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I Was the Daughter of a Porn Star, Chapter 82

  • Posted on April 6, 2017 at 5:50 pm

Andrea’s Story, Part Two

By Cheryl Taggert 

If you need help keeping up with the characters, you may go here.

I felt relaxed as Andrea continued her story by telling us how she and her cousin, Belinda, were caught by Belinda’s mom. The orgasm I’d had moments ago had satisfied me, at least for the time being. Lisa, too, look satisfied.

I knew, however, that we would easily be ready for another several orgasms soon.

“Well, like I said, Belinda’s mom is my aunt. She’s my mom’s younger sister. And one night I was staying at Belinda’s for the weekend because my mom had to go out of town for her job. Belinda’s room was just down the hall from her mom’s, and we had started making out before having sex with each other, like we did every chance we got. Or should I say ‘get’?” Andrea said, referring to the fact the two cousins still had sex with each other.

“Oh, well. Doesn’t matter I guess. Anyway, we were kissing and all and we’d taken off our pj’s and were naked, lying under the covers really close to each other. I had started sucking Belinda’s boobie when I heard a noise outside in the hallway. I sat up and Belinda asked what was wrong. I said I thought I’d heard a noise in the hall, and she said she didn’t hear anything but she’d check on it. Well, when she got up to check, I definitely heard something out there. It sounded like bare feet on the carpeting, running down the hall toward Aunt Shelby’s room.

“I knew what that meant. We’d been caught. The odd thing was, though, that my aunt hadn’t said anything or done anything. In fact, she’d run to her room instead of talking to us about what we’d been doing. I mean, any dummy could see we were naked, at least from the waist up, and we had been kissing and I was sucking a nipple.”

“So what happened then?” I asked, wondering myself why Belinda’s mother hadn’t said or done anything.

“Belinda eased her door open, but of course her mom had vanished into her own room. She came back to bed, and we were scared to start up again. I wondered if we had just dodged a bullet or something, and that maybe we hadn’t been caught after all.”

“But had you?” Lisa asked. I looked at her and smiled at her enthusiasm to hear what happened, even though I had made her promise not to talk or ask questions during the interviews.

“Well, yeah, but I’m getting to that. So we sort of argued about it for a while, and by that time we’d sorta lost the desire, you know? So we ended up going to sleep without doing anything else, though neither of us put our pj’s back on.

“So anyway, Belinda sleeps like the dead, but I’m a real light sleeper. I had gone to sleep but suddenly I woke up. I mean I was, like, totally awake in less than a second. I realized I’d heard a sound in the bedroom. At first I thought it might be Belinda either going to or coming back from the bathroom, but a quick movement of my foot to her side of the bed let me know she was still in bed, zonked out.

“Then I heard the sound again. It was a small moan.” Andrea looked at us with a sort of mischief in her gaze, realizing we both knew where this was going.

I said nothing, though, waiting for Andrea to continue her story.

“So I pretended to still be asleep. I knew it was my aunt in the room, but I had no idea why or what had caused that sound. I mean, I was only eleven at the time, so what it turned out to be was not in my mind as something that could happen. Then I felt the covers moving. It took me a second, but I realized my aunt was pulling the covers down, exposing our naked bodies. I could feel the cool air from the room on my body as the covers eased down.

“I still didn’t figure out what she was doing. I mean, it never occurred to me that my aunt could get turned on looking at us like that, you know? But she was definitely exposing our naked bodies. I heard another moan, along with the same sound my fingers made when my pussy was really wet and I was touching myself.

“That’s when it hit me. Aunt Shelby was masturbating! I mean, it was this huge revelation to me. I didn’t know adults did that. For some reason, I thought only kids did it.

“Anyway, by this time the covers were off of us and our naked bodies were there for Aunt Shelby to see. Then it hit me that she was enjoying looking at her own daughter’s nude body. I was on my side, my butt pointed towards my aunt. I began to wonder if she might touch us, but after a moment, I realized she wasn’t going to do that. I guess molesting one of us in our sleep was crossing the line. But, boy, she sure looked. She squatted down to where she could see our pussies. I had one leg hiked up, so she could see my slit if she looked at us from the proper angle. I heard her moan again, this time a bit louder, and I wondered if she was going to have an orgasm.

