The Bridge Ch 12 Pt 01 Poor Holly

The Bridge -- Chapter Twelve -- Poor Holly - Part One

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. This work is copy written by the author. All characters in all of my writing written in a sexual way are at least the age of eighteen at the time of portrayal.

This work will, at times, contain instances of pregnancy, interracial sex, lesbianism, romance and affection. There is also Non-consensual sex, violence, some Dominance and submission, and a fair amount of heroism and family love and fun.

This chapter, given its contents, is in the NonConsent/Reluctance category. This story has been in the Romance category, the Lesbian Sex and Interracial categories and will probably move around if it progresses. Which it will do if enough people like it. There is plenty of sex in this chapter. In time, there will be more orgasms, and some pretty violent sex.

Poor Holly - Part One

The week flew by and before we knew it Friday was here, and Holly didn't just have a date, she was taking a weekend away. Away from us. Away from me. With fucking Peace Dunbar. I was certainly losing her. The kids were more confused than sad. Aunt Lizzie heard that there would be a vacancy in my bed this weekend, and volunteered her services as a surrogate mom. I told her to leave it alone. That with our emergent security concerns, there are things that I must attend to both at home and outside the home. My real concern was how I could find a spot for Duane and I to get together and... ya know.

"Tend to your business, and along with Bertha, I'll tend to the kids. If I don't get much time with you, I'll be sad. But maybe you'll give me a midnight surprise one night. You'll never know if you don't let it happen. And just think how happy the kids will be to see Aunt Lizzie."

God Bless her. If she's not my best friend, I don't know who could be. I fear that friendship is to be tested very soon. Probably before the sun rises tomorrow morning, Lizzie will know the secret Duane, and I have vowed to keep to ourselves. Before Lizzie gets here, we will have discussed how in the loop Lizzie is to be. Deep inside, I am trying to prepare myself for our first fight. Imagine that. I gave Lizzie the thumbs up and swore her to secrecy about her coming for the weekend. It would be a great surprise. I would tell Bertha not to cook on Friday night. "Bring Chinese, Liz. From Chinatown."

The kids love Chinese, and whenever we go downtown, they want to go to Chinatown to eat. Just in downtown Philly alone, we have three Chinese restaurants that are rated among the top ten in the country. All in Chinatown. And we'd be ordering from two of them. So, after much discussion, I would call in the orders and pay for them over the phone. Lizzie would pick them up. The consolation to me is that she had to make three stops, all in Chinatown, all within three blocks. Kinda. We all have our favorites, and it would have been four if Holly was home. "Don't worry, Han. You know what I want. I always get that same thing that you always get, so just get a double order. Now call it all in and let me know the locations and times. I've had my car plugged in over at the Sofitel, and it's all charged up, so I'm going to go pack a bag. See ya soon."

The kids were in school, and it would be a few hours before I'd have to call that order into our favorite restaurants in Chinatown. Duane was on the property, and he was making the rounds. Bertha was fidgeting. She had nothing to do. The house was immaculate. Almost all the laundry was done, and she had nothing planned to cook for dinner.

"I don't understand. I can't remember the last time I had nothing to do."

I chuckled. "Well then, why don't you take the rest of the day off till the kids come home? Go work in your garden. Catch an afternoon delight with your boyfriend."

"Miss Hannah! I never."

"I don't know. From the smiles I've seen around here lately, I'd say you sure have."

She gave me a very coy look, and then she looked away. Obviously embarrassed.

"Bertha, I need you to contact Aggie to see if she can do an overnight here Saturday night. I have a mission I have to go on, which is important to the family business and I'm hoping the two of you can keep things under control till I get back, which I expect to be sometime Sunday morning."

"No problem with me. I was just planning to have Mac over. Do you mind if he joins us?"

"Not at all. I'm finding him to be a lovely man."

"Me too. I'll call my cousin this afternoon and see if she can be here. If not, we have three or four of the guys here all the time, it seems these days, so with their help I can handle those three little love bugs. And Mac will be here until after they are asleep."

"I'll bet he will."

"Now you mind your business, missy."

