Sonnet Seduction
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A Decision.
Joe is at work and Jenny is at home. At home, but not un-occupied. She is no longer quite so obsessed with housework, no longer quite so much in the grip of the mind-set she had at the Dacha. Today, she has made Joe’s breakfast, and something for him to have at lunch-time and then ... and then she has sat herself in a comfortable chair in their lounge and is listening to music. To Sibelius. She enjoys the pictures it conjures in her mind, in sound. She finds it easy to imagine the wide-open spaces of Karelia but, now she is a Russian herself, the wide-open northern spaces naturally appeal.
Jenny’s mind wanders to her time with Joe at IWB. She thinks about his freshly pierced nipples. About the morning when they were due to depart and he asked if Cynthia might have a free appointment? She went to hold his hand, though that was hardly necessary. She thinks about the only other time when she had attended a piercing, when she was an assistant, when Neena had pierced Tracy’s septum. She remembers how Vyera wrestled with feelings of sadness for Tracy and regret at the cruelty involved but also her interest in the gauge of the jewelry Tracy had been given and satisfaction at the result: how it made the rude, headstrong and angry Tracy seem so much more a slave. A just punishment for her unpleasantness.
Jennifer returns to her memories of Joe’s piercing. The way Cynthia’s cannula slipped so effortlessly through Joe’s nipples which seemed to enjoy their ordeal by becoming nicely erect and how erotic they looked with a bright silver-titanium barbell transfixing each nipple. At the memory, Jennifer’s mouth waters. Yes, she was very grateful to Joe for being so brave. It was not a case of braving the pain, but doing something that Jennifer liked, something which was not what Joseph might want for himself, at least not the “normal Joseph,” not the steady, careful, conventional man she had married. He had summoned up the courage to change.
Jennifer’s mind moves back a few hours more. In her mind’s eye, she sees Joseph in Ylena’s Studio — “Dungeon” does not seem to be the right word for a place where people can discover more about themselves and be themselves more completely.
His hands are strapped to the trapeze and Jennifer has raised the bar so he is on tip-toe. In imagination, Jennifer relives the flogging she gave him, remembers the way the leather tails of the whip caressed his back, remembers the feeling of the flogger in her hand and the feeling as the tails spread over Joe’s back, and how she had to follow through with her arm so he could enjoy each stroke properly.
And then, there was the effect on Joe. His breathing. The way his skin reddened, and then marked to show the kiss from the tails of her flogger.
Jennifer is thinking about beating Joseph again, but not only in imagination. Jennifer realizes she wants to beat him in reality. In their home. In the intimacy of their bedroom.
Jennifer’s mind moves to the practical. At Inward Bound, all the best equipment was readily at hand and Ylena was present to supervise. If Jennifer is to beat Joseph at home, she would need something which was not too severe. What about the classic BDSM tool, the riding crop?
A crop is bendy enough to be good for beginners, stingy enough to be remembered, and riding crops are widely available.
Jennifer goes to the PC, to launch Google and discover where she could buy one in Warwick.
She is about to switch on and then remembers that Neena might come! As the thought forms in Jennifer’s mind, she becomes Vyera...
If Neena comes, Vyera will have to ask permission and Neena might say no. After all, is it appropriate for a slave to spank her partner?
It would be if the slave is instructed to do so by the Supervisor, but what would Joe think about being spanked on Neena’s instruction?
In any case, Vyera is not training Joe. She wants to spank him because it makes her feel good. It makes her feel as if he belongs to her. It makes her feel as if Joe is her possession, instead of her always feeling like someone else’s possession — which she is, of course — but Vyera does not always want to feel so, not all the time, and not now she is in England.
Vyera looks at the computer. If she logs on, Neena might come...
Vyera makes a decision. The sensation of taking the initiative and making a decision of her own feels like it did when she decided to go to IWB. It feels good!
