Consequences

Consequences 10

Part B: The game is afoot.

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Cast of Characters at the end.

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A Reporter in the House!

David opened his office door stepping out, "Ladies we have a reporter here undercover prostituting herself, come and keep her company will you, while I call the police."

She was thinking, 'I am a reporter, he can't do this to me.'

Jo arrived first, he said, "You heard her offer herself to me in exchange for information claiming to be Ashley's ex-wife didn't you?"

She nodded quickly knowing that if that's what David said then it must be right. Two others arrived soon, so far Rose hadn't said a word. "This woman is a reporter masquerading as 'Ashley's' ex-wife." He spat out that name with such venom there was no doubt that he was after blood, but then took hold of his temper. He wondered why she was willing to prostitute herself for her ex but put that question aside for later. Next he rang the Police Chief, "Hello Dave," he said, "Sorry to ring you late at home but I have had a reporter here who has been trying to prostitute herself to get into our retreat and gather a story." Then he listened before agreeing, "Yes we must avoid the press if we are going to provide a safe haven, one word in the papers and the husbands will be down here knocking seven bells out of their ex-wives." He listened again. Then, "I will try to find out, hold on a second."

"Who does she work for?" he said to Lauren who was hovering menacingly as she was finding out what was going on. Then David listened again. "OK I'll text you as soon as I find out."

He finished his call and said so that everyone could hear, "The Chief is sending two detectives down to take her in for questioning." Rose thought herself a hard bitten investigator but even she was starting to wonder.

"Jo, Rachel, Erika," He instructed, " please go and play back all the cameras to see what questions she's been asking and show how she's been passing herself off without actually saying why she is here or identifying herself as a reporter. I want all the evidence you can find for the police. Lauren, can you help me enquire with the prostitute who she works for please, thanks. The police chief would like a word with the newspaper's owners.

He went back into the office and this time they had someone hold a camera recording. "Ok Rose or whoever you are, so you entered upon our property making out that you were a wife who suffered at the hands of an abusive husband and have been asking questions about our retreat without telling us that you are a reporter. So which newspaper do you work for?" Lauren opened with.

At first she didn't respond, mainly because nothing like this had ever happened to her before and she was lost for what to say. Then she tried bluffing that she didn't know what their place was. He said, "So why then did you try to exchange your sexual favours for an ex-husband who left you with nothing?" She didn't really have a satisfactory answer to that. "Ok," he said, "let's see how you get on with my friends at the police department, I went to school with a lot of them."

'Who does he think he is?' Rose thought to herself. Then wrapped herself in determination refusing to budge further.

"So," Lauren continued, ignoring her attitude, "You offered yourself to David in exchange for money in order to gain entry to our property."

"No I didn't," she couldn't help herself responding indignantly.

"Really?, Weren't you asked by Ashley to have sex with me?" David insinuated.

"Yes but."

"Are you saying that he didn't offer you anything in return?" Lauren played Starsky to his Hutch.

Rose decided to shut up at that.

"OK I will take that as a yes, as you haven't denied it. Is Ashley your ex-husband or is that a lie too?" It was David's turn.

"He is my ex-husband,'' she allowed.

"So it will show on our cameras that you said he gave you a bad time in your marriage. Was that a lie too?" Suggested Lauren now rather enjoying herself and privately wondering when she got to bitchslap her.

She didn't reply again.

"I'll take that as another lie." His monologue was then interrupted when the Detectives arrived. David turned and with a huge smile on his face embraced the lead detective in a man hug, patting each other on the back. "Phillip you old philanderer, how the devil are you? Whose heart have you broken lately?"

A voice behind him realised then that she was on a 'hiding to nothing.' "I work for the Enquirer," she said.

He typed the newspaper name in and sent it to the police chief and within seconds a smiley and thumbs up came back. He couldn't help but smirk.

He handed Phillip the memory card from his system and they went to another room to talk. I don't know if it's any good to you but I'm probably able to fill in the gaps. My ladies are going through video recordings to find anything relating to her."

"Whatever you do, don't edit the tapes in any way or they will be useless," said Phillip, "but for now, I'm sure you would rather keep this quiet so we'll take her in and question her, see if she can add to what you told me. Then let's see how the chief gets on with the newspaper."

"Thanks, anything you can do until the Chief has spoken to her bosses will be much appreciated."

Phillip asked him if he could give an overview.

"It's very embarrassing," David started.

"I am not in the least bit surprised," said his old school friend with a huge grin expecting to get a juicy story he could torment David with for years to come.

So David gave him an overview, much to his embarrassment. The Detective could not stop himself laughing when he was told that David had offered to do a swap in order to waylay his ladies plans. "You randy bugger," he said, "why do you try to save everyone? some just aren't saveable."

It made David think, 'Was his friend right? Surely not! All of his ladies were worth saving, but this had been a salutary, overdue, warning, that they must ensure didn't happen again. It had been too close for comfort. It was a good thing that community leaders had got behind him when they published the plans for the Farm retreat project. He was sure to get a telling off tomorrow by the Chief, so he would need to show what actions they were taking to make sure this couldn't happen again. He decided to call a meeting of all the ladies and brought the two ladies in Ohio in by Zoom, but he couldn't make up his mind about involving Jane and Bree, it could really spoil their plans and he didn't want to influence them. He collared Ana and asked her opinion, "You can't win either way" she opined. He decided that not influencing them was the highest priority and to tell them when the week was up and they had made their decision whether or not to return.

