The name's Piper. Peter Piper. But I don't pick pecks of pickled peppers. I solve cases. I'm a private dick. That's a detective for those of you who don't know the lingo. A private eye.
It was a miserable Friday afternoon. Cold, damp, foggy. The weather was foul. And so was my mood. My bank account was dwindling at an alarming pace. I hadn't had a case in weeks. I was sitting behind my battered desk in my shabby office on the second floor of the Burke building, downtown. Way downtown. I was sitting there and I was worrying. If something didn't happen soon, I was in deep shit. I had bills to pay. The rent on the office was coming due, and I didn't have it. I also didn't have the rent for my crummy one-room apartment with the rickety bed and the wobbly night table. That was downtown too. Further downtown.
I opened my top desk drawer and took out a deck of grimy torn playing cards. They were lying right next to the gun with the jammed hammer. I started dealing myself out a hand of solitaire as I brooded. I think it was when I was putting the queen of hearts on top of the king of clubs that I saw an ominous shadow darken the dirty opaque glass in my office door. I had yet to learn how ominous.
The door opened and there was this classy dame standing there framed in the doorway. Even from there I could smell her Pastiche perfume. It was overpowering. It was intoxicating. It was sexy, and I was getting a hard-on.
"Mr. Piper?" she asked in a low sultry voice.
"That's me," I confirmed. "Come in." I motioned for her to take a seat in the ripped fabric chair with the stuffing and springs popping out across from my desk. She shuddered very slightly as she perched on the very edge of it. She didn't want too much of her bottom exposed to whatever germs were crawling around on that chair.
She was classy all right. Besides smelling of Pastiche perfume, she smelled of money. She had on a tight black dress with a low cut V-neck, which emphasized her enormous boobs. They looked lickable. On her feet she wore very high-heeled black shoes. And over her shoulders she wore a sable stole. Her jet black hair was tied back in a neat bun, and she wore a wide-brimmed hat like they used to wear back in the 1940's.
I folded up the cards and quickly shoved them back into the drawer. Then I got up and helped lift the stole off her shoulders. I hung it carelessly on the top hook of the coat rack. She winced.
I sat down behind my desk again and faced her. "How can I help you?" I asked.
"My name is Millicent Arbagast, and I'm having a problem. Fifi Applewhite told me that you could help me. She said you were very good."
Ah, yes. Fifi Applewhite. The Stolen Baby Cup Case. I had helped Fifi Applewhite a lot. Someone had lifted the little sterling silver cup her grandmother had bought for her when she was born. It had the name 'Fifi' engraved on it. It had great sentimental value. I had helped her by finding the cup, (in her maid's suitcase,) and I had helped her even more by plowing her with my big hard cock. When I first arrived at her house, she couldn't keep her hands off my dick. She kept grabbing it, and licking it, and sucking it. I just had to get it out of her hands, and the best way seemed to be to hide it in her cunt. She went totally crazy. She grabbed my ass as I was fucking her and pulled so hard I thought she was gonna tear it off. I had black and blue marks on my buttcheeks for months.
"What can I do for you, Mrs. Arbagast?" I asked. "I assume it's Mrs."
"Yes, it is. Unfortunately."
She took out a cigarette from a gold case in her black pocketbook. She tapped the cigarette on the top of the desk, before putting it between her sluttish red lips. She lit it with a diamond-studded gold lighter. I hadn't seen one like that in years. No cheap plastic disposable for her.
She puffed in deeply and blew out a plume of blue smoke. Then she continued. "My husband, Marvin, and I are separated. He wants my son, Harold. I don't want him to have my son, Harold."
"Isn't Harold his son too?"
"Yes, of course." She took another puff. She was annoyed with me. "I don't want him anywhere near Harold. I want him kept away."
"Who has custody?" I asked.
"No one has custody. We're not divorced yet. But Harold is with me now, and I don't want his father getting anywhere near him." She looked at me, wondering how much to tell me. "Marvin has done things to Harold," she said flatly. "Filthy things."
"You should get a court order," I advised.
"I can't. This can't ever be made public. It would ruin my son's life. And I don't know how to keep Harold away from Marvin. Marvin's very rich. He gets whatever he wants. And he wants Harold. Can you help me?"
