Cloud of Light (Beatles Fanfiction)

Chapter 17

"But Frank..." Audrey argued.

"I don't want to hear it, Audrey." Frank said as he finished buttoning his shirt.

"She has nothing to do with this. Why keep her here?"

"I need her as collateral."

Audrey sighed in defeat. Her attempts to convince Frank to let Cynthia go were in vain. Frank, who was sitting on the bed reached out and took her hand. He pulled her towards him and Audrey found herself standing between his legs. She put her hands on his shoulders while he gently caressed the small of her back. He leaned in towards her, breathing her in before beginning to kiss her neck and trailing down towards her chest. He lifted her hips slightly, so her knees were now straddling his thighs.

"You don't have anything to worry about, Audrey..." Frank chuckled. "You keep pleasing me like last night and I have no need for anyone else." Frank said as he tugged on her dress. Audrey lifted her hips and Frank yanked the dress over her head. He looked at her for a few seconds and smiled.

"I thought you had a breakfast meeting." Audrey remarked.

"I do." Frank smiled. "But it can wait." he said as he leaned in to kiss Audrey.

***

"John...be reasonable." Brian said

"I don't believe it!" John yelled. "And why'd you have to tell those cops, huh? If I had wanted to call them I would have done it myself! I have their fuckin' number!"

"Cynthia is missing and you didn't expect me to get them involved?" Brian replied.

"What are they going to do? They don't even know where she is...they didn't even know she had gone missing. How the bloody 'ell are they going to find Cyn? They're a bunch of incompetent fools is what those two are!"

"John..."

"And then insinuating that Audrey was in on it?"

"John...it is a possibility. Manipulating you is exactly what she was hired to do..."

"But I found her out...she confessed everything to me." John said softly.

"How much of her story do we know to be true? This sister of hers...she may have just made it up so we would sympathize with her." Brian added. "Remember what Sergeant Hall said...these girls...they're prepared for when they get caught."

"No...Audrey wouldn't..."

"Where is she then, John? If she was working for us, don't you think she'd be here? She wouldn't have disappeared. She was the one who set it up...she was the one who told this Frank character where you would be...where Cynthia would be."

***

Audrey looked at herself in the mirror. Her wet hair fell down the side of her face, barely touching the towel she had wrapped around herself after getting out of the shower. Frank came up behind her and gave her a quick kiss on the cheek.

"I guess it'll have to be a lunch meeting instead." He said looking at his watch as he walked back into the room.

Audrey kept looking at herself in the mirror and she felt a tear fall down her cheek. She hardly noticed it by looking at her face, having gotten lost with the beads of water from the shower. She wanted to cry out...she wanted to scream...she wanted to tell Frank exactly what she thought of him...but all she could do was succumb to him...to let him do to her whatever he wanted. She had to remind herself that all her sacrifice was worth it. There were too many lives at stake. She needed to find out where Cynthia was...she needed to know why Frank needed her as collateral. What did he want from John? And why?