Chapter Four - Remember, I'll be Watching
"I won't lie to you Taylor; it's going to be dangerous," David Campbell
said.
"We strongly suspect that Veronique Pascal and Bradley Freeman are
involved in a conspiracy to conduct money laundering contrary to the
Money Laundering Control Act of 1986 but we can't tie them specifically
to Alexi Kamerov or his people trafficking operation."
"We have some evidence but not enough to make a case. The best evidence
would be to get them to admit to it in person and then we introduce our
corroborative evidence to support the allegations. That's where you come
in," David explained.
"How do I come in? What can I do?" Taylor was confused.
"I'll send you the data on the unreported income being generated by
PostPay and the code that will provide you access to the illegal income
streams. You're a whiz-kid programmer so it would be believable that you
discovered the scam yourself. You confront Veronique with the evidence
and tell her you know where the money is coming from and that you want a
cut."
"Then it's over to you to do whatever it takes to get Veronique or
Bradley Freeman to admit that the proceeds come from Alexi and his
people trafficking enterprise. You will, for all intents and purposes,
become a confidential informant," David said to a sceptical looking
Taylor.
"How do I do that?" Taylor furrowed her brow.
"That's up to you. The alternative is to get swept up in the web when we
take them all down," David said coolly.
"You mean the guys dressed in body armour carrying high powered weapons
breaking down my door I presume," Taylor sighed.
David nodded sagely. He saw the fear on Taylor's face followed by
resignation and couldn't help but feel sorry for her.
"Look, you won't be out there on your own. I'll be keeping watch." David
patted Taylor's hand but she immediately withdrew it.
"How keeping watch? Where exactly will you be?" Taylor said tersely.
"It's best that you don't know. We don't want you constantly looking out
for us or behaving unnaturally because you think we're watching. I want
you to behave as normal as you can," David replied.
'Normal! I'm a man trapped in the body of woman, an experience that was
until today not entirely unpleasant. I finally have my dream come true
and my startup is a raging success, I'm rich, I have friends and now
this!' Taylor thought to herself.
"So what's it going to be Taylor?" David looked at his watch to indicate
that time was critical.
Taylor sighed and nodded her head.
"Ok give me your phone. We'll track you my GPS and cell-tower
triangulation but there may times when you have no coverage so we will
put a small transmitter in your phone. It doesn't have much of a range
but we can use it to pinpoint your location and find you if the other
two methods are no longer available," David explained.
"One of your methods of keeping watch?" Taylor managed a feeble smile.
The briefing went on a while longer and then David took Taylor back down
to the garage. He handed Taylor her phone just before she climbed into
the rear of the town car.
"Good luck. Remember, I'll be watching." David patted her shoulder but
it seemed to her that he wanted to do more, maybe hug her.
She noticed that he looked at her legs when she climbed into the car. No
matter what the situation men were incorrigible around a pretty woman.
The ride back to Taylor's apartment was a lot shorter because the driver
was able to drive there directly, there being no need to shake a tail.
The car pulled up right outside the entrance to the Millennium on
LaSalle and the driver, who hadn't said a word during the whole trip,
turned in his seat.
"David Campbell is one of the good guys but don't fuck him over because
he might look like a he just left prep school but he can be a ruthless
prick," he said and then got out of the limo to get the door for her.
He did not stare at her legs.
Taylor made it up to her apartment before she began to shake. She fell
onto the couch and sobbed uncontrollably until she was cried out. She
felt exhausted and she made her way to the bedroom, disrobed and ran the
bath. She poured herself a stiff drink and went back to the bathroom and
stood before the mirror and examined her body. She had been a woman for
long enough now that it no longer surprised her to see herself that way,
but her body still fascinated her.
Having said all that, Taylor was looking forward to becoming her male
self again in the near future. As she lowered herself into the bubbles
she wondered if her forthcoming gender change might be her salvation. If
she could play out the time she had remaining as the female Taylor until
it was time use the USB to transform back into her male self she could
save herself from prosecution and incarceration.
Female Taylor will have disappeared, taken by the Bratva perhaps, never
to be seen again. Her cousin would come forward as her rightful
successor. If she could get the FBI to hold off until then, the male
Taylor could sell PostPay to Bradley Freeman who she knew wanted control
of it. Male Taylor could not be indicted for money laundering because he
had no knowledge of it. He would walk away with a healthy profit and
work on another venture.
All of sudden there was light at the end of the tunnel.
Taylor luxuriated in the bath longer than she should have. She had been
away from work for most of the day and she had a stream of texts from
Veronique and an accumulation of email to deal with. But the bath was
sumptuously warm and inviting and now that she'd had a drink to take the
edge off and possibly has a solution to her conundrum, not all seemed
lost.
She put down her drink and allowed her hand to snake down her body to
the cleft between her legs whilst the other hand stroked her breasts.
Her nipples engorged as did her clitoris as she massaged it with the pad
of her middle finger. She didn't have a lot of time so she pressed
harder and faster until her clitoris began to tingle and then she pushed
two fingers into her vagina and tweaked her nipples.
The orgasm blossomed like a rose, each delectable peal of delight was
like a petal opening until the rose was in full bloom and intense rings
of pleasure wracked her body. Taylor sighed and stretched out her toes
and writhed a little in the warm foamy broth, letting the last tinges of
her climax dissipate.
"Ok. Enough procrastination, get back to work," Taylor said and lifted
her body from the foam.
Taylor drained the bath and stepped into the rainfall shower to wash
away the remaining lather. She put on a bathrobe and fired up one of her
PCs and went to work. She answered those emails that required a response
and the same with her texts. She found four missed calls from Veronique
Pascal and a few 'WTF?' texts so she gave her a call.
"Where the fuck have you been all day?" Veronique said without any
preamble.
"I told you that an old friend was passing through and it was my only
chance to catch up. I haven't seen him for years?" Taylor stuck to the
pretext.
"You blew off Nordstrom for an old friend? What are you in fucking high
school? I'm pissed and so is Bradley. The Nordstrom execs wanted to see
the whiz-kid who developed the app not the monkeys pulling the levers."
Veronique did indeed sound pissed.
"I'm sorry Veronique. What can I do?" Taylor was keen to make amends,
she needed to get back on Veronique's good side.
"I'm going to tell you exactly what to do darling. You are going to put
on that low-cut red satin sheath with the ass-to-ankle split in the side
that I made you buy at Talia, put on the matching red Louboutin's, do
your hair and makeup and get your fine ass down to Alinea. We have
dinner reservations for nine," Veronique said.
"So a late dinner where I schlep my tits and ass around the execs from
Nordstrom and all is forgiven?" Taylor tried to make light of it.
"Maybe by them; as for me I'm not so sure. We'll see what happens."
Veronique broke the connection.
While she was speaking with Veronique an email arrived from an unknown
source but Taylor knew that it was generated by FBI Agent David
Campbell. She downloaded and unpacked the attachment. It directed Taylor
to the source code on the PostPay servers at FreeCom that the Bratva,
and by association, Bradley Freeman and Veronique Pascal were using to
launder money.
As much as she would have liked to explore the programs and sub-routines
cunningly buried in PostPay's operating system there was no time.
Instead she spent half an hour in front of the mirror perfecting her
hair and makeup and then slipped into a pair of her favourite flesh-
toned Jonathan Aston 12 denier seamed holdup stockings and a pair of
red, seamless, microfiber, hipster panties so as not to show any visible
pantyline under the satin sheath. She shimmied into the evening gown;
there was enough support in the bodice of the dress that she could go
without a bra.
