Hacked (4 page)

     After high school he got his bachelors and MBA from Texas A&M. From there he worked for his dad’s investment firm for several years until the economy took a shit. Now, he was stuck foreclosing on delinquent mortgages in a bank making a third of what he used to make. He still had money tied up in savings and investments though. With all that going for him, picking up girls had never been a problem. He wasn’t the best looking guy around, but he was handsome enough.

     He spent a few hours a week at the gym and kept himself in decent shape. Between that, his clothes, and his money, most girls were impressed enough to go on a few dates with him and take a few nice tumbles. Most girls, except for Abby that is. She was with this Drake asshole back when she started at the bank. From what he knew, Drake never hit her, but she was stressed out plenty. She was rail thin back then and often looked like she hadn’t slept in days.

     Once they’d split, he noticed she perked up a lot. She put on a healthy bit of weight, her color came back to her skin and she began smiling more. As beautiful as she was before the split, she was a drop dead stunner after. Jason tuned up the full court press when he saw that. Except, she wanted nothing to do with him.

     Sure she was polite and tolerated him. He’d figured all along she was just playing hard to get. Most girls did, but she really worked it. She worked it way more than any other girl he’d met. It didn’t frustrate him though, only made him more determined. Jason wasn’t the kind of guy who gave up one something he wanted. Most his life he’d been able to sweet talk or buy his way out of anything. Which brings him back to the current situation.

     “Look,” Jason said to his captor. “What is it you want? You want money? I have money. I have a ton of money, so does my family. We can pay you. Anything you want. They’ll be looking for me. Police, feds, all of them looking for me. Do you want that?”

     The man just sat there looking at him. The guy’s facial expression never changed no matter what. It was quite unsettling.

     “You think I give a fuck about your money? You were an accident. I didn’t even plan on you being there. But like some wannabe white-knight superhero you had to come charging in. I could tell right away you had no idea what you were doing. You and your pretty clothes and limp wristed swing, you’ve never actually been in a fight. Then as soon as I grabbed you, you folded like a lawn chair.” The man reached into a cooler and took out a bottled water, unscrewed the cap and took a drink as he laughed.

     “You actually think you stand a chance with a girl like Abby? This beautiful specimen of a woman? You think she would want anything to do with a soft ass pussy like you?” The man continued.

     “Excuse me,” Abby said. “I’m right here and I decide who I date. Not a couple of psychos. Are you guys going to fight for my hand now?”

     “SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU CUNT!” The man screamed. Both Abby and Jason jumped as his voice boomed through the van. “I will tell you when I want you to talk!”

     Jason tried to find the courage to speak. Under normal circumstances, he had no trouble shooting his mouth off or coming up with something snarky to say. In this case though, his words were escaping him. His voice seemed to vanish as well. If he tried to speak, chances are nothing would come out. For the first time since this happened, fear began to seize him. His stomach tightened as his throat went dry. Even getting hit with the hammer didn’t have the impact this madman’s yelling did.

     It had instantly dawned on him that this man was completely insane. Over the years Jason had negotiated billion dollar deals, talked his way in and out of jobs, and talked women in and out of bed. There would be no talking this man in our out of anything. They were completely at his mercy and no matter how much Jason sweet talked, begged or pleaded, this man would not stop. The most frightening thing, the guy hadn’t even started yet. He seemed to enjoy watching is prey squirm within the trap he’d set.

      “Look, sir.” Jason began slowly. “I know it is her you want. But I will ask you to do the right thing and let her go. Keep me and do what you want with me. I don’t care. Just please don’t hurt her. She won’t tell anyone. She’ll tell my family I left town. That I went on the bender. I’ve done it before, everyone will believe it.”

     “Oh yeah?” The man said. “Just let her go? Then torture you as much as I want?”

     Jason swallowed hard.

     “Yes. That’s what I’m suggesting.”

