Page 64 of Salvation

“The next thing I remember is waking up with him kneeling over my face, having sex with my mouth. I immediately freaked out and tried to stand, but I was still unable to move. I couldn’t do anything as I was violated by him…

“He violated my mouth and ejaculated on my face and chest… and then, he performed oral sex on me. It seemed to go on forever before he raped me… vaginally and anally… multiple times. I blacked out at some point from the horror of what was happening, but he wasn’t rough while he was doing it…

“He was almost gentle… as if he thought I was enjoying it.

“He even used lubricant so as not to injure me. He– he came inside of me… multiple times. Always cleaning it with his mouth and tongue… in my vagina and rear before he would get turned on and violate me again.

“I think he violated me four to six times that night. I’m really unsure of the number of times since I was so disgusted and terrified that I seemed to weave in and out of consciousness as an escape.

“The next morning, I came to… naked on the couch with him. I remembered the actions of the night before and jumped up to leave. He woke up and stopped me. I screamed at him and told him I was going to the police.

“He laughed at me… he laughed and said I came to his house alone and stripped for him… I seduced him was what he said. He told me he loved me and said that we could have a good life. I was in shock. He was insane. All I’d ever done was dance for him and his buddies. That’s it. I was a stripper, and I did my job. Somehow he created this insane relationship between us inside his deranged head. I was sickened and terrified, but he offered to pay me to be his mistress.”

She stops talking and stares at me… her face looks haggard. “I hated him for what he’d done to me… but I had gone to his house that night…

“He pushed $25,000 cash at me and told me that if I agreed to be his mistress, and stayed faithful to him, there’d be a lot more where that came from… I–– I reluctantly agreed though the thought turned my stomach. But he’d already violated me. I’d endured it and survived.

“So, we became lovers. Over time, it became easy to imagine he was other people while we fornicated. I’d get lost in my head. It allowed me to play the part.

“We’re still lovers, though I hate him.

“He’s vile. He’s sick and twisted in the head, and his sexual desires are also very out there. He believes that money can buy anything, and in his world… it’s true.

“He doesn’t live in reality. He’s so fucked up… you have no idea how completely fucked up he is, Detective.”

“I know all of his secrets. I know what he was planning. I know what he’s done. I know the names of everyone he’s killed or had killed. I know that he went to Baton Rouge to meet with a man named Gabrial DeLucca exactly two weeks ago and try to persuade him to partner with him to rule the crime in Louisiana…

“I know that he fully intended to take out Gabrial DeLucca regardless of if he partnered with him or not. He told me everything. Everything.

“I know he left to meet with Gabrial DeLucca eight days ago and that he was supposed to meet me here upon his return to town.

“I know he left for a meeting…

“And I know that he hasn’t come back…

“So, Detective… why are you here? Is he dead?”

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