Please Forgive Me

Chapter Four

Inside an old apartment building in the center of the poorest and most rundown areas of New Jersey, a short, hefty balding man finished showering and then stood in front of the mirror before him to shave the scruff from his face. When he was finally done in the bathroom, he walked back out into the bedroom dressed in only his boxers and stood over his bed where he had laid the unconscious doctor he had kidnapped from the hospital parking lot not more than an hour ago, then he finally got up the courage as he leaned down and began to undress her.

After he had gently pulled off her cashmere coat, black shirt and pants, Cameron's abductor paused while he stared longing at the woman now left only in her green, lace top bra and underwear for several minutes, then reached out to touch her again, gently roaming his hand along her face like he had done before until he slowly began to make his way down lower along her neck and upper chest. But, just before he could reach into her bra to touch her breast, while he fought with the urge to strip her completely naked in that moment, two knocks came to the door, startling him as he suddenly backed away from his bed, then grabbed his bathrobe and pulled it on before running to the door to answer it.

When it was opened, another man was standing on the other side of the doorway as he glared at his friend inside the apartment, then immediately asked coldly, "Carl, did you finally pick us up our next girl yet? It's been five days. Our clients are growing impatient."

Carl motioned to his friend and partner to come inside, then he replied nervously, "Yes, I… Look Adam, something unexpected came up tonight. I did pick out another girl, who was pretty just like we wanted and I followed her for a few hours, waiting for her to be alone, but she stayed on the streets with her friends and the guys who sought her out for sex, then she caught a cab to the hospital; Princeton Plainsboro. I waited for over an hour for her to come out, but before she did…"

"You saw that doctor of yours again, didn't you?" Adam stated smugly after he had cut his partner off. "The one you were angry about leaving the hospital for another job?"

"I didn't expect to ever see her again," the kidnapper responded sadly. "I couldn't help myself. I had to take her, before she disappeared on me again. But if you want me to go out again tomorrow night to find us another girl for our clients, I can."

The second man shouted angrily, "It's already been five days, Carl! Show me this girl."

He followed his friend into his room and saw how beautiful the unconscious woman really was, then he stared at her with lust in his eyes as he spoke up again saying, "Wow, she's as beautiful as you described. She's quite perfect."

"No, Doctor Cameron is special," Carl objected curtly, knowing exactly what he was thinking. "She was kind to me when she treated me after my car accident. She's the first person to genuinely care about me."

"She's a doctor, man," Adam said with frustration. "It's her job to be kind and show sympathy. I'm sure she's that way for all her patients. Don't tell me that you're saying you love her? You were only at the hospital for three days."

The first criminal looked back down at her and moved to sit back down on the bed beside the woman, then he reached up to trace his finger over her lips as he answered, "Yes, but they were the best three days of my entire life, even despite the pain I was in. I want her for myself. If it's money you're worried about, I will find a way to pay the same fee our clients would pay for one of the other prostitutes we abduct. I followed this woman for months after I got out of the hospital, but I never had the courage to confront her again when she would stop by the coffee shop she liked in the mornings, or when she would go out to eat at the small diner not far from the hospital during her break for lunch. Besides, she was with that other doctor, her boyfriend I think. Then she just disappeared and I found out she moved out of the state after she found a new job. When I saw her again tonight, I knew that I just had to have her. I couldn't let her go again and I can't hand her over to our clients. They'll do terrible things to her and defile her body until she's worthless. They will kill her, Shea. She belongs to me."

Carl's partner reached down and put his hand over her left breast beneath her bra until Carl shoved him away, then Adam laughed as he replied, "All right, just relax. You can go ahead and have her tonight. And then when you're done with her, I'm going to take a turn with her myself. That will be your payment to me. But tomorrow night, Dr. Cameron here will begin to serve our clients' needs as well. If she no longer lives here, then surely everyone she knows here will believe that she left to return home and no one will think to look for her, at least not for several days. If you refuse to lend her out to them, or allow me to lend her out to them, then we're both dead. Remember that. She's all yours when they're not busy with her, or until you can find another prostitute to replace her so that you can have this woman to yourself. Fair enough?"

