"No!" screamed Ryo, lifting his knee with force.
Touin had been expecting the move and caught Ryo's knee, squeezing it as he pushed it back down and before rolling on top of Ryo. "Now, now," Touin admonished him, chuckling softly. "Play nice," he ordered, covering Ryo's lips with his own.
Ryo tried to shake Touin off, but it was useless. Touin was stronger than he was. When his mouth was finally released, Ryo's lips were tender and slightly bruised. "Stop fighting me," Touin ordered him gruffly. "There's no way for you to escape and you'll only end up getting hurt. So just try to relax. I promise, if you do, you'll end up enjoying this."
"Egotistical much?" snapped Ryo angrily. "I don't like you! I don't want you! Get that through your head already!"
"You will," Touin confidently replied, sitting up and putting all of his weight on Ryo's midsection.
"Oof! Get off!" Ryo snarled. "You're too heavy."
Touin laughed. "Sorry, my pet," he said. "I'm in charge so I get to do whatever I want. You, on the other hand, just get to lie there and take it...this time."
"Bastard!" screeched Ryo, still trying to shake his abductor off.
"Oh, yeah," Touin said, smirking at Ryo's punitive efforts. "That feels good."
"Where the hell is he?" snarled Dee after he, Rose, JJ and half a dozen uniformed officers had searched Touin's residence. "Where could he have taken Ryo? He hasn't been in town long enough to find a safe place to keep a hostage."
"Maybe he's not going to keep him hostage," JJ piped up. "He did kill the others," JJ's voice faded away as a fist smashed into his mouth.
As JJ crashed back into the wall, Dee turned to look at Rose. "Can we find his car?" he demanded.
"Negative," Rose answered. "He was using his own today. No way to track it."
"Sir," one of the uniformed officers came over. "Dispatch."
Rose hit a button on the man's receiver. "What is it?" he snapped.
"Sir, Sergeant Touin is checking in," the dispatch officer informed him.
"Do a signal lock and give it to me," Rose ordered, brightening up. Finally, they might have a lead.
"Affirmative," was the response. A minute later the information came back.
"Laytner, Touin is here," Rose informed him seconds later.
"Where?" Dee demanded. "We searched the whole place."
"Not here. Here, as in the neighborhood," Rose amended. "The address we got is three houses down."
"Let's move," JJ said, wiping a little blood from the corner of his mouth. He couldn't be mad at Dee. He should have kept his mouth shut about Touin trying to kill Ryo like the others.
"No," Rose countered. "He has Ryo. If we rush in, he may kill him."
"And you didn't think of that before we bust in here?" demanded Dee angrily.
"I didn't think he would be here," Rose retorted. "Only an idiot would keep a hostage in his own home. But I'll know where to look if you're ever a suspect," he couldn't resist adding.
"Whatever," Dee said, letting the insult slide. He was too worried about Ryo to bother coming up with a retaliatory comment.
