Saving Lacey (6)
E-18 and highway 50/68 interchange, Örebro, Sweden
It was nearly noon when Niko Haapala guided his onyx-black Volvo XC40 compact SUV onto the E18 Örebro interchange. Due to back-up from a big traffic accident, they had encountered near Västerås, the drive from the ferry port at Kapellskär had taken over five hours, rather than the normal three. Everyone was hungry and tired, and conversation had long since ground to a halt.
Niko suggested they head into Örebro and find a place where they could get something to eat and to allow Jase an opportunity to make some apologetic phone calls and reschedule the late morning meeting, he had falsely informed Niko that he had arranged in the city.
Barb was anxious to escape the confines of the Volvo for reasons of her own. Despite the fact that a console separated the passenger seat from the driver’s, Niko had proved to have a long arm and warm hand that was relentless in its quest to grasp and work its way up her thigh. Given the delicateness of the unspoken plan between she and Jase to control the Finn, whom they believed had been assigned to tail them, she had been forced … within limits … to refrain from openly opposing his rather blatant forays under the skirt of her dress, and to even playfully pretend to be enjoying them.
Jase could see what was going on up front from where he sat, relegated to the back seat, and had little choice but to ignore it. Instead he tried to focus on what to do next, now that they had reached Örebro and were but a scant 30 kilometres south of Frövi, where he knew poor Lacey was being held and enduring God knows what, assuming she was even still alive.
Niko soon found a place to eat … a restaurant called Milly’s … and as he jumped out of the car to run gallantly around to open the passenger side door for Barb, Jase leaned forward and hissed, “Keep him distracted!”
“It’s not hard,” she replied ruefully, and Jase smirked at the unintended pun, before adding, “… And tell him over lunch that you’re tired and need a hotel room, okay?”
“Oh, he’ll be keen on that.”
Jase nodded and slumped back in his seat as Niko opened the door for Barb.
They went inside, took a table and ordered food. Then Jase excused himself to make some calls and visit the men’s restroom. Barb was about to head for the ladies, but the look on Jase’s face told her she needed to stay right where she was.
So, she turned to Niko and declared that the long drive, on top of an entire night spent awake on the ferry, had left her exhausted and she wondered whether there might be a hotel nearby where she and Jase could get a room.
“Of course,” he replied brightly. “There’s a Scandic only a short distance away. I saw it on our way in to the restaurant.”
“That sounds good.”
“As a matter of fact,” he continued, pulling out his phone, “I’ll call ahead and get you a room. My treat. Least I can do for delaying your arrival here. Uh … I should book it for Mr and Mrs Jason Turner, right?”
“Right, very kind of you,” she replied, wondering if that wasn’t a slip up on his part … a subtle window on the fact that he probably didn’t believe that’s who they really were.
They sat in silence for a few minutes after he completed the call. Clearly pleased with himself, he beamed at her happily. And when Jase returned, Niko excused himself saying he needed to visit the men’s room as well.
“I need to go too,” said Barb, pushing back her chair, but Jase’s eyes held that now familiar ‘stay where you are’ look.
“Did you tell him we’d like to get a hotel room?” asked Jase as soon as Niko was out of sight.
“Yes, and he phoned the local Scandic and booked one for us.”
“Okay. I assume we both agree by now that Niko is working undercover for them.”
“Yeah, that’s pretty obvious. And, by the way, I managed to see that he’s packing a gun under his sport jacket, left side.”
“Definitely working for them. So, here’s what I’m thinking, Barb. Frövi is not far from here. A mere twenty minutes or so by car, and Niko’s black Volvo is just what we need to get us there. It even looks somewhat official should we decide to be brazen about our approach. But first we need to dispose of him and commandeer his Volvo and gun for our own purposes. So, here’s my plan. We go to the Scandic hotel. I excuse myself to go to the business meeting I’ll claim to have arranged, saying that I’ve alerted my clients to my being at the Scandic and they’ve agreed to pick me up there right away. You ask Niko if he wouldn’t mind helping you take our bags to the hotel room. He’s sure to accept eagerly …”
“And then what? Are you thinking what I think you’re thinking?”
“Well, yes. He may be an agent of some kind, but he also quite obviously thinks he’s God’s gift to women and he wants desperately to prove it to you.”
“So, I’m to invite him into our hotel room and get him into bed with me?”
“Can you think of a better way to get him in a vulnerable position without his gun?”
“And you’ll be waiting nearby ready to burst in at just the right moment? How will you know it’s the right moment?”
“Remember that howl you let out when you orgasmed in our hotel back in Turku?”
“Oh Jeez, Jase! This is insane.”
“Perhaps so, Barb, but I think it’s a sure-fire plan, and we have little option, right?”
Barb slowly nodded.
“Okay, good. So, go to the ladies’ room now. I’m sure you’ve been needing to pee and have been holding back.”
“You could tell, could you?”
“Yeah, pretty obvious. I could see it in your eyes.”
“Sure that wasn’t my rising level of lust at the prospect of being royally fucked by our oversexed Finnish friend?”
“I’ve heard it’s a Finnish national trait.”
She punched him on the shoulder, grabbed her bag and scurried off.
Room 216, Scandic City Central Hotel Örebro
“There you are, anything else I can do for you?” Niko Haapala offered graciously as he set Barb’s and Jase’s bags on the hotel room floor. “I know you’re tired and want to get to bed. Pity Jason had to work. He must be dog-tired too “
“Yes, he works too hard.”