Taylor accessorised with a matching silver and emerald necklace and
earrings to complement the dress and shoes. She used her app to order a
car from her service while she fussed around ensuring she that looked
perfect and then threw the essentials into a Jimmy Choo silver clutch
and slipped her feet into her red four-inch Louboutin pumps just as the
car arrived.
Taylor decided not to wear a coat over the dress for fear of spoiling
the nap of the sleek fabric. Braving the bitter cold for the quick trip
from the foyer of her building to the rear doors of the limo was worth
it because when she alighted from the car at Alinea restaurant heads
were turned and compliments were made.
Veronique's car pulled up behind Taylor's and she too turned heads
getting out of her town car wearing a teal charmeuse evening gown and
white Jimmy Choo's. The gown was perfectly complemented by her blood-red
lipstick and severe jet-black shoulder-length bob.
The two women air-kissed at the entrance to the restaurant while the
concierge held the door open for them and more heads turned as they made
their way to the bar escorted by Bradley Freeman who had arrived in
Veronique's car.
"When I see you dressed like this Taylor I can almost forgive you for
being AWOL today." His fingers brushed Taylor's buttocks as he put his
hand in the small of her back to guide her to the bar and Taylor doubted
that the ass-grab was accidental.
She spent the evening schmoozing up to the Nordstrom executives, two men
and one woman, ensuring that she displayed plenty of legs and tits. All
three of the executives seemed interested, which made Taylor think the
female exec was either lesbian or bi. The late dinner wrapped up around
midnight and the Nordstrom people excused themselves. They needed to get
some rest; tomorrow was a workday.
Bradley insisted that Taylor and Veronique accompany him to his
apartment for a nightcap despite their protests. They bundled into the
back of a town car where Bradley took the opportunity to not so subtly
grope them both. They had all drunk plenty during the evening and their
inhibitions were down. Bradley settled the women on a long couch in the
subtly lit lounge room and poured them all drinks that they really
didn't need.
Bradley was happy to sit in an armchair and watch Veronique and Taylor
get it on. They stripped to their lingerie and spent a while kissing and
fondling each other then they took turns going down on each other and
then they moved to the bedroom and ended up scissoring on the big bed.
Bradley became impatient and a little rapey and the girls submitted to
his desires and he fucked them both a little and Veronique let him come
in her ass. Then the girls got back to scissoring and then they fell
asleep in a tangled heap.
The next day at her office in FreeCom Taylor closed the door and asked
the receptionist to screen her calls while she examined in detail the
source code that had been installed on the PostPay servers. The malware
was simple but cunning. It generated fictitious PostPay accounts which
then made purchases for significant amounts of money just below the
$10,000 limit which would require a currency transaction report.
Deposits were made through PostPay into the accounts of the sham vendors
which were then routed overseas into numbered bank accounts.
An algorithm determined when a fictitious account was nearing overuse
and likely to draw suspicion and the account was closed and another
pseudo customer account immediately generated. According to Taylor's
calculations the Bratva could conceivably launder over half a billion
dollars a year through PostPay. The program was designed so that the
illegal transactions did not pay any fees or interest to PostPay so that
it passed seamlessly through the system but did not artificially bloat
PostPay's profits which would have drawn the attention of the Treasury
Department.
"Fuck!" Taylor was shocked at the audacity of the scheme.
The malware had obviously been programmed into PostPay by one or more of
Bradley Freeman's whiz-kid coders, not that it mattered. What mattered
to Taylor was linking the bogus accounts to Alexi Kamerov and the income
streams to human trafficking.
Taylor walked down the corridor to Veronique Pascal's office and entered
unannounced. She closed the door behind her and leaned back against it.
"A dramatic entrance Taylor; what can I do for you?" Veronique asked.
"I know about the secret code embedded in PostPay," Taylor said frankly.
Veronique raised an eyebrow and indicated a leather sofa in the corner
of the office. Taylor strode over and sat down and Veronique came around
from behind her desk and sat opposite her.
"What are you talking about?" Veronique remained stoic.
"I'm no criminal investigator but I can only guess that PostPay is being
used to launder money. Bradley is obviously in on it because the
programming code has his whiz-kids signatures all over it. Code writers
are almost like authors, you can tell who wrote the book even if you
can't see the cover," Taylor replied.
"I don't know what you are talking about." Veronique studied her
fingernails.
"Look Veronica, Bradley is smart. He's a very competent businessman and
entrepreneur, I'm sure he's behind the scheme but someone is providing
the cash. Someone is pushing huge sums of money through PostPay and I
can only think that that person is you... or someone you represent."
Taylor appeared confident but inside she was petrified.
"Really Taylor... and where am I getting all this money you claim I am
laundering?" Veronique stopped looking at her nails and her eyes drilled
into Taylor's.
Veronique looked downright dangerous as her eyes narrowed and a scowl
formed on her blood-red lips.
"You told me about how you started life as Katcha Kovalenko before you
went to Paris and morphed into Veronique Pascal. About how you
legitimised some of Alexi Kamerov's business interests before you
escaped the clutches of the Bratva." Taylor took a deep breath and
continued.
"I'm hypothesising that you never really broke your ties with Bratva and
that you are still working for Alexi, helping him launder his money."
Taylor returned Veronique's glare.
"You hypothesise a lot Taylor. Was it not Bradley who financed your
startup when no one else was interested? Was it not I who did most of
the leg work finding the multinationals to join our venture? Was it not
Bradley and I who marketed your app?" Veronique snipped.
"Wasn't it I who transformed you from a poor Kmart frump to a
sophisticated Prada chic? You owe me so much and yet you accuse me of
using PostPay to launder Bratva money!" Veronique hissed, all vestiges
of camaraderie gone.
"PostPay was by baby Veronica! I created it! I nurtured it!" Taylor
retorted.
"Don't be a petulant brat Taylor. You handed PostPay to Bradley and I to
do what you couldn't... to market it. To make it pay," Veronique
countered.
"To make it pay Taylor! Let's be truthful here... it's all about the
money! It was always about the money! It will always be about the
money!" Veronique slapped the table to emphasise each point.
"In that case I want my share!" Taylor snapped back.
A wicked smile crossed Veronique's face and she came over and sat next
to Taylor. She was uncomfortably close.
"And there we have it. Now you are behaving like an adult." Veronique
patted Taylor's knee.
"There is plenty of money to go around Taylor. Money is not a problem.
What is a problem is that you need to know what we are doing. You
realise that as soon as you take one cent of that money you become part
of the conspiracy? There is no turning back." Veronique squeezed
Taylor's knee.
Taylor just nodded.
"You also need to realise who you are getting into bed with. I told you
what happened to me; what I had to do to get myself out of that
apartment block in Munich. I told you about the degradation I put myself
through willingly so that I wouldn't end up like Olga hanging from the
ceiling with her panties full of shit but I never told you what happened
to Yana. I don't really know myself but when Peter and Gunther took her
away, you can bet they made her regret that she ever stole from Alexi
Kamerov before they killed her," Veronique said sagely.
"Everyone knowingly associated with this enterprise is a possible source
of compromise. Can you imagine what happens to someone who Alexi
suspects may be jeopardising his operation?"
Taylor nodded.
Veronique turned Taylor's face to hers and looked her squarely in the
eyes.
"I don't think you do Taylor. I don't think you do," Veronique said
gravely.
"Do you still want the money? You might as well take it now that you
have become a potential liability. At least if you are on the take, you
become part of the conspiracy; you are as guilty as any of us."
Veronique's smile contained no warmth.
"Yes. I want a share of the money," Taylor's sighed.