We both broke out in hysterics. Despite her protestations that she could handle it alone; she will be the happiest person in the house when Lizzie comes walking through the door with a full feast of Chinese food. Besides the fact that Chinese is one of Bertha's favorites, there's no cooking for her and the cleanup is easy. It's a win all around.

Dinner with Lizzie set up, I set my supercell for four hours with a reminder to order the Chinese food. Holly was nowhere to be found. Probably in the guest room she had claimed for her own primping and polishing. Making herself look like the whore that she has become. And I was on a mission to find Duane. I wanted to share with him what I found out last night and talk to him about Lizzie. And I wanted to call Rhee for a number of reasons. But I wanted Duane with me when I spoke to her. The three of us should be on the same page as we crank up our war machine. So, I went to the security room and Anthony was working. "Anthony. How are you, my friend?"

"Hi Miss T. Everything is looking good."

"Any idea where Duane is?"

He paused for a moment and started looking over the screens. In moments, he took his finger and pointed at one screen in particular. "There, he's on the path coming up from 'The Farm' with Bertha. Looks like he's carrying something."

"Probably produce, so she can get started preparing for a busy weekend with the kids. Holly will be gone all weekend and I have an overnight mission I have to do downtown. But I tell you in confidence."

"Ms. Todd, everything you tell me is in confidence. I understand the limitations posed by a need to know among people, members of this household and not."

"Thank you, Anthony. It's good to have you on our side."

"Thanks, ma'am."

I walked down the hall to the offices and looked around to see if anything appeared to be tampered with or out of order. Boy, was I getting paranoid. Why yes, I was. And with ample reason. And those reasons were piling up every day. I was jumping out of my skin.

Duane. I need to find Duane. So I went down the stairs and just as I hit the main floor, Duane and Bertha were coming through the kitchen door which led to 'The Farm.' She was hauling a small produce bag, and he was carrying a great big one, filled to the brim.

"Bertha. Why are you bringing all this produce up? I told you dinner was gonna be taken care of."

"I know, Hannah. Most of this stuff is for the pantry, but I want to make a couple of pies for this weekend."

"Damn it! Would you listen to me? Take the day off till the kids get home from school."

"But how about Holly?"

"Fuck Holly."

"Miss Hannah!"

"Miss Hannah, what? She has no power in this business, Bertha. I have demoted her to the bottom of the hierarchy. She has full reign over Celeste, as her mother. She has a certain budget she can work within, but she cannot work in any official capacity on my behalf. Understand?"

"Why, sure? And no."

"If you haven't noticed, Bertha, Holly and I have been having issues, marital problems and problems that reach beyond the scope of our marriage."

"It's pretty hard not to notice. Even the kids ask me about it. I tell them it's something adults sometimes go through."

"Sounds like you handled that perfectly. Needless to say, any requests Holly makes go through me. Don't feel shy about telling her you have to ask me about these things. After a little while, she'll get the message. And if she gives you any shit, you send her my way. If she wants to talk to me, tell her to call me on my supercell. She knows my number."

I looked over at Duane, and he looked more than a little uncomfortable. "Duane, come with me to the office. We have to evaluate that data we recently collected and I'm really gonna need your help. Bertha, before you take a few hours off, could you throw a couple of salads together for Duane and I and throw them in the fridge?"

"I'll do it. They'll be in the usual place."

"Thanks, Bertha. You are the very best. We're gonna be sitting on our asses, sifting through page after page of boring documents. It will be nice to have something light and delicious, like one of your salads."

Duane and I ascended the stairs and entered the office. "Lock it?"

"Oh yeah. And throw the dead bolt. What's gonna happen in here is not for anyone's eyes but yours and mine. And maybe Aurelia Spanner's." The first thing I did, even before fetching the drives from my desk, was turn on the technology in the video conference room, and once everything was whirring, I just sat back and waited. I had something very specific in mind.

Not a minute after the computers started humming, Duane entered the room. And my plan begins. I walked over to Duane and as I put my arms around him, kicked out my leg and the door slammed shut. No windows to the inside or out. I lifted my face up to meet his as we kissed gently. Then he wrapped his arms around me and drew me in more closely and he kissed me again, but with more passion. I totally melted into his arms. I could spend my life living in those arms. But all too quickly, I was snapped out of it when his big baritone rang out, "Eye on the ball, Hannah. We can't let our personal feelings impede accomplishing our mission."

