“Oh, my god!” Susan gasped, her face going white. “David!”
“They haven’t got any IDs yet,” Rui said. “They’re going to have to go by dental records and DNA. They have to find out who worked there and then contact their families. They’re foreigners, so it’s not going to happen quickly. Maybe your husband wasn’t there.”
“When David comes to Manaus, he lives at the center,” Susan said duly. “He only leaves to get some sleep late at night. He even eats his meals there. That’s one of the reasons that I only came here once before with him.”
“It makes me wonder if you getting attacked last night and the murders and the fire aren’t connected,” Krista said. “That’s just too much coincidence.”
“We need to get Susan out of Manaus, out of Brazil altogether,” Zach said.
“I’ll go to the American Embassy and talk to them,” Susan said. “This is my problem, not yours. I don’t want you to get hurt any further on my account. The US government will protect me.”
“Maybe,” Zach said, “but will they catch whoever is behind all of this? Do you want to live your entire life hiding in the witness protection program?”
“I don’t see that I have a choice,” Susan said. “As long as I show up at the Trust hearing, Quinn can’t take control. We’d each be entitled to 50%. Then the government can hide me.”
“Is that really how you want to live?” Krista asked. “I’d never let someone try to fuck me over and not try to get even, or get ahead for that matter.”
“I agree,” Zach said. “Besides, it’s personal for me now. If you just went to the embassy and disappeared into a witness protection program, how would I ever find out why Krista likes eating your pussy so much?”
Everyone roared with laughter and Susan flushed.
“Why would you be interested in such a thing with a woman of my age?” Susan asked. “I’m 52, easily old enough to be your mother, I’d imagine.”
“A blind man can’t tell the age or race of the pussy he’s eating,” Zach replied. “He only knows that he’s eating a pussy.”
“Same with cocks,” Krista said, nodding her head in agreement. “I sucked cocks at a frat party’s glory hole once. I had no idea who was attached to the cocks I was sucking, I only knew that they were cocks; white, black, brown, big, small, fat, skinny. The one thing that they all had in common other than being cocks was that they eventually came.”
“In any event, we need to come up with at least a plan to get Susan out of here,” Zach said. “We can worry about what happens after that once we’ve gotten her away. I’m going to check out private jet charters today, but where should we go?”
“The Cayman Islands,” Susan said. “With everything that’s happening, I need to go to my bank there and make some arrangements, in case something should happen to me. I have to do that in person.”
“Okay, Cayman Islands,” Zach said. “That’s not that far.”
“We can’t do this until you and Susan are more mobile,” Krista said. “That means at least 10 days, until the doctor takes out the stitches.”
“We’re going to need money, too,” Zach said. “Probably a lot of it.”
“When I get my things from the hotel, I can go to a bank and get some money,” Susan said. “There’s one right across the street from the Villa Amazonia. I think that it was Banco do Brasil. How much should I get? Would $100, 000 be enough?”
“Wow!” Krista exclaimed.
“If we assume that we’ve got 90 days from today until the Trust hearing, $100, 000 might just be a start,” Zach said. “It will depend upon how often we have to change locations. It could add up to a lot of money.”
“I can assure you that money will not be a problem,” Susan said. “If we need 10 times that or 100 times that, money will not be a problem.”
“Damn!” Rui exclaimed, shaking his head.
“Then Krista, Susan, and I are stuck in this apartment until we make our move,” Zach said.
“Why me?” Krista asked.
“Because we don’t know if our knifer has told anyone what happened,” Zach replied. “If he has, they’ll be looking for us, too. At least as far as Manaus is concerned, the three of us need to seem to have vanished into a black hole.”
“You know, since it’s obvious that the MMA documentary is not going to be happening, why don’t I do one of this whole thing?” Krista said. “It can start out like the MMA documentary, but then it’s going to take a big detour. Since we’re going to be stuck here together for a while, I can get a lot of really good stuff.”
“Actually, that’s a good idea,” Zach said. “It will also give us some cover if the shit hits the fan, and I’ve got an idea in the back of my head that that could play into, too. Susan, you said you were a nurse? Does that mean that you could take out the stitches when it’s time?”
“It’s not difficult at all,” Susan replied. “In all honesty, it’s pretty much child’s play.”
“Then I want to leave here as soon as it’s safe for me to do so without damaging my wound,” Zach said. “I only need to be able to get downstairs and into a car, then get into a plane. There will be doctors in the Caymans if I should need one. Otherwise, I think that I’ll trust Susan.”
“As long as we keep the wound clean and dry, there shouldn’t be any complications,” Susan said. “Infection is the main worry. Since nothing’s broken in my hip, I don’t think, it’s mostly just deeply bruised, I should start trying to get more mobile, moving around, not just laying in bed. That will just prolong everything and could make it worse due to the lack of activity.”
“I think we’ve got a plan, then,” Zach said. “Rui, we need some groceries so that we can make our own meals. If they’re looking for us, we don’t want anyone noticing take-out meals being delivered all the time. Things have to appear normal to anyone who’s looking. And I need to look into a private jet charter to the Caymans.”
Rui and Juliana left and Zach began his search on the laptop for a private jet charter while Krista helped Susan hobble around the apartment until it became too much for her, at which point she lay back down on the bed on her side facing Zach and Krista packed her hip with bags of frozen peas that quickly numbed her and stopped the aching.
At one point, Zach looked up from the laptop to see both Susan and Krista sound asleep, Krista spooned up behind Susan with an arm over her, her hand over one of her freckled breasts. Seeing Susan asleep without all of the stress on her face made him realize what a beautiful woman she was, even at her age, though he had been aware that she had obviously been a real looker when she was younger. When he found himself remembering the sight of her eating Krista’s pussy, his cock started to harden and he had to tear his mind away and focus on his search.
“I can’t believe that I fell asleep,” Krista said when she awakened an hour later, rolling onto her back and stretching as Susan also woke up.
“I’m sure that your system is still reacting to the stress and the endorphin dump,” Zach said. “I could never relax until hours after a fight because of it, but when I did finally fall asleep, it was a deep sleep, the kind that heals.”