“I decided to pretend to turn over in my sleep, but of course I was anything but asleep. My pussy was on fire, it seemed, aching to be touched. I realized I wanted Aunt Shelby to touch me there. To bring me to a climax with her fingers. So I made a sort of grunting sound and turned over, spreading my legs as I did and lying on my back.

“I heard Aunt Shelby freeze where she was, obviously afraid I had woke up. But when I didn’t do or say anything, she continued rubbing herself. I managed to open my eyes just a little bit and saw Aunt Shelby standing beside the bed. The room was mostly dark, lit only by the dim nightlight Belinda kept in her room. My face was in shadow, so I knew she wouldn’t be able to see my eyes were slits instead of fully closed.

“She was wearing her nightgown, a red and black chemise, but she wasn’t wearing any panties that I could see. One breast was exposed, and she was playing with her tit with her left hand while her right hand was massaging her clit. As I watched my aunt, her hand became very active, rubbing her slit really fast as she stared down at my nudity.

“Then she started to come. I was fascinated. Her body shook as her hand flew over her clit. She grunted several times, but kinda soft like she was trying to stay quiet. And she was breathing hard in time to the spasms. When she finally finished her orgasm, I watched as she brought the hand that had been on her pussy up to her face. She sniffed her fingers then put them in her mouth, sucking the juices off.

“I swear I thought I was going to come right then and there with her in the room with me. Then she came over to my side of the bed and started pulling the covers up again. I nearly fainted, though, when she spoke to me.”

“‘Did you like that?'” she asked.

“I guess I could have continued pretending to be asleep, but her words surprised me so much I didn’t even think of that. So instead of trying to pretend, I said, ‘huh?’ and she smiled at me.

“Then she said something like, ‘I saw you watching me, honey. It’s okay. I know what you and Belinda do together. Your mom and I did the same things when we were younger. In fact, we recently reacquainted ourselves with each other in that way.’ I really thought I was going to faint.

“She touched my shoulder and leaned over to kiss me goodnight. She was moving toward my cheek, but I moved to where she would kiss my lips instead. She drew back the instant her lips touched mine. I could feel her eyes on me. She must have wondered if what I’d done was on purpose or not, and if it was, what that would mean.”

My pussy was soaking wet again, and without preamble I slipped my hand inside my shorts. The blinds on the windows prevented anyone from outside the room from seeing us, so we were safe from being caught.

Glancing at Lisa, I saw she had her feet up in her chair and her knees spread slightly. Her right hand was draped outside her right thigh and she already had two fingers inside her vagina and was pumping away. I was surprised I’d not noticed that she’d started masturbating. Looking at Andrea, I saw her grin before pushing her own hand inside her shorts once again.

“So,” I said. “Go on with your story.”

“Yes, well, uh, sh- she asked me if I meant for her to kiss my lips and I said I did. Then she pulled me to her and kissed me the way Belinda and I had kissed. Her tongue was inside my mouth and mine was inside hers. I felt her hand move down my body, stopping for a moment to feel my small bumps that passed for boobies. Then her hand traveled down my tummy, stopping just above my slit.

“She asked me if I was sure I wanted this to happen, and I said I did. Then her fingers were on my clit, rubbing me there. She stopped kissing me and said something about how wet I was. Then we were kissing again, and I could feel my orgasm rushing up on me. Then I was coming. My pussy was so wet I could feel the juices running down into my butt crack. My aunt continued rubbing me until I had finished coming. Then she glanced at Belinda before motioning for me to follow her.

“Getting out of the bed, I did as she wanted, following her into her bedroom. I was still naked, of course, but she was still wearing her chemise. She took that off and we were both naked, standing there in her room.

“She made sure I was aware that she could go to jail if I told anyone about what we were about to do. I told her I understood and wouldn’t say a word to anyone, not even Belinda, though I knew I would probably break that part of the promise. After all, she’d spent a good bit of time staring at her own daughter’s naked body. I knew she had the hots for her and wanted to see if I could get them together.

