The Moment of Truth
Wesley walked somewhat unsteadily in his heels out of the shopping
centre with a case in his hand. A stray dog wandering the streets took
one look at the sight of this tall woman-like person with heavy case
and decided to bolt. At this time of the night the only other people
around were those staggering out of the nightclubs, trying to make
their way home. Wesley spotted another woman lurching unsteadily on her
heels towards the part of the town near the ruined castle where the
taxi rank stood. He headed after her, as fast as he dared go in the
hell that was the heels on his feet until he caught up with her.
"Excuse me, you look lost. Can I give you a lift home?" Wesley said in
his best female voice. The woman looked somewhat blurredly at the
figure in front of her wearing a dress.
"S'all right I'll get a taxi," she slurred.
"No, no, I insist," Wesley said leading the woman away by the arm. The
woman somewhat fuzzily eventually realised what was happening and began
to protest.
"Leave me alone," she said more firmly, the alcoholic haze beginning to
fade. Wesley pulled the bat from the sleeve of his dress and hit the
woman hard on the back of the head and she went down like a stone.
"Oh but I do insist. Why don't you show me where you live?" With that
Wesley reached into the woman's handbag and checked her driving
license. Wesley was in luck, the woman whose name was Ruth lived up by
the airport, a less populated area of Swansea. "Let's go find a car
shall we?"
Wesley carried the woman over his shoulder back towards the car park of
the shopping centre. On the first level of the car park he found a car
that he smashed the rear window with his baseball bat and put the woman
and the case on the back seat before getting in the front and hotwiring
the car. Being in jail really taught you a thing or two, Wesley mused
to himself. There was a freedom associated with being on the run that
he'd never felt before in his life, that freedom coming after all his
responsibilities had been severed by his prison term. Now there was
nothing to stop him doing exactly what he wanted.
He drove the car to Ruth's farmhouse cottage close to the airport. The
heath land up there was sparsely populated and Wesley was pleased to
see that Ruth's closest neighbour was some quarter of a mile down the
road. He bundled her body into the house and then went back for his
case.
"There's no place like home," Wesley commented out loud to no one in
particular and then bent down to Ruth. "Now we'd better make you nice
and comfortable with some rope and a gag little lady. Tomorrow you'll
have to leave whatever job you were in. It's a shame but I'm sure I can
help you with your resignation letter."
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Claire had wondered during the day whether she should mention to Angela
that she knew her secret, but had ultimately decided that she enjoyed
the faux woman's company. She didn't want there to be an awkward air
during the day so had chickened out from confronting the situation.
Besides Anwyn had asked her to be one of her bridesmaids at the wedding
and she'd decided that perhaps she would leave that conversation with
Anthony until they had returned from their honeymoon.
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The wedding details had been finalised weeks ago, but that didn't mean
that there wasn't still a bunch of things that needed to be done. One
of the most important was the trip to see the local registrar in the
town hall in Swansea. Anwyn had taken a long lunch-break off to meet
Anthony outside the Council buildings to go and see the registrar.
Anthony was on his final week of work before he officially left the
DVLA. He was due to start working as Mark's partner straight after they
got back from their honeymoon.
Anwyn was pleased that Anthony had scaled back his masking activities
and had been paying her a lot more attention recently. Angela hadn't
completely disappeared from the scene, it was just he'd only been her
once in the past three weeks.
She was excited as she waited patiently in the cold outside the Council
Offices. After today they'd have the go ahead for their wedding which
was now just two weeks away. She'd need to go for her final dress
fitting next week, though Anwyn was confident that she hadn't put any
weight on during the intervening time. She'd been exceptionally careful
about what she'd eaten over the past few weeks and that combined with
all the exercises from the Karate classes should serve to ensure she
hadn't put any weight on. She spotted Anthony bounding up the steps to
the doors where she was waiting.
"What time do you call this?" she demanded.
"Bang on time Anwyn," he replied smartly.
"I wish you'd paid as much attention to your clothes as you do
Angela's," Anwyn flipped the attack. "Your shirt is all crumpled and
you have a stain down your jacket," She wasn't sure why she was being
so picky since he'd been good as gold these past two weeks, but she
mused it didn't hurt to keep him on his toes.
"I had a bit of an accident bolting down my lunch to get here on time
love. Now shall we see if the nice man believes we love each other
before all out war breaks out between us."
"I just wanted to make the right impression" Anwyn defended. She knew
why she was on edge but she needed to get it confirmed first. She was
late, but at the moment it was within the normal variance for her
monthly present. By next week she'd have to do a test to see whether or
not her suspicions were realised. No use in telling Anthony about it
yet, at least not until she knew definitely. "Come on then, lets head
in."
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Irena ignored her mobile phone as it rang. She'd missed a modelling
appointment she assumed, and her agent was probably ringing her to find
out what had happened. What did it matter though? She wasn't desired,
no one really wanted her and she was just being used to push products
on those that believed that their life would be fulfilled by having
what she was modelling. It was all a lie. Pretty clothes would not make
your life fulfilled and she believed that her life would always remain
and empty shell.
"Time to feel my life again," she murmured quietly to herself as she
picked up the knife to cut herself again.
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Sergeant Edward Jenkinson had been kept busy over the past two weeks.
The breakout from Swansea jail had meant that all uniformed and un-
uniformed officers were working overtime to try and track the missing
prisoners down. Most of them had seemingly disappeared into thin air,
though one in particular had left a trail of destruction in Swansea
before disappearing. The detectives had been over the orgy of evidence
from the Quadrant shopping centre and the crossdresser's shop, but
after that Wesley Caplin had just disappeared.
The obvious evidence was that Wesley was somehow trying to disguise
himself as a woman, but since that meant he could look completely
different to how he normally looked meant that he would be extremely
hard to find. They'd listed all the stock that Wesley had taken from
both locations, but there was enough stuff that Wesley could have any
number of different looks. The instructions had been for uniformed
officers to keep a look out for a tall transvestite, but that hadn't
been very helpful instructions.
The car that had been stolen from the Quadrant centre car park had been
recovered by the Mumbles with blood soaking the rear seats. The car's
owner had been traced, having taken a taxi home that night after an
evening at the pub had been rather more extended than planned. The
blood had belonged to a woman and was type A rhesus negative, but there
was little more they could discover from there.
So Ed had been sent to once again to go and question the man's ex-wife
to see if they could find any more clues as to where he might be
hiding. Wesley Caplin's wife Martha had divorced him as soon as she
could when she found out that he'd not only been cheating on her, but
also involved in criminal activity. She'd pretty well taken him to the
cleaners and now had the house, car as well as their holiday home in
Spain. The holiday home had already been checked by officers in Spain
just to be on the safe side.
