For those that have been following this story my apologies in the gap since the last instalment, sometimes life has to take precedence over writing. This is a big chunk of the story embedded in this chapter and at the end, all the main characters have now been shown to you. For those expecting Ann and Lance to re-appear they are a solid part of the last two chapters currently underway. I'll do my best to get they out in the shortest time I can.
For those jumping in now or needing a refresher, a quick run through how we have arrived here.
Chapter 1, Matt meets and has an affair with Ann who is married to Lance serving in the Army. Despite an agreement allowing her to meet for casual sex she breaks the rules with Matt and we end with Lance finding out with dire consequences. Ann disappears from Matt's life.
Chapter 2, Matt meets Tanya, they have both had trauma in their upbringings and connect, which ends up in getting married. Before this, Tanya had no plans to look for love, she had her mind set on becoming "the best of the best" within her work within the Police force working on high profile cases that involve undercover work. Matt's happy in his life as a fireman.
Chapter 3, Tanya goes undercover to expose a sex-abuse ring and ends up assaulted herself. She fails to tell Matt but struggles to deal with the emotions after the assault. At the same point two shadowy government figures, Mr. Smith and Jones take an interest in Tanya. As their marriage starts to get itself back on track Matt is shown stolen video clips of her performing oral sex but he is unaware at the time she is drugged, so he leaves her.
Chapter 4 They reconnect but it takes time to heal over what has happened. Matt finds Lance and travels down to apologise to him over the affair from Chapter 1. Lance and his ex-wife have moved on in life.
Chapter 5. Tanya buys Matt a new motorcycle and plans a holiday to the South of France with them riding down. Part way through she receives a phone call to pull out of the holiday and she disappears off with the mysterious Mr. Smith and Jones to Dubai. Within hours of her leaving Matt he receives news his gran has died and with no other relatives he tries to contact Tanya who he believes is on her way back to England. When she does contact him he gives her an ultimatum of work or marriage, she chooses work in the belief her marraige can be repaired on her return. As promised, she returns for the funeral but the undercover operation she has been working now needs to extend and Matt and Tanya must sign a shocking contract to allow it to proceed. Matt refuses so is drugged to sign it under duress before Tanya disappears from his life. The government also make it appear that she never existed, and was never actually married to Matt. Matt moves on, leaves Bournemouth to start work in London planning to never set eyes on Tanya again.
Chapter 6 - Slight diversion, it explores the character of Mr. Jones.
I'm a Brit, so the language is 'old fashioned English' and not the Transatlantic version. This is self-edited bar a couple of people reading through, at the moment my focus is to enjoy the writing aspect for me, if only one of you gains some enjoyment from this then that's a bonus to me. For my last couple of chapters any editors out there fancy the challenge?
It's fiction, plain simple fiction and nothing else. I try my darndest to make it seem as real as I can but with the subject matter and plot it certainly isn't a docudrama so bear that in mind! Remember, I've already said - Fiction, fiction, fiction.
It's a dark tale and includes some forced sex scenes, little bit of gay sex, gangbang, a threesome, cheating girlfriend, individual with mental health issues, and some death, including murder. If that isn't for you there's plenty of stories on Literotica that may be more to your taste.
It's long, lots of character development and leaves me with the two final chapters which should be significantly shorter than this one. This chapter starts by going back 4 weeks prior to their departure on holiday to France then looks at Tanya's side of the story before it merges back with Matt's life at the end of chapter five. I hope you enjoy.
Tanya's story
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Four weeks prior to starting her once-in-a-lifetime holiday of riding down to St. Tropez with her husband Matt on the new Kawasaki sports tourer she'd brought for his twenty-fifth birthday, she received an invitation to a clandestine meeting with the man known to her simply as, Mr. Smith, in London. The message said her time to shine was imminent.
Two figures sat dining in an upmarket restaurant in the West End of London. They sat at a table for two and rather conspicuously, none of the tables close to them seated patrons, despite the restaurant being busy. Tanya noted that people were coming in and pointing to the empty tables before the maรฎtre d'hรดtel shook his head and simply directed the patrons elsewhere in the restaurant to be seated. She figured that this was the power that Mr. Smith somehow wielded.
After exchanging pleasantries, Mr Smith ordered for them both. Whilst they waited for the courses he gave a very basic outline on what would likely happen and that it would be a primary and secondary operation. The secondary was wholly dependent on the primary one being one hundred percent successful. The primary one was estimated to take up to fourteen days to complete however, the secondary would require a greater level of commitment, potentially up to a year. Mr Smith said it was in Tanya's gift to try and bring it to a close as soon as possible. He made it quite clear this was a challenge that would push her both physically, mentally and emotionally to levels that were way beyond those that would normally be accepted. But by rising up to that challenge it would set her as an individual with no equal for the reminder of her working life.
They had enjoyed a starter of Escargots de Bourgogne followed by a Souris d'agneau - a delicious lamb-based meal, although Tanya couldn't care much for the snail and garlic starter. They sat drinking another glass of the Loius Roederer Collection 243 Champagne that was quite simply, the best Tanya had ever tasted.
"Mr. Smith, I'll be eternally grateful that you are putting your faith in me but, can I ask why?"
"Of course, Tanya. You first came to our attention regarding the Webb's and the unfortunate incident of the Indian diplomat's daughter that committed suicide. We were slightly ahead of you and we wanted to pull down the other organisations of the Webb's and their associates' little growing empire. Their evil tentacles had started to spread further afield and caused pain and suffering throughout the world."
"Up top wanted us to pull your investigation out but I read your personal file and was impressed. So we sat back and shall we say, treated this as a job interview with certain challenges."
Mr. Smith, what challenges did you see?"
He brought his hand to his mouth as he coughed gently.
"Tanya, you may not want to hear this, but we had already sent in an undercover operative before you went undercover yourself. Prior to that we had quickly tracked down Sammi Mills. Do you remember her? She was the woman that ran away to Australia to try and get away from the Webbs and rebuild her life. We worked out from talking to her that she was drugged and the carefully fashioned way she was led down that path, the same path that you, yourself took Tanya."
Tanya looked at him with a hint of anger in her eyes.
"Come now, don't be angry Tanya, it made a good test to see if you were going to able to move up to a higher level. I'll be brutally honest with you, we reviewed your plans for the second visit to FashioniStar and, how can I put this, threw a bit of a spanner in the works. Do you remember there was an artic lorry blocking the way that delayed your rescue? Me, I'm afraid."
Her anger was plainly visible.
"I can't believe you set me up! You helped put me in a position that compromised my safety and ultimately almost destroyed my marriage. What kind of a man are you!"
Mr Smith stared at Tanya, expressionless with almost soulless eyes.
"I'm a man that doesn't flinch when choices have to be made that are, let's say, uncomfortable ones. My heart says you have what it takes to go all the way to the top Tanya. I see the natural heir to my throne sitting right before me now but, unlike our monarchy, you have to earn it. It won't be given to you on a silver platter."
"Tanya, do you see the what happened at FashioniStar as a bad thing? Silly me of course you currently do. Let me turn that thought on its head. It was a good thing for you, not bad."
Tanya opened her mouth to speak but Mr. Smith got there first.