“Aunt Shelby kissed me as we stood there in her bedroom. Then she guided me onto her bed, where she had me lie back and spread my legs. I knew what she planned to do. What surprised me was that she stopped to explain it to me.

“I told her I knew all about oral sex and that Belinda and I enjoyed it. She was surprised by that, I could tell. I think she may have thought we only liked to touch each other or hump each other or something. I even thought how if I hadn’t heard her outside the door earlier, she would have gotten first-hand knowledge that we were very experienced with licking each other.

“Then she asked me if I would play with myself while she watched for a moment, but not to come. I did it while she watched, and she told me she and my mom used to watch each other masturbate all the time when they were kids. I was amazed she and my mother had done this when they were my age, and even more surprised that they had started doing it together again.

“After a moment of watching my fingers toying with my slit, she brought my hand to her mouth and licked it clean. I wanted to taste her, too, but decided to wait to ask her if I could. It was funny that I thought she might not want me to. Anyway, she crawled between my spread legs and started licking my bald pussy. I was only eleven, as I said, and I didn’t have any hair down there yet.

“She kept tonguing my slit and kissing my clit until I couldn’t take it anymore. I came about as hard as I’d ever come in my life. I remember thinking how incredible it was and that I couldn’t seem to make my thighs stop trembling from the force of my climax.

“I decided to ask her if I could lick her pussy. I figured all she could say was ‘no’ and that would be that. Of course, she loved the idea, but only if I really wanted to do it. She assured me she could bring herself off if I didn’t want to do anything to her, but I told her it would be amazing if she would let me.

“So she lay back on her bed and I moved to her pussy. She had hair, still does, but it was trimmed neatly to prevent the hair getting in the way too much. I began to lick her and she responded as if I was the most wonderful cunt lapper she’d ever met.

“In the middle of it all, I stopped. She was obviously on the verge of coming, but I wanted to be sure to say this while she was really horny. I told her that I knew she’d also been looking at Belinda, and I thought if she wanted to do anything with her that she would be willing. I ended my plea by saying that Belinda loves sex a lot and had said her mom was the sexiest woman she’d ever seen. Then I mentioned that Belinda would sometimes masturbate while thinking of her. That surprised her, of course, and I can assure you it didn’t take long before Belinda was sleeping in her mother’s bed more often than in her own. And when I was there, we’d all sleep in there with her.”

I heard Lisa coming, and it set me off as well. My fingers were plunging in and out of my pussy while my thumb made contact with my clit. Andrea, too, had her own orgasm before we all melted onto our chairs to recover from the sexual crescendo we had each experienced.

As I stared into Andrea’s eyes, she pulled her clothes off and got on her knees in front of me.

“May I?” she asked. I looked over at Lisa, who looked doubtful.

“Are you going to do Lisa, too?” I asked.

“If she wants me to,” Andrea said, hope for a positive response evident in her tone.

“What do you think?” I asked my lover. “It’s up to you. I won’t be angry if the answer’s no.”

Lisa looked down at Andrea, who said, “I’m really good. Been doing this since I was eleven, after all.”

“Do you want it?” she asked.

“You know I always want it, but this is up to you. You know I could wait until we got to my place,” I said, meaning I could wait until she did it to me later.

“No, it’s fine,” she said. Then she looked at Andrea. “This is a one time thing. Okay?”

“Sure,” Andrea said. Then it must have hit her. “You two are lovers?”

“Yes,” I said. “She has my heart, even if lots of girls have my pussy.”

We all laughed at that, but it was true.

While Andrea licked my pussy as if there were no tomorrow, and in a sense I suppose there wasn’t for her and me, Lisa and I made out, my lover’s hands moving to my boobs and pinching my nipples to make the things Andrea was doing to me better.

After I came, Andrea moved to Lisa and began tonguing her pussy.

“Mmmm,” Andrea said. “You’re as delicious as Cheryl.”

Soon, Lisa was bucking her hips into Andrea’s mouth and coming. Andrea, meanwhile, was rubbing herself once again and coming with my lover.

