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From Russia With Love

Chapter Seventeen - Shakhta

The warehouse was rapidly overwhelmed with soldiers dressed in all black, who swarmed the warehouse at an unbelievable rate. Dominika ducked her head, shielding it with her arms as the first shots rang out. She heard two distinct twin thuds sound next to her and for a fleeting moment was terrified she would be shot too. She recalled the black uniforms forgotten in the panic of the moment.

The Americans! Thank God!

There was garbled yelling both in English and the foreigner’s language she couldn’t understand and more shots rang out around her, deafening her even with her hands pressed tightly over her ears. The distinctive sound of bodies falling to the floor around her was impossible to block out, and she curled herself further into a ball, afraid one of them would land on her.

It felt like she lay on the floor forever, but in reality it was only a couple of minutes between the time the warehouse had been overtaken with chaos and the dead silence now that was only interrupted by gentle footsteps around her.

“Way” a deep male voice called, off to her right, “Look after the girl. Kurman, Dally, French, check the connecting rooms, shoot any of them you find and report back immediately”

“Yes, sir”

She kept her face covered with her arms as they passed her, still terrified.

“Domi” an all-too-familiar voice said softly. Relief washed over her body knowing Gerard was here and safe, and she looked up from the floor to see him standing above her, dressed in military uniform. He had made it back to base, and alerted them all, and now he was here to rescue her. Tears welled in her eyes and flooded down her cheeks and as she reached to her face to wipe them away she remembered she was sitting there naked except for her ragged panties. Heat prickled her face under the tears and she crossed her arms back over her chest.

Another soldier pressed a black uniform jacket into Gerard’s hands and he wrapped it around her like a blanket. Dominika realized he hadn’t even cast a glance over her almost nude form, instead keeping his eyes fixed on hers. She was confused by the emotion she saw brewing beneath his brave front, was it hurt she saw in his eyes?

“Are you okay?” he asked, voice gentle but firm. He put his hands on her shoulders and gauged her answer carefully.

“Yes. I am now” she breathed “thank God you’re okay”

“Me?!” he asked, incredulous, “don’t worry about me, I told you I would be fine. I’ve been going crazy worrying about you”

He picked her up suddenly, knocking the breath out of her again. He hoisted her closer to his body and she wrapped her arms around his neck, relieved to be safe at last. He had to step over the bloodied body of the foreigner soldier that had fallen barely a foot from where Dominika’s head had been. She covered her eyes so she would not have to see the horrid scene that surrounded them now. She morbidly noted that the warehouse truly did look like a set from a horror movie now it was complete with blood splatter.

Gerard carried her out of the same roller door that she had been brought into the warehouse from via the truck and into the bright light of the sunny day outside. The sunlight was blinding after two days in dim artificial light, and she buried her face in his shoulder to shield her eyes.

They reached a heavy, buff looking black truck parked diagonally amongst other identical vehicles on the street of the cul-de-sac and Gerard shifted her weight to one side of his body, using the arm of the opposite side to open the door the truck. He placed her on the passenger seat gently and instructed her to buckle her seatbelt, closing the door and jumping in the driver’s side. He started the engine quickly and reversed through the other vehicles skillfully. Dominika was silent in the seat as she tried to process everything that had happened in the last ten minutes. She had gone from the imminent threat of being raped and possibly killed, to safe in Gerard’s company within the blink of an eye and she felt breathless trying to take it all in.

“How did you find me?” she asked suddenly. He looked at her sideward for a moment and returned his eyes to the road.

“Those guys are terrible at covering their tracks, they used a proxy server to scramble their IP address when they posted that ransom video of you, but we were able to decode it within a few hours. Once we had that, we tracked the location and hey presto, there you were”
He broke his concentration again to grin at her and shook her knee gently with his right hand.

“Didn’t I tell you we are the best of the best, kid?” He drove them back to the base, and Dominika had never felt happier in her life as when they crossed through the mammoth black gates and they closed behind them with a loud clash.

Gerard pulled up at a large building with a sign out the front that read “Official’s Headquarters”. He helped her out of the car and put his arm around her, ushering her into the building quickly before anyone could see her in her barely-dressed state.

Inside a female housekeeper was waiting for them, armed with a change of clothes for Dominika. She rushed her away immediately, taking her to a fancy black and white marble bathroom hidden down a long hallway.

