Buying The Virgin Part 1-3

Chapter 120: The Girl Who Was Hunted - Chapter Thirty-Six

MICHAEL

Smoke billowing up the staircase, we race down to the lower floors. Using the lifts is unthinkable.

Alarms are ringing, and there is chaos, as panicked workers try to escape the building.

Up the staircase, coming towards us, are firefighters in full kit and mask.

Shit!

We’re on fire?

James sees me looking upwards. “Don’t worry. You can be sure she’s getting the hell out as fast as she can. She’ll not sit helplessly by.”

“But she won’t…”

He skids to a halt, hovering between one step and the next. “What? Why not?”

Breathing heavily now. “I told her to stay put. And I made her promise to obey. I think she’ll try to keep the promise…”

James rolls his eyes. “Fuck! What a time to disable her….” He stares at me, hard. “And you accuse me of treating her as a sub…” He pats his pockets. “Damn! No phone. Got yours on you?”

“No. I just ran from the apartment. You?”

“So, she’s promised to stay put, in a burning building, and we can’t contact her?”

“Yes.”

Oh God, Babe. What have I done?

James turns heading upwards again, but above us, there is a crashing noise. A few seconds later, we meet a group of the firefighters, descending again. “Get moving downward.” yells one of them as he comes past. “The floor above here’s on fire. The whole building’s coming apart. You can’t go that way.”

From below there is a rushing sound and the smoke turns black. Coughing, we keep moving downwards.

And will Charlotte try to keep the promise I forced her to make?

*****

BETH

up from below. Quickly, she slams the door

ask.

a chance. Too narrow, and it’s anyone’s guess what we’d

a bit of dirt if it’s to escape

compactor, or a waste recycler? You got any

“Er… no…”

have a look at the

head backwards,

looking for options, a way to escape. “Jeez…” she mutters, her face white, and for the first time since I have known her,

phone rings and

she says with it pressed to her ear. “Yes…. Master, we’re trapped…. We can’t…. Right? Wonderful! Yes, Beth’s with me.

yells at me, “Out onto

dash out to the terrace garden. Even as we burst out

scanning windows, but there is

up. Within a minute, the harness lowers again, and Charlotte too is winched to safety. As she is pulled into the cockpit, the ‘copter

engine noise. “Sorry, I was told not to tell you.

rush of buildings, highways and the river vanish, as we

*****

MICHAEL

try to keep the

is trapped in the penthouse apartment. Does she even know

him by the arm. “There’s a woman trapped in the Penthouse. We’re not sure she even knows yet, that

into it, then clicking it off. “There’s helicopters coming in to help on the top floors. Can

phone

pressed to his ear, staring into space, he mutters. “Pick up your phone, Charlotte, pick up your…. Charlotte! Where are you? Yes, get the Hell out of

at me. “Beth’s with her…. Richard sent her up there for safety.…” Then, “Yes, we’ll catch up with you. If you see mine or Michael’s phones, bring them

the stairs at speed. At every floor, black smoke surges and

A familiar face in a squad car, Corby, who first bungled the interview with Charlotte, looks to be relaying messages from the car, and a large area is cordoned off, police widening the cordon as we watch. Above us, is the clip-clip

all the people? The office workers….

is here, by Will, phone to his ear. Seeing us, he gestures us over, then waves up at the ‘copters. “There’s help on the way to

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