We all sat back to catch our breath after the series of orgasms we’d had during this most wonderful interview.

“Thank you,” I said to Andrea.

“My pleasure, I assure you,” she answered as her smile turned into a yawn.

I was tired, too.

Then there was a knock at the door. We all scrambled to get dressed as the girl on the other side of the door knocked again, with an, “I know someone’s in there. I saw you before.”

When we were dressed, though still looking slightly disheveled, I opened the door, saying, “Sorry, I must have locked it by mistake.”

The girl entered the room. “Ms. Putnam says your time’s up,” she said. “I’m meeting some people I’m doing a joint project with in five–“

She stopped talking and suddenly sniffed the air. The room, I realized, must reek of pussy. It was now fairly obvious what had been going on just minutes ago.

The girl smiled and said, “I’d tell you to have a nice day, but I think those wishes would be too late.”

Lisa, Andrea, and I started laughing as we left the small room. As we exited, Andrea said, “Don’t knock it til you’ve tried it.”

“Who said I’m knocking it?” the girl said. “And who said I’ve not tried it?”

We parted as Andrea said about the girl who’d nearly caught us with our pants literally down, “I wonder if she’s single?”

We left the building, still laughing.

Continue on to Chapter 83

 

A Young Desert Rose, Chapter 8

  • Posted on April 6, 2017 at 12:05 pm

By Sunnybunny

The situation was growing dire.

Heather could feel herself sinking deeper into the metaphorical quagmire of her predicament with no means of escape, nothing to latch onto to save herself. For the first time in her life, Heather was completely at the mercy of external entities. It was more than the stolen money, more than Angie, the town itself seemed to be drawing her into… what?

The sheriff’s coy jab rang in her ears, louder each time her mind returned to how awful the situation truly was. He spoke about the long-time residents here, how so many of their stories began with how they were just drifting through Oasis and onto greener pastures. It was like something out of Stephen King. A humble town, Anywhere, USA, with some otherworldly power lurking beneath the unassuming façade slowly turning the populace into lizard people.

She needed to escape before things got any worse.

Heather was seated on the edge of her bed, her go-to spot now for deep thought in the days since arriving, with her hands clasped firmly between her knees. Beside her was a folded over notebook and pen with a few lines written then hastily scratched out. The remnants of a new plan — possible suspects and hiding places for her stolen cash, each one dismissed before she had finished scribbling out the thought. Each new idea came with added baggage of having to expose more of her hand, who she had been before she wound up in Oasis, and that was out of the question. Lies brought more lies, more chances to trip up on her own bogus history. She was already popular enough being the new girl in a town seriously lacking in single women without arousing further suspicion. It was safer to keep a low profile, play up the lone motorist, just working her way through to the west coast. Nothing to see here!

The diner offered her the best opportunity to gather intel on the townspeople and so far, it had yielded little. There were no whispers of anyone abruptly leaving town or suddenly coming into a great deal of money. The conversations were as well-worn as the pages of a good book: the older folks that came in for black coffee and an English muffin reminisce about when Oasis had been a coal miner’s paradise. Hard to believe, they’d say, but Oasis was at one time twice its current size with triple the population. During the boom of the forties and fifties, Oasis was on the fast track to become a major metropolitan hub. They had a bustling downtown, newly constructed suburban homes, and a clinic with a doctor that made house calls! It sounded to Heather like Mayberry until the sly older gentlemen would lean in and confide that there had even been a brothel on the outskirts of town. A good place for those hardworking miners to unwind after a few dark and dizzying days in the coal pits. The wistfulness in his recollections made her wonder if he had enjoyed the company of a young woman in this house of ill-fame when he was in his prime.

Then, almost overnight, the coal mine dried up and was promptly shut down and abandoned. At first, nobody knew what to make of the news but weren’t too concerned. In their eyes, Oasis was already moving so far along in progress that it was impossible to halt now. The mine was gone, but so what? Ford and GM where already in talks to open manufacturing plants that would keep the jobs rolling in for years to come. Only without the mines being a reliable source of revenue, the properties were seen as less valuable and those companies once so eager to snatch up land to build on wanted to renegotiate. Contracts fell through and eventually they would pass on Oasis. Soon the town’s finances were in freefall and many long-time residents pulled up stakes and moved away.

