Epilogue
After the bath, and a hot make-out session, Mac threw some clothes on and made a quick round of the perimeter of the apartment building. There were police stationed in the lobby, at the back entrance and two on the penthouse level. When he returned to the apartment the lights were out and he made my way to the bedroom.
Loren had lit the fireplace in the bedroom and was lying in bed, covered only by the sheet. Mac could see the obvious signs of Loren's arousal and intentions of setting a romantic scene for them. He walked over to the bed and sat on the edge.
"You have a lot of clothes on." Loren said reaching out to unbutton Mac's shirt.
"Are you sure this is what you want?" Mac asked his eyes gleaming with the love he was feeling for Loren. Loren shook his head that he was. Mac lay down on the bed, still fully clothed and pulled Loren into his arms. "This is going to sound so stupid...or silly...or something...but every part of my body craves you...I want to show you how I feel about you...but...I want to be able to devote one hundred and ten percent of myself to you and right at this moment I can't..."
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Mac's Story – The Confrontation
"Come with me...please Loren." I was standing in the entryway dressed for work not wanting to leave the apartment.
"I'll be okay Mac. I know not to open the door to anyone...not even you." He said smiling. I pulled him into my arms and kissed him deeply. "Okay...you are the only one I'll let in. But no one else."
"Come with me, please..." I begged one last time. I hated that I had to go to the station but Cappy, aka the Chief, wanted a face-to-face update. I knew that the group of men that Loren was a part of was concerned with the newest development. As of last night not only was Shelby Cantrell missing now we couldn't locate Lancaster Dorey and the tail Simpson had following Palo lost him two days earlier."
"Mark, I love you...go to work...I'll be right here, safe and sound and locked in the apartment."
"You do?" I asked. It was the first time he had said it and it took me by surprise.
"Of course I do silly..."
"Then come with me." I said kissing his lips gently.
"Go" He said pointing to the door but not letting go of me.
"No...I'm going to call Cappy and tell him and Simpson to come here."
"Mark, stop it. Go to work. There are enough police here to protect Fort Knox."
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I waited until I heard the lock on the door click before heading down the corridor to the elevator. I couldn't shake the bad feeling I was having. I pressed the button and waited turning back to look at the door again. 'I'll make him come with me.' I thought to myself starting back to the apartment but the elevator doors chose that moment to open. I stepped in and let me finger hover over the 'L' button making my final decision. The doors slowly closed but the elevator didn't move.
Sighing I closed my eyes trying to do the right thing. Opening them again I took a deep breath and pressed the button. But the moment I pressed it my body filled with heart stopping panic. That smell. I sniffed again. The tale-tail sign of patchouli oil lingering in the elevator. I had only smelled it one other time...and on one other person...I started pushing buttons to stopped the elevator, my heart was beating so hard but I knew I had to keep myself together enough to protect Loren.
Finally the elevator stopped two floors down and the doors opened. I pushed my way out and ran to the stairs taking them two at time. When I reached the penthouse level I knew I had to contain myself. I couldn't just barge in, gun blazing and expect everything to be okay. Soundlessly I made my way to the front door and with gentle ease tried the door, it was locked.
Turning I headed back towards the kitchen entrance. Again I tried the door, with little resistance the knob turned and cracked opened. Holding my ear to the crack I could hear faint voices coming from the other room – I just couldn't tell which room.
I slipped into the kitchen, took off my shoes and moved to the swing door between the kitchen and living room. Again I stopped, held my breath and listened intently. The voices were muffled letting me know that they were in the bedroom.
Slowly I let out his breath and took a few seconds to think. I backtracked and went to Jessie's room. I knew there wasn't a bathroom in Jessie's room so he had to have access to Loren's some way without having to go through the bedroom. I looked around and didn't see anything at first but then looked to the closet. Opening the door I found on the right side of the closest a door that led to the bathroom. I pulled gently on the door, it cracked open slightly and I could finally hear Loren's voice.
"Please don't do this...I'm begging you...please Waldo, put down the gun..."
"I want you naked." He said. "Get undressed so I can look upon you one last time."
"Waldo please don't do this." Loren continued begging.
I moved as quietly as I could into the dark bathroom. From the other room I heard a gun cocking.
"...I said to get undressed...that's right...pants too...I need for you to explain to me Loren because I still don't understand. I am your perfect mate. I am your intellectual equal...my cock always satisfies you...we make a striking couple...and yet I'm not enough for you. No...you had to let that shithead Lancaster Dorey fuck you with the disgusting fat cock of his. You rode his fat cock like it was the best thing you ever had before..." I wasn't sure, but it almost sounded like Waldo was crying, which was a bad thing. Keeping his emotions in check would keep Loren alive longer while I worked my plan out.
