Fragrance of Revenge (27 page)

Chapter 83

They headed slowly down the
street.

“She looked at the page from the
white pages. This isn’t the right street. What are you doing Chris?”

“I’ll tell you in a minute Alexis.
I need to pay attention.”

“Let’s see your wound Scott.”

The car turned suddenly to the
left and she was thrown away from Scott.

She watched as Chris pulled the
car into the very long driveway and parked it on the far side of the two car detached
garage. “What are you doing?”

“Nobody is home here.”

“How do you know that?”

“There are at least three days of
newspapers on the front lawn. This is Newton. Nobody neglects their yards. If
I’m right, his house is that one behind the garage on that side.”

It was still early afternoon. It
was a hazy and humid day.

“Let’s go.”

“Wait. I want to see if Scott has
stopped bleeding.”

“You and I both know that is not
what you want to do. Come on. Let’s go before someone spots us in the car.”

“Saved by the hair on your chinny
chin chin, or your balls. That won’t be the case for long though.”

The garages were all detached
garages in this neighborhood and backed up to the ones on the next street over.
Their car was pretty much blocked from view by the high hedges and the garage.
You could see only the rear fenders and bumper.

“I’m impressed Chris. I know you
couldn’t have planned this, but you did a great job of hiding the car,” Alexis
said, pushing Scott ahead of her. They headed for the high hedges behind their
target house. Once inside the hedge line, the two of them studied the property.

“Alexis, there are lights on in
the kitchen and in some rooms upstairs. There is also a bulkhead that leads to
the basement. I’m going to see if there’s a lock on it, or if I can get into
the basement. Why don’t you entertain yourself with Scott, which I’m sure
you’re dying to do, and if it’s unlocked I’ll wave for you to come over.”

“Isn’t that nice that you gave me
permission to entertain myself with Scott, and to also come.”

“That isn’t exactly what I said
and you know it.”

She watched as Chris kept himself
low to the manicured grass and moved quickly towards the cellar bulkhead. “I
can’t wait to get both of you naked again.” She reached between his legs and
pictured what she had seen only an hour ago. “I’ve only seen three naked men,
with the exception of the doctor’s nudist magazine. I would certainly put you
up against the best of them. However, I’m going to enjoy putting you up against
me again.”

“Are you really going to kill
Chris?”

“That cost you the last time you
mentioned that. Why do you care?”

“He seems to really like you.
Haven’t you killed enough?”

“Scott, I wish I had hours to
explain why I’m so upset. I missed the best part of my life, thanks to the
deceased doctor. I had a family and an entirely different life, but I was taken
from it. Maybe Melanie wouldn’t have been as screwed up if I was with her.
There’s more, but Chris is waving to us. Until later.” She touched him between
his legs and then spun him around and pushed him towards the grass area.

Chris was emphatically waving them
over and alternately pushing his hand towards the ground to get low. Once they
were at the bulkhead, they entered the basement slowly and quietly. Chris
pulled the outside bulkhead doors down blocking some of the light. He closed
the inside doors to the steps leading up to the outside.

There was enough light in the
basement to see. “Tie him to one of those columns over there.”

Alexis watched him as he tied
Scott to the metal column. Once Scott was gagged and tied to the column she
could feel the tightening in her groin. She liked the thoughts of him tied to
the column and wondered how soon she would be back to entertain herself. She
quickly put her hand behind Chris’ head and kissed him hard and probed his
mouth with her tongue.

“I can tell you’re excited,” Chris
whispered.

“Yeah, but you’re the one with a
screwdriver in your pants. Why don’t you drop them, so Scott can watch?”

“All in good time Alexis. We need
to do what we came here to do.”

She continued rubbing her hand
across Chris’ bulge. “You want me to do that as much as I do.”

“Yes, but let’s do what we came to
do first.” He returned her caress and she emitted a low rattle.

She listened to his plan.

 
Chapter 84

I knew where we were. I heard what
Chris planned to do. I hope Mercedes wasn’t in the house. It was obvious Alexis
was planning to kill her father and then either Chris or me. I could warn
Chris, but I had already done that. If I do it again, it might tip the scale
and I’ll be the one she kills.