Heather later told Mama Maven she intended to visit the local library’s archives to dig up more of the town’s past. Mama Maven gently broke the news that the library had burned to the ground a few years prior. “Probably teenagers,” she confided but there was no scorn one might anticipate in her tone, only disappointment. “A stray cigarette butt in a building full of dry old books in a dusty old town… we was lucky it didn’t spread and take the whole of Oasis with it!”

Another story she overhead was the one Angie had given her a preview of, how her mother had met and fallen in love with some ‘city fella’.  At the time, it was quite the scandal and everyone seemed to have their own take on the story (which they were also more than willing to share!). Some said that Angie’s father had been abusive, prompting her to seek refuge and warmth in another man’s arms. Others still offered up that he was a decent and hardworking man who would never harm a flea. Whatever the reason, they all agreed that after she left, the man had crawled into a bottle to cope with the loss and never recovered. Poor little Angie was another point of contention. Plenty of opinions and concerns about her well-being staying in the home of an alcoholic who may or may not have anger issues, but there were no stories of anyone looking into the matter. They were content to speculate and gossip, sit around the diner and shake their heads in pity at the right moments in the story, but when Heather pressed (despite her better judgement) if anyone had ever looked into the state of Angie’s home life, her question was met with blank stares. Stick their nose into someone else’s affairs? It was unheard of, out of line and impolite!

Angie…

Heather’s mind reached the inevitable point where it drifted back to Angela Lawrence and she let her eyes wander up from the pen and pad toward her stack of pillows at the headboard. Beneath the pile, hidden but practically beating like Poe’s hideous heart was a carefully folded pair of girl’s underwear. She knew she should move it. All it would take was Walter getting it into his head that her room needed turning over and the jig would be up. There would be no way she could plausibly explain the presence of those panties.

The memory of that day was dizzying, and she could only recall fragments of what had happened once she had returned to her room, trembling so badly Heather could barely walk. She dropped the key twice before her fingers would cooperate well enough to slide it into the lock. Heather fell into the bed, hands clawing at her body in a desperate move to undress herself. Clutched tightly in her fist, a wad of white gold, Angie’s soiled underwear. She pressed them into her nose and inhaled the heady fragrance, having to sink her teeth into the fabric to stifle a loud moan. Her own panties were soaked through and clinging to her crotch like a second skin. She was wet down to her knees and had to wrestle her legs free of her jeans. She did not bother with the vibrator this time — there was no time, no real need for it.

She crawled to her favorite position in the middle of the bed, gathering a pillow to rest beneath her stomach and lifted her ass into the air, thighs spread. She was close, so very close to coming, and she had only just begun to caress herself. Angie’s panties were spread out before her on the bedspread, allowing her to admire the moisture at the center, still so very warm with the heat of her little sex. She stretched her tongue out and lapped at the cloth, hoping to taste even the faintest hint of her cunt but it was a poor substitute. She hated herself in the moment for not taking Angie when she had the chance. The feeling of that young body pressed against hers still lingered on her flesh, how those deliciously small nipples had rolled so easily along the tip of her tongue…

She let her imagination run wild now, and like a runaway locomotive, it crashed through every sexual taboo she could fathom.

She had fallen asleep that night, masturbated to the point of sexual exhaustion and still unsatisfied. The waves of endless pleasure proved only a temporary solution to quell the worst of the ache, the need. Heather was beginning to feel like a junkie jonesing for her next fix and everything in between was just filling the time. She was falling into addiction, hooked on the most forbidden of pleasures. She knew she should feel worse about it, she even tried to. For as long as she could, Heather fought to hold onto those feelings of self-loathing and disgust and be ashamed of her behavior. She tried to make herself physically ill from entertaining such lewd thoughts and bowed her head over the toilet with two fingers jammed down her throat, pleading penance from the porcelain god. She would give herself a hard scolding and vow to throw Angie’s gift out…only to be in bed with them pressed to her face again, squirming and moaning about the sheets like a bitch in heat.