     “Well, I have both of you now. I can do whatever I want to each of you and no one will ever know. And when I’m done, I’ll leave your rotting carcasses in the woods for the hogs to pick the meat off the bones. By the time anyone does find what is left of you, you will have been gone for so long, no one will remember you. Any evidence of what I did will be in the bellies of the wild hogs running loose in south Texas. Hell, by then I’ll have moved on to another lucky girl. Probably a few girls. Maybe by then I’ll have found my soul mate. This sounding good to you yet? You feelin’ me?” The man laughed, just a chuckle at first, but then it turned into a maniacal laugh. He took another drink of water, but almost spit it out as he continued laughing.

     Jason looked at Abby who was now crying silently and looking down. The man finally got himself under control and walked over to his toolbox. After some rummaging around, he pulled out a strange looking tool. It was a long rod with some kind of grips he held on to. At the other end was a four point set of clamps with a large blade coming out of the middle. Jason’s eyes widened once he saw the device.

     “Ok kids. Enough chit chat. Time to get started. This is my new toy. I call it The Cleaner. So who would like to go first? Any volunteers?”

Chapter 9

     Jesse and Erin walked through the woods, but had wandered off the trail hours ago. Erin insisted there was some wildlife this direction, either a rare bird’s nest or flock of birds. She wasn’t sure which. They’d seen a pack of hogs running way up ahead of them, but other than a baby rattlesnake, those had been the only wildlife they’d seen. Jesse was getting concerned since they were getting low on water.

     “We need to find some water. It’s getting late and we don’t have much left.”

     “I’m pretty sure we’re headed the right way,” Erin said.

     “You thought that an hour ago. It’s already dark. I’m glad I brought the flashlight, but not sure how long the batteries will last,” he said. This whole excursion was her idea. They had a few days off work and she wanted to go on a nature hike. He usually enjoyed them, but they also usually stayed on the trail. He wasn’t sure what got into her this time.

     “I thought there was a wren’s nest this way. I wanted to get some pictures.”

     “It would have been nice if you knew where. We’ve just been wandering aimlessly.”

     “It wasn’t aimlessly. We shouldn’t have turned back there,” Erin said. “I told you I knew where I was going.”

     “Whatever,” Jesse said, trying to hide his frustration. He took a sip from his canteen. There was maybe a swallow or two left. Even though it was dark, the temperature was still well into the eighties. They needed to find water somewhere or things would get ugly real fast.

     “Do you hear something?” Erin said.

     “No.”

     “I do, up ahead. It sounds like a car. Are we close to the road?”

     “I don’t think so.”

     “Well I can hear it, listen.”

     Jesse stopped and listened. From a distance he could hear what sounded like a car idling.

     “You’re right,” Jesse said. “I thought the road was back the other way.”

     “Well, maybe they can give us a ride at least.”

     “Sounds like they are quite a ways off.”

     “Can’t be that far away. Let’s go!” Erin said as she sped up working her way through the woods. Jesse struggled to keep up as his calves had begun screaming over an hour ago. They worked their way through trees and bushes. Mosquitos were coming out and biting the shit out of Jesse’s neck. He kept swatting at them but they seemed to appear faster than he could fend them off. He hadn’t brought bug spray, but didn’t expect to be out this late.

     “You coming?” Erin said from up ahead. “Come on!”

     He turned off the flashlight hoping to keep the bugs away at least for a little while. Thought it was nearly pitch black without the light.

     “Hang on a second. Let my eyes adjust.”

     She stopped and sighed.

     “You want to get out of here don’t you?” She said.

     “Yes! You’re the one who got us lost out here. Now just calm the fuck down for a bit and let me gather myself.” Jesse snapped. He felt bad for losing it with her, but between the heat, his aching calves, being hungry and thirsty it was making him pissy.

     “It’s not my fault! Besides you didn’t have a problem with it at the time!”

    “All right. Just give me a second.” He took the last drink of water and stuffed the canteen into his backpack. They walked for several more minutes before they saw it. It was a Dodge minivan just sitting in a clearing with the engine on. No lights or anything were visible. It just sat there idling quietly.

     “You think anyone is in there?” Erin asked.

     “I don’t know. Seems odd they’d be way out here.”

     “Maybe they’re sleeping.”

     “It’s possible. Drive out here in a minivan to go camping? Something doesn’t feel right,” Jesse said.