"Oh yes, we can. In fact, I have a treat for you. At least I think it's a treat. You'll have to tell me. How would you like to spend Saturday night together? You and me. All night. Duane. How does that sound?"

"Beyond my greatest wishes, but too good to be true."

"It doesn't have to be. With all the mystery surrounding what we've been going through, a night where me and my Chief of Security need to go out and confront information that's important to our cause should not be out of the ordinary. Now indulge me. Kiss me some more and then we can get back to work."

Well, we definitely kissed some more. My mouth was sloppy wet. For fifteen minutes, we were all over each other. Then he brought it to a halt, and I plugged in the red drive and showed him what I had found last night. He was especially disturbed when I showed him the files of all the cops. He wasn't surprised, but it gave him pause.

"I knew there was corruption on the force, but this is beyond my imagination. There's someone I'd like to contact regarding all this. Someone I trust."

"Oh, Duane, is there anyone we can really trust?"

"Yes. My brother Davante."

"You have a brother?"

"Yes. Davante. He's my twin."

"Oh. Identical or fraternal?"

"Identical. And boy, did we have fun with that as kids."

"I'll bet. Why would Davante be able to help?"

"He's a cop. Better yet, he's a federal agent. One of the clean ones."

"I know he's your brother, but are you sure?"

"Absolutely. I was always the wild one, but Vante, he was always straight by the book."

"And how is this fed gonna help us?"

"He works for the FBI and knows people, and he knows shit. I think we should have a little chat with Vante about what we've found here. He'll always advise us better than anyone else you will find, and he will do everything in his power to keep us out of jail."

"Keep us out of jail?"

"Do you see the shit we have here? Possession of a fraction of this stuff could get us put away for a lifetime. And if this stuff gets into the wrong hands, we are fucked. Let's call Davante."

"Okay. So, we call Davante, but, first we call Rhee."

I lifted my left wrist and said, "Call Aurelia Spanner."

"Hannah. It's early for you to call. What's up."

"Rhee, Duane is here, and we have been reviewing some of the stuff we got from the storage locker. Lady, it looks like we are in deep shit. I don't even know where to start."

"Start with your deepest concern."

"That has to be the red drive. It contains enough information to end several careers and put a whole lot of people in jail. It looks like George Barry had some pretty heavy shit on a ton of people, and one of the ledgers we retrieved documents evidence to the effect. And one of those people was Peace Dunbar."

"I have found other evidence that our Mr. Barry was blackmailing many others. He was quite the extortionist extraordinaire. When we were at the storage locker together, I took one of those shoe boxes. Haunting."

"Yeah. We took a few of those boxes and I don't know whether to be more angry or scared."

"Be afraid, very afraid. These are very bad people. It's time for you to start growing your army. We're gonna need every last one of them. I have deep concerns and everyone you bring on board will have to be vetted to the hilt. In fact, after they have been presented to you for assignment I want to do my own vetting. I want to make sure that they are truly on our side."

"How many people do you think we need, Rhee?"

"How many do you think Dunbar has at his disposal?"

"Dozens, I suspect."

"I think too many people would leave us open to security risks. If we can find maybe half a dozen people along with the ones you are working with, which I have already fully vetted, I think we can work with that number. As long as we are better than them. And we MUST be better than them."

"I think we can work with that number," Duane said. "I can have a pile of resumes for you sometime this afternoon, any of whom could be available to us by tomorrow morning. Some sooner."

"Excellent, Duane. Hannah, what about the children?"

"What about them?"

"Children are an easy point of vulnerability. Having Holly as our point now is bad enough. We'll need to immediately either double the guards with more hands nearby, or we will have to disappear them."

"Disappear them?"

"Yes. Find a place for them where they can be comfortable but where they can't be found. I've got several of these 'safe houses' ready for use, but they are isolated, and I don't know that you'd like that either. I can assure you they won't."