Vyera gets up to go downstairs, but it is Jenny who arrives. By now she is smiling. She knows how to deal with this problem. If she can’t Google “Saddlery Warwick” for fear of Neena, she can look up “Horse and Riding” in the Yellow Pages. That is one place Neena cannot lay in wait, ready to pounce on her. Jenny can thumb through the pages in complete safety!
It is a simple idea! Well, simple ideas are best. Isn’t that what she was told recently, by Neena herself?
In hardly any time at all, Jenny has found the Yellow Pages, usually neglected in favour of Google, but now centre stage. The easiest suitable shop is in Coventry. Jennifer likes the irony of that. Joe will be safe in his office but, outside in the streets of the same city, Jennifer will be buying a riding whip, a whip especially for his buttocks. Jennifer likes the idea very much! She is about to return to the study to get the map of Coventry to confirm where the shop is but stops herself. With sudden clarity, knowledge she had before she ever went to IWB in the first place, re-awakens. There is no need to go to Coventry. In Warwick, there is only one possible place to buy a riding crop. There is no need for maps, only the need for a clear memory and Jennifer’s memory is now as clear as the sky on a frosty day!
The day is actually cold and grey but, to Jennifer, it feels dry and warm, like a summer’s day and, inside herself, Jennifer is very sunny! She has made a decision. She has avoided reporting her wishes and her idea to Neena and having to ask Neena’s permission. It is her secret. Only she knows. Jennifer slips on her trainers, her anorak, and a yellow beanie hat in case of rain, checks her purse for her credit card, and leaves the house.
Corinne makes her move
“Dr Aimes? Good morning. I am Chief Inspector Grantby. This is my colleague, Sergeant Borland. I understand that you wanted to have a word with me? Something about a case we are dealing with at the moment?”
Corinne pauses before replying.
The Chief Inspector’s studied disinterest is almost certainly a front. He must know that she has made an appointment especially and come all the way from Suffolk to London to see him. She is sure he is actually keenly interested in everything she might have to say...
“Chief Inspector, we are both busy people with far too much to do, so I will get straight to the point. About four years ago, a Transport and Logistics Company invested in my business. My senior colleagues and I now suspect they are involved in people trafficking and are using us in some way, perhaps to identify potential victims. The first possible victim was a Mrs Jennifer McEwan, who I think you know.”
Grantby gazes tight-lipped at the woman before him. She is young — well, considerably younger than he himself — but she has a determined face set with piercing eyes. Her hair has a tendency to be wavy, but has been scraped back from her face and disciplined into a short wiry pony tail by a leather hair slide, black against her light brown hair. She is completely self-possessed and (he thinks) she would be a tough nut to crack if he was trying to get information out of her in a police interview. She is dressed as if she is an established member of staff at a bank or some other hard-bitten financial institution and her visage is only softened, or perhaps that should be “spiced,” by a gold stud in the side of her nose. Grantby, whose job is to notice things, spots that there is a slight redness around the stud which suggests Corinne has been pierced recently. He knows she is the Chief Executive of the adult experience company Inward Bound and now he knows that she is not afraid to “enjoy” some of the experiences she arranges for her clients...
Grantby clears his throat. “Yes,” he says carefully, “Mrs Jennifer McEwan is known to us. It’s not every day that someone tells me their business associates are involved in serious criminal activity. Can you tell us how you came to this conclusion?”
Corinne is finding the Chief Inspector’s excessively skeptical approach to be increasingly irritating. Having made a decision to report her fears to the police, she expected them to be received with more interest than Grantby seems to be showing. Corinne steadies her temper. He could be trying to provoke and, then again, he might be a careful mountaineer, testing each handhold and every foothold. Corinne takes a breath or two to steady her nerves. She remembers her PhD viva, another occasion when she knew much more about the issue in question than her examiners. She begins...
‘About four years ago — I should have checked this but I am relying on memory — anyway, about four years ago I was contacted by a Mr Lawrence Ross who said he wanted to invest in our company.”
