The princess & the detective

6. The servant

Titi felt a large hand covering her thigh. When she opened his eyes, she met with that look that enchanted her heart. For company came the smile and the irresistible dimple. When she tried to lift her arm to reach the beloved's man face in front of her, she felt tied up and unable to move. The detective's image slowly faded before her own eyes saw only darkness. She woke up.

"Hi, baby doll!" a slurred voice said from beside her.

Titi opened her eyes with difficulty and lifted her head. The effort made her head throb. In fact, she felt all over her body sore, and her cuffs bound together by a handcuff were starting to burn at the points of contact between skin and metal. Still, she turned her head to the driver's side and opened her mouth in astonishment: it was the killer Ohm was searching for, the same one who had broken into her apartment and killed her friend and her puppy, was driving the car.

"Did you sleep well, love?" Titi heard the man ask without taking his eyes off the road. The only thing that indicated she was the intended recipient of that question was the gentle squeeze the man gave her bare thigh. She was still wearing the hideous outfit he'd put on her after the kidnapping.

That unwanted touch, added to what she could remember just before she lost consciousness, made Titi eager that she could barely control herself. In an attempt that she knew had a high chance of being frustrated given the car's speed, she reached the door and tried to open it.

Noticing the movement beside him, the man removed his hand from Titi's thigh and slapped her across the face. The sound seemed to echo inside the vehicle and added to the despair she felt.

"Don't you dare to try anything! I spared your life thinking you were different, but if you don't meet my expectations, you can be sure that I won't think twice before doing the same thing I've done with the others!", the man threatened.

The man's speech made no sense in her mind and she turned her face towards the window to try to recognize the path they were taking. Before long, a sign appeared on the side of the road marking the frontier of the provinces: they had reached Lamphun.

Some time passed and after coming up with a theory with the little information she was aware of, Titi decided to risk talking to the man:

"What are you doing? Where are you taking me?"

"Wherever you want, princess! Order it and your servant will be happy to offer you anything you want!", the man said with a smile.

Hearing the treatment Ohm used so lovingly come out of that disgusting criminal's mouth hurt Titi as much as one of the slaps, punches, or kicks he'd given her. But if all the seasons of Criminal Minds she could remember watching made sense in real life, the guy was so crazy he seemed to have fallen in love with his victim. Still having doubts about what she had discovered, she decided to test her intuition.

"What's your name?" she asked hesitantly, sweat forming on her forehead and under her armpits.

"Mok. But you can call me your servant, princess.", the man replied without hesitation and cast a quick glance in her direction before turning his attention to the road, with which Titi felt relieved, because something in those eyes inspired in her fear alone in an irrational way that made her feel frozen in place. In fact, she felt even worse because of the smell of the clothes that came out of her own body. It felt like a few days had passed since her abduction and every cell in her body screamed for a shower and clean clothes.

"I-if is that so... I-I want to take a shower… servant!", Titi tried to use all the persuasive power she had, but closed her eyes already anticipating the physical punishment she might receive if the man thought she had overstepped the boundaries.