The days dragged on without a whisper of her stolen property and she was beginning to fear the worst. In the quiet hours of the evening, after helping Mama Maven close the diner for the weekend (they were closed on Sundays in observance of the Lord’s day of rest, Maven explained), Heather collapsed into a ball at the foot of her bed and had a good long cry at the hopelessness of her situation. She knew it would solve nothing, give her no clearer idea of how to dig herself out of the hole she was in, but the weight of it all had worn her resolve down. She was fatigued, beaten down by the last few days, frustrated and afraid. Her hands wormed their way beneath her stack of pillows, retrieved Angie’s panties and clutched them tightly against her chest with both hands. Horny too — god had she ever been so desperate for sex in her entire life? She smelled them while she sobbed, pressing them to her mouth to stifle the worst of the noise and soon they were damp from tears.

She returned to the scene of the crime, as Heather had done a hundred times since arriving in Oasis. The town was silent, still, bathed in its evening colors of silver and white that seemed to transform the dunes of sand into hills of snow. It was the only thing chilly in the picture as the temperature was particularly muggy that evening and when she ventured out to the Mustang, pants were foregone and she padded out into the parking lot in her bare feet, tank top and panties.

She shut the door of the passenger side and listened to the stillness surrounding her until it became unbearable. It was all-encompassing, the quiet in Oasis. It seemed to consume sound, feast itself on the tiniest noise until not even the wind dared to raise a protest against it.

Going from the air-conditioned motel room to the tight confines of her car was quite the shock to her system, and she was sweating in a matter of moments but weathered the discomfort, making no move to leave, but instead settled back into the seat. She raised her chin until she was reclined against the headrest and tried to imagine herself as Angie, what it must have felt like from her perspective that fateful evening and have some strange woman brazenly explore her body. It never failed to give her a shiver of excitement. She willed herself to feel strange hands sweeping over her belly, finding the entrance at the bottom of her shirt and sneaking underneath. Had Angie gotten a similar rush of lascivious pleasure? Had it come when Heather traced fingers up those silken thighs? Did it linger after she caressed her little mound beneath the panties Heather now owned?

Heather was deftly squeezing at her own chest, awakening her nipples into fine points before teasing them with gentle pinches between her fingers. Her sex was soon aching for attention, but she delayed doing more than sliding the length of her middle finger along the outside of her underwear for the moment, sending an electric charge tickling out to her extremities.

She had just tugged aside the crotch of her panties, exposing herself to the evening air, when something cut through the darkness like a bolt of lightning. Heather immediately leapt to attention and turtled up tightly in embarrassment. The noise had not come from outside however, but within. A jaunty tune was playing faintly, a song she knew all too well. It was Katy Perry, one of her older singles from the PRISM album. It had been on a nonstop loop for a time with Heather and never failed to get her hips moving. She liked it so much that Heather had set it as the ringtone for her cellphone….

Tentatively, she opened the glove compartment and there it was: the small, rectangle of light jittering across the state of New Mexico on her folded roadmap. She glimpsed the number flashing across the display and with nothing more than a series of numbers, her blood turned to ice water.

Audibly, she intoned, “No….”

Katy’s voices were abruptly cut off and the silence closed in angrily around them again but only for a moment. The number flashed again and Katy Perry took up the chorus again.

“Baby, you’re a firewoooooooork! Come on, let your colors burst!”

Even in her petrified state, Heather found herself nodding her head in time with the beat. “Still a great song.…” The phone darkened again and the lyrics died only to begin over again a heartbeat later, and she knew that it was going to keep ringing until…

She snatched it up and swiped her finger across the display. She did not bother with formalities. “I thought I disconnected the service to this thing.” Her tone was intentionally accusatory.

“So, I found out,” the voice on the opposite end replied. He was grinning like the goddamn Cheshire cat. She could hear it plainly, and it melted the ice in her veins and set it to boil. “It wasn’t the only surprise I got that day. Where are you?”