Martha Caplin came to the door wearing an ochre blouse and fitted
jeans.
"Can I help you officer?" she asked him.
"I'm afraid that I'm required to ask you some more questions about your
ex-husband," he asked politely. "May I come in?" Martha Caplin invited
him in and started to make him a cup of tea.
"I've already told the other detectives everything," she said as she
poured the tea into two bone china cups. "I'm not sure that I can be of
any use to catch that lying weasel."
"Mrs Caplin, can you tell me if your husband had any predilection to
crossdressing before he was jailed?" Ed asked.
"No, I'm pretty sure he was straight. I'm sure I would know that."
"Mrs Caplin. Most crossdressers are heterosexual you know. Now can you
think of any clue that you might have had that he enjoyed wearing
women's clothing?"
"No nothing at all. He was fine the first time I visited him in jail to
tell him I was divorcing him, then when I went to get him to sign the
papers he was quite peculiar. I think jail must have done something to
him. You hear all sorts of stories about things going on in the showers
in these jails. Still, serves the cheating rat right. Has anyone pulled
their finger out and agreed to my protection? He's likely to come after
me you know for divorcing him," Ed had read the psychologist's report
from Swansea jail. Something had snapped in the man shortly after he
was jailed.
"No, sorry mam but we don't have the manpower at the moment what with
all the other prisoners on the run, but I'll mention it to the
Superintendent again if you'd like. Who else is he likely to go after?"
"Well he might go after that Russian model that he thought he was
chasing. You know he didn't really get her, so he might feel like he
wanted to get the real thing. I don't know. The sooner you catch him
the better though."
Ed decided that perhaps he ought to check on Irena Ganalov. The
newspapers had some disturbing stories about her recently what with her
not showing up to her last show. If Wesley Caplin had kidnapped her and
no one knew about it then he may be able to find more clues to the
prisoners location.
"Thank you Mrs Caplin you've been very helpful, and thank you for the
tea as well."
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Mark had been working very long hours recently to keep the business
going. He really needed Anthony to start soon to help him out. Theresa
was getting tetchy that he wasn't home enough for her, but he needed to
keep her in the fashion that she was becoming accustomed to. Just then
his mobile rang.
"Hello Entwhistle Investigations, how may I help you?" He answered.
"Mark, it's Ed Jenkinson here from the station. I've been meaning to
ring you for ages to thank you for that tip off the other week. It was
a nice collar. Can I buy you a drink sometime to thank you?"
"Sure, I'm really busy at the moment. How about next Monday?" Mark
suggested.
"It'll have to be 9pm as I don't get off shift till then. That suit
you?" Ed asked.
"Yeah that'll be fine mate."
"Oh one more favour Mark," Ed asked him suddenly. "Do you by chance
have the number for Irena Ganalov on you? I heard you did some work
protecting her a while back and I need to contact her to do with some
enquiries I'm making at present."
"Yeah it's on my phone so I'll have to text it to you. Seeing the
papers I doubt you're the only one looking for her though. I'll catch
you next week," After he hung up Mark texted Ed the number as he
promised, then he went back to pouring through the contents of the bin
of a suspected benefit cheat.
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Irena's mobile phone went again and she once again ignored it. She
decided that she'd wait a minute and listen to her messages after a
minute or two. She had little else to do and the TV in the hotel was
just playing some inane childish cartoon. She listened to several
messages from her agent, he model friends and one from Ronaldo trying
to explain his behaviour away. The final message was something a bit
different though.
"Beep. Hello this is Sargeant Ed Jenkinson here," He had a nice
sounding baritone she thought to herself as she listened. "I would like
to talk to you Miss Ganalov as I believe that you might be in danger
from an escaped prisoner called Wesley Caplin. Please call me back on
07822 124509 please."
She was in danger. Did that mean he wanted to kill her? Would she
finally manage to feel something or would the pain of life seep away
quickly? Still it was at least exciting in a twisted kind of way. Let
this man come she thought to herself. At least it might give me the
release that I need.
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Wesley had practiced his make-up in front of Ruth several times already
but he wanted to get it just right. He'd used her computer to get make-
up tips from real crossdressers and he hoped that he was getting
better.
"What you do think Ruth? Do I look desirable?" By now the trusted up
Ruth knew to make encouraging noises through her gag. Wesley had taught
her that to try laughing at her captor through her gag was not a way to
avoid pain. Wesley was happy with his make-up but he was still not thin
enough. He had starved himself all week, but he estimated that he
needed another week of very little food before he was thin enough to
get into the majority of dresses he had stolen. He fitted the light
auburn wig over the wig cap he had stolen and adjusted it until he was
happy.
"Don't worry Ruth, you'll soon have plenty of other people to keep you
company. It was so good of you to let me crash at your house. It'll be
time to ring your mum again soon. Remember that if you give any sign of
trouble then I'll blast you through the head with that shotgun of
yours," It was important that no one suddenly started to miss his
captive, so he let her make supervised calls with the incentive of a
shotgun aimed at her temple.
He'd spent the day before scouting out his targets in Swansea. Mark
Entwhistle had offices in Swansea and he would be easy to track. Wesley
had decided that Hannah Greengrass would be making an appointment with
him next Monday; an appointment that Mark would not be recovering from.
The little mousy ex-PA of his, Anwyn Thomas he'd watched go into work
that morning. He'd pick her off next Tuesday and then he'd be able to
start getting his revenge.
He wasn't convinced about the mauve make-up with the auburn wig. He
decided to scrub it off and start again. Out of impulse he scrubbed off
the make-up from only one side of his face and looked at himself in the
mirror. Two faces, that is what he had now. Whatever it was that he was
turning himself into it was no longer Wesley Caplin. Wesley was as dead
to him as that detective and he ex-PA would be once he'd finished his
revenge on them.
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Sergeant Edward Jenkinson had left three messages for Irena Ganalov and
had finally decided to utilise his contacts within the police to
perform a tracer on Irena's mobile phone. That information had finally
come to him the following Monday afternoon and it had told him that
Irena's mobile was somewhere near the station in Swansea. The Grand
Hotel was right next to the station and assuming that she was not
getting on a train, Ed had decided to try there.
The desk clerk at the Grand had eventually confirmed to him that Irena
was staying in the hotel and had been for some weeks. The staff there
had been given orders not to disclose her location to the press on pain
of being sacked, but since Ed was the police the clerk had rather
reluctantly given him the information.
