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Chapter 76
What you don't know won't hurt you
The hospital bed looked as if giant earth worms were squiggling about ruffling the pristine white sheets. The human moans told something different.
"You…are my…life." Ben's words seep through shallow breaths. All but recovered from the gunshot wound, he felt no distracting pain as his hips pushed off the mattress into a waiting Ryn.
Looking down at her mate, eye lids tensed. The mermaid's iris will change to reflect a specific mood. Their black color signaled a thirst for sexual fulfillment.
Pushing her lower region downward, Ben's groans matched the young man's taut facial muscles.
Lunging upon his vulnerable neck, Ryn's open mouth took hold of his perspiring skin.
"No, you're hurting him." Maddie springs to a seated position, she uses her head to push Ryn's away.
"Ahh…ahh…" Ryn's only response. Turning her face to look at Maddie.
"He is stronger than you think. You will be that strong soon."
Still riding the gasping figure, Ryn grabs Maddie and presses her lips to hers. A slithering tongue whisps inside the young biologists mouth. Grabbing the trembling woman's breast, Ryn's lips slide to her ear.
"Maddie, you want us." Ryn's hot breath appears to singe Maddie's ear lobe.
"Ow!" She cries out.
The reaction elicits a sinister laugh from Ryn.
Grabbing the young, stunned woman by her neck she tosses her beside a semi-conscious Ben.
"Now, I will show your future with us under the sea."
Maddie scream's. "No Ryn. No!"
Seizing Maddie's ankles in an unrelenting grip she spreads the terrified woman's legs.
"No! Please, Ben…help me." The horrific bellow from the young biologist brings no aide from the almost comatose Ben.
Ryn's mouth opens wide. All that Maddie can see are gigantic fangs and the wild eyed expression of Ryn.
"No, Ryn…No!"
Ryn's face dives to Maddie's loins.
In a flash, the shaking figure shoots upward. Maddie's forehead sprays a blast of perspiration to the already damp bed sheets.
"Oh, my God…I was dreaming." She pronounces as tears run down her face. She looks about gaining a sense of safety. "My bedroom. It wasn't real."
A harsh menacing laugh erupts to her side.
"You think it is a dream, my little slut."
The all too familiar voice of Tia fills the room.
"You!" Maddie composes herself. Running fingers through hair once controlled and now shooting off in all directions. "I imagine you. Just like I imagined that thing. You put that in my head." She shakes the mop of loose curls about her face.
"Really? If I'm your imagination, how could I do that?" Again her laughter causes goosebumps on Maddie's forearms.
"Get away from me." Maddie jumps to the other side of the bed.
"Look at yourself, slut." Tia points at her chest.
"Your nipples are still erect. Feel that soaked panty…" Tia stands in a purple haze. It surrounds the translucent figure. "How could my man go for you? You are nothing but a whore. Oh, how I wish I could rip your body into shreds." She waits for a reply but gets none.
"I will never hurt you. You carry my love's baby. That baby will be the greatest human of all time." The haze turns to a mist of light blue. "I will see to it."
"That baby is mine." Maddie points her finger at the apparition to underline her words. "If you pull this bull with my baby, I'll…"
"You'll do what? There is only one person that can send me back to the spiritual plain I belong in." That laugh surfaces through her smirk. "And she does not have long to live."
"Who is that?" Maddie asks.
"Fool," Tia's answer. "What you don't know won't hurt you."
Amid a chorus of hysterical chuckles she disappears.
Maddie sits in the wicker chair.
"I got to stop having these dreams."
Words from a whisper blow into her ear.
"Once Ryn finds out Ben is not the father, her teeth will mangle your genitals like a bull shark with an injured whale.
"No!" Maddie screams. She looks around. Sitting on her bed she checks her breasts and even the dry panty.
"It was a dream. No, a nightmare. A double dose of horror."
Sitting under the bedspread, she draws her knees upward.
"Dream or no…Tia is right. Ryn will rip me apart."
A flood of tears explode over her sobs.
The next night, a few meters from the biker bar.
"I know who you are. I've read about you and that little indiscretion that sent you up." Elaine stands in front of Elvis. This meeting is covered by a thick bit of brush lining the parking lot's perimeter.
"Never mind that. What do you want?" Taking a puff from the Camel, he begins a serenade of coughs. "You told me to meet you here. Want to get rid of your husband or something?"
"Don't be so inquisitive." Her reply. "I love my husband. He gets better with age." She snorts a laugh. "Also, you better take better care of yourself." Elaine smirks, then hands him an envelope. "You want to live long enough to enjoy the money."
"So, then who do you want me to ice…whoever?" He asks as a slow grin covers the stubbled face.
"There is ten thousand dollars in that envelope."
Elvis takes a step back after her words.
"Do the job and forty thousand more will be yours."
"Who dah hell do I gotta kill? Geesus, almighty." Inhaling another quick puff, "and who the hell are you lady? I just heard that guy, the one you grabbed his balls is in the emergency room. They are talking about an operation on his dick or something."
"It is a young woman. She's about one hundred pounds and about five feet tall."
Bushy eyebrows raise. "Why the hell can't you do it? You're some kinda Wonder Woman or sumthin?"
Elaine laughs.
"How come you trust me with the cash. I may split?" After a round of coughs, he spits to the side.
She hands him a paper bag with a .38 caliber snub nose revolver.
"First, to answer your question." She inhales a deep breath causing her breasts to raise the black leather jacket. "I can't be involved. The reason, none of your business."
Then putting her hand on his washed out blue-jean jacket.
"I have a lot of connections. It wouldn't take long to find a biker with a roll of cash." He tilts to the left side as her fingers begin to apply pressure. A gasp from the grizzled man causes her to ease the demonstration of dominance.
"Double-cross me in anyway." Elaine's nose flexes as air travels about his face.
"After I'm through with you, you'll be beggin' me to put a bullet in your brain."
"Ok, lady…ok." Rubbing his left shoulder, he asks one more thing.
"Who dah hell is this peanut of a girl?"
Elaine raises an eyebrow as a smirk takes over her expression.
"Listen…what you don't know won't hurt you?"
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