Submission by Ray Gordon

Fowler will be scouring the land for me, and when he...'
    'Fowler isn't doing anything!' Hannah returned angrily. 'In fact, at this very moment, he's tied up in a safe little haven where no one will ever find him.'
    'I don't believe you.'
    'You don't have to, you'll be joining him shortly. Emily! Come in here and help me prepare Rebecca for a little journey!'
    Following Julia across an open field, Rose suggested that they rest for a while. Stalling for time , Julia speculated. Rose had been slow, too slow. She'd wasted time playing about with a small boat on the river they'd crossed earlier. She was up to something, Julia sensed it.
    'When we get to the trees, we'll rest. We can't stop in the middle of an open field,' Julia maintained.
    'But we've travelled miles! My feet hurt!'
    'So do mine, but I've a feeling that we're being followed. We can't stop until we reach the trees.'
    Treading through the knee-high grass, Julia began to wish that she'd not told Rose of Hannah's base in Ashdown Forest. But it was too late, she'd said too much and could only pray that Swain wasn't following them - or worse, waiting for them at Hannah's hide.
    'Is there any more fruit in the handbag?' Julia asked as they settled under a tree by the edge of the wood.
    'Only this,' Rose smiled, passing her an apple. 'It's a good job Swain left us the food, we'd have been starving by now.'
    'She did rather too much to help us, if you ask me. I wonder what they use the cottage for?'
    'Perhaps Swain lives there.'
    'Maybe. I don't trust you, Rose, you know that, don't you?'
    'After all we talked about in the cottage, you don't trust me? But I told you everything!'
    'Yes, you did tell me a lot, and I told you a lot - too much, I think. Anyway, I've a feeling that we're being followed. And I think that you know who it is.'
    'Of course we're not being followed! And if we were, how the hell should I know who it is?'
    'Yes, well, just to make sure, I'm going to climb a tree and have a look.'
    Squinting in the summer sun, Julia looked out across the field. She couldn't see anyone, but that didn't mean that there was no one there, she knew only too well. Climbing from the tree, she wondered how Hannah would react to her bringing a stranger to the forest. But, she recalled, Hannah's girls would intercept them well before they neared the base. If the worst came to the worst and Swain was following, she'd be intercepted, too.
    'Well?' Rose asked peevishly, picking up the handbag as Julia joined her. 'Is anyone following us?'
    'Couldn't see any one. If this is a trick, Hannah will kill you, you do realize that, don't you?'
    'It's not a trick! No one's following us, I promise you!'
    'Come on, we've still some way to go.' Her wrists tied behind her back and a rope around her neck, Rebecca had no chance of escaping as she was led, naked and blindfolded, through the forest. 'I expect your mother's frantic with worry over you,' Hannah laughed as she tugged on the rope.
    'She's been missing for weeks,' the girl replied solemnly.
    'What do you mean?'
    'She disappeared. No one knows where she is.'
    Turning to look at the girl, Hannah thought of Emily and remembered their time in the clearing. Rebecca's body was fresh, lithe, almost boyish - yet all woman. Her thighs parted slightly, her moist cunt lips swelled beneath her beautifully tanned body, hung invitingly between her legs. In her sexual confusion, Hannah wanted the girl. But she also remembered Fowler, his hard, thick penis deep within her vagina, filling her womb with hot sperm. The female form was soft, sensual, she mused. But the penis, long and hard, brought immense pleasure. She was torn between the two.
    'Your father must have some idea where your mother is?'
    'She disagreed with his policies. After an argument, she vanished.'
    'First he loses her, and now you - how sad for him,' Hannah observed sarcastically as she raised her gaze to the girl's small navel before focusing on her firm breasts. No time for sex ,