Irena's room was on the second floor and Ed knocked three times without
answer. Eventually he concluded that either she had already been
kidnapped or she was out. Ed decided that he needed to find out
however, so he went and got a maid to open the door for him. What he
saw when he entered the room shocked him. Irena was on the bed with
bandages on both her arms. A bloody knife lay on the bed and it was
clear to Ed that the wounds had been self inflicted. He'd seen enough
self harm in his times as a policeman to know it when he saw it.
"Irena, are you all right?" He got no answer so he hurried to her bed
and checked her pulse. It was weak but she was still alive. It looked
like she had hardly eaten much over the past two weeks either, which
given she was a supermodel meant she was now painfully thin. He gently
slapped her face to awaken her.
"Irena, wake up. Looks like you need some help," Ed saw the model's
beautiful eyes flutter open faintly and try and focus on his face.
"Are you an Angel?" She asked him gently.
"No Irena, but I am here to save you. My name is Sergeant Ed Jenkinson
of the police."
"Police? I haven't done anything wrong have I?" Irena asked quietly.
"No you couldn't do anything wrong. But you seem to be hurting yourself
Miss Ganalov and that is not good for you," Ed looked down at Irena and
stroked her hair gently. He knew that he probably shouldn't be doing
it, but she was so vulnerable and she needed comforting.
"Hold me. I need to feel again," Irena told him. She was one of the
most beautiful women in the world and she was asking him to hold her.
It was against all police protocols, but Ed knew that she needed him.
She needed comfort. What was worse in his mind was that he had a crush
on her, but that he should not be taking advantage of it now of all
times. He held her nonetheless.
"Your safe and your with me now. That Wesley Caplin won't get to you
now."
"Was he going to come and take away my pain?" She asked. "I'd have
thought that he'd have gone after that detective Mark and his ex-
secretary who helped put him away first though. Pity, I was looking
forward to ending the pain," Ed realised how stupid he'd been. He knew
that Mark had helped put Wesley away since he'd read all the case
notes, but it didn't occur to him that Wesley would go after him. He
was due to meet Mark later tonight, but for now Irena needed him.
Without help she would allow herself to die, and he could not let that
happen. He picked up the phone and dialled room service.
"I'd like whatever the special is please in room 236. Oh and can you
bring up some iron tablets and some plasters as well please," The food
would help give her the energy she needed and the iron tablets would
help restore her iron levels in her blood. What he then needed to do
after that was to start to get her head straight, but that would be a
much longer task.
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Mark's last appointment of the day was with a woman by the name of
Hannah Greengrass. She had a strange voice when she had phoned. She'd
told him that she wanted to see him as she suspected that her husband
was cheating on her. He had hoped that he was beyond such cases but he
still needed all the money so that he could get to keep the business
running. He knew that he could really use Angela on this one now, but
he didn't want to disturb Anthony as he was preparing for his wedding.
Mark leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes, imagining a
beautiful femme fatale coming into his smoky office wearing tight
clothing from the thirties. He loved the glamorous image of the old
noir thrillers, though he'd not had such an encounter since Angela
stepped into his office some months back. He heard a knock at the door
and sat up.
"Enter," he shouted out.
The woman who came into his office was very different to his film noir
fantasy, being tall with long legs encased in nylon. There was
something odd about her as she entered, though for some reason Mark
could not put a finger on it. She was heavily made up that was true,
though her eyes bore down on him through the mascara.
"You must be Hannah Greengrass," he said simply to her.
"Oh yes I am," she said in her odd voice. Mark couldn't place it, but
something about it was nagging at his mind. "I think my husband is
cheating on me," She really was heavily made up, though she was as thin
as she was tall.
"Tell me about it?" he asked her.
She walked past him stepping very deliberately in her low red heels to
the window.
"It was last week when-" Mark felt a sharp blow to the back of his head
and then he started to lose consciousness. He just heard one last thing
before he completely faded out of consciousness.
"Now you're going to suffer Mr Private Dick."
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Whilst Anthony had gone out to the pub with Bernard, Anwyn had popped
round next door to have her weekly girly night in with Claire. Claire
had got out a bottle of red wine for Anwyn and some juice for herself
and they'd sat down for a nice chat. They'd discussed everything from
their partners funny habits, through to the details of the wedding when
the subject of periods came up. Anwyn had several glasses of wine by
then and her tongue had been somewhat loosened.
"I'm about over week late now," she confided in Claire.
"Does that mean that you're expecting?" Claire asked intrigued.
"Well I don't know, but it's likely. I'm going to do the test tomorrow
to find out for sure."
"Well if you are then let me be the first to offer my congratulations
Anwyn. It'll be nice to have the patter of tiny feet in the street. I
must admit I'm getting a bit broody too now. I suppose I should have
the talk with Bernard, but half the time I don't think he listens to
what I'm saying."
"No men do that, then they have the cheek to tell you that you never
told them when you mention it later," Anwyn said.
"Too right. If it's not to do with sport or sex then Bernard's
attention definitely wanders. I think if I could somehow combine the
two then I'd have his full attention."
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It had taken Ed some time to comfort Irena, and even then she still
wanted to cling onto him. After he'd been to the station to report,
he'd had to head off straight to his meeting at the pub with Mark.
He waited half an hour before trying Mark's mobile. There was no
answer. It was possible that Mark was driving here after being late, so
he waited another fifteen minutes before trying again as he finished
his pint. He still didn't get an answer so he left a message. Something
was wrong he knew. It was not like Mark to be this late for a meet up.
He decided to head to Mark's office to see if Mark was still there or
if he could get any clues.
When Ed got there he found the office in a real mess. The paperwork was
all over the floor and the telephone was knocked on the floor. It
looked like there had been a struggle here and Mark feared the worst.
He checked Mark's appointment diary. The last appointment today was for
a Mrs Hannah Greengrass. He guessed that Mrs Greengrass did not really
exist and that Wesley Caplin had struck and taken his first victim for
revenge. Ed was suddenly very worried for Irena. What if she was next?
Ed rushed to the Grand hotel to find Irena up and about looking much
better than when he had found her earlier. When he knocked on the door
she rushed into his arms and hugged him. After several minutes of the
hug Ed was starting to get embarrassed by it.
"You look better," he said. "I'm glad to see you are safe. I think that
Wesley Caplin has struck and taken Mark Entwhistle-Houghton."
"That's terrible news. Please can you stay with me tonight?" she said.
Ed's small flat was all that awaited him later tonight.
"I shouldn't," he said.
"I want you to stay. Please." She looked at him with her big brown
eyes. She wasn't a witness or under police protection currently, so in
theory there was no conflict of interest. Ed therefore decided to stay.
