Six months before one stormy night, I was woken up by my wife’s cry and pleading in sleep to let go of me and she is willing to do anything in return. She was shaking in horror and crying. I shook her up from her horror dream;

She woke up to see me starring at her. She held me tight for a while and let go of me. She sat up and took water from her bedside table and drank quietly without showing any sign of panic.

I asked her if she wants to talk about it. She quietly said “not now” and went back to sleep. I know that she will talk about it when she is ready. So I decided to get back to my sleep. As soon as I lay down, she turned around and placed one leg and hand on my body, held tight and slept like baby.

Morning came and as usual we got up early (just before sunrise) and performed our routine yoga and meditation, had our detox routine. While she was sitting on the sofa with closed eyes, I lay down with my head on her lap. She was gently caressing my head with her soft fingers, which made me feel very soothing. My face was facing her belly button and gently kissing and licking as I was pushing her active wear pant down to get to her velvet love island. She gently turned my face up and held my lips together with her fingers and smiled. That smile was not my wife’s natural one so I got the message that she is still not back on her own self. Then she lifted my head and placed it on sofa and got up to go to washroom. I lay there for 30 to 40 minutes before got a gentle shake to see that Michelle is ready for work and asked me to go and get ready so she can get our breakfast ready.

We both had berry shake with soy. She had her usual work cloths Black short skirt, white shirt, black overcoat and teal colour neck scarf. Skirt had slit at the back. She had black panty hose up to her knees and high heel slide in shoes. She works as business analyst in a MNC. She is in her mid forties and couple of years older than me and we are empty nesters. I work as engineer in a mining company. I have to wear pant, full sleeve shirt, tie and coat while at the office and for site visit, Blue/Orange overall with steel boots and helmet.

Our offices are just km apart from each other so we take train to city and from there walk to our offices. For lunch we catch up and again evening we meet up and come together home. The day’s that we miss each other are the days when I have to undertake site visit and some days it can be few days of missing each other. Even then we catch up twice a day in the mornings and late evenings to have long chat before we fall asleep.

Evening came, we were home by 6 and opened a red bottle and gave Michelle a glass and settled next to her and start sipping my wine. Still she was very quiet and half way through her drink, she got up to change in to her night wear. By the time she came with her night clothes, I got some cheese and spicy olives ready to nibble along with drinks. Then I went and changed in to pyjamas and came and sat next to her. I flicked through few TV channels and nothing was interesting so passed on the remote to Michelle. She didn’t show any interest so I switched off TV. I filled both our glasses few times and after few glasses it made some difference in our silence.

I just casually asked Michelle, if she likes to talk about mid night horror. She looked in to my eyes intently, got up and sat on my lap and started kissing me all around my face and I could feel hot drops of her tears flowing through. We hugged each other and kissed for a while and then she moved and sat next to me. She looked down and said

Steve, “I got raped by few thugs while we were on our holiday trip”.

I asked, if we know any of those people. She shook her head to say no.

Do you remember where we were? Or any place that we had been to? She said, not that she can think of.

Did anyone was hurt?

They tied you down and bashed you and raped me in front of you. As she said she started crying and sobbing uncontrollably.

I held her close to my chest and started speaking to her in gentle voice, Michelle, it is just a dream and it happens to everyone. We both are ok and that is the most important thing. I understand that it is horrible feeling but you are very brave person and if you feel this way, just imagine how it will be if I had the same. Will you feel alright if we talk this through and get it out of our way.

She shook her head to say it is ok with her. She held my hand and led me to bed. We lay there with Michelle’s head on my chest and her one leg on top of my lower belly and hanging between my legs and hugging me with one hand across my chest and fingers playing with my hairy chest.

For some reason, her eye wasn’t making any contact with my eyes. She was wearing thin loose sleeveless short cotton night dress and I can feel her nipples in to my skin. She is only 5 4” and bit of weighty side around 140lbs but proportionately spread around from broad shoulder to hip with solid thighs and legs with small tummy too. She is shot put school champion.

I just weigh 150lbs but close to 6 foot and more of skinny side. Sometimes we get in to tussle and she can hold me down quite easily and only way to get out of her is to poke my way through. She will complain that I am full of bones and it is not fair to use it to overpower her.

Just break the ice, I asked her if she had any chance to talk through this with any of her work colleagues or her sister. She doesn’t want any one apart from both of us to know about this.

I promised her that it will stay between us. She hopped up and kissed my lips and went back to where she was.