"Ok, good girl. It will only take a little time to set up an offshore
account for you. For obvious reasons the money can't be deposited into
any of your existing accounts. Also you will need to be careful how you
spend the money. You are already a wealthy woman so it won't raise any
alarm bells if you spend some of the money but you need to think about
what you are going to do with the rest of it; it will accumulate quite
quickly." Taylor smiled and squeezed Taylor's knee again.
"I can help you to invest the money wisely offshore, but let's not get
ahead of ourselves. Just behave normally. Don't break your routines or
make any changes to your current lifestyle."
"I'll contact you soon with the details Taylor, ok?" Veronique said
reassuringly.
"Ok." Taylor returned Veronique's smile.
Veronique leaned in and kissed Taylor on the lips.
"Let's go to dinner tonight. You can come around to my place after."
Veronique slipped her hand under Taylor's skirt.
She rubbed Taylor's sex through her panties while she kissed her again,
this time more passionately. Taylor returned Veronique's kiss and felt
herself becoming wet. Veronique gave Taylor's cunt one last rub and then
withdrew her hand. She eased out of their embrace.
"See you tonight Taylor." Veronique smiled at Taylor and stood up.
The meeting was over.
Taylor went back to her office and started to tremble. She had done what
was asked of her, but she was more scared than ever.
That afternoon Taylor went home early. She recognised the black sedan
parked out front of her apartment building but did her best to ignore
it. As she entered the foyer David Campbell slipped in behind her and
entered the same elevator. He stood behind her and Taylor glanced
nervously up at the security camera mounted in the top corner of the
car.
"Act naturally Taylor just in case the doorman is watching the screens.
The FBI techs will remove the recorded video tonight so there will be no
record of our meeting," David whispered even though he knew that audio
was not being recorded.
David reached out to rub Taylor's back reassuringly out of view of the
camera. Taylor did feel comforted and also felt safe in David's
presence. David's hand slipped down to her buttocks as the car shuddered
to a stop.
"Sorry. That was an accident," David whispered.
He was standing so close to her that she could feel his breath on her
neck. He could smell her perfume and combined with the sight of the
curve of her buttocks and her long legs sheathed in sheer hosiery caused
him to become aroused.
"An accident you say." Taylor stared directly ahead but she was smiling.
When the elevator restarted its assent she fell back against him,
pushing her ass into his groin. Her smile widened when she felt his
erection through her skirt.
"That was an accident too," Taylor grinned.
David blushed. He was not used to being in the presence of such an
audacious young woman.
Taylor unlocked her apartment and ushered David in ahead of her.
There was something about David Campbell that made Taylor feel safe. He
effused confidence and courage and there was also something about him
that felt a little dangerous. She offered him a seat at the breakfast
bar while she made coffee.
"How's things?" David asked, taking off his jacket.
Taylor noted the Glock 17 clipped to his belt.
"How's things? You ask that like we are two friends meeting for coffee
not an FBI agent meeting a CI who he has blackmailed into working for
him." Taylor couldn't keep the bitterness out of her voice.
David got up off the stool and walked around the breakfast bar and stood
beside Taylor, helping her with the coffee cups.
"I'm trying to help you Taylor. I'm trying to keep you out of jail,"
David said.
"But I didn't do anything wrong," Taylor replied.
"Look. I know that but that's not how it looks to the US Attorney's
office. Your company is being used to launder money and you are making
money from the proceeds of organised crime." David took the proffered
cup of coffee and sipped.
"But that's just it; I'm not... or I wasn't." Taylor sipped her coffee.
They were standing close and each was aware of the effect that they had
on each other although neither of them spoke of it.
"What do you mean by 'I wasn't'?" David asked expectantly.
"I confronted Veronique. I told her that I knew about the money
laundering and that I suspected that she was at the root of it and was
still working for the Bratva. She confirmed that she's still working for
Alexi Kamerov and that David Freeman is also in it up to his neck."
Taylor put down her coffee and looked at David defiantly.
"You got that much already? Wow!" David put down his cup and placed a
hand on Taylor's upper arm.
"You know how dangerous for you this is going to get now?" David put his
other hand on her other arm and squeezed gently.
"Veronique warned me about how dangerous it is but I told her I wanted a
share of the proceeds and that placated her somewhat. She's setting up
an offshore account for me."
"I've done what you wanted of me David." Taylor searched his eyes.
"Now comes the hard part. I need you to get Veronique to confirm that
the money is coming from their human trafficking organisation. I really
want to get Alexi tied to that." David looked deeply into Taylor's
emerald green eyes.
"I promise I'll keep you safe Taylor; you have my word." David squeezed
her upper arms again.
They gazed into each other's eyes. The only noise was the sound of their
breathing, the rest of the world faded from their periphery. David
leaned in and Taylor opened her lips expectantly. They kissed softly,
their lips pressed together, their bodies separated by inches. David
stroked Taylor's face gently; he wanted to pull her against him and wrap
his arms around her but he restrained himself.
Taylor put her hands on David's hips and let him kiss her. She fully
expected that he would embrace her and kiss her more passionately; maybe
put his hands on her in places that he shouldn't. And she wanted him to.
She was disappointed when David broke the kiss and took a step back.
"I'm sorry. That was unprofessional." David shook his head and looked
down at his feet.
Taylor lifted David's chin and made him look at her.
"It was wonderful David and I liked it. I would have pushed you away if
I didn't," Taylor sighed.
"It was wrong. You're a cooperating witness and I'm your handler, there
is no room for a personal relationship," David whispered.
"Who says so?" Taylor smiled at him and his heart melted.
"The FBI code of conduct says so." David shook his head again.
"I don't know... maybe when the case is over Taylor, you know if...
if... if you want to?" David stammered.
Taylor almost felt sorry for him.
"Maybe I want to... let's see what happens." Taylor handed David his
coffee and she took hers and moved to the breakfast bar.
David took his seat across from her and Taylor briefed him in detail.
Later that evening Taylor received a text from Veronique asking her to
join her for dinner at Alinea restaurant again and she replied that
she'd be delighted.
Taylor did not dress as extravagantly as she had the previous evening
but she still looked ravishing in her simple black cocktail dress.
Veronique was sitting in a booth dressed in an elegant off the shoulder
red ruched dress with matching heels. She was drinking a dry martini and
Taylor slid into the booth opposite. Veronique leaned over the table and
kissed Taylor on the lips and said good evening.
"You left early today Taylor," Veronique said but it sounded more like a
question.
"I'd finished what I needed to do in the office so I worked on some code
at home where it's quiet and comfortable," Taylor countered.
"Fair enough; no need to explain your comings and goings to me,"
Veronique quipped.
A waitress arrived with another martini for Veronique and a gin and
tonic for Taylor.
"I pre-ordered your drink, I hope you don't mind." Veronique smiled
mischievously.
"Not at all darling, cheers." Taylor raised her glass and Veronique
chinked hers to it.
"Ah! My two beautiful ladies together; bring me one of those please," a
brute of a man wearing a black Amani suit said to the waitress and slid
into the booth beside Taylor, effectively wedging her against the wall.
He had long black hair with a leonine head but was very handsome despite
the scar that ran down the left side of his face from forehead to chin
said. His accent was distinctly Russian.
"Pleased to meet you Taylor, I'm Alexi Kamerov." The man kissed Taylor
on the cheek as though they were old acquaintances.
Taylor felt a chill run through her despite the heating in the
restaurant.
"I forgot to mention that we were having company for dinner." Veronique
shrugged her shoulders as if it was nothing.
"You are as captivating as Veronique described you; not a classic beauty
but fascinating and alluring in your own special way, like a rose
amongst daisies." Alexi brazenly studied Taylor like she was a chattel
he was contemplating purchasing.