Ed held her in his arms on the bed until she fell asleep. He was deep
in thought and it took him a while to fall asleep himself on the bed.
He was too much of a gentleman to take advantage of Irena though, and
was careful to ensure that he didn't take advantage of her. His mum had
brought him up to be a good boy; she'd have given him a good hiding if
he'd not treated her right.
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Anwyn headed in to work the next day. She wished that she'd been able
to get the week off like Anthony had, but she'd not got the holiday
left after taking her remaining leave for the honeymoon. She still had
the pregnancy test that she'd taken that morning in her handbag, but as
yet she'd not dared to look at the results. She knew that she ought to
look, but she decided to wait until she was in the office and she would
head to the ladies to check it.
She parked her mini in the Northern Bank car park, and spotted another
woman with her car bonnet up. The woman was quite tall and not someone
she recognised from the Bank, though she didn't know everyone in the
building. Perhaps it was a new starter she thought to herself. Anthony
was always telling her that she shouldn't be so shy and she should make
friends when she had the opportunity. After locking her car therefore
she headed over to the woman.
"Hi, you seem to have a problem?" she asked. The other woman looked up,
and Anwyn noticed that she had a bit too much make-up on. She decided
that perhaps it would be prudent not to comment on it.
"Oh yes my car started smoking," the woman said to her. "I don't know
what that bit is." The woman had a deeper throaty female voice and
Anwyn thought she knew that voice, though couldn't place the woman.
Anwyn wasn't an expert on cars, but Anthony had shown her a bit about
the various parts, so she obediently looked in under the hood.
As she did the hood slammed down on her head. She suddenly felt very
woozy and everything started spinning. She heard the voice say more
clearly.
"You little cunt, now you're going to pay."
The hood slammed down on her head again just as she realised where she
knew that voice from. He'd been trying to disguise it, but it was
definitely the voice of her ex-boss Wesley Caplin.
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By the following morning Theresa was getting worried. On the rare
occasions that Mark had needed to stay out late for a stakeout for his
job, he had always phoned her to tell her that he was working late. He
had never failed to phone her though. Theresa wondered if perhaps that
pervert Anthony had somehow lead him astray, but she did not have time
to really check it out now as she had to go to work. She left a message
on his mobile, and decided that she would have words with him when he
got home tonight. It would not do for Mark to do this repeatedly.
When she got home that evening she found that Mark was still not back
and she was now seriously worried. He should have been back or called
her by now. Theresa considered who she could call to see if she could
find out where Mark had got to. Just then the phone rang in the hall.
"This is Theresa Entwhistle-Houghton speaking," she answered in her
telephone voice.
"How posh!" the voice answered. Theresa could place it and was unsure
if it was a man or a woman's voice. "I have something that belongs to
you."
"What do you mean?" she enquired.
"Your private dick." The person on the other end chuckled in an insane
way at their own joke.
"You've got Mark? What do you want?" Theresa felt her pulses racing as
the anxiety increased within her.
"I want the money that he made on me so I can go away and live a new
life elsewhere," the person said.
"Who are you? How much?" Theresa found herself babbling out questions
in a most unusual manner.
"You can call me Two-Genders and the money I want is the money that the
insurance company paid him for the Northern Bank heist," The person
chuckled like a maniac. Theresa had read about the prison break the
other week, the paper had been full of the news. Then it just clicked
with her, this person calling himself Two-Genders was Wesley Caplin.
Now that she knew who she was dealing with some of her arrogant
confidence returned.
"Mr Caplin, I'm sure that the police will be very interested in our
conversation," Theresa threatened. She was never one to take crap from
anyone.
"Go to the police Mrs Entwhistle-Houghton and you will be searching for
parts of the remains of your husband all round Swansea. Get me the
money or I send you part of him. I'm going to start small, maybe a
finger first. Which part do you value of him the most?" Wesley laughed
again. Clearly he was stark raving mad, and clearly she couldn't go to
the police.
"I need time to get the money together. Give me a week," she told him.
"You have three days. Then I send you the first part of your husband.
Each day after that, you will get a new bit of him for your
collection."
"Look, I ..." The phone went dead as Theresa was about to try further
bargaining. She put the phone down and desperately tried to think about
what she was going to do. She could call the police, but if they made a
mess of things then Mark was probably a dead man. She loved her
husband, despite the way she treated him sometimes, and that was not an
option for her. She could hand the money over, but she doubted the
sincerity of the madman on the other end of the phone. The people at
the club would be no help at all to her in this, and although she knew
a lot of people socially, they were more acquaintances than friends.
There was one person that she could think of who could help, but she'd
been trying to avoid thinking about him. The more she thought about it
though, the more she had to conclude that Anthony was the only person
who might be able to help. She hit the wall in frustration at the
thought, before calming herself down and straightening her work
clothes. She'd got around the little creep before, she could do it
again she realised.
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Anthony had spent the day shopping as Angela in the Quadrant Shopping
Centre in Swansea and had now arrived home late that afternoon. Since
he no longer had any work commitments until after the honeymoon, and
Anwyn was at work, he had all the time in the world to relax and enjoy
being a beautiful young woman. Several driving licenses of men and
women were arrayed on the table in front of him. They were his last
little scoop from the graveyard before he left the DVLA last week. It
never hurt to have a number of aliases if he needed them in his new
line of work.
He'd bought Angela several new dresses and he had spent a considerable
time trying them all on again and checking himself out in the tall
mirror in Angela's den. He particularly liked the blue cocktail dress,
though he was unsure that blue was really a good colour for Angela.
Anthony figured that he had plenty of time to play since Anwyn was due
to be going to her final wedding dress fitting tonight on her way home.
After getting into the tight blue dress he strolled out into the garden
and practiced modelling as Angela up and down the garden path. He'd not
had any more modelling shows to do yet, but it didn't hurt to practise.
Anthony loved strutting up and down the garden in his heels and wished
that he could film himself and then watch his performance back on the
TV screen. He was starting to get turned on by the swish of the dress
against the nylon of his tights and had to start taking smaller steps
less his growing erection explode inside his suit.
Anthony wondered briefly what Angela would look like in a Wedding
dress, but quickly dismissed it. He'd promised Anwyn that he'd behave,
and let her have her moment as the blushing bride marrying her
sweetheart at the weekend. Anthony's suit and frock coat were hanging
up in the bedroom he shared with Anwyn. Though it was nice and would
look OK on him, Anthony decided to himself that women had much the
nicer deal in clothes.
He headed back inside as it was starting to get dark and was about to
strip out of the blue dress when the phone rang downstairs. He'd have
to answer it in his own voice, despite being tempted to answer as
Angela.