“Our company?” queries Grantby
“Inward Bound and Huntingdon Management Sciences are two companies owned jointly by me and two other partners, Charlotte Smythson and Josephine Brownlie. Mr Ross was interested in Inward Bound.
The important point is that Larry (that’s what he calls himself) turned up out of the blue wanting to spend money. We were managing reasonably well but we were a fledgling company with some significant debt and his offer was very attractive.”
“Hmm. Go on.”
“Larry said that he represented a Transport and Logistics group called Freddie Clegg Enterprises who liked to make occasional investments in new and innovative companies and had been alerted to us. Some people like to gamble on “penny shares” and sometimes they are right to do it. Apple and Microsoft were both small start-ups, once upon a time. Well, Inward Bound is never going to be Apple or Microsoft, but we are unique in the market, so to speak.”
“Yes,” says Grantby. “I think you could safely say that. Did Mr Ross supply any ideas about how you could spend his cash?”
“Spending the investment money was covered in quite a bit of detail with Larry Ross and a financial colleague of his from FCE, but there were four main areas to think about. The Estate. The Equipment. The Staff. The Marketing and Administration. Marketing and administration, well, that explains itself. The Staff — we pay expenses to the people who help us on the Inward Bound courses. Some of the more specialist equipment is not all that cheap but neither is it a king’s ransom and it is widely available.”
“Specialist equipment?” asks Grantby, for clarification.
“Things like canes, floggers, whips, restraint straps, restraint benches, electrical stimulation kit,” Corinne replies without hesitation. She notices that whilst Grantby winces, Borland smiles and looks down. Clearly, Borland is more sexually sophisticated and knowledgeable than her boss!
“The main financial commitment is the estate and buildings. We had managed to buy an old property in Suffolk. It needed quite a bit of money spent on it to make it ideally suitable for what we had in mind, as well as the usual mundane things like catering, electrical wiring, water supply, drains, the roof, some windows needed to be replaced, internal joinery and so on and so on. Anyway, our original idea was that the main business would be Huntingdon Management Sciences and that Inward Bound would be a light-hearted interlude between the management courses. In the event, it has generated income much more easily and, quite frankly, it is much more fun. Putting that to one side, the FCE investment went into the bricks and mortar. That way, if the whole project collapsed, they would be able to recoup at least some of their investment from the sale of the Estate.”
“Seems sensible,” comments Grantby. “How much oversight did they want?”
“Larry Ross was — is — with us a couple of days each week but, to be fair, they have left us pretty much to our own devices. I kept them in the loop about the day-to-day operations and building conversion and renovation and they agreed to release funds as we needed them. Frankly, it could have been far more burdensome but, on the other hand, it was not the same as being one hundred percent your own boss and being solely responsible for the performance and development of the business.”
“So, when did you begin to have misgivings? From what you have told me so far, you seem to have had a very benign business relationship?”
“Well, firstly, a group of staff from FCE came to see an Inward Bound course in operation. This was a bit of a surprise. I would have put money on them wanting to sit in on a management seminar. After all, that is much closer to the world of business than Inward Bound, but it was Inward Bound they wanted to see.”
“If I can comment, Dr Aimes,” interjects Grantby, “Management Training is safe. Adult Experiences are not. If I was a corporate lawyer, I would be much more anxious about a public company being associated with BDSM goings on than I would be about any association with Management Training courses.”
“That is exactly the point, Chief Inspector. That’s what we thought. That was what we thought when Larry Ross appeared in the first place. Anyway, when the FCE people arrived for their site visit, I was expecting them to be somewhere towards the anxious and or embarrassed end of the spectrum, but they took everything in their stride and — I think this might be significant — even made suggestions about how the BDSM play and the slave training games could be made more effective for the participants. The kink scene, if I can put it that way, the kink scene in the UK is not that large and one of us should have at least heard about someone from the FCE delegation if they were serious and experienced players, but we knew none of them and we knew no one who knew any of them independently.”
