Which means this isn’t his first rodeo.
The thought made bile climb into the back of her throat.
Thinking fast, she decided her feet were her only weapons and she employed them by kicking the back of Goliath’s seat in such rapid succession her leg muscles burned.
“Cut it out, you crazy cunt!” Goliath took a corner on what felt like two wheels and Chrissy was thrown across the backseat. Her injured shoulder slammed into the door and white-hot agony made stars blink in front of her eyes.
Before she could catch her breath, he fishtailed around another corner and she was afflicted by carsickness on top of the pain, fear, and worry she was already dealing with.
I hope I puke on him,she thought. But then the car skidded to a stop and Goliath jumped out, slamming the door behind him.
Oh, no!She took a quick look through the front windshield.We’re at the marina!
Her chances of escape went to zero if he got her onto a boat and—
When the backdoor opened, she instinctively kicked out at the big, meaty hands that reached for her.
“Oomph!” Goliath grunted when she landed another blow to his thigh even though she’d been aiming for his balls.
He manacled one of her ankles in an iron grasp and wrenched her toward him until she was flat on her back in the backseat. A second later, she was gasping for air from the pain in her shoulder and from the suffocating weight of him as he stretched his substantial bulk atop her.
“I like that you’re a fighter.” His breath was rancid as it puffed hot against her face. “It’s so much more fun for me.” As if to prove his point, he humped his hips against her pelvis and she could feel he was hard.
Every inch of her flesh tried to crawl off her body. Every follicle on her head tried to eject its hair.
“Fuck you!” she snarled around the bandanna.
The lethal rage she knew was in her eyes was the polar opposite of the prurient gleam shining in his. Even with his features covered by the ski mask, she was convinced she was looking into the face of pure evil.
“That’s the plan.” He smirked. “Not right this second. But soon.”
Before she could blink, he hoisted himself off her and dragged her out of the car. She’d barely caught her breath before he tossed her over his shoulder like she weighed little more than a scuba tank.
She wanted to scratch and punch, but with her hands tied behind her back they were useless. She wanted to bite and shout obscenities, but the bandanna made that impossible too. All she could do was kick and wiggle, which she did. As hard as she could.
All to no avail.
Goliath was brutishly strong, and her efforts did little to slow him as he trotted down the stairs to the dock and hurriedly made his way along the weathered wooden boards. All the blood rushed to her head, and she was acutely aware of her bare ass pointing in the air.
The smells of marine fuel and open water were overpowered by his cheap cologne. His heavy breaths muted the sound of the clanking riggings on the surrounding ships and the music coming from the nearby bars. Every step he took had her terror mounting.
“Mmmm! Mmmm!” she screamed around the bandanna, hoping to get the attention of someone who might still be on their boat.
The fishermen had long since packed up their gear and gone home. Same for the day sailors. But those folks who lived on their yachts and sailboats? Where the hell were they?
“Shut up!” Goliath smacked her butt so hard she could feel the stinging imprint his hand left behind.
My guardian angel is drunk!she thought hysterically.How many times in a twenty-four hour period have I nearly died and—
The sound of screeching tires had her lifting her chin. It was hard to focus. Goliath’s rough gate made her head bounce. But she saw Parsons’s truck slide to a stop near the top of the stairs leading down to the docks.
The driver’s side door burst open, but it wasn’t the policeman who hopped out. It was Wolf.
Wolf!
Her heart leapt with joy.
She could’veswornshe saw him get shot, but maybe not. And it occurred to her that her guardian angel wasn’t drunk, becauseWolfwas her guardian angel. The one who was always there when she needed him. The one who always managed to save her in the nick of time.
