing heavily, but while he was defiant in his objection, her head remained down, her gaze steadily on the floor.
"Tell me who started the two of you on this work and how we can get to the one at the top, and then you can start to ask me to care about how you personally feel about molesting your sister," Rob expressed, emotionlessly, "because I know how much you make by cheating people day after day, hour after hour. You've already told me that you two earned the right to spend today working at a luxury resort by surpassing all the scamming targets for the month. Look around you. You two have been livin' it up on other people's hard-earned money by being scammers. Well, buddy, looks like scammers can get scammed, too."
Ramesh turned away from Geeta and bowed his head as he opened his arms in appeal toward the camera's eye. "Please," he said. "We cannot do that. They will harm our family."
"You know," Rob said, as he reached over and activated the second of his three monitors, "I've been doing a little research on that family of yours. Turns out, you don't have any left, at least, not anywhere near you. Their passing was tragic. Seems from the news that there was an explosion in the middle of the night that took out the house and everyone inside. Why weren't you two at home?"
"We-"
"No!" Geeta interrupted him. "Don't tell him. He'll only make things worse for us!"
"My God," I exclaimed, as Rob quickly muted the microphone. "Why aren't they in Child Protective Services? They're just kids, whose family was killed in a gas explosion in New York... There MUST be people and agencies galore helping them."
"New York?" Rob asked, then realized my technological deficiencies were at it, again. "They aren't in New York. That's just the phone number they use for the New York-based script. You know that number can actually be located anywhere. Think about it; you and Darren both still have the numbers you had when you moved here from five states away."
"Do you know where they really are?" I asked. I remembered what it was like when I joined the company.
Darren and I were their first interracial couple, with me being an employee on staff. The L. C. Kaye entry for my name hadn't tripped any triggers about my gender or my race, of course. I couldn't help but notice a few raised heads when I entered the office for the first time and introduced myself. Lurene Calypso Kaye, wife of Dr. Darren Kaye, known to a suddenly diminished number of people as Lu-Cee, since the days when my granny's voice could be heard calling me that from all over the neighborhood.
"Yep. India. This kind of scam is being run from a number of their cities. Unemployment's high; it's easy money. They specially target people in the US and the UK, I hear." Rob turned back around.
"So, let me guess," he said, leaning forward to open the mic again, "you two were out doing something you shouldn't have been doing, instead of being home with the rest of your family. Was it something as simple as being out partying your asses off, spending money your family needed but didn't get from you or your brother because you couldn't tell them how you were making it? Or was it something a bit worse than that? How many times have you and little brother Ramesh won this award?"
Geeta stepped to her brother's side. "How did you-?"
"I know all kinds of things," Rob said with great assurance. "Like, I know from your records that you've been awarded with working off-site a number of times. What's so special about the amenities of this place? Is there even a pool?"
"We were here, that night. We can only be alone, here," Ramesh murmured, suddenly taking Geeta's hand. "We couldn't have stopped it, anyway. They were trying to kill Geeta, so she couldn't marry into their caste. She would have been a slave to them, as a dalit. We could have paid the dowry they demanded, but-"
"I have no idea what he's talking about," I said to Rob quietly.
"Old traditions, dying hard," Rob returned, softer than the microphone would transmit. A bit louder he said, "You know, I really don't give a shit -- Oh, excuse me, Lurene -- what you and your sister had for your first reason to go into this work. If you want these files of yours back, you're going to do some show-and-tell for us."
"Miss Lurene is there?" Ramesh asked, suddenly eager. "You know I didn't cheat you! You are such a nice old lady. Remember? I told you to go get something to drink while you needed to calm down on our call. I was afraid for you." He went to the bed and ripped the spread from it, throwing it over his shoulders to cover his nudity.
"I've actually heard the word 'shit' before, Rob. You don't need to apologize," I assured Rob. "Now, as for you, James, Ramesh, Ram yer Highness, Ram fuck-a-duck for all I care... What the actual
fuck
gives you the mammy-jammin' idea that I'm an old lady?" My indignation was clearly being conveyed over the internet.
Rob's eyebrows raised at my outburst.