“You are speaking as if this was the first time anyone from FCE had visited their new investment or taken anything more than a passing interest in it?”
“It was the first time apart from Mr Ross. It strikes a bit of a false note, don’t you think?”
“You mentioned Mrs McEwan...”
“Yes, I did. Jennifer McEwan booked herself a place on one of our courses. She came through the screening procedure we put candidates through...”
“Screening procedure?”
“We have to be sure that course participants are psychologically ready for what they are letting themselves in for. We try as far as we can to weed out candidates who are being pressured to take part by partners and we need candidates who can give informed consent to the games they will play.”
“I’m glad you mentioned “informed consent”...”
“Yes, Chief Inspector. I thought you might be. Just to make things crystal clear, the Inward Bound experience is safe and sane and consensual — and we are very keen to keep it that way and to keep it well inside the law.
“So: Jennifer McEwan. Jennifer attended a course and about half way through, a Professor Dawney contacted to tell us that Jennifer was her research student and could she please have her back at work! At this point, we learned that Jennifer was actually a research student in psychology preparing the ground work for a PhD thesis about stress and play behavior in adults. Her research supervisor, Professor Dawney, thought Inward Bound would be a good experimental model. I thought — we thought — that Dawney should have contacted us before hand to discuss the project and to agree some ground rules. We were taken aback by how presumptuous she had been, to say the least.”
“Yes, well, I have a colleague who has met Professor Dawney and I think a suitable word to describe her might be ‘focused.’’’
“Focused? Yes, all right. Focused will certainly go some of the way. So, I had a bit of a bad feeling about Professor Dawney and mentioned the affair to Larry Ross, who did not seem too concerned at the time, but I thought it was probably the sort of thing that the FCE contact ought to know about.
And now we come to the next curious incident. Two or three days after, at about 11pm at night, a posse of gentlemen arrived with identification documents to say they were from the Police and the American CIA, demanded access to Mrs McEwan, arrested her, and took her away...”
At this point, Grantby holds up his hand to stop Corinne.
“Dr Aimes, can I just be clear here. The people who came — were there men and women or just men?”
“Just men.”
“Are you absolutely sure?”
“I was not present so, to be absolutely sure, you would need to speak to Josephine Brownlie and Charlotte Smythson who were on duty overnight but as far as I know, the group was all male.”
“Dr Aimes, if we — that’s the police in the UK — are going to arrest a woman as a planned operation, we would always take a female officer, for obvious reasons. In the UK, only the Police have powers of arrest. The Security Services do not. And they had police identification?”
“Yes — well, one had UK police identification. The Americans had official looking ID.”
“So what happened next? I am sure you have been asked this before but if you can bear with me.”
“Actually I don’t think we have been asked in this amount of detail. So they took Jennifer away in handcuffs and left us with a receipt for her and some contact numbers for the United States Department of Justice and said it would all be sorted out in a few days.”
“What steps did you take?”
“Josephine called me. I called Larry Ross and I also called the numbers we had been given.”
“Ah ... so the numbers?”
“They were in the United States...”
“How did you know?”
“From the international dialing code.”
“Did you get an answer?”
“Oh yes, I spoke to someone — they were American, or sounded so — who seemed to be aware of the operation and said that I would be given an update in ‘due time’.”
“Do you still have the numbers?”
“I think so. We wrote them in the diary.”
“Did you do anything else? Call Jennifer’s next of kin for example?”
“Her husband was abroad and we did not have any other numbers apart from Professor Dawney, who turned out to be uncontactable. Larry Ross advised us not to speak to anyone else until he could speak to some of his contacts.”
“His contacts?”
“The FCE legal people — I assumed they would be more experienced at dealing with other jurisdictions than our own solicitor. I am sorry, this all sounds so feeble and careless now but I — we — were all completely beyond our experience and Larry Ross seemed completely unfazed, so we placed our trust in him.”