    “Maybe they’re cooking meth like on that one show. They went out into the middle of nowhere.”

     “Those guys had a Winnebago. I doubt a minivan is big enough for that. Still seems odd. We should keep going.”

     “Maybe we can ask them for a ride or maybe they have a phone,” Erin said. Good point as their phones had gone dead hours ago. He wasn’t kidding, something about the whole van sitting there in the dark didn’t feel right. But they were tired and out of water. He supposed it couldn’t hurt to at least see if they had a phone or could give them a ride to their car at least. Maybe it was just some hunters taking a break.

     “I guess we can go see. If it’s someone weird, we’ll just run off into the dark,” Jesse said, half joking.

     “There you go! It’ll be fine! Come on. I hope they have water, I’m so thirsty!”  Erin said as she headed into the clearing and toward the van. Jesse followed behind her until they reached the vehicle. The van was a dark color, probably dark blue and sat quietly idling even as they stood outside it. There was no visible sign of anyone even in the driver’s seat. Jesse looked at Erin who shrugged as he tapped on the side door.

Chapter 10

     Abby tried to slide back as Rodney sat his tool down and grabbed her foot. He was trying to hold her feet down, but she kept kicking. He threw some punches at her, hitting her in the stomach, but he was off balance so they didn’t have much on them. Jason tried kicking as well, but Rodney blasted him good in the nuts, which took most of the fight out of him. Jason’s yells turned into high pitched squeals as he pinched his legs together and writhed on the floor.

     Rodney grabbed some duct tape and managed to tape her feet to a railing back over her head. Her knees were almost touching her face as he taped each ankle one by one. In this position, it was a struggle to even breathe, let alone fight back. He took a scissors out and cut her shorts and panties off her and tossed them aside. He held the panties up for a second and looked at Jason.

     “Maybe I should give these to him. He seems like he’d put them to better use.”

    Once those were removed, he cut her shirt and bra off as well leaving her completely naked. To say she felt exposed and vulnerable would be an understatement. There she was, handcuffed to the floor of this van, naked, with her legs spread apart and taped to a railing back over her head with her girl parts exposed to this maniac.

     He picked up his Cleaner tool and clicked it, making the mandibles retract a few times.

     “Now I’m not gonna lie. This is going to hurt. A lot. I’d offer you something for pain, but where is the fun in that?”

     “What are you going to do with that thing?”

     “Oh, let’s just say, some anatomical rearrangement.”

     He took the tool and leaned in, she jumped as he touched it to her labia. The thing was cold as hell. She tried to wiggle around but couldn’t move at all. She had a good idea what he was about to do and it horrified her. Every part of her being wished she would just die right then and there instantly instead of being subject to the pain she knew was about to come.

     Using his fingers, he pulled her labia apart and inserted the tool. It hurt as he slid it inside of her. The cold medal bit at her skin as it rubbed against the inside of her vagina. She wiggled some more, but that only made it hurt more. She tried to close her eyes and take deep breaths hoping he’d be done soon. When he clicked the tool, opening the mandible, she knew this would not be done any time soon. He rotated the tool inside her vagina, as she felt the raw metal cutting and scraping away at her vaginal wall.

     He pulled it out as she made the mistake of looking up. The tip of the Cleaner had a mass of bloody goop on the end. She felt her stomach churn at the site of her inner anatomy on the tip of this torture device. He looked at the tip of the Cleaner and shook the goop off and quickly thrust it back inside of her. This time she almost jumped off her back it hurt so badly.

     She felt the thing probing around inside of her. Her vaginal wall was raw and throbbing from its earlier pass. This time the pain was much more intense. He rotated it once more as she couldn’t keep from screaming.

     “Stop it! Please! Jesus fuck! Stop!” She screamed but he ignored her cries. Pushing it deeper inside her. The tool entered her sex, crudely stretching it out as he opened the mandible once again. The tool rotated inside her, ripping and tearing her cervix as he pushed it further into her uterus. She gasped for air as the pain was almost more than she could take. The pain swept over her body like a tidal wave of torture unlike anything she thought possible.