"That's a non-starter. I will not tear my family apart. My kids will live their lives. Maybe with a few more restrictions, but we are not going into hiding. If they're watching us, what kind of signal would that send? Holly would go buck wild. That whole deal would be a real shit show."

"Good. When you get my next bill, you may notice that I've had an extra added eye in the sky to watch over Holly and the kids."

"I love the way you are handling my case. Do not stop. What's next?"

"First thing, you'll get that done. With the kids."

"It's already in the works. As of today, the guards on the kids have been doubled. My staff is even being looked after. And my parents, and Holly's too. At this time, I have people watching the perimeter of my property, out there guarding offices and a storage locker. I've got a man in a secure location watching every inch of this property through cameras placed everywhere, and I mean everywhere. I've got people watching people, watching people. In fact, that bill you talk about. I've dedicated a singular accountant to your bills. She's been specially vetted, and I trust her with my life."

"I hope she is worthy of your trust."

"I've come to know her closely, and she has been straight with me so far. She is a married lesbian who, I expect, would have no interest in a black man." Boy, did I hope my nose didn't grow from telling that one. "I can't say that she is Peace-proof, but I would at least call her Peace-averse."

"I took part in the final vetting, and she looked pretty clean to me. And from my observations, she is truly in Ms. Todd's camp. Regarding you, Ms. Spanner, your name is not revealed in any document or bill in our possession. I'm not even sure those on the other side know who you are or that you are working on our behalf."

"That's just the way I like it. And that's the way we're gonna keep it. The next order of business is to get those flash drives and memory sticks to a safe place where the forensics team can get to work. I have a place in mind and four people who know their shit, so we can probably see some progress in a couple of days. These folks work tirelessly until they finish a job. While they are at the secret location, a two-person team will be in the locker, which is being guarded by your people, and copying the contents of the drives in each of the shoe boxes to two single drives. They will then leave the boxes and the contents thereof otherwise undisturbed, and walk away, taking no more with them than they can fit in their pockets. When we are ready, we will have a crew empty the locker and put it in secure storage. Duane, does everyone assigned to this task know their assignments?"

"If your people do, my people do."

"Great, then let's get that rolling. Hannah, about Peace Dunbar."

"Ah, the good parts."

"Call it what you will. Peace Dunbar moves around a lot. He doesn't go far, but he doesn't stay long at any one destination. And, if I might add, he's parked those loafers of his under a lot of different beds. A lot. And as much as he puts himself out there, and he does a lot, he's very evasive. Hard to pin down. He seems to disappear from one location only to reappear at another. Almost like magic. I'm quite impressed by his people, who have done a stunning job of pulling this off. But we've managed to keep close tabs on him, anyway. We've learned a few things along the way. But we haven't had enough time to do a full evaluation. I have people evaluating his every move as we know it. And this weekend we're gonna know it even better, because Holly will be with him, and we'll have her chipped."

"Chipped?" I asked.

"Yep. Today, before her big date, Holly is going to get a Maní/Pedi. The pedicurist is named Hien, a Vietnamese woman who is reputed to be one of the best in the Delaware Valley. Before you break off the call, I'll transfer her number to you. She is an agent of mine and has taken on many jobs for me, both mundane and dangerous. Hien will, while giving Holly her pedicure, insert the chip in her foot, probably one of her toes, and from that moment on we will know exactly where Holly is. Hannah, I would recommend you insert one too. So that we can track you if we need to. God forbid these beasts should kidnap you, we would be right up their asses."

"That's ingenious, Rhee."

"Better yet, if we get lucky and Hien really romances Holly, maybe she can have Holly convince him to come for a pedicure. Then we'd be able to track him anywhere. Imagine. She will make a big deal about how she does manicures and pedicures for men, too. She really knows how to sell it, and if he is with Holly when she comes for her appointment, she may be able to draw him in right there and then. Hey, in this game you gotta take every break you can get, and if this is one of those breaks, let's jump on it."

"Agreed. How much does this chip monitor her? Can we hear what's going on?"

"No. It's extremely small and is strictly a GPS locating device. But believe me, knowing where she is and them not knowing that we know where she is can give us a real edge."