“Just tell me again what he said about his ‘contacts’...”
“He was talking about people he — but I supposed I understood him to mean people FCE knew in the Foreign Office. They are on the Government List of Approved Contractors and do international work so, once again, we thought they were best placed to help. In fact, we began to think how lucky we were that we had formed this business arrangement with them because, when the chips were down, we had experienced people to fall back on.”
“Hmmm, well, it’s a fair assumption to make. Just tell me again. Larry Ross said his company had contacts in the Foreign Office and he said FCE would speak to them to try and resolve the situation. Is that what you are saying?”
“Yes, that’s what he said, as far as I can recall and this is not something you forget easily.”
“No, I bet it’s not. So how did matters develop?”
“Several days passed. Larry told us they (meaning FCE and the Foreign Office people they knew) were making progress and then Jennifer was returned in the middle of the night once again.”
“Ah ... and how was she?”
“She was emotionally very frightened and I thought she had been tortured. Beaten. There were whip marks on her body.”
“I am sorry, Dr Aimes, but didn’t you think that was odd?”
“Well, at the time, Inspector, the media was full of very lurid stories: ‘extra-ordinary rendition, ‘ about secret CIA ‘facilities, ‘ about what the Americans had been doing in prisons in Iraq, in particular. I am afraid it all seemed completely believable.”
Grantby sighs. Yes, all so very believable — except for the absence of a female officer at the arrest of a female suspect and vague talk of “contacts” in the Foreign Office...
“This brings me to the straw that broke the camel’s back, as far as I was concerned.”
“Tell me.”
“Jennifer McEwan came to see us last weekend.”
“Did she?”
“She had quite a lot to say about what had happened to her.”
“She told you?”
“Yes. I think this was pretty much the first time she had been able to say much at all about what had happened to her when she was away.”
“You know we need her to speak with us, otherwise what we learn is only ‘hearsay’?”
“Yes, I understand that, so do you want me to keep my counsel, so you have an open mind?”
“A clear and open mind is always an important asset for a policeman, Dr Aimes, especially during an investigation, but a policeman also has to know where to look and has to find clues to follow up, so, in that context, what would you like to tell me?
“Jennifer told us that when she was away, she was given a new name and citizenship of her new country. She is now a Russian and her name is Vyera Anatolyevna Kuznetsova.”
At these few words from Corinne Aimes, just two short sentences, Grantby feels his face flush bright red. For a moment, he finds words of his own hard to find. Finally he manages to regain his equilibrium and proceed with his careful, measured questioning. With effort, he manages to say quietly, “You came because you were worried about Mr Ross and FCE... ?”
“When Jennifer was away, she was ... I will choose my words carefully ... given the opportunity to complete her research work. She gave a presentation and, at the end, one of the people present apparently said, ‘so that’s why they are interested. They do not have to go looking for people. The people come looking for them.‘
“Jennifer wanted to know if the people she was with meant us. I wonder if the people she was with meant Larry Ross and FCE?”
After Corinne has gone, Grantby returns to his office — and then goes to find Borland. He sits down at her desk and the two of them gaze at each other for a long moment.
Grantby says, “Well, what do you think about all that? What do you think about that? It seems we now know where Jennifer McEwan was and some of the things that happened to her when she was there. On the one hand, I am astonished to learn there was all that to find out about and we are only learning about it now! On the other hand, at last we have an opportunity to make some progress.”
“To be abducted and to be formally re-named and given citizenship,” says Borland, “this is completely beyond anything I have ever heard of. Do you think we should take what Jennifer has said to be literally true, because if it is true, we are up against a State and not merely a criminal gang?”
Grantby glances down for a moment. Like Corinne, he chooses his words carefully. He says: “This is where our training has to stand us in good stead, Sergeant. Careful collection of evidence. Verification. Corroboration. Analysis. Careful inference. Finally, to draw the conclusions which the evidence actually points to.”