I remembered what the doctor’s
face showed when she changed him into a woman, and then his expression when she
slit his throat. My only hope of staying alive for minutes, if not hours, was
to play along with her. Her sister had tried to kill me, and really couldn’t
bring herself to do it, but that was because of the circumstances and Melanie’s
complicated split-personalities.

I tried not to think that these
might be my last minutes alive. The thoughts of Mercedes in captivity were not
the best thing to be thinking about right now. She was why I wanted to live and
without her, what would I do?

When they headed here I knew it
was Stephen’s house they were going to. Alexis wasn’t here to introduce
herself, although she may do just that, but was really here to punish him for
what he had done to her life. I had seen Stephen make business decisions. He
made them quickly and with conviction. Thinking about why he committed Alexis
to the care facility I could understand why he did it.

His wife was weak at the time. If
she knew she gave birth to a deformed child it would have been crushing to her.
So, he made the best decision he could, given the circumstances. It wasn’t what
I would have done, but I can see him weighing the consequences and he decided
it was best to hide her. It would have worked if Alexis had remained a deformed
child. However, she turned into the same beautiful twin Melanie was.

I thought of my captivity by
Melanie. She made me do things I wanted to resist, but she was too good at
getting my body to react to her persuasions. However, cutting the arrow went
too far, but I remember her eyes looking elsewhere, and I was lucky in
hindsight.

I can understand why Mercedes was
so upset by my nightmares. Our disagreement happened only a few days ago but it
felt like weeks.

Mercedes I love you. I want you
and I need you. Please God don’t let her be hurt. I promise I will never ever
do another investigation. I’ve learned my lesson. I want to be with you for the
rest of my life. If you still do investigations, I will support you. However,
we both could find something else that would be less threatening to our future.
I want to have kids and make you the happiest person in the world.

I knew it was pointless to say
my prayers. What was going to happen was going to happen. However, I didn’t
have much to lose by saying them.

I heard a loud thump above me and
wondered what it was.

 
Chapter 85

They were walking up the sweeping staircase
to what must be the upstairs bedrooms. She could feel her heart beating in her
chest and looked down to make sure she wasn’t bleeding since it was pounding so
hard. Chris was behind her and letting her do her thing.

At the top of the staircase there
was a long hall with several doors leading off it on the right. There was a railing
on the left side overlooking the lower level and two more doors beyond the
railing’s end.

She stuck her head in each room,
but they were obviously unoccupied. She could hear some muted classical music
playing in one of the rooms down the hall. However, she kept checking out each
room. She stopped when she heard the sound of someone moving in the next room
to her right.

She put her hand up to have Chris
stop and she moved quietly to the room she heard the noise in. She stood at the
doorway and saw a woman, maybe in her fifties, sitting at a bench in front of
the dresser mirror, brushing her hair. This must be her mother. She put her
hand up again to Chris who was still staying right where he was. She entered
the bedroom.

The woman’s eyes were closed and
she was lost in the brushing. This could have been someone who loved her, but
her dad never let her know she existed. She slowly opened the straight razor
and took another step towards the woman.

The woman must have sensed her
presence since she opened her eyes. Her expression was one of confusion and of
shock. She dropped the hairbrush and turned in the seat towards her. “Melanie?”
She grabbed her throat and started to get up. Then she grimaced and grabbed her
chest.

Alexis realized her mother was
having a heart attack. “How nice to see you mother,” she whispered. She closed
the straight razor as her mother collapsed onto the bedroom floor.

She heard the sound of heavy
footsteps out in the hall. She turned to see her father enter the bedroom and
stop dead in his tracks. He dropped the small glass he was holding onto the
bedroom floor. “Alexis…what have you done?”

“I haven’t done anything. I was
just going to say hello to my mother when she collapsed.”

He was already moving to his
wife’s form, but they both saw how blue her face was. He pulled the bench away
and started to blow into her mouth and press rapidly on her chest. “You don’t
seem that surprised to see me, Dad. Is that what I should call you? Or should
it be Stephen or Mr. Strong? I think you’re wasting your breath. She needs more
than you can give her now. You know what…I needed a lot more from you too.”