Taylor finally gained her composure.
"I'm please to meet you too Alexi, Veronique has told me so much about
you," Taylor countered.
"Yes. Perhaps a little too much I think." Alexi's demeanour changed and
he sounded surly.
Veronique blushed and looked away.
"But she also tells me that you found out about the little program I had
embedded in PostPay. You are a very good programmer, of that there is no
doubt. Smart, intelligent, inquisitive... what do you westerners say
about the cat and curiosity? Never mind. We Russians have our own
proverbs. May favourite is 'if you're scared of wolves don't go in the
woods'." Alexi's drink arrived and he grinned wickedly and raised his
glass.
"Nastrovje!" Alexi cried and raised his glass.
Veronique and Taylor raised their glasses and repeated the toast.
Taylor's mind was racing. She had stood up to Veronique this morning
despite her fear and she figured that if she showed Alexi any fear it
would not bode well.
"You are right about the cat but the full proverb is 'curiosity killed
the cat, satisfaction bought it back' and I'm very satisfied Alexi. I'm
very satisfied indeed with the arrangement I made with Veronique this
morning."
"Nastrovje!" Taylor raised her glass and downed the contents.
"Nastrovje!" Alexi roared and downed his own drink and Veronique
followed suit.
"Ha! I like a woman who has fire in her belly. Bring vodka! Bring us a
bottle of Stolichnaya!" Alexi slammed the table and a startled waitress
hurried away to meet Alexi's demands.
"I like you Taylor, even though you have a silly name," Alexi chuckled.
He squeezed her thigh under the table but Taylor was too scared to move
his hand; instead she patted it and smiled at him.
"I like you too Alexi, you are a handsome man and you have a good sense
of humour," Taylor grinned.
Veronique smiled too, glad that the tension had been diffused.
"When I told Alexi about our agreement he insisted on meeting you, I'm
glad we are all getting along," Veronique said.
The vodka arrived along with three ice-cold glasses and Alexi filled
them while Veronique and Taylor studied the menu. They were going to
have to eat something if they were going to keep drinking at this pace.
They ate well and Alexi put the vodka aside and ordered a good bottle of
wine to go with their dinner. Alexi kept the women amused with stories
about when he worked for the Russian Police and admitted that he was
dismissed when the department was downsized and those with links to
organised crime lost their jobs. He freely admitted to being involved in
smuggling but was not specific as to what exactly he was smuggling, he
certainly did not admit to people smuggling or prostitution despite
Taylor's attempts to guide the conversation that way.
"So Veronique, is the invitation to continue the party at your place
still open?" Alexi asked after he had taken care of the tab and left a
very generous tip.
"Of course Alexi; anything you want," Veronique replied but her response
sounded cagey.
Numbed by alcohol and beguiled by Alexi's friendly demeanour, Taylor did
not detect the hesitancy in Veronique's voice.
They came out of Alinea to find a town car idling at the curb. Alexi
opened the rear passenger door and indicated for Taylor get in and she
thanked him for being so courteous but as she climbed into car she saw
that there was a large muscular bald-headed man sitting in the back seat
and her intuition, even clouded by the fog of alcohol, warned her not to
get in the car.
It was too late.
The muscular man in the back seat seized her arm and pulled her into the
car assisted by Alexi who pushed her from behind. Alexi and Veronique
shouted at each other in Russian and then Alexi climbed into the car and
it sped off. Taylor was squeezed between the bald man and Alexi,
effectively squashed between them.
"What the fuck Alexi?" Taylor tried to struggle free and sit in the seat
opposite but the men restrained her.
"Shut the fuck up you American bitch." The bald man elbowed Taylor in
the midriff, effectively winding her.
As she fought to breathe the two men conversed in Russian, ignoring her
discomfort.
"You privileged American princess. We fund your startup and make you a
rich woman and still you want more. All you had to do was shut the fuck
up when you found out about us washing our money through your shitty
little company but you couldn't help but be greedy." Alexi shook Taylor
by the shoulder.
"Where are you taking me?" Taylor pleaded when she was able to breathe.
"Don't ask questions. The days of you asking questions are long over;
now you just do as you are told," Alexi growled.
"Are you going to kill me?" Taylor whispered.
"Kill you? Why would I do that? Katcha Kovalenko told you what happened
to her and how I make my money. We don't just bring in girls from the
east; we ship them the other way too. Pretty young blonde American girls
like you bring in good money from the Arabs." Alexi gave her a wicked
smile.
There was no doubt that Taylor was terrified but she was also acutely
aware that Alexi had admitted to her that he was involved in people
trafficking and prostitution. Provided that David lived up to his
promise to keep watch over her she should soon be rescued; she just had
to keep her cool.
The limo made a sudden turn into an underground parking garage so fast
that she was thrown against the bald man. The car accelerated down
several levels and came to a screeching halt next to a white Ford
Transit. The door to the van slid open and at the same time the bald man
opened the door to the limo and dragged Taylor out of the town car and
pushed her roughly into the rear of the Transit. She was handled so
roughly that her dress was torn and she lost a high heel and dropped her
purse.
"Get in there you fucking American whore!" baldy gnarled as he pushed
Taylor further inside the transit.
Baldy and Alexi jumped into the van behind her and the van took off,
bumping and swerving its way through the galleries, careering out of an
exit and accelerating down the street. The driver of the limo picked up
Taylor's purse and tossed it into the town car and drove away, leaving
by a different exit.
The limo left the parking garage and drove two blocks before it was
effectively boxed in by two unmarked police cars that skidded to a halt,
one in front and one behind. David Campbell, wearing body armour, tapped
his Glock against the driver's window whilst two agents also wearing
body armour and carrying MP5 submachine guns covered the doors on the
other side.
The driver lowered the heavily tinted window and smiled at David.
"Da?" the driver smiled insolently at David.
"Get out!" David grunted as the other two agents opened the near-side
doors of the vehicle.
The driver got out and put his hands on his head and leaned against the
limo facing away from David. He knew the drill.
"It's empty!" one of the other agents yelled.
David kept his gun on the driver and leaned into the limo. It was indeed
empty.
"Where is the girl?" David thrust his pistol into the driver's flank.
"Russkiy bez angliyskogo." The Russian turned his head and grinned at
David.
"I know you speak English you Russian fuck!" David spun the man around
and drove his gun into his midriff.
"Nyet... only one word... lawyer." The Russian's grin widened.
David began to batter the butt of his weapon against the driver's head
but the Russian covered his face with his hands long enough for the
other two agents to haul David off him.
"Lawyer." The Russian smirked through bloody teeth.
"Fuck!" David hissed.
He looked back inside the car and snatched up Taylor's Jimmy Choo silver
clutch. He opened it and his heart fell when he saw her Galaxy S20
tucked inside it.
David had lost Taylor Averille.
He raced back to one of the FBI cars and put out a BOLO for Taylor
Averille but without knowing the type of vehicle she was being
transported in it was a useless gesture and he knew it.
"Where are you taking me?" Taylor asked.
The back of the Transit van had a single bench seat set against the rear
cabin and baldy and Alexi sat on the bench facing Taylor who was huddled
on a mattress bestrewn with rumpled dirty bedding.
"I told you that you don't get to ask any more questions. Sergei, you
want to try her." Alexi turned to the bald man.
"Are you sure you don't want to go first Alexi?" Sergei asked.
"I'll wait until I can put her on a proper bed; I want to take my time
with her so please be my guest and sample our new wares," Alexi spoke to
Sergei but he glared at Taylor.
He wanted her to know what was coming.