“In the business that he and I are in, that’s expected. Now, I’ll be leaving unless there’s anything else … or unless you’d like me to stay for a while?”
“Well, no. You should probably go, but before you do would you mind helping me with the zipper on the back of my dress? The damn thing seems to be caught somehow.”
“Of course. Turn around and let me have a look. Yes, it does seem a bit stuck, but … oh … there it goes … wait a second … let me see to it that it goes all the way.”
“Thank you, Nikko,” she said as throatily as she could muster while turning around to embrace and kiss him full on the lips.
Without missing a beat, he chuckled, “I take it I’m welcome to stay, and to be honest I’m hardly surprised. I knew you were attracted to me from the very moment we first met on that flight into Turku. Now, if we’re quick about it, we can do what we both have been yearning to do and finish before your husband returns.”
Barb responded by stepping back, slipping her dress off her shoulders, left then right, letting it fall to her hips and then wiggling free of it. After which, without a word she removed her bra, and embraced him again.
His eyes were alight at the prospect of what he knew was about to happen.
She allowed him to plant little kisses on her shoulders and neck. And then redirected his moist lips to her breasts and nipples, moaning throatily as he sucked a hard teat into his mouth and flicked his tongue rapidly back and forth over its engorged tip.
Backing away, she kicked off her shoes, turned, and bent to pull down the bed cover while calling over her shoulder, “I think you’re gonna need to get naked.”
And as she slid beneath the sheets, she watched him as he removed his clothing and, with his back turned to her, carefully hid his gun and holster in the folds of his jacket which he laid on a chair.
Putting on a playful show, she tossed her panties out from under the sheets and cooed, “Well, come on! I’m ready and waiting. Show me what a well-hung Finn can do!”
Grinning happily, Niko burrowed head first under the bed sheets in search of that which his repeated hand forays under the skirt of her dress had been seeking ever since the ferry.
Barb spread her legs to accommodate his search and allowed him to close in and begin to probe her slit with his rapidly darting tongue … all the while craning her neck to look past the sheets tented over his upraised ass in hopes that Jase would soon come bursting into the room.
But no Jase. And Niko was actually succeeding in making her quite wet as he pressed home his attack, nibbling now at her clit. She knew she was starting to lose it.
And then he suddenly stopped, threw off the sheets, and moments later he was inside her, sliding deeply in with one powerful thrust.
Reaching for her wrists, he pinned them against the bed sheet on either side of her head, and began thrusting in and out, slowly at first but quickly picking up the tempo, causing her mounded breasts to bounce and sway wildly.
She gasped as he rode her, raising her legs and attempting to cross her ankles over him. They were moving as one. Clinging to one another. Each new thrust bringing her closer and closer.
He knew he had her now, and Barb knew it too. There was no going back. Just a matter of time. Damn it! Where was Jase?
“Now! Now! Now!” Niko yelled, humping her furiously.
And, as though on cue, Barb exploded … her authentic, climactic scream both loud and throaty.
At almost that very same moment, in burst Jase. He went immediately and instinctively for Niko’s folded jacket, withdrawing the gun, releasing the safety, noting with a smile that it was equipped with a silencer, and calmly but firmly ordered the Finn to get off of Barb, sit on the side of the bed and clasp his hands behind his head.
“What took you so long?” screamed Barb at Jase. “How long were you out there? You could have charged in sooner!”
“I was waiting for you to finish and scream. That was the plan, remember?”
“Well, I wished you’d used your damn initiative, and deviated from the plan!”
“Why?”
She let that go answered, glaring instead with obvious distaste at the sizable pool of semen and cum staining the bed’s bottom sheet.
“Get yourself dressed, Barb. You did well. Our plan worked. And as soon as you’re dressed let’s get our friend here tied up on the bed. You can use my pocket knife to rip up his shirt and pants then we’ll use them to bind and gag him.”
“Your cause is hopeless,” a deflated but defiant Niko declared quietly. “Sure, tie me up. Leave me here, and make your way up to Frövi, assuming that’s the plan. But know this! The element of surprise is lost. They know you’re here. They know you’re coming. I saw to that back at the restaurant! You’ll never get through to rescue your captive agent. And oh … by the way … your wife, girlfriend, colleague, spy …. whatever she may be … is one helluva good fuck!”
“Shut up!” snapped Barb, as she knelt behind him ready to gag him with a rolled-up wad of torn shirt sleeve.
When they had Niko secured, Jase who had liberated the Finn’s car keys, phone and wallet from his trousers before Barb had set to ripping them up, suddenly whistled and exclaimed as he held up the man’s ID, “Will you look at this! Our friend Niko Haapala is apparently a Swedish government agent.”
“Let me see that!” demanded Barb. “Shit! He’s SÄPO … Säkerhetspolisen … Swedish National Security Service! He wasn’t lying. They are definitely onto us!”
“Now what?” groaned Jase. “We’re screwed.”
“No,” replied Barb thoughtfully. “We still may have one small advantage. They don’t know that Haapala here has been compromised. Perhaps there’s a way we can turn that to our advantage.”
And so, we come to the close of PART III. Lacey is left hanging in her cell, but at least she’s alive. Jase and Barb need to race against the clock, but are still in the game, while poor Grace is left at home to imagine was her husband is doing with his American … ‘colleague’. Join us for PART IV – Freedom Found, the concluding part, exclusively here on CF of Friday of this week …