Less than an hour later they were all watching the video that Ryan had pulled from the street cam in front of the bakery. It showed a bakery truck pulling up to the corner. The name on the van matched the storefront bakery but no one got out to drop anything off at the bakery. What they did see was a tall, 40ish man bending over to pick up something. All they could really make out was that his hair was dark brown and curly. His hoodie hid the rest. But they caught a glimpse of what he picked up, it was Anne being carried bridal style back to the van. When the van pulled away the rear license plate was covered with mud, so being able to run the plate was next to impossible. Back to square one.

Xx

Eddy and Anne were waiting for the other shoe to drop. It's a feeling you get when you put on the uniform, they both know it. The feeling that you could go into work and never come back home. Her boyfriend Paul understood her drive and was always one to show her that her job was doing the right thing for the city, but right now she is reconsidering. They tried to reason with their captor but he said nothing in return. All he did was make sure that they were still secured to the chairs.

While they were in this disgusting office they heard mechanical noises out in the warehouse. It sounded more like he was sharpening something on a grinder. They waited after the noise stopped for his return. When he failed to come, they started to get worried.

"Anne, what do you think he has in mind?"

"Nothing good Eddy, you can bet on that." With that said Anne tries to stretch the rope that keeps her tied to the chair. Eddy tries as well. Finding that this creep must have been a boy scout in a prior life, they give up trying to get free after twenty minutes. Then they look at each other in fear when they hear footsteps coming towards them.

He walks in and has two sterile 4x4 pads one on top of each other. The overpowering smell of chloroform is unmistakable. Knowing what was to come next they both struggled to get free but is was all for nothing. Anne was first as Eddy watched her try to move her head to avoid the pad, but she had nowhere to move to. Within seconds she was out. Then he turned and faced her. The last thing she saw and heard was his shit eating grin and that sadistic laugh then everything faded to black.

Eddy came to first. Trying to shake off the lingering effects of the chloroform from her head. After regaining some of her senses she realized that she was naked and cold. Lifting her head she looked over to Anne and she was in the same state of undress. They were no longer tied to the chairs. Now they were strung up to what felt like two large steel bars in the form of an X. Her wrists were burning from the pain of being stretched so tight. She looked down at her legs and she realized that she was spread eagle with her ankles being tied to the bottom of the X. Anne was just starting to come out of her unconsciousness when he walked over to them.

He was holding a filet knife. The blade was about 7 inches long. Anne was the first to speak. However, Anne let her mouth overrule her brain and spit out the following:

"If you touch one hair on our heads I will kill you where you stand."

He just looks at her and stares. And Eddy looks at her like she's just lost her mind. One of the first lessons they learn in the academy is not to piss off your captor for obvious reasons.

"Oh, I ain't gonna touch a hair on your head. No, my concentration will be elsewhere."

A shiver runs down both detectives spines. If he is not going to abuse them sexually, what's his end game?

"No, I'm here to teach you, harlots, a lesson. Women like you have always thought you were gods gift. Now I'm going to change all that."

You know that we're not prostitutes... right?" Eddy asks.

"Oh, I'm well aware that your both cops. But the rules changed when you started walking the streets whoring yourselves out. Your precious badges offer you no protection at all in here. The minute you advertised yourselves as sluts, your actions set the wheels in motion."

"They will find you and take you down!" Anne yells at him.

"What makes you so sure slut? Do you think that their amazing detecting skills can find me? They dropped the ball 6 years ago. They were nowhere then, and they're still chasing their tails now. Those were good times!"

Anne had enough. She strained against her bindings and when she found that they were even tighter than the way she was tied to the chair she stopped trying. Then she heard his sinister cackle. So she inhaled heavily through her nose and brought up as much phlegm as she could muster. Then with one quick exhale and her lips formed in the perfect "O" she let it fly. Bulls eye. She hit him on the right side of his face, and it was running down his cheek.

"YOU BITCH! YOU'RE GOING TO PAY FOR THAT!"

Before Anne could blink her eye he was in front of her. He drew the filet knife along her side and then moved the blade to her left breast. She heard Eddy yell at him to stop, but he just kept toying with the blade on her breast. When he touched her nipple, she felt the sharpness of the blade as he pressed it harder into her flesh.

"Don't do anything stupid." Anne said.

"Stupidity on your part always has a price slut!"

Ann never heard the ending of his sentence as he drew the blade away from her chest and sliced her deep enough in her abdomen to cause her abdominal wall to open up wide enough to see her intestines. She stayed awake for about 10 seconds and then she passed out from the pain.

"You son of a bitch! Cut her down NOW." Eddy screamed at him.

"Not a chance. There's always a price to pay, and she just paid it. Now if I were you, I'd keep that slutty mouth of yours shut. That is unless you want to end up like her." He points to Anne "If so keep on talking. And believe me when I say it, you will die. She might be able to be saved. I won't be so generous with you."

He walked over to her and ran the blade along her inner thigh pressing where he needed to get his point across. Her femoral artery.

"With both femoral arteries severed you'd be dead in less than four minutes. So keep on talking and see where it gets you."

Eddy kept silent.