Taylor suspected this would happen. Veronique had told her about how she
was treated while she being transported from Uzhhorod to Munich and she
expected to fare no better. She set her resolve. She hoped that David
and his FBI counterparts were following the van and she prayed that they
pulled it over soon. Her fear was that they were just tailing the van
and keeping it under surveillance and would wait until it got to its
destination before they pounced.
"I know what you want and I won't fight you so you don't have to beat
me." Taylor sat up and glared at the men.
"We won't beat you; you are far too valuable a chattel to be damaged but
we have ways of controlling you that are far from pleasant that won't
leave any marks on you," Alexi stated matter-of-factly.
"Take off your dress... or don't and I'll rip it off you," Sergei
grunted as he started to undress himself.
Taylor kicked off her one remaining high heel and pulled her dress over
her head. She was left dressed in her Jonathan Aston 12 denier seamed
holdup stockings, a pair of black seamless microfiber hipster panties
and matching bra.
Sergei was naked, his huge body was a slab of muscle and sinew adorned
with so many tattoos that barely any of his pale flesh was visible. He
was barrel-chested and hairless all over, including his groin from which
protruded a large erection. He came over and sat beside Taylor.
"I'm goin to use my mouth on you and have you use your mouth on me. If
you bite I'm going to hurt you. I warn you that I can inflict
excruciating pain on you without leaving any marks. Do you understand?"
Sergei said.
Taylor nodded. She recalled how Veronique had told her that she been
compliant, almost willing, when she was taken into the clearing near
Trnava and Taylor summoned up all that remained of her courage. All she
had to do was survive long enough to be rescued. In a few days she would
use the magic USB and transform back to her male self and she hoped that
she would be able to put all this behind her.
Sergei scooted close to Taylor and put his arms around her and lowered
his face to hers. She didn't fight when he kissed her. She was surprised
that his breath was fresh and he smelled of cologne and deodorant, his
muscled torso pressing against her felt quite exhilarating. In other
circumstances she might have welcomed his advances.
He slipped his tongue into her yielding mouth and she tentatively used
the tip of her tongue on his and put her arms on his massive shoulders.
"Good," Sergei grunted.
He ripped off her bra and used his paws on her breasts, tweaking her
nipples which became engorged to his touch. His tortuous treatment of
her breasts actually felt exciting and when he lowered his head to them
and used his lips and teeth on them she shuddered. She was surprised
that being treated so harshly could excite her but so far all of the
lovemaking she had experienced had been tender. This was first time that
she had been treated so crudely.
If fact Taylor had to admit that she was a little disappointed when
Sergei stopped molesting her breasts with his lips and teeth and moved
his mouth back to hers. Her nipples were throbbing, radiating a burning
but pleasurable sensation and to her surprise and disgust she felt
herself becoming wet between the legs.
Taylor willingly accepted his kisses and reciprocated, rubbing her
tender breasts on his hard chest to keep them stimulated. Sergei eased
her away a little so that he could use his hands on them again,
squeezing the soft creamy globes and tweaking her tender nipples causing
Taylor to gasp.
She kissed him harder and when he guided her hand to his groin she
voluntarily cupped his scrotum, gently stroking and squeezing the
wrinkled sac. Then she took his turgid penis in her hand and began to
stroke it.
"She likes it Sergei... or she knows what's good for her," Alexi
chuckled.
Alexi was intently watching Sergei molest Taylor and was a little
surprised by her response and also a little jealous that he had let
Sergei go first. But you never knew how the girls they trafficked were
going to react once they realised their predicament. Some made the most
of it. Some fought wildly. Some just lay there unresponsive. Not that it
mattered; he had customers for all types of girls. Those that were
useless to him he disposed of.
Taylor felt Sergei's cock begin to throb between her fingers as she
gently stroked him, deliberately teasing him. She felt the first pearl
of pre-ejaculate ooze from his glans and she used the slippery fluid to
lubricate his shaft. Rather than feeling repulsed, she actually felt
empowered. This brute of a man was practically begging her to let him
fuck her.
When Sergei softly grazed the front of her silky panties with his
fingertips she shuddered again. He teased her, lightly skimming his
fingers across her pubis. He could feel that her panties were damp and
he smiled when she panted into his mouth. He moved his hand out of her
crotch and stoked the tops of her silken-sheathed thighs which while
delightful was not as intense as the feeling of him stroking her panty-
clad cunt.
Taylor let go of his phallus and returned to stroking and squeezing his
sac. It was retaliation. If he wasn't going to stimulate her cunt she
wasn't going to stimulate his penis.
Sergei smiled put his hand back on her mound; he pressed the slinky
material into her vulva and rubbed it on her clitoris causing Taylor to
squeal. He kissed her harder when she put her hand back on his cock and
stroked him with long firm slow strokes. They kissed passionately and
masturbated each other until they both sensed that they were ready.
Taylor willingly lay down and opened her legs and when Sergei began to
move on top of her she opened her arms and sighed when his hard body
pressed against hers. Her nipples were on fire, radiating pleasure
through her torso as Sergei's chest pressed on her. He rubbed his cock
in the valley between her legs, relishing the feel of her cuntal lips
pressing on his cock, shrouded in the gossamer fabric of her panties.
Taylor lifted her legs and locked her feet behind Sergei's back and rose
to meet his thrusts. Despite her abject surrender to her carnal desires
she felt disgusted with herself. She felt like a slattern giving herself
to this brute, even though she knew it was her only means of self-
preservation.
When Sergei slipped his steely member inside the gusset of her panties
and impaled her with the throbbing tool she forgot all about her self-
loathing and surrendered to her lust.
Taylor moaned like a slattern and clung to Sergei as he thrust his cock
in and out of her dripping cunt. His cock was bigger that Bradley's and
filled her still-virginal sheath, which clung to his flesh like a velvet
glove. Sergei revelled in the sensation of the beautiful young woman's
tight vagina caressing his shaft as he thrust himself in and out of her.
The sleek feel of her stockings against his sensitive flanks amplified
the delightful feelings emanating from his cock. Taylor's legs tightened
around his waist as she rose up and ground herself against him and he
sensed her orgasm approaching.
He too was close to extremis and he slammed himself deep inside her
tight wet channel and ejaculated. He kissed her and gasped into her
mouth and Taylor screamed into his and raked her fingernails across his
back as she writhed beneath him, driving her crotch into his, her cunt
quivering and milking him of his seed.
Alexi began to clap. The splendour of the performance he just witnessed,
the lust-filled surrender of the woman taken against her will, the
animalistic lewdness displayed by her was extremely arousing and he was
tempted to pull Sergei off Taylor and take his place. But it was better
to savour the moment and wait until he had her to himself.
Taylor was breathless, her body still spasmed as the last vestiges of
her climax began to subside. Sergei lay on top of her, panting with the
exertion, he was almost exhausted, his cock still twitching as the last
dribbles of his spend were planted deep inside Taylor's tight cunt.
When he climbed off her Taylor began to quietly weep whilst Alexi
continued to applaud her performance.
"Do I detect little post coital regret from the American princess? Never
mind; you will soon become used to being used on a regular basis; that
is your future, your punishment for being so greedy. Get dressed we are
nearly there," Alexi growled.
*****
David was distraught. He left the limo driver in the custody of the
other two agents and jumped into his own vehicle. He had one slim
chance. David had left a surveillance team on Veronique Pascal. They had
witnessed the argument between her and Alexi out front of Alinea and
because Alexi was their main quarry David had followed the limo while
the other team followed Veronique.
He called the team leader who reported that they had followed Veronique
back to her apartment where she had stayed for only half an hour or so
before she emerged with a small suitcase. They were currently tailing
her along Route 57. She was staying just below the speed limit and
driving carefully and the team had had to drop back so as not to be
detected.
