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PART IX
"Emerald."
"Emerald, time to wake up."
Brandi moaned. "Let me sleep, I'm tired."
SLAP!
Brandi jerked hard at the slap across her face and blinked several times. She turned her head slowly and looked up to see Kory smiling a very evil smile.
"You have slept enough."
Brandi looked around and saw the man that she remembered coming in right as she finished changing sitting back by the door. He was a thug. Brandi could tell from a mile away never mind her special skills and senses. He wore a suit that didn't quite fit, obvious bulge from a gun, dumb look in his eyes, and lots of muscles.
She was in a room that looked like a dressing room, it had a divan, several chairs, including the one she was tied to, a large mirror and vanity, a wardrobe, and a sink. Aside from herself, Kory and the thug they were alone. Kory was dressed in a dark black robe with black slippers. She was naked and a glance in the mirror showed she was in Lucinda's (or Emerald's) form.
Kory sat down at the vanity and began to brush her long golden hair. "So, we follow someone who looks like Mary McLean sneaking out of her house late at night and takes great pains not to be followed. Except it's not Mary McLean, who is in her own bed naked with her husband and they are both passed completely out from what looks like a massive fuck. And so when my boy Frederick here busts into the room, he finds Emerald bonking a hot Asian escort. Except you are not Emerald, you are Lucinda, an escort from Brazil, with several adds on reputable escort sites. Except that Lucinda is currently in NYC with a client for a weekend according to what my hacker tells me. And her phone's GPS."
"The McLean's have been fucked stupid to the point that my boys couldn't get anything out of them except some sighs and smiles. And when they finally did wake up enough to talk they couldn't remember anything other than some extremely wild sex. Although Mary was very confused about her afternoon. And after some questions at the Club it turns out that her friend Diane had come over that afternoon and had then "had too much wine" and spent all afternoon and some of the evening passed out in the bed. And the woman, Dawn from Philly, somehow left the club without being seen." Kory said as she turned back towards Brandi and gave her a very appraising look.
"I figured you had some talent and were hungry. Apparently, you have a lot more talent than I realized. I should have been more suspicious when you didn't dig around more. I'm the hottest stripper in Chicago, anytime another hottie shows up it's always a cat fight until I put them in their place. But with you? No cat fight, you seemed indifferent. That should have tipped me off, it won't happen again."
Brandi met her gaze and didn't say a word.
Kory smiled an evil smile. "No comment huh? I wouldn't either in your shoes." Kory stood up and adjusted her robe. She teased her hair a bit, and then looked at Kory. "I don't like wasting time so I will get right to it. You are in a world of trouble girl. You are in a place that no one knows about, you have no tracking device on you, on one followed us here, and there is no help coming. If I want you too, you will simply disappear."
Brandi kept her face straight. She could tell Kory was watching her closely for any hint of weakness and Brandi felt that she was a bit surprised and impressed that Brandi was keeping calm.
"But here is the thing. I may let you go. If you fill me in on who you work for and what they are after."
Brandi had figured this was coming. "So how do I answer this?" Brandi thought. "Let's try changing the subject and buy some time."
"How did you know I left the house? I didn't see any tails, and I am very good at catching tails."
Kory grinned. "Trying to change the subject? Nice try."
"SLAP!"
Brandi shook her head as Kory giggled. "That's the last slap you get. THIS is the next time." Kory held up a riding crop and whipped it through the air.
Brandi kept her face straight. She thought about her skills as a domme that she had pulled from the Dominatrix back in college and repressed a shudder. She could last for a while, but it was obvious Kory was going to just rachet things up.
"She is used to breaking people. I need to get her off track somehow. Hmmmm, maybe some honesty works where lying won't." Brandi thought.
Kory leaned down and cupped her chin with her hand. "I do love it when people resist. I have so much fun breaking them."
"I was hired by Jones Electronics to find out why he was being targeted."
Kory blinked. Her face was mostly a good poker face, but Brandi could see that she was a bit surprised.
"I was to determine who it was, and then why. And then let him know and that was that."
Kory straightened up. She traced the crop over her tits and frowned. "That seems a bit too easy."
"I'm not lying, but yeah, it's not like you can tell if I am or not, so I'm likely going to get tortured either way."
"You seem rather, resigned, to this."
"What am I going to do? Lie, and get whipped? Or tell the truth and get whipped? The common theme here is "whipped" so I may as well get it out of the way. My job wasn't to wreck your operation or anything, just figure out who was the boss so Jones Electronics can talk to you about what it is you want so he can do business here."
"Why? Seriously, why does the CEO care enough to push it? He can do business everywhere else, just not here."
"Well, why the hell have you singled him out? That's the thing, extort money sure, it's Chicago. Corrupt Unions wanting some padding on the contracts, expected. Crooked cops looking for some rent money, of course. Mobsters looking for possibilities, certainly. But it seems personal, like this company was selected for a reason. And its only Chicago, no issues anywhere else. It's weird. And weird gets attention."
To anyone else Kory would have looked stone faced. But Brandi could tell she had hit a nerve. It anything Kory seemed a bit surprised. "Okay, this might be an opening. Let's push."
"Since I am likely not going to leave here alive, care to spill? I'm curious as hell myself. Your operation is first rate, cripes I still can't believe it's YOU as the boss. I thought it was David McLean."
Kory smiled and looked a bit flattered. "I will take that complement. That's the whole idea, if someone is able to follow some of my pawns around, I will seem like just a go-between and they will aim for the DA."
"Didn't give up anyone else like Megan, just the one I obviously knew about. This woman is clever." Brandi thought.
Kory paced a bit, swaying her ass in a sexy runway walk. But it was just out of habit, Brandi could tell she was deep in thought. After a few moments she turned and looked at Brandi.
"I will answer your question about Jones, and then I will say goodbye. It's shame really, I liked you Emerald, and I thought you had some potential. If you had stayed around I was going to bring you into my organization."
Kory picked up a iPad and tapped in a code. She held it up and Brandi saw a long list of company names.
"You see this? These are all the companies trying to start up offices in Chicago. Chicago is corrupt, everyone knows that. But I am the ruler of it all. I have the dirt on everyone who is dirty in Chicago, and thanks to my control of the DA, parts of the City Government, and the Police and even a couple of feds, I have crushed any organized criminal resistance or city resistance."
Kory sat down with a sigh. "But you know what the problem is? Taking over was easy. Really easy. All you had to do was think about what you needed to do, and then do it. Being the smart girl I am, I realized that I needed to make a long-term plan and then stick to it. I did, it took me five years to get all my pieces into place and then crush anyone else. But then came the problem I didn't see."
Kory paused and Brandi kept quiet. "God, enough drama stripper, get to it." Brandi thought.
Kory frowned and then said "Keeping it. You would have thought crushing everyone and digging dirt would have gotten the point across. Nope. New players constantly coming into the game, elections not quite turning out like you planned, recalls, actual honest cops doing their jobs, constant turn-over. After a few months it seems like I am right back where I started and I have to make an example."
"So you whack someone. I am not seeing the point here."