CHAPTER 11: PLANS OF THE UNEASY
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Eli stared at Kate with horror.
He took a step away from her and shook his head numbly.
“You can’t breed people, sir,” he said coldly. “The fundamental right of every human is one: choice. I’ve read a lot, and I know choice denied always leads to opposite and deadly resistance. People have a right to choose who they want to settle down with. Surely, you can’t take that choice away from them!”
“You’re missing the bigger picture, my brother,” Doug said tightly, and his eyes flashed at Eli. “With time, when the world is repopulated, choice would be restored. For now, we control how we re-populate. Have you read the Bible?”
“I have.”
“Good! That’s what I was talking about. Just two people, Adam and Eve, and the world was populated. We’re going to do the same with Ghana and the rest of Africa.”
“You’re not God, sir!”
“Well, I aim to be!” Doug exploded furiously. “We’ll scout the country, we’ll expand the project to other parts, to Africa, even. The Black Man is coming back, boy, and he’s coming back taller, handsome, and most important of all, smarter. We’re going to take over the world, and teach them how Karma sometimes swings.”
“Eli…” Kate cried desperately, and Eli held up a hand.
“Enough, Kate,” he said gently. “I do not believe in what is going on here, and even if I did, it would not be a dream to me, or a priority, until I see my parents once more.”
Doug Holy rubbed his forehead for a while, his face glum and filled with stress. After a minute, he dropped his hand and smiled at Eli brightly.
“I understand that, boy,” he said softly. “You miss your folks, and naturally you want to know if they’re all right, alive, happy. I understand that. I won’t try to stop you. But, we have boats at the wharf, and you’ll need one. I’ll let you play around, see if you can repair one and move on. On one condition, my boy. You will stay here within the BRP. Any time you want to go to the wharf, my boys will take you, but you will stay here.”
Eli scowled.
“And what’s the catch?”
Doug smiled grimly.
“No catch. You stay here and prepare. I’m simply hoping that by the time your boat is ready to sail, you would have changed your mind about leaving here.”
“My mind won’t change,” Eli said softly but firmly.
“Well, in that case, you’ll leave,” Doug said with an elaborate smile. “What will be, will be.”
Eli sighed and nodded.
“Indeed, what will be, will be,” he said softly.
Doug Holy smiled.
“Settled then,” he said with feigned warmth. “Settle in. Have a nightcap. When do you plan to look over the boats?”
“Tomorrow morning, as early as possible.”
“Good. Mack and Zeus will help you then. They’ll come for you. Goodnight, Kate, Eli. Have a blissful night.”
Eli and Kate followed them to the forecourt and waved when their car moved off. Some of the inhabitants were already lining the fence, and they came towards them with bright smiles and welcoming words.
Kate was warmed by them and hugged them with joy on her face. Eli shook hands mostly and tried to smile, but he did not fail to see the lecherous looks in the eyes of the men as they hugged Kate, and neither did he fail to notice the breathless looks of lust on the faces of the women as they tried to hug him and show off their beauties.
Eli felt sickened by it all and wanted to get away as soon as he could.
***
Dough Holy sat in the library of his residence.
He liked the shaded lights and the glass and the beautiful bookcases filled with so many books. True, the books were mostly about war strategies, world history, army history, geography, and science. He did not have time for crap like that, but it did look impressive.
The sitting area of the library held special delight for him.
The rug was rich Venetian, the armchairs of the highest quality, the oval-shaped, glass-topped table, a thing of exquisite luxury and quality.
Sitting at the head, with a huge portrait of himself on the wall behind, made him feel like King Arthur of the Round Table.
Around the table are ten of his trusted aides.
Zeus was on his left, and Mack was on his right, with the others spread down the table.
Doug Holy had a bowl of spiced grill meat with toothpicks stuck in them, and a glass of wine at his elbow. His eyes were dark as he stared at nothing in particular.
“Zeus tells me Eli took out the Burial Crew with proficiency, and I learn from Mack what the girl told them. Said this boy fell into a coma-like stupor they believed to be dead after he f****d her. Not only that, those old hags Farida and Elsie spoke of amazing things this guy did that wasn’t quite human. They brought bags of goods he evidently took from the supermarket we couldn’t breach because of the damn wolves. Now, way I see it, I need to see all that for myself before I can decide what to do with the dude.”
There was silence in the library for a while as Doug popped three pieces of spiced meat into his mouth.
“What next, Saint?” Mack asked quietly.
Doug Holy drank from the glass and leaned back.
“Well, dude plans to go down to the seashore tomorrow morning to have a look at the boats. Plans to sail the seas in one of them. We all know we never got them damn boats to work. Gideon, you tell me that long wooden storehouse at the beach is filled with trapped Searots?”
A huge, muscular and bearded man at the foot of the table nodded.
“Yes, Saint,” he said in an unsteady voice. “Climbed up to the roof and saw them trapped in there.”
“Well, it has always been our fear that the building would collapse, seeing how the waves lash them at high tide. More reason why we put all the padlocks on the doors. Okay, Gideon. Take your crew at dawn to the shore, and remove the padlocks and the metal blocks we placed there. Leave only two padlocks.”
“Saint!” Gideon wailed, his face filled with terror. “Those Searots will get out… and they could overrun us here!”
“I know,” Doug said with a grim smile. “Robert and John and the T-Force will mount the guns on the terraces. We’ll watch from there. If this Eli boy is as interesting as I’m hearing, we’ll see him at his best, maybe clear those damn shits for us.”
“No man can stand that army of Searots, Saint!” Gideon wailed. “No man!”
“Are you deaf?” Saint Doug said with loud laughter. “What we heard about that bastard doesn’t make him a man! Let’s see it for ourselves! It is a plan!”
“It is a plan,” the men said in unison, but there was a marked atmosphere of unease and fear in the library.
***
For the first time in ten years or more, Kate took a shower with real soap, real water, and a fresh towel. There was a tiny bottle of shampoo, and she cried and wept as she sat in the bath.
Later, when she opened the wardrobe and saw the three negligees and other dresses, she smiled with joy and slipped into a short, sexy, lacy negligee. It had holes in them, but it made her feel like a princess.
She put a dash of perfume behind her ears and her cleavage, sprayed two blasts of deodorant under her armpits. They came out like puffs of powder, an indication that they had expired, but she did not care.
When she went to the bedroom, Eli was lying on his back with his hands laced behind his head.
Kate had never felt so much like a woman, and she realized how much she really loved this wonderful, wonderful man! She would never allow any of the other women near him, of course. And she would not allow any other man in the BRP to have her.
It would be her and this god of a man, and they would raise the most beautiful of babies.
She was wet already when she crawled on the bed to him.
“Kate,” he said softly. “Not tonight. Too soon. If I pass out again, I might die.”
“It happened after you ejaculated,” she said in a voice filled with desire. “I wouldn’t let you orgasm, my love. We’ll save that for a time when I’m ovulating. Tonight, let me show you a different kind of love.”
A moment later, her soft lips slid across his erection.
Eli sighed with resignation and allowed her to work on him.
She brought him close and eased off when she saw he was near. She teased him, then slid up him and impaled herself on him. She screamed and rode him as the incredible pleasure only his lance could give ratcheted through her. She knew that if the other women discovered this unbearable joys, all of them would move into this building and kill this god with s*x.
She exploded, then fell asleep almost immediately with the resolve that she would never let him leave. Before the boat was ready, she would find a way to make him hers forever.
Eli waited in the darkness, stressed and acutely unhappy.
He knew he had to leave this place.
It was a bad place for him.
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