David told them he would join them as soon as possible so that they
could tag-team the tail. He hit the lights and siren and put his foot on
the gas and prayed that Veronique Pascal would take them to Alexi
Kamerov and Taylor Averille. He also prayed that nothing had happened to
Taylor and she would be kept safe until he was able to rescue her.
*****
Taylor felt thoroughly disgusted with herself but deep down inside she
knew that she had done what she had to survive or at least to prevent
serious pain or injury being inflicted on her. The fact that she
thoroughly enjoyed being ravished came as a complete surprise and was
something that she doubted that she would ever admit to. She wondered
what male Taylor would think about the incident; that was if she was
able to survive her abduction and get back to her apartment in time to
transform.
She put on her bra and adjusted her sodden panties. She hoped that there
was a change of clothing at wherever she was being taken. She struggled
into her torn dress as the van jostled and rattled along a rutted track.
The van lurched to a stop and Sergei, now fully-dressed, flung open the
door.
"Inside!" Alexi growled and dragged Taylor to her feet.
He pushed her out into the cold dark night. She looked around and
determined that they were deep in the woods. She estimated that they had
been in the van for about three hours but had no way of knowing. The sky
was clear; the silhouettes of large pine and deciduous trees were framed
against the clear star-strew heavens. They had parked next to a wood-
framed farmhouse with a gravel courtyard and Alexi pushed her towards
the door.
The house was quiet but there was light spilling through the closed
blinds of the second story windows.
"Where are we?" Taylor asked, a little a dazed.
Alexi said nothing and pushed her towards the door.
Her stockinged feet hurt as the gravel dug into the soles of her feet
and she hobbled towards the farmhouse as fast as she could to stop the
pain and to get out of the cold.
The house was sparsely furnished with rustic wooden pieces, two men with
Kalashnikov rifles sat near a roaring fire keeping warm and drinking
vodka.
"Where is Uri?" Alexi barked.
"He's upstairs fucking one of the new arrivals," one of the men
answered.
Alexi flung Taylor across the room and she landed on an overstuffed
couch. One of the men put down his weapon and made towards her.
"Leave her! She's not for you peasants. I'll use her myself to try her
out and then I'm keeping her for Yosef to sell out of Dubai. Those
ragheads like a girl with some fire in her so I don't want her fucked
senseless before we sell her," Alexi grunted.
"You two get outside and keep watch. I'm not paying you to fuck my
merchandise and drink vodka. How many girls arrived in the new
shipment?" Alexi asked.
"Eight; six Ukrainians and two Russians, all young and good-looking, we
crossed the Canadian border last night. Two other girls didn't make it,"
the man who had intended to use Taylor said, shrugging his shoulders.
The man picked up his weapon and he and his partner went outside and
closed the door. Sergei went over and threw some wood on the fire and
then dragged Taylor up by her arm and pushed her towards the stairs.
"Walk! Come on I don't have all night." Sergei pushed Taylor in front of
him.
Taylor had no choice but climb the wooden stairs to the upper floor.
There was a series of closed doors running down both sides of the
corridor; it looked like the upper floor had been recently subdivided
into small rooms. Taylor heard quiet sobbing coming from behind some of
the doors but most were quiet. As they passed one of the doors she heard
a bed creaking rhythmically and a girl moaning and a man grunting.
Sergei grinned at her and pushed her ahead of him into the last room on
the right.
It was simply furnished with a double bed, a chair and a dresser. On the
dresser was a wash basin, a pitcher of water, a washcloth and a bar of
soap. There was a glass and a plate but no utensils.
"Wash out your cunt," Sergei grunted and pushed her into the room and
slammed the door.
Taylor heard the door lock when he left. She tried it anyway but it was
securely locked. She went to the window and moved the blind aside and
looked out. The two men with Kalashnikovs were talking and smoking, they
didn't seem concerned. Taylor just hoped that David Campbell and her
rescue team were not too far away. Surely they would free her soon. They
could catch Alexi red-handed with the girls he was trafficking.
She made her way to the dresser and poured some water in the bowl and
dipped the washcloth into it and rubbed it on the soap. She pulled her
panties down to her knees, squatted and wiped her sex with the soapy
cloth. It was cold but refreshing and she was glad to wash away Sergei's
semen although she knew that some of it still lay deep in her vagina.
Her vulva was a little sore but she was shamefully aware that the dull
throb felt quite pleasurable rather than painful.
Just as she was pulling up her panties the beams of a pair of headlights
washed over the window and she heard the sound of a car engine. She ran
to the window and looked out. A black BMW had pulled up and the driver
killed the engine and turned out the headlights. Taylor sneered when
Veronique climbed out of the car and took a small suitcase from the back
seat. She spoke to the guards for a minute and then approached the
farmhouse.
Taylor listened intently but all she could hear was the sounds from
another room; the squeaking of a bedframe and a man and woman grunting
and moaning. At that moment the woman cried out "da! da!" and the man
roared and suddenly the bed stopped squeaking. She heard muffled voices
and the sound of a door opening and closing and then she heard footsteps
receding down the corridor.
A short while later she heard the unmistakeable click-clack of high
heels on the boards and the door to her room opened.
Veronique entered and stood in the middle of the room with her hands on
her hips and glared at Taylor.
She was dressed in denim jeggings, a red satin blouse, a fleece-lined
Carhartt coat and high-heeled ankle boots. Her full pouty lips were
coated in her favourite blood-red Guerlain Rouge Jewel lipstick and were
turned down in a scowl. Her beautiful face was framed by her severe jet-
black shoulder-length bob, her icy-blue eyes enhanced by dark eye makeup
and her sharp rouged cheekbones.
"Look what you made them do Taylor! I tried to negotiate with Alexi but
he turned my proposal down. I told you what happens to anyone that Alexi
thinks is jeopardising our operation. He didn't believe the excuses for
your absences from work; he's suspicious by nature. You shouldn't have
been so greedy."
"It's a shame because I thought we could be real friends but now that is
not to be," Veronique was seething.
"Now you will end up in some far off place with some rich swarthy Arab
sweating over you. I just hope that he looks after you and keeps him you
for himself and that you don't end up in some middle-eastern brothel."
"Just remember what I told you about what happened to me and how I
overcame it. Endure it. Don't end up like Olga." Veronique took a packet
of cigarettes and a gold lighter from her pocket. She took a cigarette
out of the pack and lit it.
Taylor had never seen her smoke before but then again there were a lot
of things that she didn't know about Veronique apparently.
"I thought we were friends Veronica," Taylor whispered.
She wanted to run to Veronique; to put her arms around her and hold her
close. She wanted Veronique hug her and stroke her hair and tell that
everything will be ok.
She heard footsteps approaching from down the corridor and then Alexi
entered the room. He and Veronique had a heated discussion in Russian.
Veronique threw her cigarette on the floor in anger and crushed it out.
She walked to the door and paused.
"Goodbye Kmart," she said and closed the door.
*****
David Campbell had killed his lights and siren about a mile before he
caught up to the car tailing Veronique Pascal's black BMW and he picked
up the tail just before she left Route 57 and took Route 72 heading
southwest towards Decatur. He called ahead to the Springfield field
office, explained the situation and asked them to have a SWAT team on
standby. Veronique turned off the highway onto a secondary road and then
down a dirt track which looked like it led into a commercial forestry.
David called the Springfield field office and scrambled the SWAT team.
He and the other officers waited about half a mile down the dirt road
where they could just see the lights of a farmhouse.
