"Let go man, finish him off." He told his partner to get rid of the taxi driver.
"No, don't kill him. You have me, that what you wanted, please let him go." Melissa strangled trying to get out of the car but the man held a cloth on her face making her lose consciousness. Falling on the car seat, she saw the other man hit the driver on the head with his gun.
"You should have killed him." She vaguely heard their conversion as the man seated beside her argued.
"No need, by the time he gets up we will be long gone." He said instructing his partner to drive on getting his ringing phone. "We have her, yes inform the boss we will call once we get to the location." He told the person of the phone.
"Ha ha ha this was easier than I thought. What do you think, let have some fun with this fresh meat before handing her over." The man watching Melissa said laughing touching her hair and smelling it. "Mmm...you smell so sweet, I'm turned on. Do you want to feel it?" He whispered into her ear caressing her palm. Melissa felt sick and disgusted as he pulled her hand unzipping his trouser's but she couldn't get up from where she lay on the car seat. She felt so weak and helpless, she couldn't defend herself.
"Stop you idiot, that not part of the plan. Keep your hands off her if you don't want the boss to chop them off." The man seated in the front who seemed to be in charge warned him.
"Come on man, stop being so uptight. She's no virgin what we do to her many have passed through. Let have a quick one, I'm so hungry." He insisted brushing Melissa's hair.
"I said keep your hand's off her. Focus man, let finish this mission first." He said pointing a finger at him.
"What is the boss going to do with her any way, guess we can have some fun like Rg suggested. Besides no one is going to tell." The man behind the wheel said laughing.
"Drive, no one touches her unless the boss agrees. I give you thirty minutes to get us to the border." The man beside him instructed.
"Your not in charge, we are going to have her as you watch." The driver said stopping the car.
"No, no." Melissa begged trying to open her eye's. "Mark help me, get me out of here." She mumbled.
"Try it." The man pulled a gun at his partner. "I said drive, every minute you waste here put's our lives in danger."
"Come on man your pointing guns at us know?" Rg asked looking for his gun.
"Keep you hand's off her or I start with you." He said pointing another gun at him. "Drive, fast." He shouted, making the driver shiver.
"Okay okay, jeez what is wrong with you, I'll drive." The driver said starting the engine.
Melissa kept falling in and out of conscious straggling to free herself. Looking from where she lay all around where vegetation, though the man stopped touching her he kept whispering in her ear and blowing seductively on her neck making her sick in the stomach as he told her in details what he had planned for her.
"We have company." The driver said looking at the two range rover behind them.
"May be they are just passing." Rg said looking back.
"No in a remote place like this it's highly unlikely to see such vehicles. Step on it, we will find back up on the other side." The man in charge said handing them their gun's back.
"Your paranoid, look they have no business with us." Rg said as one of the vehicles drove past them not slowing down.
"This not good." The man in charge got is phone. "Damn."
"What?" The driver asked crunching the wheel.
"There is no cell service. Stay alert." He warned his colleges loading his gun looking back at the car gaining on them.
A few miles to the border, the car hit them from behind asking them to stop. Retaliating, Rg and his partner opened fire shooting at the vehicle as the driver tried to lose them. Covering her head, Melissa screamed remembering Mark covered in blood from the gun shots. From where she was she knew they were going to kill her.
"Shut up." Rg drugged her to keep her quite as the shooting went on.
"Step on it man, drive faster." They urged the driver still shooting back at the car.
A few miles on they saw the vehicle parked before them. "F*ck, what do we do now?" The driver asked slowing down.
With wheat plantation on either side of the road and the two vehicles sandwiching them, they didn't have a way out. "Men let surrender, we are out numbered and out gunned. Let give the woman to them, they may let us live." The man in charge said.
"Are you crazy? The moment we walk out they will spray bullets on us. I rather die saving myself." The driver said starting the engine. As the men shot at them he drove into the farm on high speed. Deep into the cloud of wheat the shooting stopped. Laughing in triumph he hit a ditch trowing them from their seat's.
Before they could gather their strength the assailant gained on them. "Drop your gun's and get down." A voice commanded. They dragged the wounded men out of the car as one of them checked on Melissa.
"Is she okay?" The old man asked walking back to their vehicles.
"Heavily sedated but she is not armed." The man said carrying her in his arm's.
Melissa straggled to open her eye as they walked through the fallen wheat back to the road.
"Mark, you come for me." She smiled before closing her eyes.
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"Damn it." Diana smashed the glass on the wall in range. "You are a bunch of idiot, useless bustards. How is it possible they couldn't bring her? One person and you couldn't get her." She slap the table with both hands.
"I believe they were ambushed ma'am, we found the van abandoned near the border. It seems their are many people protecting her not only Mr Johnson." Her assistant explained stepping a way to avoid her fury.
"Find out who took them and where they are held. My name should not be mentioned, you stop them from talking no matter the cost" She instructed leaning on the table.
Taking on the phone, the assistant passed around the office nodding his head. "What the update?" Diana asked looking out the window.
"Mr Edward and his men took them, no location given yet but they're still searching. What will we do about this? Should we contact Luke Edward ask why he took her?"
"No, he can't know I'm involved, find where they are held and make sure they don't talk." She insisted. Since the attack on Melissa, Luke had cut off all communications with her going back to his family.
"We will find them but rest assured they won't mention you. I hired them anonymously and the car used was stolen." He had called three men offering them a very high sum of money to get a woman from a taxi and take her out of the country. In the stolen van, he left half of the money agreed on with details about the woman's location and instructions on where to take her. Once at the location they would get a call on where to get the rest of the money.
"You hired common thugs? I asked you to get the most skilled men we have." Exasperated, She raised her hand.
"They are skilled ex convicts, we needed people who couldn't be linked to us. Getting one of our men would mean the end of our business." He said dodging a pen she threw at him.
"Get out." She screamed throwing things from her desk at him.
Diana sat behind her desk taking Melissa's picture from the drawer as the assistant left. "Why are the Edward's so protective of you?" She asked looking at the picture. When she first saw Luke Edward at a club surrounded by women, everyone one of them trying to impress him she swore to get to him and take over his empire. Every night she went to the same club studying him, watching his every move until the night she got the confidence to face him. He was the most feared in the underworld no one dared to cross him. With a business proposition at hand, he let her seat at the table.
She had known he needed means of transportation for his good's from his workers which she had thanks to her father who was in charge of transport at the White transport company. Knowing her father's weakness Diana talked Mr Edward into sending threats to her father just to make him agree to use the company for their illegal business.
He was the only man she had who never asked for an intimate relation with Melissa but he was disturbingly protective of her. "I'll get you myself Melissa, as long as I'm alive you won't get a way from me. I'll make sure you live in hell." She swore crashing the picture in her hand's.