"What could I do to help you?" I asked.
"I want you to guard Harold. Stay with him night and day. I want you to keep Harold from being kidnapped."
I was beginning to get the picture.
"You can move into my house. There's an extra bed in Harold's room. I would want you to sleep in Harold's room."
"I don't know," I considered. "Playing nursemaid to a kid. It's not really what I do."
"I'll pay you three thousand dollars a week."
"I'll do it."
"I thought you would." She handed me an engraved card. "That's my address. Be there with your luggage. Nine tomorrow morning."
I took the card. I had been hired. Now at least I'd be able to pay my bills and then some. She stood up. "I think I'll be going now," she said.
I went over to the coat rack to retrieve her fur. It snagged a little on the hook. She winced again. I walked behind her and placed it gently around her lush shoulders, looking at the exposed tops of her magnificent tits. My cock got stiff again and, through my pants, started poking her behind. As I draped the sable over her shoulders my hand accidentally brushed her breast. She moved away.
"Now. Now. We'll have none of that. I'm your employer, after all," she reproved. Fucking cocktease. She knew very well what she was doing to me.
"I'm sorry," I said. But I really wasn't. I wanted to tear off her expensive black dress and plant my voracious jaws over her big mammary. I wanted to knead it, to twist it, to flick the nipple with my tongue, to suck on it. The more I thought about it, the longer my hard dick got, and even though I stepped back from her, my desirous pole kept reaching out to rub against her ass.
"Thank you, Mr. Piper," she said. "I'll see you tomorrow morning." And then she was gone. There was nothing left but a cloud of Pastiche perfume. I pushed my cock back down in my underpants. It was really making a tent.
The next morning I arrived on schedule. Phipps, the butler, showed me up to the bedroom I would be sharing with Harold.
"Where's the kid?" I asked Phipps.
"Out on the lawn playing croquet. Mrs. Arbagast is waiting for you in the garden. You can put your things in the drawers of that dresser." He pointed to the one on the left side of the room. There was a bed on the left side of the room too. I figured that was mine. Harold's bed and dresser were on the right side of the room. I unpacked my bags and put my stuff into the drawers. Phipps showed me to the bathroom, and I brought my toothbrush and hairbrush in and left them there.
"I'll take you down now, sir," said Phipps, and he escorted me to the garden. This was really great. Now I had a butler to show me around. I could get used to this.
Millicent Arbagast was lying in a deck chair, wearing a small two-piece yellow bathing suit. Her breasts were pouring out over the top. I still wanted to lick them. She was greasy from head to toe with suntan oil, and she held a silver reflector in front of her face. She was wearing dark green sunglasses.
"Mr. Piper," she said, stretching out her hand. I took her hand and raised it to my lips.
"How chivalrous," she observed dryly.
"Where's Harold?" I asked. I wanted to meet my new charge.
"I'll bring you to him." She got up off the chair and put on a terry cloth robe and a pair of beach sandals. She led me across the great lawns, past the enclosed tennis courts, and the miniature golf links. Way down at the far end I could see Harold putting a wooden ball with a large wooden mallet, trying to get it to go through bent wires.
He was a slender kid, around eighteen or so, with very white skin and spiky yellow hair. He didn't look anything like his mother. I wondered what Marvin looked like.
Harold had on a tight yellow pullover short-sleeved shirt, and I noticed how thin his arms were. And his hands were very small and delicate. He was wearing a pair of tight-fitting white slacks, which hugged his round bottom. On his feet were a brand new pair of bright white buckskin shoes.
"Harold, darling," said Mrs. Arbagast. "This is Mr. Peter Piper. The gentleman I told you about, who'll be staying with us for a while."
"You mean staying in my room."
"Yes."
Harold stared coldly at me. He wasn't happy about this. "This was her idea," he told me. "Not mine." He wanted to make sure I knew he didn't want me there. "Is she paying you a lot of money to watch me?"
"Now, Harold, darling," Mrs. Arbagast soothed him, patting him on the back. "Be nice."
"I'll be nice," he assured her. "What do you say, Mr. Piper. Would you like to play a game of croquet?"