*****
If she thought that Sergei's cock was big then Alexi's was huge. It
jutted from his groin like the trunk of a tree, gnarly and angry.
Alexi pushed Taylor down on her knees and she knew what he wanted. She
took the same pragmatic approach she had taken with Sergei, be
compliant, be willing, be complicit. She used her lips and her tongue on
the swollen glans and when she had it wet enough with her spit she put
as much as Alexi's cock as she could into her mouth.
She worked the shaft with her hand, stroking the flesh she couldn't fit
in her mouth. She slathered at the meaty phallus and felt it throb and
she swallowed the dribble of pre-seminal fluid that leaked from the
pulsing member.
"Take of your dress. Get on the bed, take off your bra and pull down
your panties." Alexi pushed her face off his cock.
Taylor did as she was told and scooted to the middle of the bed when
Alexi climbed on it.
'Where was David!' she thought. She couldn't take much more of this.
"Open your legs," Alexi ordered and climbed between them when she opened
them wide.
He too was a brute of man, muscled, tattooed and handsome. He lowered
his face to her and she let him kiss her and the she responded when
Alexi mauled her still-tender breasts. Once again her body betrayed her
and her nipples engorged and before long she was wet with her own
vaginal secretions. She put her arms around Alexi and rubbed her body
against his, feeling the heft of his penis pressing into her belly,
smearing her soft white flesh with pre-ejaculate.
Alexi prodded impatiently at her vulva and Taylor put her hand down
there and guided him to the entrance of her vagina. She was sloppy with
lust and he slid in into her easily despite the girth of his cock. It
stretched her vagina but some of Sergei's sperm was still inside her and
it eased his passage as Alexi buried his cock inside Taylor as far as it
would go. He took her ankles and lifted them indicating for her to put
her legs around his back which she did.
Alexi fucked her hard and fast while Taylor clung to him, holding on
while he kissed her and fucked her so hard that the bed began to shake.
A colossal orgasm began to bloom deep in her spongy channel and rippled
outwards igniting a fire as it reached her clitoris. Taylor's screams
were muffled by Alexi's kisses but they were screams of passion not of
fear. Her orgasm intensified as Alexi blasted her full of his creamy
seed, it oozed from her tight cunt and dribbled between her legs and
into her sphincter.
It was then that she heard the blades of a helicopter and suddenly the
whole farmhouse was awash with bright light. She heard gunfire in the
distance.
"Fuck!" Alexi roared and leapt off her.
He scampered across the room and pulled on his pants just as Taylor
heard the deafening sounds of doors crashing open downstairs, flash-
bangs, stomping boots, the screams of women locked in their rooms and
the stuttering sound of gunfire getting closer. She heard a man scream
somewhere as Alexi ripped a pistol out of its holder and flung open the
door.
Alexi fired his gun down the corridor, the sound thunderous in the small
room.
More gunshots followed as the agents returned fire.
"Fuck you princess, you go to hell!" Alexi, standing in the doorway,
aimed his pistol at Taylor.
A series of shots rang out and Alexi staggered back into the room, blood
pouring from his body. He gargled once, spun on his heels and fell on
top of Taylor.
Taylor couldn't move under the weight of Alexi's body. Then she started
to scream and tremble as she tried without success to push him off her.
David Campbell entered the room, leading the way with his Glock. He
checked to make sure that the room was clear and felt for a pulse and
then pulled Alexi off Taylor. She had become catatonic. She was dazed
and unresponsive. David sat on the bed and pulled her into his arms but
it was like holding a rag doll.
Downstairs the SWAT team paramedics were tending to two of the Russians
who had suffered gunshot wounds, Sergei and Uri were both dead.
Veronique Pascal had been handcuffed and led away to a waiting
transport. Beside the prisoner transport was another bus and as the team
cleared the rooms they led the young girls who had been trafficked
downstairs and put them on the bus where two FBI linguists were waiting
to interview them during their journey to a Federal holding facility.
Two SWAT guys came into the room and saw David holding an unresponsive
Taylor in his arms. One of them checked Alexi and confirmed that he was
deceased.
"She the snitch?" one of them pointed at Taylor.
David just glared at him.
When the two men left the room he pulled up Taylor's panties, trying not
to look at the mess between her legs. He put on her dress. It was like
trying to dress a mannequin. Taylor said nothing. She was dumb;
catatonic.
David wrapped Taylor in a blanket that he took her from the bed and
carried her downstairs.
"Where are you taking her? She's a material witness and possibly a
suspect," the Special Agent in Charge growled.
David ignored him and continued through the house, down the stoop and
walked towards his car.
"Agent Campbell! You bring that girl back here right now!" the SAC
called after him.
"Fuck you!" David said without even turning around.
He settled Taylor into the passenger seat of his car and he got into the
driver's seat.
"Where are you taking her?" the SAC called after him.
David said nothing and drove Taylor away from the crime scene, aware
that he was putting his career in extreme jeopardy.
He leaned Taylor against him, driving one handed with his right arm
around her, comforting her and keeping the blanket in place. About an
hour into the drive Taylor started to come around. She started sobbing
and clung to David, making it difficult for him to drive but he did his
best to comfort her all the way back to Chicago.
David gained entrance to Taylor's apartment using his FBI credentials.
By now Taylor was capable of walking unaided but she was unsteady on her
feet and hadn't said anything comprehensible. He led her to the bathroom
but she just stood there looking wretched. David took it upon himself to
undress her and at first she fought him feebly but when he spoke to her
in soothing tones she stopped.
He put her in a warm bath and bathed her, knowing that he was probably
removing forensic evidence but not caring. He lifted her out of the bath
and towelled her dry. He couldn't help studying her body and wondering
what it would be like to lie beside her naked. He found some babydoll
pyjamas, she didn't appear to have any conventional nightwear, and
dressed her. He put her in bed and pulled up the covers and she was
asleep almost immediately. He turned out the lights, closed the blinds
on the breaking dawn, kicked off his shoes and lay down beside her
fully-clothed on top of the comforter.
Sometime while they slept Taylor kicked back the covers and snuggled up
to him, holding him close, her breathing deep and rhythmic.
It was later that afternoon that an FBI entry team broke down the door
to Taylor's apartment and put their weapons on David while they made
Taylor get dressed and took her away.
She spent her last few days as a woman being interrogated by the FBI.
She told them everything she knew about Alexi Kamerov, Katcha Kovalenko
- AKA Veronique Pascal and Bradley Freeman. She was told that both
Veronique and Bradley were being held in custody pending the laying of
multiple serious Federal offences including: money laundering, people
trafficking, perverting the course of justice, mail fraud... the list
went on. Taylor was represented by Terence Mulholland who insisted that
Taylor had been a cooperating witness and had not knowingly been
involved in any crimes.
Her statements were taken and she was released on her own recognizance
with the caveat that she appear as a state's witness when the cases went
to trial.
She asked about David Campbell and was told that he had been removed
from the case and directed not to contact her whilst the investigation
was ongoing.
*****
Taylor awoke excited on her last day on earth as a woman. She intended
to enjoy the rituals associated with being a woman one last time and
make the most of her last day of womanhood.
She luxuriated in a hot bath and then she climbed out and towelled off
and wrapped herself in a satin robe and sat before her makeup mirror.
She carefully applied her makeup and brushed her hair. After coffee and
attending to some emails she dressed. Taylor enjoyed the slinky feeling
of the sheer pantyhose as she slid them up her legs and smoothed the
panty around her buttocks and belly, then she slipped her legs into a
pair of pink satin cami-knickers, luxuriating in the feel of the cool
satin slinking along her nylon-clad legs as she pulled them up. She put
on a matching bra and a white charmeuse long-sleeve blouse and her navy-
blue power suit. She stepped into her heels and checked herself in the
mirror.
