When Liang Fen went back to the entrance of the train station she got angry. The woman that was supposed to ward her suitcases had dissapeared. And her chauffeur, Mark, hadn't arrived yet. When her phone buzzed she expected a message with an explanation. Instead it was her husband asking her if she was ok, and claiming to be very worried, followed by no less than six exclamation points. Confused, she called him.

-Where are you!?- He asked very nervous, almost yelling.

-In the train station, obviously. Mark hasn't arrived. Why?

Her husband, Samuel, explained that he had received a message, from an anonymous number, saying that they had kidnapped her. The message was accompanied by a picture of a woman, that looked a bit like her. He also said that the chauffeur wasn't answering to his calls, and that the car he was using had been stolen. She asked him to show her the picture of the woman, and in fact it was the one that supposedly would ward her bags. Then he said that he would go pick her up himself, and in the meantime they discussed the issue, wondering if all was some kind of joke or somebody had truly kidnapped an innocent woman in her instead.

A couple of minutes later arrived a couple of youngsters and parked their car. They started to walk around the hall as if they were looking for something or someone, and they kept doing so for a few minutes. Making a quick guess she decided to approach them and show them the picture, to which they replied with a smile that she had guessed right.

-Did she take a cab because we were late?- One of the young men asked.

-Worse than that, I'm afraid.- She explained the situation.

Half an hour had passed since the younger man had shown the older one Liu Fen's identity card and they had gone inside the house to discuss their next step. Fen was no expert in kidnapping techniques, but she had seen their faces, their house and their garage, and by then they already knew that her family wasn't rich enough to pay the huge amount of money they were probably going after. Meaning that she was in trouble.

The older man came again and, like before, opened the roof of the dog house, followed by the front pannel. Then again undid the ropes of her legs, and removed the crotch rope that so many bittersweet moments had given her. Sweet because she liked that kind of ropework, bitter because she couldn't enjoy it at that very moment.

-I think that we've made clear that we can make you suffer a great deal of discomfort. Will you behave?- She nodded. She certainly was very angry at that point and not in the mood to take more bullshit.

He grabbed her chest harness and guided her inside the house, to the kitchen. There she made her bend down and lean on a table, where he tied her ankles to the legs. Then he undid all the ropes around her chest, leaving the handcuffs alone. With the same rope, he made a loop around her neck and, passing the rope under the table, he tied the other end to the handcuffs. He checked that all the knots were tight, but that the loop around the neck wouldn't choke her. At last he removed the ball-gag and cloth, allowing her to readjust her jaw.

-Ready?- The younger man came in, with a phone on his hand. The older one shook his head.- I'll be outside.

He left. Fen was alone with the older one again. He filled a glass with water from a bottle. The tap was so rusty that it probably wouldn't work. He gently helped Fen drink. While she drank he kept looking at her, as if he were pondering something.

-You are hot.- Walking to her back, he caressed her vulnerable inner thighs. When he moved his hand upwards, he noticed that there was heat emanating from her crotch. He laughed.- You dirty chink slut, you are horny. What is it?- He rubbed his hand up and down her crotch, making the zipper of the jeans press agains her labia. She couldn't help herself from moaning.- Do you need some white sausage?- White or not white wasn't the issue. The issue was that she would hate to touch the penis of such a disgusting man.- Maybe you can motivate me to dirty my cock in your disgusting asian cunt.- She was daughter of two asians, but not born in Asia herself, nor that it would matter. He smaked her ass and went again to her front. Then she saw that he had his half-erect penis on his hand.- Maybe if you make me happy with that slut mouth of yours.- He rubbed the tip of his penis on her cheek and then on her lips.- You sure are a great cocksucker.- Lance used to say so. She had had lots of practice sucking cock but only her husband's. He had no complaints about her skills. Neither he had qualms about reciprocating.

-Brother! Come!- Yelled the younger man from the outside.

-Shit! Don't go anywhere doll, we will party later.- He guarded his penis in his trousers again and left. For a moment Fen had had the temptation to bite, but that would have had a cost.

At last Liang Fen's car arrived. Her husband and her followed the two youngsters to Shan's apartment, where they explained her the situation and discussed their options. Shan's friends were not invited to the conversation and were told to go for a walk. All three of them agreed on that, whatever the abductors wanted, they couldn't be sure that Liu Fen would be allowed to go free. She was a witness after all. Along the conversation both Liang Fen and her husband apologized several times to Shan for the trouble they had caused. Shan didn't blame them. Her thoughts went in another direction.

A good while later the abductors called and demanded a shitload of money. Liang Fen and her husband had consulted their lawyer by phone, who happened to know people with experience on the issue. Following his advices they tried to put excuses, about not having cash, for example, just to buy time, while they thought of a better plan. After fifty seconds of talk, the kidnappers ended the call, waited a couple of minutes and called again. Shan, not trusting on that a couple of strangers would pay any money, insisted on that she wanted to talk to her mother.

-You give us the money and we let her go. That's all.- One of the abductors, that were using an electronically altered voice, insisted, getting angrier by the second. Everybody knew that most likely that was a lie.

-Where are you? Let's discuss this face to face.- Proposed Liang Fen, again to buy time.

-I want to talk to my mother!- Yelled Shan.- If you want money, you will let me talk to her.- Liang Fen and Samuel shook their heads frantically, but Shan didn't care.

-Ok.- Accepted the abductor and hung up.

-What the fuck was that?- Yelled Samuel. Shan didn't flinch. The phone sounded again after a while.

-Shan?- Liu Fen asked.

-Mom? Remember the promise? I still believe that you were reckless and made a mistake. I still don't want you to be like that. But today... Today feels different. Today your promise makes no sense to me. Today I'd forgive you for breaking it. Understood?

-Thank you, darling.

-And you, filthy scum! I know you are listening...- Liang Fen gestured her to shut up.- You think you are very brave intimidating an innocent, defenseless woman, you pieces of shit? Love you, mom, don't you ever doubt that.- With tears on her eyes she hung up. Both husband and wife couldn't believe that Shan would endanger her mother's health with such levity.

In the rural house, the two brothers stared at each other in disbelief. The daughter had just said something that sounded a lot like a farewell and hung up. Fen laid on the table thinking on what her daughter had just said. On the weight that had been lifted off of her.

-Seems to me that they are not going to pay. You know what that means?- Asked the older brother.

-I can imagine.- She whispered.

-Just out of curiosity, what's the promise?- Asked the young one.

-Please, unbound me so we can tall like civilized people.

The younger one looked at his brother and shrugged his shoulders. The older one did the same and nodded. The younger one went to Fen's back to undo the ropes there, while the older did the same at the front. Fen straightened her back and with her eyes closed breathed calmly one, two, three times. Then suddenly all hell broke loose.

Fen kicked the younger brother on his shin with such strength that it dislocated his ankle. Then rolling over the table she kicked him on his mouth so hard that he fell backwards and a couple of teeth flew. In the same movement she kicked the older brother on his tummy pushing him back. With that gained space she could maneuver better and so, in just a few seconds, she kicked him on his knee breaking it, then on his other leg, to make him spread, lose his equilibrium and bend down. Rapidly he put his head between her thighs and with a swift motion, broke his neck.

-Whad the fud!- Yelled the younger brother spitting blood. He sounded like he had bitten off his tongue.