"Hello," he said simply into the mouthpiece.
"Is Anwyn there?" The voice said on the other end of the phone. Anthony
couldn't place the voice or tell if it was a man or a woman. He didn't
know too many of Anwyn's friends.
"No she's not in, and not likely to be back until later. Who shall I
said called?"
"Oh she won't be coming back tonight," the voice said. "She's nice and
safe here with me." Anthony was rapidly trying to work out if someone
was yanking his chain.
"Who is that?"
"Well at the moment I'm Hannah but I could be anyone. You can call me
Two-Genders if that makes you feel better." It sounded to Anthony that
some sicko had kidnapped Anwyn. But why her? She'd never hurt a fly.
"What do you want?" he asked.
"I want a little revenge and a lot of money," Anthony could understand
the revenge and the money, but this was different. This evil person had
Anwyn. "I want what Anwyn made from the Northern Bank collar," Someone
who knew about Anwyn's involvement in the arrest was obviously trying
to cash in. Of course what they didn't know was that it wasn't really
Anwyn who'd found out the information and passed it onto Mark.
"We don't have the money. We spent it on the wedding."
"Then I'll have whatever money you have and I want your wedding. I want
the rings, the cake, the honeymoon tickets and the dress. I will take
from her as she has taken from me."
"I can't just get my hands on those things right now," Anthony said at
last.
"You have two days, else you'll start discovering parts of the good
little PA at your door on a daily basis. I'll be in touch again with
you tomorrow night," Two-Genders menaced.
"If you touch a hair on Anwyn's head then you will regret it," Anthony
threatened.
"I'll do more than that and you'd do well to be nice to me." With that
the phone went dead.
Anthony put the phone down and was furious for not seeing this coming.
He'd need to get the Wedding dress somehow, but the shop wouldn't let
him have it as he was the bridegroom. With Anwyn not able to attend the
fitting tonight there was only one alternative. Anthony headed up to
the loft to retrieve the Anwyn suit that he'd deposited there months
ago. He was now glad that he hadn't destroyed the suit and mask as
Anwyn had demanded.
He'd just hauled it down from the loft and put the ladder away when
there was a knock at the door. Still dressed as Angela he had no
alternative but to go and answer the door as his alter ego. For the
second time in his life he was surprised to see Theresa stood at his
door wearing a grey pin striped business suit and heels.
"Theresa, I'm afraid I don't have time for our usual insults right now,
can this wait until later?" he told her bluntly.
"No it can't wait Anthony, Mark has been kidnapped by Wesley Caplin and
he needs your help." Anthony had to process this statement on several
levels. Firstly he kicked himself that he hadn't realised that Two-
Genders was Wesley Caplin. It was obvious now that Theresa had told
him, but at the time he hadn't twigged it. Secondly, he noted that
Theresa had twisted it to say that Mark needed his help, when in fact
she meant that she needed his help, but she couldn't bring herself to
say it. Finally it registered that Wesley had kidnapped both Anwyn and
well as Mark. He really was going all out for revenge.
"OK Theresa, we do need to talk. You'd better come in. He has Anwyn as
well," Anthony replied in Angela's voice. Despite the fact that Theresa
knew it was him, he couldn't bring himself to drop the charade in front
of her. "We should call the Police."
"he said if we got the police involved he'd kill Mark. He's a sick man
that deserved prison, but I can't let him dismember my husband,"
Theresa said as she entered the house. Anthony remembered that she'd
called him a pervert not long ago, so it seemed that her standards were
somewhat flexible.
"He won't be touching Anwyn either if I have my way, but first we need
to find out where he is holding them. To be honest that was Mark's area
of specialty. Once we know where they are, then I will get them free.
We have a few days to plan. Can I suggest we think about it overnight
and then meet up tomorrow to discuss ideas?"
"Very well," Theresa said somewhat miffed. Anthony assumed that she
thought he should have the solution right this minute.
"I'll come round to your house at 10am tomorrow then," Anthony said as
Theresa got up to go.
"Anthony, your partner is relying on you to rescue him," Theresa poured
the pressure onto him, but he could hear the desperation in her voice.
Once she'd gone he bounded upstairs to the disguise den and took off
Angela's face and put on the Anwyn mask. He then headed back downstairs
and found the number for the Wedding dress shop on the phone.
"Hi, it's Anwyn Thomas," he whispered into the voice changer. "I'm
afraid I'm going to be half an hour later for my final fitting, can you
hold on for me?"
"Ah Miss Thomas we were getting worried about you. Yes I can hold on a
bit," That was all he needed to know and after putting the phone down
he went to strip out of Angela and once again don the Anwyn disguise.
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Wesley put the phone down and chuckled to himself. They'd spend ages
trying to fulfil his demands, meanwhile he'd have plenty of time to
start to damage his victims. He'd had a nice life, house and job until
these two had ruined it all for him and fundamentally changed him. His
revenge was not as simple as money or possessions. No he wanted to get
his revenge by breaking the detective and his ex-PA. There was nothing
worse that he could think of doing than taking something from you and
giving it back broken. As he sat down his knickers began to ride up,
and he was forced to pull them away from his bum crack. He headed out
of the phone box and got back into Ruth's car to head back to the
cottage. When he got there he headed straight to the living room where
Mark was tied up.
"Hello my dear. Did you enjoy your medicine and that little drink that
I gave you earlier?" Wesley cooed. Mark couldn't really reply due to
the gag in his mouth and his grunts were unintelligible. "Oh you did!
How lovely!" The crushed Viagra in the orange juice had really done its
job. Wesley looked down at Mark's bulging trousers and knelt down to
unzip his flies. This was the first time Wesley had initiated such an
action. In Swansea jail he'd let the men on D wing do it to him, but it
had been hard for him to accept such an act at first. Now he was doing
it volontarily.
"Oh you are excited to see me." Wesley's manicured hands moved down to
rub Mark's cock. "I'm afraid you're going to have to go in the back
entrance as I'm afraid it's my time of the month. Well to be honest
it's always that time for me. Wesley lowered his knickers, gaff and
tights before lowering his rear onto Mark's cock. He then pumped his
arse onto Mark's cock until Mark eventually came.
"That was nice wasn't it? I'm afraid not everything that we do is going
to be as nice as that Mark," Wesley chuckled to himself as he headed to
his other captive's room.
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Ed was not on rota for the next day, so he spent the day with Irena.
