The phone rang in John's office.
"Yes, Lynda?" he asked, picking it up.
"There's an Officer Sanders here to see you," Lynda told him.
"Ah. Send him in."
A couple of moments passed, and the door to John's office opened, with Lynda ushering in Officer Rex Sanders, today in his full police blues. John had never seen Rex in his uniform before today, outside of television, that is. Rex never was wearing it when John would drop by to visit Rex, and his wife.
"Hello Rex," John said. "Thank you Lynda."
Lynda turned to go.
"Oh, Lynda?" John interrupted her.
"Yes?" she asked.
"Can you make me an espresso in a few minutes or so? No hurry."
"Of course John," she said. "I'll get started on that directly. I assume that you want this to be decaffeinated? It's almost three o'clock."
"Yes, Lynda, that might be best," John said. "I have a hard time sleeping at night with afternoon coffee sometimes, as you know."
Officer Sanders remained standing, looking at John, and Lynda, and back again while they discussed John's coffee drink. He didn't say anything, he just stood there holding a manila folder stuffed to overflowing with papers.
"You know Lynda, let's make it a regular espresso. I have a long night ahead of me again."
"Very good John," Lynda said, crisply and professionally.
Lynda closed the door with a click.
"How are you Rex?" John asked. "And your wife? She's well?"
Officer Sanders cleared his throat.
"She's well. I'm well. I... have what you asked for."
"Wonderful, Rex. Just bring it over here."
Officer Sanders walked over and placed the folder on John's desk, and remained standing. John didn't offer him a seat. John picked up the folder, and began to look through it, skimming some things, leaning in to read another item more closely at times. John read through the folder for a few minutes or so, silent all the while.
"This is everything?" he said, looking up at the officer, finally. "All the information that your department has about the Spider?"
"Yes... yes, sir."
"Good."
John continued to look through the folder. He didn't bother to look up at the officer, but if he had, he would not have been surprised at seeing the range of emotions play out on the man standing before him. There was hope, and fear, and longing at times, acceptance at others. John noticed none of it.
"I had to take a lot of risks to get all that," Officer Sanders finally blurted out. "A lot of it was well above my pay grade."
Visibly annoyed, John looked up at the man again.
"But you did get
all
of it?"
"Yes! Of course. Just like you asked me."
John just stared blankly at the officer standing before him, looking deeply into the other man's eyes. John said nothing. The officer before John looked back at John, saying nothing at first, his mouth open slightly.
"Master," the officer whispered. "Just like you ordered, Master."
"Good," John said. John's eyes kept boring into the officer's. Officer Sanders stood rigidly, his eyes wide, and glassy, open and seeing only his Master's eyes, hearing only his Master's voice.
"Today is going to be your last day on the force, then," John told him. "You are going to leave here, and quit the police force immediately. You are never going to seek to be a police officer ever again, in the City, or anywhere else. Do you understand me?"
Officer Sanders looked like he was choking, struggling to breathe. His body was rigid. The veins and muscles on his neck were standing prominently as he fought an unseen battle inside himself.
Suddenly, it was all over. The cop exhaled, and his body slumped. The officer stood in front of John, his shoulders turned in on himself, his head lowered, his arms hanging uselessly at his side. His body had gone soft, and compliant, with the notable exception of his penis, which had become stiff and rigid in his police issue blue trousers.
"Yes, Master. I understand."
"Good. You will go home to your wife. She has divorce papers already signed and ready to go. She's had them for a while now, she and I have talked about it and she knows what she needs to do. She's going to give them to you, and you are going to sign them. You won't fight this divorce in any way. You will never seek to contact her again. Understand?"
The officer could only nod. His hard little dick sent jets of pleasure and compliance through his body, radiating from his hips and up to his brain. His mouth was dry, his breathing shallow. It felt good to be obedient. It felt good to be submissive to the other man.
"She'll come to me. I'm going to keep her for a while. I'll make sure that she's very happy for the rest of her life, set her up with a new marriage to a better person than you, and make sure she has all the money she'll ever need to be comfortable. None of that is your business any more, of course. But I want you to know that I'll take care of her. I like her... I like her a lot. There's something very special about her, maybe you knew that at some point, I don't know. Anyway, she deserves a lot better than you, and I'll see that she gets it."
The officer finally, after a long time, blinked his eyes and looked up. His cock twisted and throbbed in his underwear as he listened to the orders that would end his life as he'd known it. Whatever part of him ever wanted to resist the man sitting at the desk before him was extinguished, and in its place only obedience, and need, and pleasure at obedience that could come close, but never quite fill, the need that now controlled his every heartbeat.
"You'll sell your house. You don't need to share any of that money with your wife, I'll take care of her financially better than you ever could. You'll take the money from the sale of your house. You'll move out of the City, I don't care where you go, but you'll never return here again- "
"Please..."
"Yes?"
"Please, Master," the officer croaked.
"My decision is final," John told him. "I'm surprised you can still resist me enough to beg, actually. But you'll quit the force and leave your wife."
"No, I..."
John leaned back in his chair as he regarded the once proud police officer begging before him.
"Ah," John said. "I get it. You don't want me to send you away. You want to keep being my slave. Of course."
The officer fell to his knees in front of John, lowering his head.
"Please, Master," he said to the floor. "Please. I need to be owned by you. I need you so bad. I'll... I'll do whatever you want."
The door opened, and Lynda came in with the espresso. She had made it piping hot, with a single sugar cube on the side, and a slim twist of lemon zest, the way John liked it to be served. She looked briefly at Officer Sanders, on his knees in front of her boss, begging. She took little notice of it. She stepped past the officer without comment and handed John his espresso.
"Master..." the officer went on. "You can fuck me; any time you want. Just like you do my wife when you make me...
let