Ruth felt like a sad excuse for a private eye as she ascended the fire escape ladder. It had taken her an embarrassingly long time to pull the thing down, she was lucky no one had seen her in the gloomy alley and called the police, or worse, told Patricia.
Patricia's apartment was on the sixth floor, so up the metal stairs she began to climb. The night sky opened to release a cold rain, Ruth grunting her disgust as she adjusted her coat and hat. She splashed her way up the wet iron, slowing down as she neared the lit window. Her hand patted her pocket, assuring herself the Kodak was still safely enclosed, before slowly creeping over.
The curtains weren't quite drawn, allowing Ruth a decent view into the bedroom of her rival investigator. It took her mind a minute to comprehend what she saw.
A woman with Patricia's familiar long dark curls lay on the bed, her head between the legs of another woman. Looking at her from behind Ruth felt her face flush red as stared at that behind, especially the dark patch visible around the pink between her legs. That behind, bigger than she'd imagined, was being flogged by two men, and was now a similar shade of red to Ruth's face. Ruth didn't recognise the tall, well built, naked men. She got glimpses of the cocks between their legs, the only clue she needed to deduce their intentions.
The other woman on the bed was also a mystery, thin with the shortest of blonde hair, wearing only a black corset that lifted her bare breasts up to seem bigger than they were. Those breasts were constantly moving, and her painted lips were parted, unsubtle clues to the activities of the woman between her legs. Ruth stared dumbly, completely forgetting the discomfort of the rain as she crouched there watching the scene unfold. The blonde was shuddering now, limbs restless as the flogging of the other woman reached a crescendo. Her head flew back, mouth open wide, and even through the glass and the drumming of the rain Ruth could hear her scream. She lay there panting, the men discarding their floggers. They looked to be talking, the spent woman gesturing dismissively in response. The two men seized the dark haired woman, pulling her to kneel on the floor between them.