Chapter 17

As the men left the motel room to talk and smoke while Ernie kept Ariel company two cars in the street watched the scene quietly. As Leonard and the three men stood outside the motel smoking and talking they started their cars and drove into the parking lot slowly. The two black drug dealers thought Ariel was a good fuck, and thought perhaps another visit to her mother would be fun before they left. The Mexican started dickering about how much Leonard wanted for Ariel, he didn’t think he should pay for Edith as she technically didn’t belong to Leonard. As they talked Leonard saw the two cars pull into the parking lot of the motel.

They were both late model sedans, dark in color and inside each car were two white men. The cars parked several feet away from the four men, one in front of them and the other off to there rear. As the men exited the cars Leonard saw they were dressed in slacks and sports jackets and had the look of police officers, each carried a flashlight in their left hands.

“Shit” one of the black drug dealers muttered.

“Don’t worry bout it, this be my property and we be allowed to have guns on private property. Jus be cool man and lets see what they want. Don’t do nothing ... if they hassle us my lawyers git us out so don’t be doin nothing foolish” he advised the three.

Leonard turned his attention to the two officers approaching him. “What’s up man, this be private property and I own it. What you want” he asked almost respectfully.

“Leonard Washington” one man asked with a slight European accent.

“Yea I be him ... now what you want man”?

In reply to his question the four men drew 9MM semi automatic pistols from their waistbands and opened fire. The weapons had silencers so the only sound was the muffled report of the dozen or so shots that ripped into the bodies of the four men. They slumped down onto the pavement twitching as blood gushed out of the holes punctured into their bodies. Two of the men calmly walked over to each body and placed a single shot into their head splashing brain matter, bone and blood all over the pavement.

The other two swiftly kicked open the door to the room occupied by Ernie and Ariel. As the door smashed open they saw Ernie on his hands and knees being serviced from behind by a slim white girl. Ernie looked up with anger at being disturbed then at seeing the guns he jumped off the bed knocking Ariel onto the floor.

“What the fuck”.

The two men fired several shots into Ernie’s fat body, his bulk kept him from being thrown back. He sank to his knees with a surprised look on his face. One man stepped up and fired a single bullet into his temple splattering his brains along the wall and across Ariel’s nude body.

Ariel watched in horror as Ernie was gunned down, then she screamed out as the warm blood spattered across her face and chest. Ariel become hysterical, and crawled into the corner of the room as one of the men approached her. He holstered his weapon and grabbed her under the arms and lifted her easily from the floor. Ariel started to struggle but the man effortlessly held onto her and started for the door as the second man grabbed a blanket.

They quickly bundled the terrified naked girl into the back seat of the car, covering her with the blanket and shoving her onto the floor. Ariel continued to scream incoherently as they sped away from the slaughter, finally the man holding her down slapped her across the face silencing her.

Ariel huddled under the blanket not knowing what was going on. In less then a month her life had been completely destroyed. The well to do family life she’d enjoyed had ended with her brutal rape, she’d been turned into a prostitute, sold to anyone that had the price. Then she’d been pulled from the relative safety of that haven to be tortured and brutalized for no apparent reason. Now she had seen a man killed right in front of her, even through she hated the fat black man she couldn’t believe what had happened. She could feel the sticky blood on her skin, as the car drove along the streets Ariel fainted.