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Tanesha opened her eye and slowly sat up. She gasped when everything suddenly came back to her. Skull! Oh no, not him she groaned, making an effort not to burst into tears.
“Okay, time to take a shower,” Growled Donk, the scary-looking man who always escorted her to the bathroom. Tanesha was sure Donk was short for donkey because the man had a really long face and such abnormally long ears he could pass for a donkey in darkness.
She shot off the floor and almost fell down in her haste to go take a shower. She’d missed the feel of water pouring over her skin as she’d not been given that luxury in about three days. With the man looking on, Tanesha scrubbed every inch of her body till she ached. It felt so good. After her shower, she was given new leggings and a tank top which was so tight around her bust her boobs almost spilled out. She glared at Mickey, the youngest guy she’d seen so far amongst the pack of wolves, and began to take off the top.
“No, don’t,” Mickey shouted, stopping Tanesha. “The boss wants you to wear something clean.”
“And did the ‘boss’…” Tanesha gave the word quotations with her fingers. “…ask you to give me a five-year-olds’ top?” She sneered.
“Actually that was all me,” Mickey said with a sheepish smile, staring at Tanesha’s chest. “I miscalculated how…full those knockers are. My bad. But I did get you a bra so maybe…Oh fuck…” He trailed off as Tanesha took off the top, exposing her juicy boobs.
Tanesha was used to Mickey and Donk seeing her naked all the time because whenever Donk wasn’t around, Mickey escorted her whenever she had to take a shower or use the bathroom. At least the others didn’t demand she strip in front of them or anything stupid like that. She stretched forth her hand angrily towards Mickey.
“Let me have the bra, Mickey,” Tanesha demanded. He was the only person she actually addressed by name or even spoke to because, besides the fact that he was the youngest amongst the lot, he actually looked innocent. What a boy like Mickey was doing with that criminal bunch, Tanesha didn’t know. But she actually felt sorry for the boy. “Mickey…”
“Sorry. I never get used to seeing those…” Mickey tore his eyes from those glorious breasts with an effort, licking his lips. “Here you are. I hope it fits.”
Tanesha clipped on the bra. It was a bit tight but it was better than nothing. She knew she could go braless as her boobs were that perfect. But she hated it when her nipples showed through tight and thin fabrics such as tank tops and t-shirts. So she always made it a point to wear a bra. She pulled on the black tank top again and thought her chest looked better, thanks to the bra. She took the hairbrush Mickey held out to her with a surprised smile and started brushing her hair. That felt good too but it took a while to get all the tangles out. It was sometimes a curse to have such long hair, Tanesha fumed. Next, she was given flip flops.
“Your boss must be in a good mood to allow me to have all this,” Tanesha muttered.
“You could say that.” Mickey grinned. “But the guys and I think there’s an ulterior motive for wanting you to be clean.” He winked. “You know…”
“No I don’t, Mickey,” Tanesha responded absentmindedly looking at her face in the small mirror attached to the back of the brush.
“Why would a scary-looking criminal want me to look… Oh, my god…” The brush dropped from Tanesha’s suddenly trembling hand.
“I see you finally caught on,” Mickey chuckled. “Come on, I’m to take you to him.”
“Oh Mickey, please…” Tanesha looked terrified. “You can’t take me to him. Please, you have to help me escape…I’ll pay you a lot of money. Trust me, Mic…”
“Tanesha!” Mickey’s voice finally penetrated Tanesha’s consciousness. “We’ve been over this before. I can’t help you escape. We’re on an Island. You have nowhere to run. The locals are very private people who don’t know much about what goes on in the outside world. If you attempt to escape, you will be caught or even end up dead. Trust me.” Mickey spoke slowly as if he was talking to a child. “I’d hate for anything to happen to you, Tanesha. Seriously.”
“What are you doing with these people?” Tanesha asked suddenly. “You’re nothing like them. You shouldn’t be…”
“Yes, I should, Tanesha,” Mickey said softly.
“Why?” Somehow, Tanesha had forgotten about her own predicament. Mickey just didn’t belong.
“I’ll tell you another time,” Mickey said with a sad smile. “I guess if you really want to know, you have to stay alive huh? No more talk of escape. Now let me take you to Skull before he descends on us. Come on.”
Tanesha followed Mickey into a large room which was probably the living room as it had a TV, two big couches, and a big oval table and chairs. She was never allowed outside her room, except when she had to use the bathroom. And since the bathroom was next to her room, she hadn’t been able to see much of the house in which she was kept. Tanesha looked around the room, seeing Polks, Shark, Jess, and Heat, the guy who had pulled a gun on her in the parking lot on the day of her abduction.
They were all seated around the big an oval table, with the exception of the hunk, Skull, who was standing with his back to Tanesha. The man was solidly built, thick with muscle. His hair was dark blond, cut short in a military-style. Tanesha remembered the skull tattooed on the man’s forehead and shivered. Who could be that stupid to tattoo a skull on their face? Only a psychopathic killer could do a thing like that. Heat was covered in tattoos but there was none on his face. And Shark had piercings in his nose, ears, eyebrow, and tongue but even he didn’t look as scary as the big guy with the skull on his forehead.
Tanesha stopped moving and stared at the back of Skull’s head. If only she had Piper’s power of freezing in ‘The Charmed Ones’, she would have frozen the murderers in the room and coolly escaped, Tanesha thought with a sigh. Just looking at Skull, she could tell the power that the man wielded. It oozed out of him. The guy could snap her neck with just a twist of his wrist and Tanesha knew it.
She noticed that the room had gone quiet and blinked when she realized that all the men…except Skull, were looking at her. Well, she was too shaken to be bothered by the fact that Shark was ogling at her boobs. The idiot! She knew they were all happy with the fact that Skull had won whatever devilish contest that had been held. She also knew it meant she was going to die unless of course, her parents got her out fast enough. She was at the mercy of these criminals and didn’t have anyone to help her. But she was Tanesha Ashton. And she wasn’t going to make their job easy at all for them. She would go down fighting. If Skull thought she was going to cower and cry and beg for her life, he had another thing coming.