"Welcome back, Your Majesty," offered Bailey, as she approached and hugged him before they sat closely opposite each other in the King's most private room.
"Thank you, Bailey," replied the King, "It's good to be back."
"I found it, Your Majesty," declared Bailey, handing him a brown leather satchel from a larger one she had brought with her, "Or rather Johnny Pockets did."
"Johnny Pockets!" replied the King, "You let him out of jail?"
"No, you did," laughed Bailey, "I just signed the papers. He only had a couple of months to go anyway. I had been looking for three days and he found it in three minutes. It was under the fireplace mantle."
"Good work, Bailey," declared the King, as he opened it and began going through the papers inside.
"They're all there," assured Bailey, "All the permits and licenses."
"A man really should share his business details with his wife," observed the King.
"I think he must have kept her mostly in the kitchen... and the bedroom, of course," reasoned Bailey, "It was too bad, she was better at it than he was."
"Indeed," agreed the King, slowly rising and throwing the leather satchel in his own fireplace and standing silently for a while as he watched it burn.
"No one save we two and God will ever know she was innocent," observed Bailey.
"The perfect plan, perfectly executed," said the King, still staring into the fire.
"Except for one thing," observed Bailey.
"What's that?" asked the King.
"You fell in love with her," replied Bailey.
"Well, there is that," responded the King.
"Come, Charles," said Bailey, suddenly breaking protocol, "Come sit with me."
Doing as she asked, they sat in silence for a moment before Bailey spoke.
"You know, I love you like a son, don't you, Your Majesty, since the day you were born.
"I love you too, my loyal Bailey," replied the King, "I can't decide if I love you more as a mother or as a sister, both I guess."
"Your, Majesty," inquired Bailey, "I'm not sure I understand why you don't just set her free and take her to be your love. There are plenty of beautiful women in the kingdom who would jump at the chance to be a royal courtesan.
"If it were only that I would," replied the King, "but she loves me too, therefore I cannot."
"I am lost, Your Majesty," responded Bailey.
"Do you not see, my beloved Bailey?" explained the King, "She loves me. I can trust her. Think of the places she can go that I cannot, the people she can get next to in a way no other ever could, the things she could see if she knew what to look for, the things she could find out if she knew how to pick a lock."
"You are going to make her a SPY!!" exclaimed Bailey, but after a long moment of consideration, gave her verdict, "My God she would be good at it!"
"How is she, Bailey?" asked the King, with his heart.
"She is fine, Your Majesty, honestly she is," replied Bailey, reaching out and touching his hand with hers for a moment to reinforce her assurance.
"So give me the big picture," said the King.
"She is magnificent, Your Majesty, in every regard," replied Bailey, "She's quite more than a handful to say the least, but in a good way."
"Tell me about it," laughed the King, but then, after a second thought, broached the next difficult subject, "and tell me about her and Greystone."
"She goes to his bed," replied Bailey, not daring to shade the truth.
"Often?" asked the King.
"They are discreet about it, Your Majesty," replied Bailey, "and not gluttonous, but often enough."
"I see," responded the King.
"I didn't know what to do, Your Majesty," continued Bailey, "I judged that I should leave it to you."
"Your judgment was sound, as always," replied the King.
"You could easily put a stop to it, Your Majesty," offered Bailey.
"I could," replied the King, "but I can't."
"It's clear she has an affection for him, but I'm certain she's not in love with him. Do you think she is doing it just to piss you off?" asked Bailey, "or to punish you?"
"I don't know why she is doing it," laughed the King, "but if she's doing it to piss me off, it's a jolly rousing success."
"And if she's doing it to punish you?" asked Bailey.
"Well, I guess it's not like I don't deserve it," observed the King, "I guess you do what you do and you get what you get."
"Regretfully continuing along those lines," inquired Bailey, "About tomorrow, will you be able to stand seeing her beaten?"
"It would be worse not to be there," responded the King, "I'm assuming you have arranged a place for me to watch without being seen?"
"Of course, Your Majesty," assured Bailey.
"Maybe you better give me the detailed report," decided the King, after another moment of thought.
"Really? You mean everything, Your Majesty?" asked Bailey, "Do you really want to know?"
"Everything," assured the King.
"Of course, Your Majesty," replied Bailey, retrieving her notes, "Well, let me see... It's been fourty-five days since you left and we have kept her totally nude since the very first day so she's gotten used to it for the most part... She meets with the Fairfield's each morning promptly at six..."
"How about those two Bobby Brains," asked the King, "Are they behaving themselves?"
"Absolutely, to the letter, Your Majesty," replied Bailey, "and they are kind of invaluable in a way as they are the only ones around here that she really fears, but they don't abuse her, really they don't. She is what she is though, Your Majesty, and her status is not voluntary. She will always need discipline I'm afraid."
"I suppose so," replied the King, "Very well, go on."
"Well, as you know, she is going to be an artist's model as well as a courtesan, so that's mostly where the Fairfield's efforts lie at the moment, teaching her the various positions. She's pretty well mastered 22 of them so far and she's getting very limber so that should progress nicely...
Libby is her second appointment of the day and so far she has serviced 176 gentlemen a total of 234 times."
"Why the duplications?" asked the King.
"You know how it is, Your Majesty, with the weather and the various vagaries of life's circumstances and all. Sometimes people coming in from a distance get delayed so the palace staff gets a little extra lovin if you know what I mean, but at least it's good for their morale.
She seems to favor the gardeners and the horsemen for whatever reason and we allow her a little flexibility in that regard. I'm afraid those boys are living high right now, if you know what I mean, but the other boys are getting their share too and I'm afraid she has the whole staff pretty much wrapped around her little finger."
"That's kind of scary," laughed the King.
"Abigail is next," continued Bailey, "and that area is going to take the most time, of course, because she is not a natural lesbian. She hates even the idea of it, but she's coming along. So far she just gets fucked once a day and twice on Saturdays, but only by the other working girls.
She hasn't even begun to eat pussy yet. We all agree she needs to have her first discipline session before we get into that because she's going to need some convincing, but she's still got plenty to learn and do.
Three or four times a week, depending again on travel and so forth, I invite small parties of the right people to little socials where she gets introduced and spends a little time with them. It's always strictly a look but don't touch type of thing, but it's good for her and good for us. She is most adept socially and as soon as she learns some of the finer points, The Lady Harrington says she is going to far surpass any of her peers.
There is, however, one minor complication in that regard, I'm afraid."
"And what is that?" asked the King, his eyebrows now raised and his eyes fixated on Bailey.
"I'm afraid The Lady Harrington is in love with her, I mean really in love with her," replied Bailey.
"The wife of one of the most important Noblemen in the country is in love with her," reasoned the King, with a slight grin, "And just how is that is a problem?"
"Quite," grinned Bailey.
There is also one special feature that we've added just because it was too good to pass up," continued Bailey, "and I'm afraid it's absolutely wretchedly wicked, but also wretchedly effective.
Twice a week, we invite various small select groups of royal and other extremely well placed women and have her masturbate for them. Her natural style is to do it with two hands and it's absolutely the most amazing thing you ever saw. You wouldn't believe how many noblewomen have absolutely begged me to let them have a go at her after they see it, but I can't see giving away a valuable commodity.
Trust me, Your Majesty, she is going to be wildly popular among both men and women and she is really learning how to handle herself."
"That's good and I know what you mean," responded the King, "My secretary told me this morning he already had a basket full of requests.