As Bess crossed the road with the taste of Junior's seed in her mouth, she couldn't believe what she'd just done and her mind was awhirl with trembling shame and elation. In the meantime, her legs acted on autopilot. She still had to look into Susan Quinn's disappearance, and she supposed the Sherriff was the next logical person to speak to, the meeting, in fact, overdue. Of course, since Carmody was the de facto mayor of Cinder Bay, it was just as logical to assume that the town's lawman would also be following the hotel's privacy policy out of sheer political and vocational necessity.
An aging white
Caprice
sedan sat in the dirt parking area between the road and the Sherriff's office, a magnetic blue and gold star with
Cinder Bay Sherriff
stuck to the door. There was no light bar affixed to the roof, only a tall CB radio antenna on the trunk lid. With a smirk, Bess couldn't help but wonder at what she'd find inside as she mounted the front steps of the converted private residence. The inside door was open, so she went on through the wooden screen door just as she would any public building, though still with the feeling of invading somebody's privacy.
Inside the station, she found herself in a somewhat dingy living room. A couch with a magazine laden coffee table ran along the wall to her right, two chairs with a round table between them in front of the picture window. To her left, a hallway ran the remaining length of the house, but the drywall between the living room and the first bedroom had been completely removed, the bare two by four frame covered with heavy chain link wire. Inside the makeshift jail cell were two bunk beds, the top bunks each occupied by a man lying on his back, head propped by pillows and reading a magazine. In the back wall of the reception area/living room was an arched doorway that led to a kitchen where, somewhere inside, Tammy Wynette warbled from a tinny sounding radio, advising any woman who cared to listen to 'stand by your man'.
To the left of the kitchen door was a fair sized, beat up looking, wooden desk, behind which sat a tall, stocky man in his late forties with graying hair He was reclining in a cheap office chair with his feet up on his desk, also reading a magazine. On the desk was a Sherriff's hat and a gun belt, its holstered weapon pointed at the cell as though covering the two prisoners for its owner. Upon Bess's entry, he looked up, did a double take and then sat up in his chair while removing his feet from the desktop with a surprised smile.
Tossing the magazine down on the desk, he asked in a strong voice, "Help you, Miss Marvin?"
Taken aback that he knew her name, Bess's first words stalled in her throat as she regarded him. He smiled, glancing at her chest as he guessed her thoughts and explained.
"It's a small town; word gets around. I'm Sherriff Durant."
He leaned forward, offering his large hand over his desk. Managing a smile, Bess walked across the scuffed hardwood floor, offered hers and found a man with a firm grip.
"Nice to meet you," she greeted.
With another glance at her chest, he replied, "Pleasure's all mine. What can I do for you?"
"Well, as you undoubtedly know, my friends and I arrived in town two days ago to join another friend of ours who's been here in town on vacation. The problem is that we can't find her."
"She staying at the Faldor?"
"Yes. Well, at least she was. We don't know if she still is because hotel management has a guest privacy policy and won't tell us if she's even still registered there.
Durant nodded as though this didn't surprise him, then asked, "What's your friend's name?"
"Susan Quinn"
"Oh, yeah, I remember her. Good lookin' woman."
"Have you seen her lately?"
"Not since Sunday."
Bess's mind leapt on this possible new lead, and she was about to ask for particulars when the magazine he'd been reading caught her attention. It was a nudie magazine, the cover sporting a woman of around thirty who was wearing nothing but a shy smile. She was covering her large breasts with one hand and forearm while covering her vagina with her other hand.
"Uhhh..." she dithered.
"Nice tits, huh?" Durant asked, picking up the magazine and passing it to her. "Check out the centerfold."
Completely derailed, Bess could only stare, a shocked, open mouthed smile spreading across her face. Yet, she found herself leafing through the magazine, looking for the centerfold but getting distracted by a picture of a young woman with a hard penis in her mouth. Turning the page, she saw the same woman with her eyes closed, mouth open while a shot of semen was caught midair by the camera, on the way to her face which was already running with the stuff.
"Oh! ... oh my!"
"What?" Durant asked, his eyes on her hips.
"N-nothing, I just-"
She flushed as he took the magazine from her hands, turned it around and saw what had taken her attention.
"Oh, yeah. Nice shot. Heh. You like that, huh?"
"I... He squirted his
stuff
on her
face
!"
"Yeah. Haven't you ever let a man cum all over that pretty face o' yours?"
Bess was shocked anew. That an officer of the law would be speaking to people in such a way, especially a tourist, was completely unheard of, though part of her wasn't surprised. This was Cinder Bay, after all, and such things that wouldn't be acceptable elsewhere were perfectly alright here. Nonetheless, she only shook her head, the smile on her face much the same as that of the woman on the magazine's cover.
"Ever suck a cock?"
Bess dumbly nodded, feeling herself becoming flushed and freshly aroused.
"Yeah... you look like a girl who likes to suck cock. First thing I thought when I saw you was, "Frank, that there's the prettiest little cocksucker you ever seen."
"Sherriff!"
The not unattractive older man laughed heartily at her reaction, noting she was still smiling. As for Bess, being referred to as a 'cocksucker' turned her on all the more, but her surprise in hearing this from Durant helped to at least make an attempt at outrage.
"She sure liked it when me and Ray had our hands all over her in the boutique the other day," a voice from the cell informed.
Looking to the left, she indeed recognized one of the men who'd fondled her that day in
Annabelle's Boutique
. Like the other man, he was half covered by a blanket, his magazine now laid on his chest as he stared at her with a hungry grin.
She didn't quite know how to counter this piece of now public information so, forcing some composure and making a better attempt at propriety even while her embarrassed flush deepened, she addressed the Sherriff with only the barest smile, suggesting, "Uh, perhaps we should get back to the subject at hand, that being Susan Quinn. You say you saw her on Sunday?"
"Yeah, Sunday morning in church," Durant clarified.
"Show us your tits," Brent instructed, now rubbing himself.
"Yeah, show us your tits," the other agreed, adding, "Show us everything."
Flushing again, Bess ignored this, asking the Sherriff, "Do you know if she's still in town?"
"No idea," he replied with a shrug.
"I wonder if you could look into the matter?" Bess asked. "My friends and I are becoming quite aroused-
I mean concerned!
"