“Here, these are for you, poor girl. Are you alright? Are you injured?” the kindly woman handed her a soft black tracksuit and plain white underwear. It wasn’t the kind of thing she normally wore but at this stage she would have been happy with a pillowcase.

“I’m okay” she replied, managing a small smile at the American woman before she took the pile of fabric from her hands and held them close to her chest.

“Let me run a bath for you, relax, Princess, you’re safe now”

Dominika was silent as the woman opened the opulent faucet, letting the steaming water spill into the huge white round tub that dominated the space. She added pink liquid from a glass bottle perched on a nearby shelf and the water bubbled up with thick candy pink foam that smelt like marshmallows.

“Take as much time as you need” the woman said as she shut the water off and shuffled out of the room, closing the door behind her. Dominika sighed and tried to let herself relax for the first time in days, stripping the jacket from her pale shoulders and discarding it on the floor. She slid her dusty panties down her legs, noticing small purple bruises appearing across her thighs from the rough handling of her foreign captors.

She sunk into the warm water and closed her eyes, taking great pleasure in her first opportunity to bathe in a week. She washed her hair in the soapy water, disturbed by the amount of dust and dirt that came out of it. Never in her life had she been that dirty, even as a child. She concentrated on washing each part of her body carefully, trying to cleanse the horrors of everything she had experienced during the worst period of her life.

She woke with a start when someone knocked at the bathroom door, not realizing she’d fallen asleep in the bath. The soapy bubbles that covered her had mostly dissolved and she was now sitting in cold water. She stood, shivering and reached for the black fluffy towel that was draped over a rack on the wall next to her.

“Yes?” she called, standing awkwardly in the bath, submerged to her knees in the freezing water.

“Princess, Private Way has asked to speak with you”

She recognized the voice of the same American woman from before.

“Just give me a few minutes please, and I’ll be ready” she replied, stepping out of the bath onto the marbled floor. She pulled the towel around her body tighter and tucked the edge under her arm.

“Okay Princess, I’ll let him know”

She dried herself with the towel and examined her reflection in the mirror above the expansive white stone vanity against the wall. Her hair was spread raggedly across her shoulders, knotted from the lack of brushing. Faint purple shadows circled her eyes from the lack of proper sleep and her eyes were clouded with exhaustion. She felt like a shadow of the person she had been before all this tragedy.

Sighing, she pulled the pile of clothes from the floor over her body and was grateful for the way they blanketed her form and made her feel secure again. She attempted to brush her fingers through her hair but quickly decided it was a lost cause, and left the bathroom to wander up the hallway into the main part of the home.

When Gerard appeared from the north wing her knees felt weak, and all she could do was stare at him as he made his way over to her. He stopped a foot short of her face and locked his gaze with her, searching her eyes.

“Are you alright?” he asked, voice full of concern. She smiled at him.

“I’m fine, thanks to you. Thank you for rescuing me, yet again”

He chuckled softly and the conversation felt oddly light hearted, like they were discussing the time of day.

“You’re easy to please kid, I only had to save your life twice to make you be nice to me”
“Maybe I play the same game as you” she retorted, her accent heavy in the heat of the moment. She could feel the electricity that pulsed between them, rising to a head. His eyes changed suddenly, charged with anger? Why?

“Domi” he said “Did they hurt you? Did they touch you?”

She knew what he was trying to ask and she answered his question quietly, blushing.

“No, Gerard, I’m still a virgin”

He looked deeply relieved for a second before he ducked down, his lips next to her ear. She shuddered with the thrill of his closeness.

“Thank God” he breathed, his hot breath tickling her ear and neck, goose bumps rising on her creamy skin “I want that to be mine”

He pulled away again and looked at her, cheeks burning red and eyes burning with something he’d never seen in them before under her thick black lashes.

His eyes darted between hers for a moment, deciding, before he crashed his lips to hers.

Notes

I hope you guys love my story as much as I love writing it, its truly my baby and my favourite piece I've worked on so far! So much more to come! Thank you for the love <3

Comments

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Jackie Jackie
12/15/17

Thank you for the update!! It was a surprise & wonderful!

I’m so sorry to read about your husband. What a difficult & heartbreaking thing to go through. Thinking of you.

Jackie

Jackie Jackie
12/14/17

I love this story!! It’s so good!

Has it Really been two years since an update?

Jackie Jackie
11/30/17

I literally screamed when I saw this update.

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11/25/15

You've got quite a few loyal readers that will stick w this story no matter how long the break is.