During the morning they had talked extensively, but after a while Ed
persuaded Irena that they should get some air. They'd headed out to
Singleton Park and on their way Ed had dropped into the station to make
a request for a report on Mark Entwhistle-Houghton's phone records for
yesterday. Ed knew that it would take a day or two to get the report,
so he enjoyed the time that he'd spent in the park with Irena. It
seemed that Irena had been pretty messed up over the years and that she
had a number of issues. However Ed was a good listener. He'd had lots
of experience listening to his mother drone on about the war and other
tales of the past in the home she was now in, and he absorbed
everything that Irena told him. He'd even tried to offer suggestions to
help.
Ed realised that although she was really screwed up but that he also
really liked Irena. Underneath all the neurosis's and issues that she
had, Irena was a kind and gentle soul.
"I'd like to help find Mark as vell iv I can," Irena said that evening.
"I'm no detective but him and his partner Angela helped me in Cardiff
and I'd really like to repay ze favour."
"That's kind of you Irena, but I'm going to struggle to find him as it
is. If there is anything you can do I'll let you know though."
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Anthony had tightened the corset up as much as he could by himself, but
he still thought that he hadn't done enough. Anwyn's clothes were tight
over his latex body and he hoped that he'd be able to fit into the
wedding dress to convince Mrs Emsworth in the shop that he was Anwyn.
The tight clothes made Anwyn's breasts more pronounced than normal as
he entered the shop in one of Anwyn's spare work suits and flats.
Anthony would have preferred being in heels, but he was pretending to
be Anwyn so he had to stay in character.
"Good evening Iris," the fake Anwyn said.
"Miss Thomas, glad you could finally make it," Iris Emsworth replied.
"Come through and get those clothes off quickly. I have to get home in
twenty minutes to get my kids tea."
Anthony slipped his flat shoes off and pulled down his long business
skirt. Then he took of her jacket and unbuttoned the tight blouse to
reveal her matching white bra and panty set.
"You'll need to put the corset on first" Iris said handing the fake
Anwyn a white waist nipper. Anthony wondered if it would be effective
as he already had a corset on under his Anwyn suit. Mrs Emsworth kindly
tightened the corset up for him and then assisted him in getting into
the white gown. It was supposed to be unlucky for the bridegroom to see
the dress before the wedding, but Anthony decided that since he was
currently Anwyn that it wouldn't count. Besides if having your future
wife kidnapped didn't count as bad luck he didn't know what did.
"You've put on a little you know. I'll have to take out the bust a
bit." Iris continued to fuss around him. "You won't be able to take it
tonight, it will probably be done the day after tomorrow."
"That's OK, I have some time off then Iris. I'll come and pick it up
then." Anthony admired the image of Anwyn in the mirror looking back at
him. She was going to make a beautiful bride. He wished that she wore
more girly things like this more often. "Now if you can help me out of
this then I'll get dressed and let you get home to your children."
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The real Anwyn heard the noises from downstairs and knew that her
captor would be coming for her soon. She tried to free herself from the
bonds but Wesley had tied the knots too well for her to escape. On the
other side of the bedroom from where she was tied up was her handbag on
the vanity table. She really didn't want her captor to look in her
handbag as the unviewed pregnancy test was still sat inside there. If
it was positive, then there would be two lives at stake here and not
one. She really didn't want Wesley to know that and have more power
over her.
She heard Wesley coming up the stairs and saw him enter the room. He
was still wearing the same dress that he had on when he kidnapped her
and now that she could study him in detail she didn't know why she
hadn't spotted earlier that he was a man in drag. It was not like she
didn't have experience with this sort of thing, Anthony was exceptional
at it after all. Whilst Wesley had got many things right, he was
certainly no expert at cross-dressing. Now Anwyn could see little
things that gave the game away, such as his breast forms being slightly
misaligned, his stubble starting to re-emerge and the size of his
hands. Anthony was a small man who wore a mask and he got away with
such things, but Wesley could not. She cursed herself as to why she
didn't spot these things earlier.
"Don't feel left out my little hummingbird. It's your turn now. Since I
made such a mess of your hair earlier with all that blood I feel it
only right to do something about it," Anwyn could see Wesley produce a
pair of kitchen scissors from behind his back. He then proceeded to
hack away at her mousy brown locks until all that was left were short
tufts of hair. Anwyn could see in the mirror on the bedroom wall by the
vanity that she now looked a fright.
"Much better don't you think?" Wesley said cheerfully. He was clearly
mad. "Your fianc? will be delivering your dress, the rings and the cake
in a few days so there will be everything we need to get married. I no
longer have a wife now because of you and that detective, so I need a
replacement. If he thinks that I'm going to let you go after this he
has another thing coming. Revenge is such a delicious thing don't you
think?"
Wesley pawed at her messed up hair a bit as he continued to tell her
everything he had planned. Why the hell did he think that she wanted to
hear about it? Anwyn tuned out from her captor's monologue, and began
to think about Anthony. She hoped he'd be planning something by now, he
always seemed to have some idea in mind when it came to these things.
She concentrated her thoughts on him and imagined some bold rescue
plan, though as she continued she guessed that he'd somehow manage to
involve Angela somewhere into the plan. It's not that she minded Angela
too much, it was just that Anthony didn't seem to know where the
boundaries were. In her own way she was sort of becoming fond of Angela
in a best girlfriend kind of way, but she really wanted to have a man
in the conventional sense of a relationship. Anthony was not strong, or
classically tall dark and handsome, but he was clever and he loved her.
That was all that she asked.
Suddenly the dull moan of Wesley's speech was gone, and Anwyn realised
that she was alone once again. Briefly she wondered what Wesley had
been saying, but she quickly dismissed it. She didn't want to know how
he was going to do to try and screw her up. She just needed to
concentrate on what was good in her life and she knew that she'd be
fine.
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Theresa tried to wait patiently for Anthony to show up the next
morning, though she was not at all a patient woman. As a result she
began pacing up and down her living room and periodically looked out of
the window for Anthony to show up. About ten minutes after he was due
to turn up, Theresa got the shock of her life when she saw Anwyn walk
up her garden path. Had Anthony managed to free them both already
without her? She rushed to the door and opened it for Anwyn.
"I was expecting Anthony. How did you get free from that monster?"
Theresa demanded.
"Let me in," Anwyn said to her, "and I'll explain." Something was odd
here, but she moved aside and let Anwyn in.
"It's me, Anthony," Anwyn said. The figure in front of her looked and
spoke exactly like Anwyn, and had she not already known that Anthony
had a talent for dressing up as women, then she would have dismissed
it.
"That's incredible. I really did think you were Anwyn. Though that
brings your perverted activities to a whole new level Anthony. Dressing
up as you fianc? really takes the biscuit."
