I splinter into a million pieces. The sensations overwhelm me, and I can’t hold back any longer so I turn myself over to it, throwing my head back against the cold, hard, unforgiving ground and calling out Max’s name while his fingers fuck me through my orgasm.
Slowly I recover, the air is heavy with the smell of sex and earth. I open my eyes carefully and find myself staring into the dark, black depths of Max’s.
“Feel better now that you spread your legs and let the convict finger fuck you in the mud, Kitten?” he growls, and the anger in his eyes hurts me more than his words. He shoves himself away from me as if I disgust him. I have to lay there for a minute to recover from the blow. Maybe I do disgust him. I’m not even sure what I just did. Worse, I already want to do it again.
I pull myself up off the ground, right my clothes and try and rake the leaves and twigs out of my hair. I’d give anything for hairbrush right now. Max doesn’t talk but when I look up, he’s reaching out his hand. The very hand he just had inside of me. I don’t want to take it. I try not to; he doesn’t really give me a choice.
He drags me back the way we came and his hold on me is cold and impersonal. Suddenly, now I feel like a hostage. He leads me beyond the tree, and I’m preparing myself for more hours of trekking uselessly through parts of Florida I’ve never wanted to see and never want to see again. Suddenly, he yanks me to a stop. I look around like he’s crazy. Then he bends down, and there’s an opening beneath us. A door to a bunker. They’re all over Florida, I know. Old deserted bunkers the military once used and no longer do. I’ve never seen one before though.
“In you go!” he orders.
I want to argue, but the change in him worries me, and I’m afraid. I do as he orders and go down into the dark bunker. I look at him as I go down every rung. I want to beg him not to close me up in here. I’m scared to death, and I can’t find my voice. His face looks pretty unforgiving. When I get to the bottom, I cough from the stale smell of dust that assaults me. I can’t see a lot. The door above is the only light, and I can’t see much. The light starts flickering, and I look up to see Max is coming down the ladder too. I guess he’s not going to leave me down here. That’s something at least.
He practically pushes me out of the way to get to an old metal wardrobe. I watch as he opens the door and brings out a lantern. He attaches a can to the base and sits it on a cheap, card table that’s across from it and has two chairs. He rummages around in the cabinet for a few more minutes and goes back to the table. I watch him strike a match and hold it into the lantern. In seconds, pale light floods the room. I look again, and once I take it all in, I suddenly wish for darkness again.
In the corner, there are a couple of small beds, which ironically enough look like beds in a jail cell, complete with army cot mattresses. Max goes over and flips the thin pads over.
“Come here,” he grunts like a he-man, and as if using words at all, pains him. I go, because let’s face it, discretion is the better part of valor and all that.
“Sit on the bed.”
“Me Tarzan, you Jane,” I mutter but do it. He squats down in front of me and reaches under the bed. I let my gaze move over the small room, trying to ignore him. That is a mistake because I hear a clicking noise and feel cold metal circle my wrist. I look back to Max, and he has me handcuffed! He attaches the other end to a metal bar that runs across the base of the small headboard. He doesn’t even say a word to me. He leaves me like that and starts going back up the ladder.
I thought I was scared before, but now I am petrified.
“Max! I won’t tell anyone which way you go. I could die here! No one will find me! Please don’t do this!” I beg, choking on the fear that’s so real and intense, my heart is hurting. He ignores me. “Max, please! You don’t have to do this!”
He stops at the top rung and turns back to look at me. Our eyes lock, and his cold gaze gives away nothing. Then, he goes the rest of the way out and shuts the entrance door with a heavy thud.