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Keith.
    “I’ve got chopsticks at my place,” he
said.
    “You won’t need them. I’ll let you eat it off
my naked body,” she whispered after checking to make sure none of
the other diners could hear her.
    Allie stood and walked off in the most
provocative manner possible, leaving Keith dumbfounded at the
table. He whipped out his cell phone and left another message for
Vincent. Bravado was unmistakable in the sound of his booming
voice. “Dude, un-believable —I’ve never had anything like
this happen to me before, but I am totally gonna get laid. Don’t
bother to call me back. I’ll be busy . . . Hey, by the way, where
the hell are you, man? Later!”
     
    ~~~
     
    Allie nuzzled Keith’s neck as he fumbled to
put his key in the door lock. He was still holding onto the doggie
bag. She began running her fingers through his hair. “Hurry!” she
said.
    “I can’t see what I’m doing. The light’s
out.”
    She grabbed the plastic bag. “Give me that,”
she demanded. “She uncovered the sushi, popped one of the rolls
into her mouth, and then pressed her lips to his. She threw her
arms around him just as the lock clicked—they stumbled blindly into
the apartment. Allie kicked the door closed behind them. She
stuffed a second roll into his mouth and then went in to retrieve
it.
    “You’re wild,” Keith said, half-chewing and
half-choking on the Dragon Roll.
    “I’m so turned on,” she whispered. He could
feel her warm breath on his neck. “Tear my blouse off.”
    “Oh my God, you’re a freak,” he said.
    “Less talking,” she instructed. Allie grabbed
her blouse with her two hands and attempted to tear it. “Help
me.”
    Keith didn’t need a second invitation. He
grabbed her blouse with two hands and tore it away. His fingernails
scratched her breast in the process.
    Allie moaned, “God, that’s feels so good.”
She touched the spot where she had been scratched and then licked
the blood from her fingertip. “Now my panties.” She hiked up her
skirt. “Tear off my panties, hurry!”
    Keith reached behind her to get his hand
under her skirt. He grabbed a handful of fabric and tore her
panties until they came free. Allie pressed her mouth to his and
leaned into him with her full weight, sending him backward against
the wall.
    “Are you ready for us?” she asked.
    It was dark, but she could clearly make out
the confused look on his face. “Us?” he asked just as Ax’s knuckles
whipped into his temple. He felt a flash of electricity in his
head, like the shock from touching a wall socket. His temple
throbbed painfully for a split second and then everything went
black.
     
    ~~~
     
    When Keith came to, his first instinct was to
shield his eyes from the intermittent flashing of the strobe light
that filled the doorway of his darkened house. “What is going on?”
he said in a low voice. He touched the side of his head, the spot
where the intense pain was coming from. He used the wall to steady
himself. He slid upward with his shoulder against the wall as he
stood. He was still completely disoriented as he peered outside. He
could see Allie standing next to a police officer. The police car
was behind them—the strobe light intermittently silhouetted their
figures. She was wearing the policeman’s jacket, and she was
crying. In the next instant, three Suffolk County policemen came
charging through the door. “Hey,” he yelled, “what the—” He was
face down on the floor before he knew what hit him; handcuffs
ratcheted down on his wrists. “Hey, I live here,” he protested.
“Stop it! What’s going on?” He was struggling with the police
officers, unsure of what was happening to him and trying
desperately to make sense of it all. “You can’t do this. I have
rights, and I want a lawyer.”
    One of the cops replied in a loud,
condescending voice, “Oh yeah? You’ll need one, scumbag.”

Five: Canned
     
    Keith Cooper sat in the interrogation
room. He was handcuffed. His head