She opened the straight razor.
“Couldn’t you have called me once, or even visited me once while I was hidden
away. Dad, I needed you more than you could ever know. I had a family and you
kept me from it. Why? What did I ever do wrong to you?” She hated the fact she
had tears running down her face. For the first time she realized Chris was
standing inside the bedroom door. “Dad, why didn’t you care about me? I was a
real person and although I was ugly for many years…look at me now…I’m not that
way any longer. You deserve to die for what you did to me.”

She lunged at him with the open
razor, and he ducked out of the way. He went running towards the door and Chris
grabbed him. She watched them fight and was frozen in position. She wanted to
move, but couldn’t.

Her father made a move with his
leg and both arms and Chris went flying onto his back. She saw her dad run out
of the bedroom in his stocking feet and turn down the hallway. She was still
frozen in position holding the straight razor when she heard a crack, followed
by a loud crash.

They both left the bedroom to find
the railing broken. They looked down and her father was lying in a growing pool
of blood. He had obviously landed on a glass top table which had a metal frame.
One of the metal frames was sticking out his back.

She dropped the razor and turned
and buried her head in Chris’s chest.

“I’m sorry Alexis. I’m sorry you
didn’t have the family you should have had.” She felt his arms tight around
her.

“I think I saw some love in my
mother’s eyes, but she only knew my image as Melanie’s. I didn’t even have time
to tell her who I was. They’re both dead now.” She couldn’t stop her sobbing,
and wondered why she was so upset they were gone.

Minutes later she had calmed down
enough to get her thoughts together. “Chris what do we do now?”

“Well, there’s only Scott and
Mercedes left,” Chris answered as she felt him push her away from his body. She
bent and picked up the razor. She noticed it still had some of Scott’s blood on
it. “Lick it Chris.” She watched as he studied her eyes and licked the razor
with some force.

It would be so easy to kill him
right now.
“I need you now Chris. I need you to lick me like you did that
razor.” She dropped the razor and started running down the hall, stopping
periodically to remove a piece of her clothing.

“What about Scott?” he asked.

“What about him? Do you want him
to watch us?”

“No, not really.”

“Good. You can have Mercedes if we
get the chance and we’ll let Scott watch. Then I’ll have Scott willingly
because he will be trying to protect her. Then we’ll kill them both. You and I
will start a new set of trophies. I know what parts I want of Scott’s, but you
need to think about what you want of hers.” She smiled a wicked smile. “Maybe
you just want her long red hair.”

She pushed him and removed the
last article of her clothing and jumped on her parents’ king sized bed. She
watched him bounce when he took his briefs off. “Something has made you really
excited.” He started to climb onto the bed.

“Wait. I want you to do as I say.
You’ll get me, but you will be even more ready. Now do what I originally told
you to do.”

She watched his brain trying to
remember, and then his recognition. He started towards her. “Slowly Chris…do
everything very slowly.”

Chapter 86

As soon as I saw them I knew I was
in trouble. They were both naked and Alexis had her straight razor in her hand.
She looked miles away.

“Scott, did you enjoy your time
alone with your thoughts?” Alexis asked grabbing the front of my shirt and
ripped it open. “Answer me.”

“I wondered what was happening
upstairs. But I guess I can tell now that you both are naked.”

She couldn’t pull the shirt
completely off since my hands were tied behind the column. I heard the razor
cutting through the cloth of my shirt. “Better,” she said.

I could feel my heart beating a
mile a minute and wondered if she was going to kill me right here. She leaned
her ear against my chest with the razor right in front of my eyes. “I wish your
heart was beating because you were excited to see me, but I know you remember
what I did to the good doctor and worry about what I’m going to do to you.
Right?”

I knew I better respond. “Alexis,
your sister was much more of a romantic. She was mean in many ways, but she
treated those in her captivity with some form of love.”

“What does that mean? Do you want
me to make love to you?”

“I don’t know how to explain it to
you. And no, I don’t want you to make love to me.” I hoped that was the back of
the razor between my legs.