Having been affected in one way or another, many of the women were vehement in their feelings about this intrusion and the possible ramifications. Their input was quick coming and it wasn't long before a firm list of new policies were agreed. "Right, could someone get this to the Chief's house in the morning?" He asked.

Jo's hand went up as she was starting later the following day, she was feeling really guilty having drawn Rose into the group and David saw it on her face. "You're not to blame in any way whatsoever," he told her, "it could have happened to any of us." He realised that another opinion was needed and looked at Nina for help, and she followed his eyes, immediately understanding what he meant. He left them still debating and headed off to bed, he was tired and couldn't face another problem today.

He vaguely heard Jo come in and try not to wake him but at some very late hour he felt two other naked bodies join him either side.

"We are really sorry my love," a voice whispered in his ear, "we deserved to be punished."

"We love you very much," said the other body into the other ear.

"Very, very, very, much," said the first body with hands reaching between his legs. "We didn't want to not tell you, we were so ashamed to let you down and we thought you wouldn't want us any more after what Olivia did."

A hand from the second body was joining the first on his fast growing manhood. "What can we do to make it up to you?" a very suggestive voice whispered."

"Anything," said the other in a voice that left no doubt about acceding to anything his imagination could think of.

He couldn't think of anything better than having his loves back in his bed and what they were doing was a bonus. He kissed them both to give his forgiveness. After each he said, "No more lies no matter how hard it gets, do you promise?"

"I swear on my life, I could not bear another day like today" was the reply in stereo.

Just a little further on in the bed he heard a relieved sigh, Jo was glad they were back too. They made sweet love, the three of them, he was gentle and caring and loved them and afterwards they laid on each side of his chest. Jane had planned to say she was sorry that she couldn't help herself wanting to scratch her itch but decided it wasn't the right time. Olivia had done that to him and now that made her feel like a slut and that gave her pause, at least for the moment.

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Aleesha called him bright and early the following day, her thoughts about him had been keeping her awake so she figured he deserved an early call. She was after the contact information for Amber and Louise and where they were staying. It was an excuse to call of course, she agreed to go back to Ohio as soon as she could and he offered to join her, which in her present mind she could only see leading to one thing. She reached over from where she was laying on her bed and found her trusty little vibrator and her dildo. Then closed her eyes and drifted into thoughts of him seducing her, the vibrator became his tongue on her clit and the dildo his fingers that pressed her hot spot within, then manifested itself as his manhood that became demanding of her submission and then more insistent, pressing between her folds, taking her slowly, teasing her senses, edging her so delightfully before bringing her to a stunning climax. She lay back, temporarily satiated thinking that her toys aided her well but her orgasm was more intense than usual, and she realised that she was his to take whenever he liked; the thought was scary.

David was delighted to hear from her after their previous flirting even though he was barely conscious, in his present mind it bode well. He had been kept awake during the night then woken at an unearthly hour by a warm wet mouth of a body who was feeling frustrated by listening to the sex next to her. It kept Jo awake a long time while her hands were busy between her legs and on her breasts trying to get her own satisfaction to ease the jealous feelings. It was never quite satisfactory though when she had to hear the cries of joy coming from the others and it seemed endless to someone who was feeling left out and couldn't have what they had.

David, once his mind defogged a little, realised what she had been put through during the night. Because of her selflessness she hadn't wanted to join in and spoil their very personal make up sex. He decided to take her into the shower away from the others and 'fucked her brains out' as she claimed afterwards; the silly grin on her face did seem to confirm it.

During the earlier call with Aleesha, David couldn't resist a little bit of innuendo despite the ears close to him hearing every nuance of the conversation. After their 'shower' Jo hadn't forgotten the call and asked him about it. It was Aleesha he said, she's as good as one of us so I think a bit of banter shouldn't do any harm. I understand that she is a bit down at the moment as her relationship with Michael looks to be going nowhere. He was hoping that this information would distract Jo but she wasn't having any of it. She asked with a sly grin, "So you wouldn't mind getting into the panties of our lovely PI, huh?"

"Well no, as long as you help" he tried to stop where she was going.

"Huh!" She exclaimed "I thought as much, you randy tomcat, you will need permission!"

'My God she's right but it will be fun flirting with her' he thought and said, "You're absolutely right, or I suppose she would have to be an official member of the group. What do you think the others would say?"

"Definitely No" a voice chuckled from under the covers."

"You naughty girl," he said back to the voice then found her bottom for a light smack followed by some gentle fingering by both David and Jo. Then jealousy broke out on the other side as another voice realised what was going on and added the same opinion, so they split their duties taking one each, swapping sides occasionally just for the fun of it. 'If they are going to leave me,' David thought, with a heavy heart, 'at least they will have good memories for when the going gets tough.'

