The Frenchman's Revenge (71 page)

He twisted her hair in his fist and held her head at an
awkward
angle.
It was hard
to get her
breath
.
She tried to avoid his crazed eyes
,
but he was too close
. S
he could smell the
rank
smell of his arousal, feel his prick against her thigh.

“You belong to me now, Elena
,
and I’m going to fuck you.
You know that
,
don’t you, Elena? But first,
I need to punish you
.
Not the way he punish
e
s you
.
That is just play.
You like th
e way he punishes you,
don’t you
,
Elena
?
I saw you.
Did you know that I s
aw you?
”

Elena gasped and choked at the
hideous
thought.

“Don’t
look shocked.
I’m the
governor’s
c
hief of
s
taff
. O
f course
,
the
hotel
gave
me your suite number
.
I had flowers to deliver. And
,
of course
,
I could rent the suite next to
y
our
s
.
”

Vomit rose in her throat
.
She struggled to quell the nausea
threatening to erupt
.
Oh God, please no
.
God
, p
lease let him be lying.
But seeing his
crazed
face, the gl
eam
in his eyes, she knew he was telling the truth.
H
e had watched them; watched them making love. She tried to shut out his voice, go to a
place deep
in her soul
,
but his words
assaulted
her ears
.

“
I saw him
,
Elena. I saw him tie you up,
play
with
you,
shove a dildo up
in
your cunt.
I saw him strike you with that fancy crop. I saw him put his filthy yellow cock in your ass.
And
g
oddamn your soul to hell
,
Elena
,
you loved
it, didn’t
you
?
You loved that mongrel yellow dog fucking your ass, didn’t you?
Answer me!”

He
grab
bed her hair and shook her so hard
that
her teeth rattled and she tasted blood on her tongue. His face was so close to hers
that
they shar
ed
the
fetid
air between them.

“
Are you going to beg for more when I beat you? Cry out
in
ecstasy
when I
s
hove my cock down your
throat
?
The way you do when you suck him, swallow his filthy seed?

I don’t think so
,
Elena
,
because when I use my whip
,
you will
bleed. Your
scars will never
heal.
When I tie you up
,
it will be for days
at a time
and you will wallow in your
excrement
. I will make you watch
me fuck little girls
. You will
beg me to stop
when they
scream
in pain
.
But I won’t because it
will make
you more obedient, more willing to do what
I tell you to do.
Obey my commands.
”

Something snapped in Elena.
How dare this disgusting man invade their love, their intimacy, their joy in one another?
Her fear
and
shame turned to rage.
But it was a quiet rage, a controlled rage.
For the first time
,
she
felt
the fury she had seen in Bai.
The fury that never boiled
over
, but
rather was just amazingly effective for the job at hand.
And the job waiting for her was to take down this filthy
human
offal
so that he could never hurt another person
. Her job was to
beat him to death.

She wrenched out of his arms and flung herself over the arm of the chair backing up against the wall.
She tucked her hem up in her drawers and grinned at the smile that crossed his face
,
knowing he misunderstood.

“You want me to fuck you, Elena? That wasn’t what I expected. I didn’t expect you to make it so easy for me to strip you
.
Hmm, I rather hoped you would fight.
Well, later
;
you will fight later.”

“No, Greg
.
I will fight now.”

He pulled a gun out of his waistband and pointed it at her.

“That’s good, Elena, because
I prefer rape.
Have you ever been raped at gunpoint, Elena?”

“No, Greg, I haven’t. A question for you.
Have you ever been beaten to death by a
k
ung
f
u master?”

~~

Too late, he jumped back when she screamed her warrior cry.
Within seconds she
leapt over the chair and with a
f
lying kick to his face drove
him
t
o the floor. She
whirled
in the air and landed on his shoulder
,
trying to kick the gun
,
but
Greg
caught her foot and tripped her. She
tried to crawl away from him
,
but he
jumped
on top of her and raised the gun to strike her.