Taylor's plans to use the ruse of being kidnapped by the Bratva to
explain her sudden disappearance had been thwarted when David Campbell
and the FBI came to her rescue so she needed another exit strategy. She
went to a used car dealer and paid cash for a one year old Mercedes Benz
and drove it back to her apartment. She made a show of telling the
concierge that the car parked in her allocated parking space in the
underground garage was hers in case he wondered where the strange
vehicle had come from. She packed two suitcases and put them in the
trunk, ensuring that she was seen doing so by the building's security
cameras. When the search for her began she wanted people to think that
she was planning to run away.
She hoped her disappearance would be blamed on a revenge abduction by
the Bratva.
FreeCom and PostPay were subject to an asset forfeiture application made
by the FBI but were still allowed to trade pending the outcome of the
claim. Both FreeCom's attorney Hugh Fleetwood and her own attorney
Terence Mulholland believed that FreeCom and PostPay should be allowed
to continue to operate now that Bradley Freeman and Veronique Pascal
were no longer associated with the companies. An application had been
made to the US Attorney stating that both companies were willing to
surrender all proceeds of criminal activity as restitution to allow the
companies to continue to operate and to allow the innocent parties
involved to remain in control of the ventures.
Taylor took a car service down to The Loop and settled into her office
at FreeCom. She wanted to make sure that everything was in place so that
the transfer of ownership and management of PostPay would occur
seamlessly when she disappeared. She wrote a series of emails from her
work email to the male Taylor Averille's email address explaining that
she suspected that the Bratva would not let her off so easily after what
had happened to Alexi Kamerov. She made sure that she was seen leaving
the office late in the afternoon.
She caught the L home, enjoying being out and about and the appreciative
glances she received from the male passengers. She had already collected
Taylor's male clothing from the storage facility and his clothes were
ready for him to wear when she transitioned. Once transitioned, Taylor
would take a shower and wash off the last vestiges of his feminine
identity and check into a hotel and await advice from the law firm of
Mulholland and Stamp that his cousin has gone missing and that he would
need to take over management of PayPal until she either returned or was
declared legally deceased when the company's ownership would pass on to
him.
Taylor stripped naked and lay on the bed and masturbated for a long
time, relishing the slow build up to her last climax. The shattering
orgasm was intense; she would miss the mysterious body-wracking delight
of the female orgasm but looked forward to once again having a penis to
play with. She stepped back into her panties and put on her robe and
took the mystical USB out of the drawer.
It still fascinated her. The almost otherworldly matte black oblong
vibrated in her hand and emitted what felt like a minute electric
charge. The red stones flashed erratically as she sat down at the PC.
She fired up the computer and put the drive into the USB port.
It was ninety days almost to the hour since she had first put the USB
into the same clunky old Sony Vaio. It seemed that the USB remembered
where it was as this time there was no illegible random symbols and
cyphers as the red lights on the USB began to pulse rhythmically.
Taylor read the instructions on the screen.
Congratulations. We hope that you have been enjoyed the gift and the
most extraordinary and invaluable privilege that we bestowed upon you
and we hope that the life changing manifestation you undertook bought
you happiness and fortune. As you know, if you elect not to return to
the gift today, the gift will be bestowed on you permanently and can
never be returned. The digital display in the lower right corner is
counting down the elapsed time.
Do you wish to return the gift? Y/N
Taylor's manicured fingernail hovered above the Y key. She had forgotten
to remove her red nailpolish; it was a task that her male counterpart
would have to attend to post-transformation. She was about to press the
key when the callbox intercom buzzed, almost scaring her out of her
skin.
The looked at the elapsed time counting down in the lower right corner
of the screen. She had plenty of time. Over two hours. She went to the
callbox and lifted the receiver to her ear.
"Yes?" she whispered.
"Taylor? Is that you? This is David Campbell." His voice sounded muted
and remote through the intercom.
Taylor hesitated. She owed David Campbell her life but it was also his
fault that she had been placed in extreme danger.
"This is Taylor Averille. What do you want?" she asked.
"Can I come up? I want to speak to you in person," David pleaded.
Taylor glanced at the elapsed time once again. It probably wouldn't hurt
if the last person to see her alive was an FBI agent.
She pressed the button to remotely open the foyer door and activate the
elevator.
She debated whether or not to put on some clothes but decided against
it; David wouldn't be here long and as soon as she clicked Y on the
keyboard she fully expected to black out and wake up back in her male
body.
Taylor went to the door and opened it when David pressed the doorbell.
She was surprised to see him dressed in tailored slacks and a
turtleneck, he was carrying his overcoat. It was the first time she had
seen him not wearing a suit and tie. She took his coat and caught a waft
of his aftershave; it was something spicy and exotic.
"Hello Taylor, sorry to disturb you so late." David noted how she was
dressed and guessed that she was getting ready for bed.
Taylor said nothing but led him into the lounge but didn't offer him a
seat or a drink.
"I wanted to see you sooner but I wasn't legally allowed to do so. Now
I'm no longer involved in the investigation I am free to see you outside
of the context of work," David continued.
"So what, you want? To date me?" Taylor said sarcastically.
But she couldn't help but thinking of him as a handsome young Sam
Elliott with his gritty Texas drawl which still sounded kind of sexy.
"That might not be a bad thing." David gave her that killer smile that
she found hard to resist.
She melted a little and allowed herself to smile. She pointed to the
couch and indicated for him to sit and then sat down beside him. Her
robe opened when she sat and she was showing a lot of leg and cleavage.
"What I really wanted to do was make sure you are ok and tell you that
I'm so sorry about what happened to you," David said.
"You didn't seem to care too much for me when you gave me the choice of
either working for you as a CI or being arrested by a bunch of FBI
goons," Taylor said bitterly.
David flinched visibly; a wounded look crossed his face.
"You're not going to make this easy for me are you?" David sighed.
"Why should I?" Taylor said; her voice emotionless.
"You shouldn't. I deserve the reproach but I want you to know that I do
care about you," David said earnestly.
"Ok," Taylor said, a little dismissively.
"I care for you a lot," David said a little sheepishly.
"Really? I didn't get that feeling," Taylor said.
"Because I had to remain professional; I couldn't let my feelings show."
David took Taylor's hand in his.
"Feelings?" Taylor stared into his eyes.
David leaned into her and pressed his lips to hers. When Taylor didn't
resist he kissed her harder and slipped the tip of his tongue into her
mouth. Taylor responded and David put his arms around her and pulled her
closer. Taylor put her arms around him and pressed her body against him.
David broke the kiss and gently brushed the hair out of her eyes.
"I love you," David whispered.
"Really?" Taylor whispered.
"Really. I really love you Taylor." He smiled at her and she melted.
Taylor sensed David's sincerity and his love seemed almost palpable.
Taylor realised that what she had thought was just an attraction to
David was indeed love.
Taylor stood up and David arose with her. They kissed again and her robe
fell open. David found her breast and stroked it, causing her nipple to
engorge. She found him erect in his slacks and gently squeezed his
turgid penis.
"Come." Taylor disengaged and took David's hand in hers.
She led him to her bedroom.
On the way to the bedroom she stopped in front of the old Sony Vaio and
hit the 'N' key on the keyboard.
The red lights on the side of the USB glowed fiercely for a second and
then they extinguished... forever.
The End
Author's Note: I debated whether or not this story belonged in the
transgender category. As Taylor did transform I believe I chose the
correct category. Please leave your comments and feedback.
Ever yours xxx Michele