“She’s right, Holly. They’ll probably open a file on him, but they are not going to dedicate any uniforms to go get the guy. Then there’s the lack of evidence.” I told her, supported by Karen’s nods.
“So what are we going to do when he tries it again?” She asked.
“We’re going to play to his vanity.” I told her.
“What?” Holly wondered?
Holly was right to wonder when and what he’d try next time. This guy wasn’t going to stop until he’d been busted or one or both of them lay dead. I knew it was time to step things up to the next level and seize the one advantage we had going for us. The fact he didn’t know I was here afforded us the initiative, provided we moved quickly. I began laying out a plan for the two women. It involved Karen calling Miguel and inviting him over, but she had to be convincing. She needed to appear both scared and defeated and while she had the scared part down, she was too angry to sell the defeated part of the equation. Neither woman liked the idea of inviting Miguel over, but they trusted my leadership and worked with me despite not knowing every facet of the plan. I coached Holly and Karen for a bit on how to speak to Miguel and when I felt she was ready to deal with him, I had her call.
Miguel was more than a bit surprised when he discovered it was Karen calling him and not Holly. He immediately started belittling and threatening her, but with me right there with her, she held fast. Once he was done with his tirade, he asked why she was calling him and Karen began her part in this. She told him that she wanted him to leave them alone and asked what would it take for him to do so. As I hoped he would, he asked what Karen had in mind, which led her to the next part of the plan. Karen offered both herself and Holly for one night if he promised to leave them alone after that. I could hear Miguel nearly shitting himself by Karen’s proposition. I’m sure he had every intention of taking both women anyway, but to hear a mother offer herself and her daughter instead of just taking them was much more appealing.
Miguel asked what the catch was, suspicious of this complete turnaround in her attitude, but Karen was ready for that. She explained that there were some conditions. The first was; that he use condoms, as neither wanted to become pregnant. Second; that it only be him, as they did not want to be shared with his friends. She said that if he would honor those requests, he was free to have both of them for an entire night and they’d do whatever he desired. As expected, he got greedy and demanded two nights, considering there were two of them. Karen agreed, but had an additional stipulation as a result; that no one know about this. She was still a lawyer and had a reputation to protect and if anyone knew about it, this deal and any future ones were off.
Miguel asked her what she meant by ‘any future deals’ and Karen appealed to his masculinity, saying that if he was a good boy and followed the rules, there might be an additional night in his future. Still skeptical, Miguel asked why she was all of a sudden so willing to do this. Karen, showing why she was one of the leading associates at her former firm had that covered. She told him that she despised him and wanted to watch him die, BUT she knew that was unlikely to happen before things got out of hand between the three of them. She became very cold and professional when she told him that she simply wanted him out of their lives forever and that this was probably the best way that was going to happen. Furthermore, she reasoned with him that he’d likely grow bored with Holly and want someone younger, fresher and naive sooner, rather than later.
With her use of pragmatism and sexuality, she quickly won Miguel over and he was eating out of her hand. They made plans for him to show up later that evening, but before he let her go, he wanted to hear from Holly to verify that this was not some sort of set up. Holly, who’d been listening quietly on the other line spoke up, telling Miguel that this was on the level. As inappropriate as it was, given the situation, I smiled as it sounded like Miguel was nearly having an orgasm at the prospect of fucking a mother and daughter at the same time. He agreed to the demands, but not before more verbal humilation about what he was going to do to them and make them do to each other later. Both girls fell into my arms when the call was over, still uncertain what I had planned for later.
“You’re not going to make us sleep with him are you, David?” Holly asked.
“No, we’re not going to have to do that. David has it all under control.” Karen told her daughter, but looking up at me with doubtful eyes.
“You’re going to be fine.” I told them. “You both did an amazing job. I’ll handle things from here.”
They buried their faces into me and we held one another for a while.
*****
It was after 11 pm when Miguel’s El Camino came rumbling down the street, stopping in front of the house. We’d pulled all the blankets down from the windows and returned the furniture to avoid spooking Miguel and he was surprisingly descrete getting out of his car and coming up to the door. From where I was, I didn’t know what was going on, but I soon heard the doorbell ring and the front door open and close. Karen and Holly had made themselves up and dressed in her mother’s lingere, but it was only Karen in the living room, as I’d told Holly to wait in her mother’s bedroom.
I could hear Miguel and Karen speaking, but I couldn’t make out what was being said, however nothing seemed to be out of place. It sounded like she was trying to lead him back to her bedroom, but Miguel wanted start things off there with her first. She complained about the windows and lack of privacy, but Miguel wasn’t interested. I was worried this might happen so it was time to resort to Plan B. I motioned to Holly to leave the room and help her mother convince Miguel to come back to the bedroom.
The two of them had to work together in seducing Miguel enough to distract him as they led him down the hallway. A few minutes later, the three of them barged through the bedroom door wrapped up in one another, Miguel passing kisses between the two of them.
The rat was in the trap.
I stepped out from behind the door, throwing my arms around Miguel and without a second thought, snapped his neck. The two women screamed, falling away from me as I held Miguel’s limp body in my arms. I continued to crush and twist his neck until he was dead.
I had just killed a man and I felt nothing. In fact, I felt no different than anyone who steps on an ant, just because they could. Karen and Holly cowered in the corner together as I dragged the corpse from the bedroom to the kitchen. I rifled through Miguel’s pockets, removing his personal effects, before grabbing one of the tattered blankets used to cover a window and wrapped him up in it. It was time to put Phase II of the plan into effect. I went to the phone and called the motel room and told Melanie to meet me at a rest stop we hit about eighty miles out of town when we first left New Mexico together.