I never seen her so dull as she bosses me around all the time so that she can get everything done by me at home with her only tool that she can use very effectively on me. But it is fair to say that she knows exactly what I want or to say my weakness and she always made sure that I am fully satisfied both emotionally and physically and never used that as blackmail tool. We both understand so well our emotional and physical needs of each other.

She is not forthcoming so I had no choice but to dig it out of her.

Where were we?

She said, I don’t know. It was mountainous area and we reached their late afternoon, checked in and decided to drive around and check out the neighbourhood. It is summer evening and we were driving around the hills not knowing where we are heading to. After an hour’s drive we reached a point there was very few or no traffic at all. Only thing she can think of is that one large UTE she has seen the same vehicle couple of times again and again. It was getting late evening and wants to get back to hotel but SATNAV is not really very effective. It is on and off and taking much more time than expected to give us some indication about our whereabouts. It appears that I decided to pull over in to some drive way and check out our whereabouts and then make informed decision on getting back to hotel. Satnav was thinking bit longer than expected when she saw that the same large UTE pulling behind us. She felt bit nervous as there is no way we can go without these guys reversing their vehicle. So she felt trapped. There was no sign of any life in that house either to seek out help.

I was watching through side and back mirror to see if anyone is getting out of the UTE. After a pause, passenger side of the UTE door opens and can see a white male getting out. He had brown short trouser hanging on his waist as if it is ready to fall off, no shirt and distinct dark tattoo on his both hands. He had long blonde hair and dark grey baseball hat with some club logo on it. He had a chat with someone at the back seat of the UTE for couple of minutes before slowly moving towards our car. That said there must be at least 3 or more people in the UTE. I can see a black male in the driver seat. But visibility wasn’t clear about back seat passengers. There was roughly 50 yards between vehicles and another 50 yards between us and the house. It appears that the house may be of 2 stories. Top level is drive way level and back yard is sloping from side of the house to basement level.

No lights anywhere around. Not many properties in sight either. There was some signage on the front of the property but it was hidden in the bushes. Signage on the front door is too far away to be able to read. We locked our car doors and Steve kept his side of the window slightly open so he can speak to the guy who is approaching his side of the car. I pretended to be sleeping but my heart was beating like it is going to tear out of my body.

I can hear his voice and appears to be that he is not that old after all. He was asking Steve, if we have lost our way. Steve said it is alright we are about to turn back and get back to town, if he can move his UTE.

He offered to drive us to town. Steve said they are ok to get back on their own as their satnav is back on track. He asked if we are visiting anyone in this place. Steve said yes and they are expecting us any time soon.

That guy said that property has no one in it as it is bank foreclosed property. So we got the message that they are locals and aware of our predicament. He asked Steve to get out and meet his friend so that they can explain the landmarks to get back to town.

Steve woke me up and asked if he can go and get some help about getting back to town from the people at the back UTE. I just pretended to be getting up from my sleep and asked Steve where we are. Other guy intervened and said that we are way out of town and can take another 45 minutes to get back and roads are not that friendly to be able to follow through easily. He offered to help us to get back on right track to get back to town.

I told Steve in loud voice so other guy can also get the message that I am feeling very sick and need to get back to town as soon as practically possible.

I asked that young guy if they can lead us so we can follow their UTE and get back to nearest chemist.

He said that he will ask his friends and be back.

We were watching through our mirrors to see if they are starting their UTE. We were very nervous and I told Steve not to get out of the car at any cost. We both were checking our cell phones to see if there is any signal but our bad luck was laughing at us.

After few minutes, we saw through our horrified eyes that 3 people getting out of the UTE. 2 black males from the back of the UTE and the same white male guy from the front passenger side. Black male driver was left in the UTE.

Those 2 Black male guys also had short trouser and no shirt on them. They had short hair and baseball hat with the same logo like in the hat of white male. But these 2 guys are much bigger guys than white male. They all appeared to be in their early 20’s and more like feral.

One of the black guy asked Steve to get out of the car. Steve looked at me and I told him that we both get out. That guy got annoyed that we are delaying so banged on the door and yelled at Steve to get out of the Car. He had rapper style slang in his talk. Slowly Steve got out and I also got out at the passenger side. As soon as Steve got out, he was put under choke lock and was held tight by one of the guy while other guy checked him out from neck down till his ankle and asked Steve to lift his leg one at a time so he can remove his shoes and check and make sure there is nothing underneath.

I could see Steve was struggling to breathe. As the guy got up after checking everything, he swiped Steve’s face with his knuckles. I ran around and yelling and crying and got in between Steve and the guy trying to punch him. He was raged with my interruptions and pulled my low neck short dress to get me close to him and swung me around and held my tight with one hand around my belly.