Alpha Loren

I spent the next afternoon back in the warehouse. He didn't tie me up this time but he still sat watching me. After I uncovered his novice tequila plan, he made no further advances on me, especially since I was doing a fairly good job of appearing sober. 

About an hour later, a man, practically a boy, came rushing through with a phone in his hand. 

"Señor, es importante," he said holding out the phone to Andrea.

"Watch her," he ordered gesturing to me as he took the phone and left the warehouse.

The boy nodded and stood bolt upright and motionless. He looked tense and for whatever reason obviously desperate to please Andrea.

"Who was on the phone?" I asked.

"Yo no hablo inglés," he replied.

I would guess that that meant something along the lines of 'I don't speak English'.

"Quien...teléphone," I said trying to repeat my previous question in Spanish. As I've said before, my Spanish is ropey.

"Yo no puedo decir," he replied.

I furrowed my eyebrows in confusion and he brought his finger to his lips and then shook his head as if to say 'I can't say'.

Jesus Christ. What did Andrea do to deserve loyalty? Or maybe it wasn't loyalty, maybe it was just fear.

Fifteen minutes later, Andrea returned and strode towards. 

"I have something, I'd like you to do for me," he said tying a blindfold over my eyes before he grabbed my arm and pulled me to my feet. "Come with me."

We were soon back in the car with Pedro driving and far enough away from the warehouse for Andrea to remove my blindfold.

After my eyes had adjusted to the light again, he lifted his suit jacket and withdrew a gun from his belt before pushing it across the back seat of the car towards me.

I looked down at it with wide eyes and then up to Andrea.

"You're giving me a gun?" I asked. "I thought I was your prisoner?"

"Sweetheart you are," he said running the back of his forefinger along my cheek. "Think of this as a test. If you pass, you will earn a little more freedom. If you fail, you will receive punishment."

"What do you want me to do?" I asked.

"Take this gun, go to this location," he said giving me a slip of paper and some coins. "And ask for José. Tell him that I sent you and he'll give you something. Then go to the pay phone and call this number. Bring it back to me before nightfall and I will not make you spend another night in the warehouse."

"Where will I spend the night?" I asked wondering if it was going to be any better.

"I guess you'll just have to wait and find out," he said before roughly pulling me onto his lap. 

again I felt the pain

I'm sure you have a pretty good idea," he said kissing my chest. "Oh, and if you fail or try to escape from me, I will have you hunted down before killing you...after getting what I want from you, of course.

like the sound of either

hair as his

said kissing my neck. "But you can't

an offer?" I asked brushing a thick strand of

was until you said no," he answered as

it away and pulled my shorts back down.

I snapped. "You'll have to

he took his hands off me and held them up with

I asked picking up the gun from the seat beside

would I give you

you give me a loaded gun?" I countered. "You don't

asked twiddling my hair as

could do anything with a loaded gun. Shoot you, for example," I said

"I offer you protection

you

even if there was and I could kill Andrea, Pedro was still there and that would be almost certain

girl," he

one

I said, it is a test."

are you testing me?"

see how you

"Why?"

this business are dangerous but even they wouldn't kill a pretty girl like you...not immediately anyway. So you may pose a use over

want me to work for you?"

You will do as I say,"

and he raised

dead weight, I will have to get rid of you...after having my fun of course," he said bringing the gun to my head. "Have

before he let me climb off him and we sat in quiet for the rest

more to this than he was letting on. Something to do to with

a different

go," he said reaching over me and opening the car door as he thrust

best Spanish as I shuffled along

before kissing me for a few moments. "Just in case

the

desert around me and the

the fuck had I gotten myself into?

began to make my way to the town. 

and couldn't see a soul for miles. Everything was perfectly still and quiet. After considering for a grand total of about three seconds, I hastily pushed open the cracked, scratched door of the booth and picked up the phone, which was coated in peeling red paint. There was a rusty slit just below it where