"Knock it off Theresa, we have to focus on the rescue," Anthony
replied. "The good news is that I now have a plan of sorts, though I'm
going to need you to find me something. Mark had a locator bug and a
device for finding the bug in Cardiff. We're going to really need that
for all this to work. Wesley wants me to give him Anwyn's wedding
dress, our wedding rings and cake. I'm proposing to put the locator in
the dress so that we can track him back to where-ever he is holding
Mark and Anwyn."
"Ok, I'll have a look in Mark's workshop in a minute," Theresa replied
sternly. "But that still doesn't answer the question as to why you are
disguised as your fianc?."
"Oh, that's simple. Anthony can hardly go and pick up Anwyn's dress now
could he?" the fake Anwyn replied to her.
"No, I suppose not." Theresa didn't extend her thoughts to Anthony any
further on this. There were whole areas of perversion involved in all
this that her mind instinctively disapproved of.
Theresa headed into Mark's electronics workshop and began hunting for
the device that Anthony had asked for. She didn't like to say so, but
she was not really sure exactly what she was looking for. Mark had a
load of electronics parts strewn around the workshop, and she'd given
up trying to tidy it all up. When they had visitors around she'd simply
locked the small room to ensure that no one accidently came in here and
saw all the mess.
"What exactly did it look like," Theresa called out at last to Anthony.
The figure of Anwyn demurely came in to the room taking small careful
steps in her flat shoes. Theresa couldn't believe how well Anthony was
mimicking Anwyn's mannerisms. She wondered how many times she had met
Anwyn and it was really Anthony in his superb disguise.
"The controller was a small grey box with two lights and a needle on
it. The bug was a small device like a little press stud," Anthony
replied.
They continued looking and Theresa caught occasional peeks at the fake
Anwyn. She couldn't see much of her skin as it was covered by a
cardigan and slacks, but her small breasts and perky little rear were
exactly as she remembered the real Anwyn.
"I think this is it," the fake Anwyn told her, picking up a grey
looking box. "You don't mind if I take this with me do you?"
"No, fine. However I want you to go through the full plan." Theresa was
nervous that she didn't really know what Anthony had planned. She
didn't want to get another surprise in all this, and she wanted to
ensure that she got Mark back safe and sound.
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Ed was on duty the following day and had to leave Irena at the hotel.
She had begged him to stay with her, but he had to go into work. He
promised her faithfully that as soon as he was off shift that he'd
return to her. She was extremely needy at this time, but only because
she was so vulnerable. Ed wanted to protect her with all his heart, and
he hoped that he had enough to give so that she would stop tormenting
herself so.
When he got into the station he went to check whether Mark's work phone
records had come in. The constable on the desk told him that they
hadn't yet, but that they were expected later in the day. There was
little he could do but wait therefore and go about his duties on his
beat.
Sometime later in the day he found an excuse to head back to the
station where he once again checked to see if the list was in. The
Constable behind the desk this time produced the document and asked him
why he needed it.
"Just some enquiries into the missing prisoners Joe," he replied.
Ed proceeded to start to work his way down the list of numbers that had
called Mark during the day. He crossed off the numbers that he knew,
his own numbers and the calls that came from Theresa he managed to
eliminate quickly. He was left with seven numbers that he couldn't
instantly identify and he knew that he would need to go online to try
and find out the addresses from the phone numbers. He headed to the
library in Swansea and sat down on one of the computers to begin going
through the numbers. He got six addresses and the seventh one turned
out to be a phone box up near the airport.
He worked out that he probably had time to go around to four of the
addresses today. He decided that tomorrow on his day off he would go to
the other two and the phone box with Irena.
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Anthony headed to the discount wedding dress store where he thumbed
through the racks until he found something vaguely suitable in Anwyn's
size. The woman behind the counter came up and asked her if 'she'
needed any help, and Anthony decided that he needed to try on the dress
before buying. Even though it was a discount second hand wedding dress,
it was still going to cost him ?120. He needed it to look vaguely like
the real dress, though he doubted that Wesley would have any idea what
the difference was.
He took the dress into the changing rooms and began stripping out of
Anwyn's cardigan, sweatshirt and slacks. Underneath he had a pair of
lacy topped stockings and sexy underwear that no one else could see.
Anthony loved the thought of his wife in this sexy underwear, though
she rarely wore anything like this except on special occasions. Today
though he had little time to fanaticise about the clothes he was
wearing and he quickly donned the dress. It pretty well fit him and
although he would normally reject it due to an number of style issues
that the dress had, he decided it would do. There was little time to
get this sorted and he still needed to pick a fake cake up before the
end of the day. The rings and the tickets he wasn't going to fake. He
hoped that he would be able get them back from Wesley once this had all
finished.
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Irena had been waiting in the hotel room all day, nervously awaiting
Ed's return from his work. What if he didn't come back? What if his
promises were like all the other promises she'd had from men in the
past? Ronaldo hadn't been the only man to cheat on her. She could feel
the adrenaline pumping around her body as she paced the room. The
temptation to get the knife and ease her suffering had been intense
during the day, but somehow she had managed to get through the day
without giving in to her impulse.
Ed showed up ten minutes early much to Irena's relief still wearing his
police Sergeants' uniform. Irena thought he looked really smart in his
uniform. She decided that she liked a man in uniform.
"No luck today," he said simply. "I have some leads that we can check
up on tomorrow though." Irena brightened as she replied.
"I vill help zu Edvard. We vill find Mark, you vill see." Irena pulled
the man who had appeared suddenly into her life towards her and smelt
the musky odour of man on him. She smiled as she pulled him closer for
a kiss. There were other ways to make you feel alive in life than
cutting, and Irena was determined that she would experience it in a
positive way from now on.
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Wesley had enjoyed torturing Mark after he had left Anwyn, but he knew
that he needed to start to get his plans into motion for tomorrow. The
burns on Mark's chest and arms would heal eventually but would cause
him pain for some time yet. Anwyn he would deal with properly tomorrow
once that dippy fianc? of hers had provided him all the items he
needed.
Wesley headed out from the house to Ruth's car. It was about a mile to
the phone box, but he really didn't want to walk it in a dress and
heels. He was getting better at walking in heels, but he still didn't
fancy his chances down a rapidly darkening country lane. As he got into
the car he briefly wondered why he was doing all this. Why he was
wearing women's clothing to take revenge and what all the point of it
was? He reached down and felt his own smooth touch on his nylons and
the promise that the silky smooth touch on his legs gave him send
signals of pleasure to his trapped cock pushed back between his legs.