“That’s for me to know and you to never find out.”

“As childish as ever. How about this question — where is my goddamned. Motherfucking. Money?”

He wasn’t shouting. She had never known him to raise his voice in anger. He could intimidate with a whisper, and each word was carefully measured and matched with an even character.

“I have no idea.” Some truth for a change. Ironic, she thought, that there was no way he was going to buy it.

He didn’t.

“Bullshit.”

“Hanging up now.”

“I traced the phone, Heather.”

The pause was all the gesture he needed to continue. He knew he had her attention now.

“After I found out the cell service had been canceled, I immediately called in to reactivate things. I know you, everything about you, including all your security passwords and verification questions. After I got your phone working again, I traced your device, using the GPS-.”

“Looks like bingeing all those episodes of CSI on Netflix paid off,” she replied with confidence she did not feel. Her mind was racing, heart beating out of her chest. Was he on the way to collect her now? Worse, what would he do when he found out she had lost half a million dollars in cash?

“It was on Hulu,” he corrected. “Don’t focus on the wrong part of the story. Do you know what I found when I traced your phone, Heather? Can I tell you?”

She did not reply.

“Nothing! Not a damn thing.” He laughed. “Just miles of blank map on all sides of your little dot. It’s like the world opened itself up and swallowed you whole.”

“Happy to disappoint you.” She tried to keep the relief out of her voice, but the apprehension lingered. He wasn’t done….

“Oh, don’t you worry your pretty little head,” he replied, sounding as if he were reassuring a child that Santa was on his way. “I found out enough for a good start. I know you are somewhere in Arizona. Some lonely stretch of road, maybe in a dingy motel that still thinks free cable is an enticing enough quality in the decade of unlimited wireless data packages.”

Heather glanced up into the shadow of the motel’s sign, a bent elbow of metal stretching over the sand-caked road.

“Good luck with that. It’s a big state. An even bigger country. I don’t plan on staying still for long.”

“Oh, but you have!” He cried so loudly that she drew the receiver away from her ear. “Your beacon hasn’t moved for days now. You’re holed up somewhere, Princess –.”

“Don’t you fucking call me that — ever!”

“Maybe you’re having car trouble? Maybe half a mill wasn’t enough cash to get you across country, who the hell knows? My point is, I have feelers out there already, looking for you. You know me, you know what I do….” There was a sinister pause, a calculated breath that was intended to allow Heather to reflect on everything she knew about this individual.

Her blood ran cold again.

“I’m going to find you.” Not a threat, there was no animosity in his voice. It was a promise. “It’s just a matter of time. So, why not make it easier for the both of us and come home? I’m feeling generous tonight, Princess, and I’m willing to let all this be bygones. I’ll let it all go, no hard feelings, you have my word.” His voice softened, “Everyone makes mistakes, right, babe? You lost your head, weren’t thinking straight and before you knew it, you were too far in and felt there was no way back. Does that about sum things up? Well, babe, there IS a way back. Just tell me where you are, and I’ll have some people there tomorrow morning to help you.”

She had to agree on one point, “You’re right, Richie. I have made mistakes. Big ones.”

“It’s okay, Princess. Really it is.”

“But running away from you, that place, that whole invention of a life… that was NOT one of them.”

“You don’t mean that.”

“The fuck I don’t!”

He sighed into the phone. “When I find you Heather –”

She did not let him finish. Heather ended the call but it wasn’t enough. She powered off the device but still wasn’t satisfied. She climbed out of the car, stumbling on shaky legs and reared her arm back like a baseball pitcher. The phone did not shatter as she anticipated, but instead skipped along the pavement a few yards before coming to a rest atop a small dune of sand. She pounced on it and found it had somehow powered itself on again — God only knew how it had powered on in the first place — but the screen was a wash of dazzling colors contained within spider-web cracks. Heather cried out in frustration and hammered the phone into the ground like a hammer to nail, over and over again until plastic bits were rocketing around her like bomb shrapnel. She continued until there was nothing left but fragments and gathered them all up in her bleeding fingers to scatter them into the air.

Continue on to Chapter 9