"What do you mean Waldo?"
"Oh don't look so surprised, I was right there hiding in the storage closest watching you ride his cock. You loved every second of him filing you...but I was willing to forgive that...and now Lancaster doesn't have to worry about his 'fat cock' anymore...he doesn't have to worry about anything anymore..."
"What did you do Waldo?" The horror in Loren's voice made the hair on my arms stand up.
There was movement in the room. Waldo told Loren to lie down on the bed. And I could hear Waldo pacing around the room.
"When I pulled the trigger last Friday night thinking and I had shot you I thought I would feel regret...but I didn't Loren. I actually felt exhilarated. Maybe I felt that I was finally free of you...or maybe the act of murder was an aphrodisiac. I left here and went back to my apartment and woke that little slut I had paid handsomely to fuck and did just that, I fucked him senseless. My cock stayed hard for hours..." Waldo let out a weird laugh, like he was proud to be turned on from the murder. "Look what you reduced to me. You made me pay for sex, never in my life did I ever have to pay for sex. Men used to clamor to be with me, but no more, they don't want to have to listen to me drone on about how much I love you, only the men I pay will listen me."
"Did you kill Bill also?" I could tell by Loren's voice that not only was he scared but he was shocked by Waldo's revelation. He could have never believed he would have done anything like this.
I moved from the bathroom to the closest. I could see clearer into the room and was watching Waldo as he silently tied Loren to the bed posts. When he was done he pulled a chair up to the side of bed and sat down, laying the gun on the nightstand next to him. He crossed his long legs and folded his hands comfortably in his lap. He appeared to be extremely calm and collected which for me was a good thing.
"Yes dear boy...I did. After I shot you...I mean poor Mr. Redvern...I was in the process of hiding the shotgun when I heard a noise coming from the bedroom. I slipped into the kitchen and out the back door. From the stairwell I could see a panicked Bill Wallace running from the apartment frantically pulling the last of his clothes on. You have to imagine my surprise at seeing him there. First of all he's probably one of the best kept secrets in this city. Who would have thought that Mr. Conservative himself, the one who always had a beautiful woman on his arm enjoyed the finest thing life could offer – another man's cock? I knew he hadn't seen anything, the apartment was too dark and my face was covered but I knew at that moment that Bill was destined to serve another purpose..."
Waldo stood and ran his hands over Loren's body. Jealousy filled my pores but I had calculated that I wouldn't have been able to get from the closest to the bed before Liebacker could reach the gun. I couldn't take any chances when it came to Loren.
"At five the next morning our little group of men met. We conveniently omitted Sam and Shelby from the meeting. We had already taken the first steps to protect all of our secrets by having your newest pet, our Detective McParson, assigned to the case. As you've probably found out the main reason the esteemed Mr. McParson was hired for the Manhattan division was to handle a sensitive case like this – if ever one arose. Cappy made a good choice in that hire. McParson is so scared that his dirty little secret might leak that he is willing to protect everyone's secrets no matter what the cost. I even sicked Standish on him knowing full well that he had been drooling for McParson for years. McParson didn't know if he was coming or going once he met Standish..." Liebacker stopped and stepped away from the bed. There was a long pause while he was gathering his thoughts before he stepped backand took Loren's limp cock in his hands.
"...but as always you distract me and I digress...let's see, where was I? Oh yes. More than anything we needed this case to be wrapped up as quickly as possible. I don't think our little circle cared one bit who was arrested for the crime, just as long as their secrets were safe. On my own, I came up with the solution. By killing Bill, making it look like a suicide, the case would be closed, you would be buried and we could all move on with our lives. To be honest my love, I think the men in our group, save your uncle were more than okay that you were dead. You and your public romances, especially with Lancaster and Shelby, were drawing too much attention to us and sooner or later they were going to have to deal with you. There had been talk for months to oust you from the group."
Frustrated that his touch wasn't getting Loren sexually aroused he moved away from the bed again and sat back down in the chair, resuming his calm position as he made his confessions to Loren.
"But your fucking new playmate blew through my ideal plan when he announced that Bill's death was another murder and not a suicide. When Cappy called to tell me what had happened I was ready to shoot your new lover myself, now thinking about it I wish I had. How dare he make mincemeat of perfect plan like that?" Waldo showed a brief fit of anger before reining himself in and resumed speaking.
