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“How did you know where I was?”
“I’ve got a man at Rosie’s. He saw the whole thing.”
Uh, say what?
“Why didn’t he do something?” I asked, somewhat loudly.
“He didn’t know who you were.” Lee paused. “Nowhe knows.”
Yikes.
I decided not to talk loudly anymore.
“You have a man?”
His eyes moved to me. His face was blank. He was still angry.
He turned back to the road. “I have a lot of men.”
“Oh.”
I found that surprising, but I decided that maybe it was not the time to give Lee the third degree about his secret life, such as how many men he had and how he knew lowlife kidnapping scum like “Coxy.” I wasn’t even certain I wanted to know about his secret life. In fact, I think I was more certain Ididn’twant to know.
Maybe it was the time to begin planning how to avoid Lee again. However, I didn’t know how to accomplish that when I was actuallywithLee.
The house I was taken to was in the Denver Country Club area, very ritzy, very wealthy. Lee hit Speer Boulevard and drove faster than was allowed or safe, changing lanes on the three lane road deftly and often. I decided it was probably best not to say anything about this, as Lee’s energy wasn’t exactly inviting conversation, and definitely not admonishments, about driving safety.
He passed the turn to Broadway.
“I need to go back to the store,” I informed him.
He ignored me.
“Lee, I need to get back to the store,” I repeated.
He continued to ignore me and headed downtown, toward his condo.
Damn.
I sat back and crossed one arm on my stomach, still holding the ice to my cheek and I evaluated my situation.
First, I clearly was not in any position of power here. Lee was driving, Lee was angry and Lee was, as usual, going to do whatever he damn well wanted to do.
Second, I’d been kidnapped. I tried to ignore that.
Third, I’d been kidnapped. I couldn’t ignore that.
Big, bad, steroid-fueled guys dragged me out of my car, made me go unconscious somehow and took me someplace I didn’t want to go.
Post-traumatic stress settled in and my hands started shaking.
Lee drove into the underground garage, parked and came around to open my door. We walked to the elevator, Lee’s hand at the small of my back.
We stood together in the elevator. Curiosity and a desire to end the frightening silence made me say, “They did something to make me black out.”
“Stun gun,” Lee replied shortly, his features showing his thoughts were grim.
I started shaking some more. Someone had stun-gunned me.
