Christina had been having a shitty day to begin with. The job interview she had just come from hadn’t gone well. They never did for her — probably something to do with the tattoo on the back of her wrist. (They just never seemed to believe you when you said you weren’t part of the Monte Cristo organization anymore.) And the fucking taxi driver that was supposed to take her back to her apartment had dumped her in the middle of an abandoned alley because she had discovered that she didn’t have enough money on her to pay for cab fare. The alley was dark even though it was mid day, and it was far too quiet for her liking.
So, it was no real surprise to her when a hand reached out of the darkness somewhere and wrapped itself around her mouth, pulling her close to someone else’s body.
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Her right elbow shot back from its resting place by her hip and made direct contact with her offender’s stomach. Her head simultaneously shot in the same direction as her elbow, and made direct contact with her offender’s nose. As she pulled away, the groping hands clenched her shirt, and tore it open at the chest.
She was loose, for a second anyway, but she had to keep moving. She broke away from her attacker and turned around quickly to assess the situation. He was a middle sized man, about 5'11" with a pale complexion and dark sunken eyes. Oddly, though, he was wearing a suit, a nice suit at that. He was unarmed. He was going to pay dearly for that.
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So it was that when Frank came to, he found himself completely surrounded by female sentries. There were three of them, they were all armed. The drug he had taken that had made him feel so blindly invincible had now worn off. Thus, he felt no urge to tempt fate by trying anything. Those women looked only too willing to shoot him on the spot.
But not, perhaps, as willing as the woman who was walking towards him right now tossing a nine millimeter back and forth between her hands, almost casually.
The above are some excerpts from the short story Sisters of Monte Cristo published in the December 2006 issue of Adventures for the Average Woman. To buy a copy of the December 2006 issue click here.