A wild cry, a fiercer yell than she had heard in all their years of sparring
heralded
Alex’s arrival.
The gun flew from Greg’s hand as Alex’s foot smashed his
wrist
.
Elena rolled from beneath him and jumped to her feet. She stepped back
,
egging Greg to his feet.
Alex seconded her.

“Get up
,
you fucking coward. Let’s see how you
fight
without a weapon.”

A quiet voice from the office doorway instructed, “Kung fu, not savate.”

Both Alex and Elena understood from the command that Bai wanted him alive.

Greg jumped back in horror.
He looked from Elena to Alex and then in disbelief across the room to see Bai lounging in the doorway
,
smoking a cigarette.

For the next
several minutes
,
Greg became
the human ball in a
living, screaming
polo match.
Elena and Alex tossed him between them
,
their strong
mallet like
legs kicked him from one to the other. They
hooked
,
they bumped and drove elbows, knees
,
and feet into his face, ribs, and every joint of his body.
Each strike was accompanied by a fierce yell and a fiercer scream from Greg.

Bai watched their expert moves from the side
lines
and decided he was a hell of a good t
eacher
.
He was
amused that Elena and Alex were more interested in his
reaction
than in crushing Greg.
He
nodded when each of them looked over to him
,
seeking
approval for a particularly effective hit
. He
praised their choreography and
made as few suggestions as possible
,
confirming their expertise
.

Bai
told
Nianzu to send for the
s
heriff to pick up the bodies at the door.
T
hey
had
found Greg’s office easily
. D
rawing on their study of the mansion blueprints
,
they enter
ed
the private quarters through
the servant’s passages. Wyatt and Alex snuck in the adjoining bedroom that
Greg foolishly left
unguarded.
In contrast, there were six armed men positioned on either side of the office door
,
but Bai’s
flying knives
reduced that number to two before he and Nianzu turned the corner.
They quickly took down the final two and hovered in the doorway
,
waiting for the opportune moment to enter.

Long before a regulation chukka would have ended
,
Bai stopped the fight.
Alex and Elena stepped back, shaking with exertion, their faces flushed with an angry triumphant glow.

Greg was a
quivering
mass of bleeding
,
sobbing humanity
thrashing on the floor
.
T
rained polo ponies
stomping him at will
could
n’t
have done as much damage
as Alex and Elena
.

Bai
held out his arms and Elena flew to him. They stood together for a long moment. Bai murmured comforting words and held her close
,
rubbing his hands over as much of her body as he could reach.
After a moment
,
he handed her off to Wyatt
,
whose face was grey, his eyes dark with
worry. If
anything, he
held her more tightly than Bai had. Bai
motioned to Alex and Nianzu to drag Greg
to the center of the room.

Bai
stood over him
,
looking down at
Greg
,
struck as always how pitiful
, how
weak
evil men were when they were stripped of their power.
Greg’s eyes were almost swollen shut and he curled
himself
in a protective ball. He looked up at Bai and spit out a mouthful of blood
,
then choked out the question he already knew the answer to.

“You’re going to kill me, aren’t you?
”

“
Oui
,
we are going to kill you
,
Greg. The manner in which we kill you will depend
s
on how quickly you give us the information we request.
”

Bai
lit another cigarette
,
then
turned to Nianzu and Alex
.

“Strip him.”

“Oh God! Please
,
no! Please!”

After they had him spread eagled
naked o
n the floor, Bai motioned to Elena to come over beside him.

“I understand that you are quite proud of your sexual exploits, Greg.
Particularly with young children.
I assume you believe your equipment i
s
worthy
of regard, yes? Here, Elena, I’ll let you be the judge.”

Greg tried to cover his shriveled up cock
,
but Nianzu and Alex held him firmly in place.
Elena walked
around his naked body
,
pursing her lips in concentration.
After a lengthy
look, she
shook her head.

“What can I say, Bai?
There is no comparison.
Now I understand why he wants to fuck children.
I’m not sure even at full staff he could get past my nether lips.”