the other stall. It happened very fast. I should have guessed she was a virgin.” He gave the kind of satisfied sigh a dog would give after a large meal. “She was so warm and wet when I was inside of her.”
Lena shuddered as his finger probed between her legs. He massaged her, his eyes locked onto hers to see her reaction. The direct stimulation caused her body to react in ways contrary to the terror she was feeling. He leaned over, kissing the side of her breasts. “God, you’ve got a beautiful body,” he moaned, holding his finger up to her lips, pressing her mouth open. She tasted herself as he slid his finger deeper; in and out, in and out.
He said, “Julia was pretty, too, but not like you.” He put his hand back between her legs, pressing his finger deep inside her. She felt herself being stretched as he slipped in another finger.
“I could give you something,” he said. “Something to dilate you. I could get my whole fist inside of you.”
A sob filled the room: Lena’s. She had never heard such grief in her life. The sound itself was more frightening than what Jeb was doing to her. Her entire body moved up and down as he fucked her, the chains from her restraints raking against the floor, the back of her head rubbing against the hard wood.
He slipped his fingers out and lay beside her, his body pressed into her side. She could feel every part of him, tell how excited this was making him. There was a sexual odor in the room that made it difficult for her to breathe. He was doing something, she could not tell what.
He put his lips close to her ear, whispering, “ ‘Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing shall by any means hurt you.’ ”
Lena’s teeth started to chatter. She felt a pinch at her thigh and knew he had given her another injection.
“ ‘For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies I shall gather thee.’ ”
“Please,” Lena cried, “please don’t do this.”
“Julia, Sara could save. Not your sister,” Jeb said. He sat up, crossing his legs again. He stroked himself as he spoke, his tone almost conversational. “I don’t know if she’ll be able to save you, Lena. Do you?”
Lena could not look away from him. Even as he picked his pants off the floor and pulled something from the back pocket, her eyes stayed on his. He held up a pair of pliers in her line of vision. They were large, about ten inches long, and the stainless steel gleamed in the light.
“I’ve got a late lunch,” he said, “then I’ve got to run into town and take care of some paperwork. The bleeding should be stopped by then. I’ve mixed a blood-clotting compound with the Percodan. I also added a little something for the nausea. It’s going to hurt a little. I won’t lie to you.”
Lena rolled her head side to side, not understanding. She felt the drugs kicking in. Her body felt like it was melting to the floor.
“Blood is a great lubricant. Did you know that?”
Lena held her breath, not knowing what was coming, but sensing the danger.
His penis brushed against her chest as he straddled her body. He steadied her head with a strong hand, forcing her mouth open by pressing his fingers into her jaw. Her vision blurred, then doubled as he reached the pliers into her mouth.
28
Sara pulled back on the throttle as she neared the dock. Jeb was already there, taking off his orange life vest, looking just as goofy as he had before. Like Sara, he was wearing a heavy sweater and a pair of jeans. Last night’s storm had dropped the temperature considerably, and she could not guess why anyone would get out on the lake today unless they absolutely had to.
“Let me help you,” he offered, reaching out toward her boat. He grabbed one of the lines and walked along the deck, pulling the boat toward the winch.
“Just tie it here,” Sara said, stepping out of the boat. “I’ve got to go back over to my parents’ house later.”
“Nothing wrong, I hope?”
“No,” Sara answered, tying the other line. She glanced at Jeb’s rope, noting the girlie knot he had used looping it around the bollard. The boat would probably be loose inside of ten minutes, but