The next day dragged for David. Bree and Jane were around and kept coming close to him, caressing him and even taking him aside for a quickie from time to time, the gaps between their visits began to get shorter and shorter. He knew they were on a sexual high with expectation and excitement building and building. He felt like the warm up act, or was it goodbye sex? And as that thought took root he started to become really annoyed by being effectively second best. He had to get out, he knew before he boiled over, the jealousy and hurt was becoming too much.

Lauren was around for a while at lunchtime and he took her aside for some advice. He told her how he felt and she understood because there were times when she had felt the same. She put her hand up to stop him. "David, let me deal with this, I completely understand where you're coming from, if they are going to leave, it is not right for them to torment you. Please find something to do away from the house and I will speak to them. You are right they are so excited they are losing sight of the important things and to be honest it's normal, just not nice for the people they are leaving behind."

He took her advice, went to his office to collect his laptop and phones, and decided to take a slow roundabout walk to the bar for lunch. Along the way he phoned Louise to let them know that Aleesha was coming and they were to hand over and 'come back as soon as you can.' "I have another special job for you," and he heard the excitement it engendered in them as she passed on the message.

"Where's the job David, can you tell us about it?

In his present depressed mood he couldn't help telling them about it, so he said, "you better put me on hands free so Amber can hear too." Then he told them about Bree and Jane, and they asked what he wanted them to do. "I want a good photograph of him and I want you to track him back to where he lives, then plant some devices and monitor what his intentions are. I just want you to make sure that they are safe and aren't coerced in any way, do you know what I mean?" They both made their understanding clear in their concerned reply.

He continued "The way they have been behaving there is every chance they will follow him, believe it or not it happened between Jane and me once before." Their surprise at the other end was palpable. "I've not given up without a fight, they know what they will be losing and I've given them one week to make up their minds."

"Will you be there when we get back?"

"Hopefully not, I want to get out of the house but I'll be contactable."

"So, we will get started straight away?" they said determinately to confirm his instructions.

"You might start at Bree's house but check at home to see if they come back at all, if they have any sense at all they will bring him to her house where it's safest. You may even find keys to that house at home to help you get in during the day and set some more devices."

"Do you want reports?"

"Any changes yes, it's important that we protect them if possible, otherwise not unless you need me to take some action like beating the guy to a pulp."

"OK that's fine."

"While you're at it, get as much as you can on him, where he works, where he comes from, you know the things. I think I am going to destroy him regardless because he's a scumbag. I may be unreasonable but I can't help feeling how I do, it was only a week or so ago that they were talking to me about marriage." He was almost breaking down and he tried to pull himself together. Far away in Ohio they could sense it and felt deep frustration that they couldn't be there, this guy was going to be in trouble.

"I am sorry to unload on you ladies, as soon as we are in the same bedroom at the same time I'll make it up to you." The intended humour cheered everybody so that they could disconnect. Louise turned to Amber and said "Ring Aleesha and find out when she is coming, I'll start pulling all our stuff together and make a list of anything left to do."

His next call came to him, Ana rang to make sure all was well with him and to make sure he had everything he needed to know. It reminded him to ask what wine to bring and maybe something for dessert. "I'm looking forward to meeting Zoe. What should I know about her and what will she know about me and what shouldn't I talk about?" He asked.

She told David that Zoe was a personnel manager at another firm in the same building. They had met at lunch in the nearby park. She knew David was an Architect and had a retreat but no details. They talked for a while as he tried to calm Ana, who he felt was very uptight about this evening and the relationship, it was the first time David had seen this side of her. Can I ask one personal question so that I don't say anything out of place. "How do you know she might be into you?"

"There isn't much, she's not overtly gay from what I can tell, she dresses like everyone else at work, smart but feminine. It's the little things like touches and eye contact, the things we women notice"

"I am really looking forward to meeting her, if it goes well I will be delighted." His happiness for her settles part of what she is anxious about, as he had hoped, so they disconnect.

His evening with Ana and Zoe was both fascinating and fun, he watched with a keen eye the subtle interactions between them and found the sexual tension between them intoxicating. Zoe was not what he expected, she had a nice face, not beautiful or exceptionally pretty but there was definitely something about her and he could feel how it drew Ana in. She had a short hairstyle that made the best of her face, carefully applied make-up, but not too much, showing her feminine side as did her clothes. She had a boyish figure that she made the best of, but David felt that her personality drew Ana as much as anything else, she was not overawed by Ana's obvious beauty and charms although she clearly liked her body. David couldn't help but catch her glances at Ana's bust and when she stood up, Zoe's eyes quickly travelled up her legs. He thought that perhaps Zoe was one of the few people who treated Ana like any other girl and would not be easily seduced.

They seemed very wrapped up in each other and although Zoe asked a few well considered questions he sensed that she was just good at it and her first priority was to make sure that David was happy so that Ana was happy. He decided that Ana's assessment had been accurate, there was something in the air between them and after a suitable time he made his excuses and said farewell. Ana escorted him to the door "Thank you so much David, looking at him for his opinion."

"I think she's great," he said. She can't keep her eyes off you so enjoy, there's something between you that you shouldn't let go" Her eyes glistened as he said what she was hoping for, whilst David's heart felt an evitable loss.