Roy looked up from the keyboard.†‬He had been at this for hours and needed a break.†‬If he were close to home he'd just fuck Elaine and feel better,†‬but he was out in the desert and she was back at his house.†‬He stretched,†‬put on his sunglasses and walked outside.
Hunter was firing an old-fashioned Winchester Model†‬94†‬repeater at a jackrabbit a hundred yards away.†‬Roy felt a little satisfied that he kept missingâ€; ‬even his fighting machine of a friend had some weaknesses.†‬Hunter fired one last shot and watched the jackrabbit escape into the cactus.
â€"‬That's why I like an M-16.†‬Hell,†‬even an old M1†‬could have got it,â€" ‬Hunter said,†‬then he checked the chamber to make sure it was empty and set the rifle down beside the trailer.†‬He turned to Roy,†"‬how goes itâ€?"
Roy shrugged and grabbed a beer from a cooler in the shade.†"‬I'm in.†‬I've got taps on all their systems.†‬Anything they do by computer we can read.†‬Some pretty tricky security,†‬but that stuff Greg got me from the NSA finally wormed through it,â€" ‬he drained half of the Coors and let out a loud belch.†"‬Give it†‬24†‬hours to gather data and begin sifting through it and we can find out if they are on the level and if they have any surprises for us.â€"
Hunter opened his own beer.†"‬That's what I like about the younger generation,†‬everything has to be digital.†‬No matter how good your crypto is,†‬someone is better.†‬Back in the old days guys kept it all in their heads,†‬or the dumb ones would write it down,†‬but you still had to be there to read it.†‬Now you can read their e-mail and messages from here as soon as they get them.â€" ‬He took a long drink.†"‬What does your gut sayâ€?" ‬Hunter asked seriously.
It was a gut feeling that had saved them at Arsenic Wells.†‬Something just told Roy that the buyers were not to be trusted.†‬Everything else had looked good,†‬the right people said the right things about them,†‬all the digital surveillance had been good.†‬All the i's were dotted and the t's crossed,†‬but something just struck Roy as wrong.†‬He could not say what,†‬but there was something.†‬He had rigged up a circle of booby traps,†‬everything from sirens to claymores,†‬around the meeting site and when the buyers pulled guns Roy was on it instantly.†‬Hunter said that he had saved them a half million dollars and,†‬oh by the way,†‬their lives.†‬Since then Roy had gone from being the tech geek to an equal partner.
â€"‬I don't like it,â€" ‬Roy said.†"‬The deal is a good one,†‬good enough to keep us on the hook,†‬but not so good that we'd get suspicious.†‬I know that somewhere behind all of this is Mark,†‬I just can't find the proof and that worries me.â€"
"Keep at it,†‬kid,â€" ‬Hunter clapped Roy's shoulder.†"‬No matter what,†‬we're taking precautions.â€"
Roy shrugged and picked up the rifle.†‬Hunter handed him box of ammo and Roy loaded the Winchester.†‬About a hundred and twenty yards away was an old†‬55†‬gallon drum that had been shot to hell over the past decade.†‬Roy drew a bead on that and quickly fired off the eight shots in the rifle.†‬He was rewarded by eight satisfying clanks as he hit home with each shot.
â€"‬Not bad,†‬easier than pushing a rock,†‬isn't yet,â€" ‬Hunter said with a chuckle.
â€"‬Hey,†‬you gotta do what you gotta do,â€" ‬Roy frowned at the memory of the truck going over the edge.†"‬Besides,†‬it's hard to explain bullet holes in corpses.â€"
"True enough,â€" ‬Hunter agreed.†‬He grew serious,†"‬you've already had to kill two men to keep your new slave.†‬Is she really worth itâ€?"
Roy started reloading the rifle.†"‬Yes.†‬Yes she is.†‬Elaine is amazing.†‬She's beautiful and a perfectly natural slave.†‬The more I use her and make her submit the more she wants.†‬Hell,†‬I would have killed those two cowboys for her ass alone.â€"
"You know she is going to present problemsâ€? ‬Word is around that Sam really wants her and Sam is not to be denied easily,â€" ‬Hunter said.
â€"‬I know,â€" ‬Roy said simply.†‬He saw the jackrabbit Hunter had missed.†‬He carefully aimed and fired.†‬The shot hit true and the rabbit flew back,†‬dead.