Is that how the man in the fake Irena suit had felt, being the thing
that he loved? Wesley still loved women and had strong desires to make
love to one as a man, but in jail he had conditioned himself to accept
a man making love to him. He no longer understood himself and perhaps
that was the source of his confusion. The self pleasure was one of the
few things that he had left that he truly understood.
The drive to the phone box was short and he got out of the car to walk
to the phone box when he discovered that it was already occupied by a
teenage boy. Didn't they all have mobile phones now? Wesley was tempted
to forcibly rip the boy from the phone box and add him to his
collection of hostages, but that would bring too much attention to the
location here in the middle of nowhere. So he was forced to wait until
the boy had finished. As he left the box the boy gave Wesley a quick
visual inspection, though the distance and the darkness had meant that
whatever view the boy had gotten, it had merely said a middle aged
woman was waiting to use the phone.
Wesley rang the home number for Anwyn Thomas once again and waited
patiently for her dozy fianc? to answer. This was going to be like
taking candy from a baby.
"Hello Anthony Danforth speaking," the other end of the phone answered.
"Do you have the goods?" Wesley said as menacingly as he could in his
fake female voice.
"Yes I have the wedding items. What do you want me to do with them?"
"Pack them up neatly so that the cake and the dress don't get damaged
then go tomorrow morning at 9am sharp to the old abandoned industrial
estate in Sketty. Wait in the middle of between all the offices. Come
alone or the future Mrs Danforth dies."
"Understood. Then you'll free Anwyn," the voice on the phone stated.
"We'll see," Wesley said putting the receiver down. He had no intention
of letting her go, but there was no reason to tell this Anthony person
that now was there?
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Anthony felt strange being himself for the first time in days. He no
longer had any breasts, however his waist was still being nipped by an
infernal corset. After he'd finished the exchange of the wedding items
he'd need to get changed quickly, and he wanted to get a head start on
it. He had the Wedding dress, tickets and the rings in a case, and a
separate Tupperware box with the cake in it sitting down by his side.
He felt a little stupid standing in the middle of an empty business
park with a bunch of wedding accoutrements, but this was necessary to
get Anwyn back. The creep Wesley was late and he scanned his watch for
the fifth time to see how long had passed since the last time. Another
five minutes had passed. He was worried about Anwyn and how she'd cope
with being kidnapped. She was shy at the best of times, but having a
psychopath kidnap her, that could really send her into her shell.
He heard the sound of a van approaching with its lights on. Anthony
could just make out a black figure in the driver's seat who stopped the
van in front of him and got out. Now that he could see the man out of
the headlights he spotted that he was wearing a brown uniform with UPS
on the side.
"You got a package for me then?" the driver said.
Anthony looked at the man slack jawed. He'd expected Wesley to come
himself, and just wasn't prepared for this.
"Oh yeah, they're here," Anthony said pointing at the suitcase and the
box. "Careful with the Tupperware there's a cake in there."
"Sure thing mate," The driver said. With that he picked up the case and
then slung it into the back of the van. He then went back for the
Tupperware and Anthony had a horrible suspicion that it was going to
get the same treatment.
"So where are you taking them then?" Anthony asked pleasantly.
"Sorry mate. I have specific instructions on the docket not to tell you
that. More than my jobsworth to go against a client's instructions."
With that the UPS driver slung the Tupperware into the van with less
care than the case.
"OK mate, no worries," Anthony said as he signed the pickup sheet. He
looked at the docket but could not see any information on the person
who'd ordered the pickup. He waited until the van drove away and then
hung around for another ten minutes. He had no way of knowing whether
Wesley was watching the exchange or not and he wanted Wesley to feel
safe that he wasn't following the van. After the ten minutes were up he
headed home to go and change.
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Theresa had never been involved in her husband's work before. She was
feeling both nervous and excited tension as she followed the little
blip on the screen in her BMW. The van first of all headed in towards
Swansea city and then out again towards the airport. It finally pulled
up on the outskirts of the airport and the driver left the packages in
an old hut. Theresa pushed her dark glasses up on her nose and then
pulled up the collar on the Macintosh she was wearing so that no one
would recognise her in her car as she waited. She finally felt like a
real detective.
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Ed had checked the last two phone numbers out; both had been legitimate
contacts of Mark's. He was now just left with the phone box out near
the airport as his last suspect. Somehow he'd known all along that it
would be the phone box where the call was made from. Far easier to hide
if you use a public call box. Deep inside, Ed knew that he probably
shouldn't be bringing Irena with him, but she had begged to come along.
She told him she couldn't stand to be without him and that she wanted
to do all she could to help Mark. Irena was not really dressed for a
stakeout, with a pink chemise, long black skirt and high boots. Mark
hoped that she would wait in the car whilst he checked the phone box.
The box itself was empty, but hanging around nearby it on a BMX bike
was a teenager who really should be at school. Ed headed over to the
teenager who looked at him warily.
"I'm looking for someone who's started using this box recently. Have
you seen anyone matching that description?" The teenager gave him the
finger but then stared wide eyed at something behind him.
"Are, are .... are you Irena Ganalov?" the teenager stuttered
nervously.
"Yes," She replied from behind Ed. "Ve really need to know if zu hav
seen anyone new around zis box," Ed guessed that Irena coming here was
a wet dream come true for the lad, who'd perhaps seen far too many
pictures of the model in The Sun.
"There was some tall bird here yesterday. Showed up in an old Ford,"
the lad answered her. "Can I have your autograph? Clive will never
believe I met you."
"Ov course. You can't remember ze number plate can you?" Irena said
kindly getting some paper and a pencil from her bag. She signed the
paper 'With Love Irena' and gave it to him.
"Yeah it was M155 RTH. Can't miss a personalised number plate, even if
it was a crap old car," the kid told her, glowing at the piece of paper
that Irena handed him.
"Thanks kid," Ed said to him. The kid stuck his tongue out at him and
blew a kiss to Irena as he cycled off. Ed was sure that the kid should
have been in school, his police instincts kicking in.
They headed back to the car and Ed picked up his police radio from the
dashboard.
"This is officer 1966 requesting a PNC check," Ed said into the radio.
"Mike, one, five, five, Romeo, Tango, Hotel."
"Car is a brown Ford Escort. Owner is a Miss Ruth Capshaw of Rectory
Cottage, Bryn-afel." Ed was excited. They'd finally got a location and
he could feel that he was really on the scent of his quarry now.
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Anthony had changed into the Anwyn suit as fast as he could and donned
her spare work suit to match as closely as possible what she was
wearing when she was kidnapped. As he was changing Angela's mobile
rang.
"Anthony, the package was delivered to an old hut on the airport
grounds. It was