“I got your attention again didn’t
I?”

I looked over at Chris who was
enjoying my predicament, and probably glad it was me instead of him. “Yes.”

“Chris, come over here and untie
him. Let’s bring him upstairs to one of the bedrooms. I’m not finished with him
yet, and I’m not going to make this easy on him by killing him here. Oh, and by
the way…Stephen and his wife are both dead.”

*.*.*

Chris had a cord around my neck
and my wrists were still tied behind my back, but it felt strange to be the
only one of us with clothes. I’m sure that was going to change very soon.

When we got upstairs I saw the
pool of blood and the metal frame protruding through Stephen’s back. I knew he
was dead. It was hard to comprehend his being dead. I just talked with him a
few hours ago. I’m most likely going to be the next person killed, unless she
does Chris instead of me. That gave me an idea. Chris pulled on the cord and it
was hard to breath. Is he going to kill me instead?

We stopped at the entrance to the
master bedroom. Mrs. Strong’s body was on her back and there was no question
she was also dead. “Chris, drag her body into another room. I don’t want to
look at her lying on the floor,” Alexis said as she motioned with the razor.

She pushed me over to the
four-poster bed which was almost three feet off the floor. “You get up on the
bed.”

I backed up to the bed and lifted
myself up so I was seated on the bed. I didn’t like how Alexis was looking at
me, and I just stared back.

She stepped closer and ran the
back of the razor down from my forehead, across my nose and rested it on my
lips. “Open your mouth.” As soon as I did she had the razor laying flat against
my tongue. “I should have had Chris take the rest of your clothes off before he
left the room.” Chris came in almost as if he was called.

I looked at his expression as he
watched what Alexis was doing.

“Chris, give me a hand.” However,
he just stayed where he was. “Chris, please. Come over here and help me.” He
hesitantly came over and stood beside her. “Take all his clothes off and make
him more comfortable.”

He hesitated. “I thought you had
some investigation stuff to do…we’re wasting time.”

“The sooner you get him tied up
again, the sooner I can get on with what I was going to do. Besides, wouldn’t
you like to be mean to him, so I could be nice to you?”

I watched her other hand reach
between his legs and then wrap her fingers around him. “Chris, remember all the
fun you had doing the things I made you do in my bedroom? Now, hurry and do
what I asked you to do. You’re right, we’re wasting time.”

I knew once they had me tied to
the bed and naked again, I had at best only a few hours left to live. I also
realized I might not want to be alive for whatever she was planning. I made a
quick move off the bed and started to run out of the bedroom. I heard Chris’
bare feet pounding on the floor rushing after me.

It was hard running down the
stairs with my hands tied behind me, but I was several steps ahead of him and
headed to the front entry. I got a glimpse of Stephen’s body to my right as I
passed at a full run. What I didn’t see was the blood on the floor. My first
step into the blood and my feet went out from under me. I landed on my back and
saw Chris’ fist headed toward my face.

*.*.*

This was getting to feel like a
broken record and I was the record. I could feel the pain in my back, but my
extremities hurt just as bad. This time there was no play in the cords around
my wrists and ankles. I opened my eyes to see Alexis sitting on my body. She
was still naked and I was now too.

“You are getting to be a real
problem Scott. I think Chris’ suggestion to just kill you makes a lot of sense.
Give me one reason I shouldn’t just slash your throat right now.” She looked
down my body and ran her fingers lightly across my stomach. “That’s one
reason.” She busied her fingers lower and I could feel my body slowly
responding.

“Are you going to do the research
you had planned on doing?” Chris asked from the chair he was sitting in.

“I am doing research right now. I
like how both of your bodies respond to my touch. In Scott’s case even when
he’s trying his best to ignore what I’m doing.”

“Alexis you promised me.”

“Yes, you’re right…I did promise
you. Okay Scott, you have a few more minutes to think about how you are going
to be punished for trying to escape again. I know I’m getting tired of it, and
I can tell Chris is getting annoyed with your presence.” She got up and then
planted a kiss right where it would make Chris even madder.

“Let’s go do our investigation
Chris.”