â€"‬Just had to mention it,â€" ‬Hunter said.†"‬By the way,†‬nice shot.†‬You want to eat thatâ€?"
"Nah.†‬Coyotes and vultures need to eat,†‬too.â€" ‬Roy fired off the remaining shots at some pieces of random trash that surrounded their trailer.†‬They picked this spot because it was in the middle of nowhere,†‬but there was a satellite dish and microwave relay station that they could easily access.†"‬Why don't you give her a tryâ€?" ‬Roy asked Hunter.
â€"‬The rifleâ€?" ‬Hunter asked.
â€"‬No,†‬Hunter.†‬Elaine.†‬I'll be here for another day or two,†‬then off to scout the route.†‬Anna is off and my little slave is probably getting lonely,â€" ‬Roy put the gun back in the rack.
â€"‬Well,†‬I've done about everything I can do out here,â€" ‬Hunter said with a grin.†"‬Guess I'll head to town.â€"
Roy smiled and got a card for the locks at the house for Hunter.†"‬Have funâ€!" ‬Roy told him.†‬Hunter got into his black Suburban and drove away across the desert.
†‬***
Roy had been gone eight days.†‬After the long night in his room,†‬he had left with a quick kiss and said†"‬I'll be busy for a while.â€" ‬Elaine had not seen him since.†‬Elaine's life was not bad without him,†‬but she missed her owner.†‬Her days had settled into a routine:†‬up for breakfast,†‬then an hour or more of exercise in the gym by the garage.†‬Roy had a routine given to him by the Association to keep her body just the way he liked it.†‬Elaine wondered what kind of research staff the Association had on hand for this sort of thing.†‬Then she had some free time in the afternoon,†‬which she usually spent in her rooms surfing,†‬reading or watching TV.†‬Roy had given her an account at Amazon and she had used it to buy stacks of books and catch up on some reading.†‬Right now she was in a Russian literature phase,†‬she had plowed through Doctor Zhivago in a couple of days and moved into War and Peace,†‬but found it a little slow at times.†‬She had made an attempt to re-read some of her old favorites,†‬like Pride and Prejudice,†‬but since Roy her views on male-female relationships had changed so much that Jane Austen no longer interested her.
Anna would let her swim later in the day when the sun was behind the mountains and the heat had let up some,†‬then more free time until dinner.†‬Since Roy was not around,†‬she read and spent more time on her computer until she went to bed alone.
Elaine thought a lot about the night at Mark's ranch.†‬Being tied up and fucked over and over by the three men had terrified her,†‬and it hurt like hell,†‬but it had been amazing.†‬She remembered being helpless as one after another they did her in the ass,†‬not caring for how she felt,†‬just after their own pleasure.†‬Or how it felt to have one person in her ass and one in her cunt,†‬pounding away at her,†‬making her feel so full.†‬It was almost an out of body experience.†‬She wanted to ask Roy to do that to her again,†‬but was too scared and she thought he would when he was ready.
Some of the days were broken up by running errands.†‬Anna took her to the grocery,†‬another trip to the dry cleaners and once to the post office.†‬On Monday,†‬Anna took Elaine to another unmarked office for a thorough checkup by an Association doctor,†‬on Tuesday back to the warehouse for more packages†(‬and another blow job for J.J.â€) ‬and Wednesday was her tattoo removal session.†‬Already the turtle was almost gone,†‬and Elaine was wistful about it's disappearance.†‬It was a reminder of Amanda and her time before Roy,†‬but that was all gone.
But her life was boring.†‬She missed Roy and she missed sex.†‬Anna did not help eitherâ€; ‬she seemed to have little interest in Elaine except when there was lifting to be done.†‬Anna also found some minor reason to punish Elaine at least a few times a day and Elaine was getting accustomed to Anna grabbing her paddle when she found a piece of paper on the floor,†‬or a towel from the pool not folded perfectly.†‬Elaine was learning to detest the older German,†‬and making her suck J.J.â€'‬s cock just added to it.†‬She could tell from the gleam in Anna's eyes that it was just a matter of time before she let J.J.†‬fuck Elaine.
But starting yesterday,†‬even Anna was off.†‬She had not told Elaine where she was going,†‬only that she would be gone a week and would punish Elaine for every little thing she found wrong with the house.†‬Armed with the knowledge that no matter what she did she would be punished,†‬Elaine was intentionally messy the first day.