"Fair enough," the abductor responded sadly. "Go ahead and make yourself at home or go out and do… well whatever the hell you want. I'll let you know when you can have her. Oh, did you bring the new cord?"

"It's all in my bag I dumped on the floor just inside your door," the man stated. "Have at it. And think of it this way, if our friends do hurt her, it's you gets to play doctor this time, for her."

When Adam Shea finally left the apartment, Carl walked to his door to collect the bag his partner discarded on the floor, then moved back to his bed again and as gently as he could, he began to bind her wrists to the posts of the headboard above her with the fresh cords. When he finished, he continued to do the same with her ankles, to the posts at the bottom of the bed.

The man made them tight so that she wouldn't be able to struggle much against him once she awoke, but hopefully loose enough to keep the cords from cutting off her circulation. When he was finished, he remained sitting at her side for several more minutes as he watched her sleep, disillusioned to believe that what he was doing, and what he was about to do, wasn't actually wrong.

Finally, Carl leaned down and gently began to kiss her lips, then began to tenderly lay his hand over her cheek and the other along the side of her neck as she slowly began to wake, but as she did, she suddenly pulled her face away from him in fear while she cried out angrily, "What the hell! Who… What are you doing? Let me go!"

While she looked around her and began to panic when she discovered she was bound and almost naked, he immediately sat up and stopped touching her so that he could try to calm her as he answered softly, "It's all right. You're perfectly safe here with me. I promise you, I'm not going to hurt you."

"If that's true, then get away from me and let me go, please!" Allison pleaded as she looked into her abductor's eyes, seeing the softness in them even though he was really a monster who couldn't see himself as one. "I know you. I think I've treated you once at the hospital where I work. You see, I'm a doc…"

"I know who you are too, Dr. Cameron," Carl replied happily upon seeing that she did indeed know who he was, or at least he thought she did. "I knew you'd remember me. You obviously felt the same connection to me that I felt for you. I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to startle you."

She shook her head as her fear remained in her eyes, then she responded, "Yes, I do remember you, Carl; Carl Burton. But you and I don't have a connection. We never did. You were only a patient who I treated after you were in a car accident. I know your name because I'm just good at remembering things like that. I've had lots of patients and I've never loved any of them, not even you."

He looked down at her in confusion as he answered curtly, "You're lying. Why would you lie to me like this? I love you. You're supposed to love me too. You're going to love me after tonight."

"No, please don't… don't do this," Cameron begged again when the man stood up and pulled off the robe he was wearing, then proceeded to pull of his boxer shorts so that he was wearing nothing at all as she turned her head away and closed her eyes while tears slowly began to fall down her face. "Please, I can't give you what you want."

"Yes you can, Allison," Carl replied coldly as he leaned over her to finish undressing her, then climbed on top of her as he sat on her stomach and lay across her chest while he began to kiss her lips tenderly, only speaking between kisses when he stopped for moments to catch his breath. "You're so beau… beautiful. I never… should have waited so… long."

He finally released her mouth as he passionately began to kiss her tear stained cheeks, licking the wetness from her skin, while his hands held her head and neck in place, his body pinning hers down against the bed in order to keep her from struggling against him so much, then went on to make love to her passionately, feeling both agony and disgust after being violated so maliciously and for what felt like so long.

Carl sat up slowly, his lower body sitting on her now sore stomach once more, and noticed that both of her wrists, as well as her ankles, were bleeding from the strain against the cords while she struggled during his brutal assault on her body. When he finally raised himself off of her, he leaned down one final time to kiss her lips like before.

He finished by biting her lower lip and kissed her cheek down to her ear, then whispered seductively, "You were every bit as beautiful both inside and out as I imagined you would be, Allison. Our love doesn't have to hurt you so terribly if you stopped fighting me. You're stubborn. I saw that when we were at the hospital together. You got into an argument with your boyfriend over something involving another of your colleagues I believe. Don't worry, I promise you that I will take good care of you. I'll be back soon with some bandages for the lacerations and a washcloth to wipe your face and body with water to help cool you down. Try to get some sleep. You're going to need it."