Terror on the Beach (21 page)

I unplugged the stopper but when she tried to get up I told her to stay in there.
I could see goose bumps all over her body and for some reason the sight made me hard again.

Once again I made her try oral sex but lost my erection again.
I knew what I wanted and nothing else would do for me so I made up my mind.

I picked her up and laid her on the bed and feasted on her.
I ate off nearly all her breast and then started between her legs. I liked the taste of her and I was coming over and over again. I had put towels under us which I would take back to the island with me so they wouldn’t find any trace of me.

She was alive when I finished
, staring up at the ceiling. She hadn’t made a sound. I was disappointed when I realized I used her up. She was no use to me any longer.

I took a shower and slept beside her.
At one point during the night she wet the bed and I realized she was dead.

The next morning I called Josh
at the airstrip to pick me up and we headed home. I slept the whole flight. This was a very satisfying trip.

  CHAPTER 42

When Bucky came home the next day, he looked so happy I knew he had hurt someone.
We had no way of hearing any news so I had no way of knowing what he had done and didn’t dare ask him. He left me alone for several nights sexually, but snuggled up against me.

I knew I should complain but he didn’t seem to get suspicious of me not being demanding.
I was awake for several nights listening to him snore softly like a little boy and wondered if he had gone to the houseboat to hide the body since he had been back.

I couldn’t bring the subject up because then he would know that I had been to the houseboat.
So I said nothing.

He went out early every morning to run and that was when I got most of the little sleep I did get.
I began designing clothes on paper but had no way of making up any samples.

I had always thought living on a deserted island would be great but now I saw how boring it was and
how one day ran into the next.

As the da
ys turned into weeks and the weeks into months Bucky went into Miami more and more. I didn’t put up a fight anymore and knew I was getting depressed.

One day Bucky came in and announced we were going into Miami.
I was so excited I kissed him and then was sorry. He ripped off my clothes and I had to pretend again. It had been awhile and to my horror I had multiple orgasms. It worried me that I had this response to him knowing what he was capable of doing. I wondered what Dr. Anna would make of it.

When we got into Miami, Bucky checked us into one of the very best and most expensive hotels.
There was a complementary newspaper in our room and I looked at the date, February 14
th
. We had been on the island for ten months. Happy valentine’s day, Elizabeth,” Bucky said when he saw me looking at the date.

But then I saw the headlines:
THE HOTEL WOMAN EATER CONTINUES TO BAFFLE THE POLICE AND FBI. I had gotten so good at pretending with Bucky that he didn’t seem to notice the headlines at all. When he went into the bathroom, I casually threw the paper in the trash after folding it so the headlines wouldn’t show.

When he came out of the bathroom he was grinning, “I have something real special planned for us, Elizabeth.
You’re going to love it.”

He took me to a very expensive restaurant that had the best bass I’ve ever had.
It was fixed with a creamy crab sauce. We went through two bottles of wine. When I went to the ladies room, he followed me and stood outside the door. When I came out I rolled my eyes.

After dinner we
went to a nightclub. Bucky had given me a beautiful dress to wear before we left the hotel. It was long and black and made of a knit fabric and clung to my body. It had a slit up the side almost to my crotch.

We danced a couple of dances and when we returned to our table he told me to sit there and not move.

“Just who the hell do you think you’re ordering around?” I asked him and he got whinny again.

“I’m sorry, Elizabeth.
Please just stay here. I’m scared Sarah will ruin everything if we’re apart for even a little while.”

“I told you if she ever tried to ruin things again, I would kill her.”

“Well, okay, I got to go before I burst.”

Just as he was coming back to the table, two large black men came in the door and I recognized Robert and Simon.
They didn’t notice me but looked past me and headed for a corner table. I was terrified Bucky would see them but he didn’t seem to notice them.

When Bucky sat down his back was to the corner table.
It was dark in that corner and I could barely make them out.

“You want to dance again, Elizabeth?” Bucky asked as he got up.

“Yeah,” I said. I was trying to figure out a way to get Robert and Simon’s attention before Bucky saw them.

I kept trying to maneuver Bucky away from that corner and at the same time get the two men’s attention.
I knew the exact moment Simon recognized me and elbowed Robert. Robert started to get up and come to me but Simon held him back. When the dance ended I told Bucky I had to go to the bathroom again.

“All that wine,” I said and laughed and pretended to stumble.

I went into the bathroom and he didn’t follow this time. Once inside I got a paper towel and wrote the coordinates of the island on it and folded it. I was glad I had memorized the coordinates.

My plan was to walk by the table in the corner and drop the note on their table, but Bucky was watching me when I came out.
Without looking at the two men I went back to our table and Bucky asked if I was ready to go back to the room and do it.

While Bucky was paying the check, I held the folded piece of paper up so the two men could see it and made a point of putting it under the edge of my plate.

On the way back to the hotel I kept stopping to window shop and used the windows as mirrors to see back of us but I didn’t see any sign of Simon and Robert. If they were following us they were really good.

When we got back to the hotel, Bucky locked the door and put the chain on.
“You look beautiful tonight, Elizabeth,” He said. “Don’t get undressed, I want to undress you.”

He went into the bathroom and came out naked
. He was holding a knife. He had a full erection. I tried to stay tough and said, “What in the hell are doing with that knife, you stupid fool?”

