Summary: Lies, deception, everything has a price ... what is the price of shame?
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Chapter 17
Alex tried opening her eyes, but she couldn't see anything around her. She instantly remembered what had happened and struggled against the bonds tying her hands and feet together, but all to soon realized it was a futile attempt. Alex squirmed around a bit more and then felt the tug of whatever was holding her pull against her stomach. She tried for several more minutes to scream, but the gag in her mouth made her throat feel as parched as sand. Alex knew that what she had done was stupid, but she also knew that Mr. Sakara hadn't killed Walker, no, he had escaped death, and that gave her some small comfort as she laid there awaiting her own death.
Walker sent out every available ranger at the house to look for Alex and then headed to his truck to join them. "Walker! stop!" Trivette yelled.
Walker slowed down his pace long enough for Trivette to catch up to him. "Walker, you can't go with them, you know that."
"I can't sit here and wait while someone has Alex.
Trivette put his arm on Walker's turning him so that Walker now faced him. "That is just it we don't know who has her and he will more than likely call you. Don't you see Walker, the best chance you have of ever seeing her again is to wait here for the call." Walker knew his partner was right, but he didn't want to sit and wait. By waiting it gave him time to think about what could be happening to her.
"Trivette, could you wait around? Could you sit by a phone and wait for something to happen to someone you love?"
"Walker, she is like a sister to me. I want the bastard who has her as much as you do, but I know whoever it is will call you, and if you are not here to take the call, then what?"
Walker stood there, hand on the door to the Dodge Ram, before lowering his eyes. He knew a hundred reasons why he wanted to be out there looking, but the most important one was getting Alex back, and for that he would have to go inside and wait. He followed Trivette back inside and sat down on the couch. CD handed him a cup of coffee and sat down in the chair opposite him. There all three of them sat, staring at the phone sitting on the coffee table willing it to ring with news of Alex.
Alex felt like being sick but knew she would end up choking on her own vomit with the gag in her mouth so she tried to calm her breathing as much as she could. She moved slightly in the bed and felt the ropes binding her wrists cutting into the skin, and stopped. The pain in her stomach was almost unbearable now. Though she was tired and hurt Alex knew she needed to get away before someone came in. She had almost made it off the edge of the bed when she heard footsteps. She laid absolutely still, feigning sleep.
"Mrs. Walker," Mr. Sakara's voice rang out. "You have brought shame again to my house. You have foiled my plans for your husband, but my associates assure me I can still have my satisfaction." Alex tried not to scream out her hatred for this man, but it was not easy.
"Awake Mrs. Walker for I wish to see those blue eyes of yours when I tell you my news." When Alex made no move in the bed, she felt the sharp sting of the hand coming down across her face. "I said awake!" Mr. Sakara shouted, as Alex's blindfold was removed.
The light in the room was very bright and Alex had to squint her eyes against the harshness of it. "What do you want Sakara? You have me, what more do you want?"
"You are so naive it amazes me Mrs. Walker. I have never wanted you, no you were merely a pawn in the game. You see all I have ever wanted was to destroy your husband. Since you foiled my plans earlier, I have since made new plans. I do not think you will care for these, and for your sake you should hope your husband is sitting at home waiting for your call."
Alex stared at Mr. Sakara, but it was Mr. Suling who grabbed her attention as he pulled out a bag off the top of the desk in the corner. From the bag he pulled a scalpel, the glint of the small blade shining in the harsh light in the room. Alex's heart started beating very fast then. She knew perfectly well what they had planned for her. Now her only thought was what was going to happen to Walker.
Mr. Sakara picked up his phone and dialed Walker. He waited one ring, then two, and just before he was about to hang up Walker picked up the phone. "Ahh Ranger Walker, it seems we have some unfinished business to attend to."
Walker notified the men to tape the call, and once he was sure they were he went on. "Who is this and where is my wife?"
"Walker who is it?" CD asked, but Walker held up is hand to silence any questions. "I'll ask you again who is this?"
Mr. Sakara motioned for Mr. Suling to pulled up Alex's shirt, baring her stomach. Alex fought against him, but the pain in doing so, halted her. Alex knew she was as good as dead, and started to scream. "Walker!" That was as much as she got out as the gag was replaced in her mouth.
"If you hurt her you will pay with your life, I promise you that."
"Idle threats Mr. Walker. You took my son from me and now I am going to take something from you, something very important I assume." Mr. Sakara motioned for the gag to be removed from Alex's mouth again but the glint of the blade in Mr. Suling's hand kept her from screaming again.
"Now as I said Ranger Walker you took my son from me, made him turn against his own family, and for that he lost his life. Now Ranger Walker I wonder what it is you treasure most."
Walker was speechless for a second, holding his hand over the receiver he mouthed the name Sakara to them, and then listened again. "Yes, Ranger Walker you will excuse me if I sit the phone down for a moment." Mr. Sakara sat the phone down next to the bed, and nodded his head to Mr. Suling. the doctor who had leered at Alex each time she had come to the office was now holding a scalpel in his hand. "Now time to take back what is mine."
Alex saw the scalpel and it scared her more than anything, but it was the pain of it slicing through the thin layer of skin surrounding her stomach that sent her body writhing about on the bed. Alex could feel the blood seeping from the cut, as it ran down the side of her stomach, but it was when Mr. Suling reached in and started tugging to get the bag of solution out that the scream erupted from her. It brought a smile to Mr. Sakara's face and with a flick of his wrist he removed the gag, so that Walker could enjoy it as well.
Walker's face went pale at the sound of Alex screaming to the top of her lungs. His hands began shaking when her screams grew louder, and by this time even the man operating the tap on the phone stopped listening. "No! leave her alone it is me you want!"
Mr. Sakara picked up the phone again. "On the contrary what better way to hurt you Ranger Walker than to take what is most precious from you." Sakara watched with glee at Suling pulled the first bag of solution from Alex's stomach, and then he motioned for him to proceed. Another cut was made this one right next to the last. Again the pulling started and Alex feeling very woozy now, begged for them to stop.
"Please stop, I can't take it anymore, please." she begged, but all she got in return were cruel smiles. As Mr. Suling tugged the second bag free Alex screamed again this time sending chills down Walker's spine. Walker didn't notice the tears gathering in his eyes for they were not tears of sorrow as much as they were tears of hatred. He waited to hear Alex's voice again but there was nothing coming from the other end of the phone. Alex had let the blackness of unconsciousness take her.
"As you might have noticed Ranger Walker your wife couldn't take it any longer and has slipped into unconsciousness. Such a pity too as I was enjoying her screams."
"You are a dead man Sakara. I will find you and I will kill you."
"And I shall help you find me, well at least my trail. We are in the office building on the far end of Center Street. Look for the blue house off the main road. Your wife will be here waiting for you Ranger Walker." The phone went dead in Walker's hands.
"Did you trace the call?" he asked the still pale man. Walker saw that Sakara had not lied about his whereabouts, and he Trivette and CD fled out the door to go and get her. It would take at least half an hour and that was driving fast to get to her, and Walker just hoped it was in time.
Mr. Sakara watched Mr. Suling pull the last of the saline solution bags from Alex's stomach, a sense of satisfaction of his face at her bloody body laying on the bed. "Come this game is not over, but we shall have to leave her for now." He and Mr. Suling took the bag with them and left Alex laying in the bed, her hands and feet still bound, the skin of her stomach sliced open.