He grinned, “You’re not a good actress, Sarah.
Once again, you’ve tried to ruin things for me and Elizabeth. Did you think I didn’t see that cop and FBI agent sitting in the corner?

“And that deal w
ith the pretend window shopping? Did you think you were in the movies? Oh, and by the way, I took the paper you left under your plate.” He opened the hand not holding the knife and in it was the folded up paper towel.

I could feel the color drain from my face and knew there was no way I was going to survive this night.
I knew trying to plead with him wouldn’t work. I felt so frozen I couldn’t talk or move.

He was on me so fast I didn’t have time to react.
He grabbed my dress and cut it all the way up the front and I realized just how sharp that knife was. “You don’t deserve to wear this dress, Sarah and you don’t deserve to live.”

I must have been in a state of shock, I didn’t even think about screaming.
He stabbed my right calf as he pushed me face down on the bed. That was when I screamed and that was when Robert shot the lock off the door and both Simon and Robert shoved their way in.

Bucky grabbed my hair and pulled my head back exposing my neck.
He held the knife to my neck and looked defiantly at the two men. “One move and I kill her. She’s ruined things for me and Elizabeth for the last time.” he said and I had an idea.

“Bucky, what in the hell do you think you’re doing with that knife?
Get that away from me before I have to hurt you.”

“Elizabeth?” he asked.

“Who else? I promised I’d take care of Sarah and I have. By the way, who are these idiots standing here holding guns on us? Hadn’t either of you ever heard of privacy? Get out of here.”

Bucky lowered the knife and they grabbed him.
He started crying like a small boy, grinding his fists into his eyes. While Simon cuffed him and read him his rights Robert came over looked at my leg. I pulled up the covers leaving my leg out and he went into the bathroom and came back with a first-aid kit.

“It doesn’t look all that deep,” he said as he bandaged it.
“But we will take you to the emergency room.”

His caring touch brought a flood of tears and he kissed them away.
“Please, Robert, can we just go home and have the doctor there look at my leg?”

“Yeah, we have a helicopter waiting at the airport, thanks to Simon and the FBI.”

“There’s a pilot at a private airstrip with a plane waiting to take us back to the island tomorrow. I think I can show you where that is.”

Bucky was screaming, “Sarah, you bitch.
I’m going to enjoy killing you. I’m going to make it last a long time. I’m going to feast on you until there’s nothing left but bones.”

“Yeah, yeah,” Simon said.
“How’re you going to do that sitting on death row waiting for the needle? I wish they still had the electric chair.”

Robert and I left Simon at the airport to secure Bucky to a seat
in the back of the chopper. I showed Robert where the small airstrip was. When Robert parked and I got out of the car, Josh threw up his hand, “Ya’ll leaving today? I thought you were going to spend the night?”

“Well, I’ll be damned,” Robert said getting out of the car.
“Josh Cummings, The beard doesn’t hide you at all. You’re still on the top wanted list with the FBI. Well, this is turning out to be a very productive day.”

Josh turned to run and Robert shot him in the foot.
He fell and Robert got on the phone with Simon telling him he needed some backup. It didn’t take long for two agents to pick Josh up.

We watched them drive off and Robert turned to me, “What was written on that piece of paper you tried to leave us?”

“Oh, Robert, your day is going to be even more productive than you thought. On that piece of paper are the coordinates of the island where, for the past ten months, I’ve been living.

“Apparently it’s not on the map and is inhabited primarily by wanted criminals.
There are no phones, no TV or any way to communicate except there was an old man named Noah who lived on a houseboat and had a short-wave radio.

“I was making friends with him
but Bucky killed him and smashed the radio. I lost all hope for awhile after that. I didn’t care much what happened to me for awhile and then last night Bucky announced we were going to Miami and I got my hopes up again.”

Robert got on his cell phone on the way back t
o the helicopter and told Simon about the island and gave him the coordinates, “Sarah says there are about 100 criminals there but there are also a few natives, so be careful not to hurt any of the innocents.”

I was so excited as I got on the helicopter.
I looked around and didn’t see Bucky, “Where’s Bucky, Simon?” I asked.

“The FBI sent three local agents to take him to Macon where he will be tried there for the arson and the murder of your parents, Sarah.”

He laughed and shook his head, “You should have heard him ranting and raving about how he and Elizabeth were going to kill you. I’ve never been so glad to get rid of a prisoner before in my entire career.”

“How
did y’all know to come to Miami?” I asked when we were in the air. The three of us were sitting in recliners. This must have been a top of line helicopter.

“You owe
Simon for that. Ever since you left with Bucky he programmed his computer to bring up on the screen any serial murders resembling the last one where he ate off parts of the woman’s body.”

“Yeah,” Simon took up the conversation, “As soon as we got the match we headed for Miami.
We’ve been here a couple of months, actually, but to tell you the truth, Sarah, we figured you were dead by now.”

Robert continued, “When we saw you in that night club last night, I almost cried with relief.
I just knew that when Sarah or Beth or the mute boy came out you would be dead.”

I spoke up because I was excited about my news, “At first I was terrified.
I was in Ocean sands and then all of a sudden I was on the boat with Bucky. He didn’t realize I was Sarah and I had to play a part really well.”

I paused and looked at Robert, “I had to do some things with Bucky…”

He interrupted me, “You had to survive, Sarah. I’ll not judge what you had to do to survive. I’m just glad you’re alive and in good health, although you’re a little too thin.”