“The original interviews were done by someone from Suffolk,” replies Borland, “and we thought we were dealing with a ‘domestic’ issue of a wife disappearing. There was no clear evidence of foul play. I think Suffolk Constabulary went through the motions and passed on their report to us.”
Grantby sighs. “Maybe. Anyway, I want you to go to IWB — find a time when the mysterious Mr Ross is not there — and check through their diary so we have some contemporaneous record of exactly when this all happened — and get those phone numbers!
“Meanwhile, I will contact that smarmy bastard, Appleyard — you remember the Foreign Office bloke who turned up at the case conference we had? It seems we are now right in his area of expertise. Let’s see if he can trace any approach by Mr Larry Ross or by FCE. If there is, good for them. If not, well, that puts an interesting complexion on their story...”
A Purchase
When Jenny arrives, for a moment she freezes. What does she have to do next? She is not very used to shops anymore, and panic starts to rise inside her. She has her mobile. She could call Neena and ask for help — but, if she does that, she would have to provide an explanation, she would have to ask permission, she would have to confess that she has taken an initiative without first establishing that what she intends is appropriate for a slave.
Vyera’s mouth is dry and there are knots of anxiety in her stomach. She glances quickly around the shop. A few feet away there is another young woman, about her own age, with a pram with a small baby and, with them, another, older woman, perhaps the mummy’s mummy? The young mummy must have a horse. She is looking at bridles.
Jenny has a flashback memory. She is in Mothercare, in Moscow. She has been sent on an errand. She is to buy baby wipes but, in the end, Vyera exerted herself and also bought a little baby-grow with the change, for Dmitry. Vyera bought because she could, because she wanted to, because she was in a baby shop and that’s what women who look after small children do, in baby shops. She did not care that she had no instructions and she did not care if her maternal impulse would be rewarded with a caning — and in the event, it did not. Her Supervisor was pleased with her. She went on her errand as Vyera and came back as Vyerochka.
This happy memory steadies Vyera, that and the way the young mother is examining the bridles. The way she slides the sweet smelling leather through her fingers, testing it for strength and suppleness. Vyera notices her mouth is watering because Jennifer is thinking about how nice Joe would look in a bridle and harness, like the one Vyera wore on occasion, except this time she would be in charge of him, not Neena or Anna or even Alana in charge of her.
Vyera had not completed her pony girl training by the time she left the Dacha for the last time. Now the memory is in her mind, she feels a sharp stab of regret. She had enjoyed the sensation of the harness closing around her body, the firm caress of the straps as Anna Simeonova tightened the buckles. She has enjoyed the moment when she and her harness was united with the sulki, the sensation of Anne climbing aboard and the sting of her whip to signal Vyera was to start moving...
“Can I help you?” There is an Assistant at Jennifer’s elbow. “You look a bit lost?”
“I’m a new customer. I am sorry. I have not been here before.”
“Don’t worry about that. We like customers. The more there are, the better we like it. What are you after?”
“A riding crop...”
“They are over there. What sort of a horse do you have?”
Before she can stop herself, Jennifer (or perhaps Vyera) immediately tells the truth.
“It’s for my husband!”
“Ah. What sort of a horse does he ride?”
And then the Assistant notices how Jennifer is blushing and laughs herself.
“Oh, I see what you mean! He is going to be the one who feels it! Don’t worry. We have a steady trickle of wives, girlfriends, and partners who have had the same idea as you. Is he a beginner?”
“Yes, I suppose you could say that he is.”
The Assistant puts her head slightly on one side and says reflectively, “If I were you, I would start looking at those on the right hand side and those with the larger slapper at the end. They are good to begin with. If he likes it, the heavier and stiffer ones are at the bottom of the display.” The Assistant winks in a conspiratorial way. Jennifer finds it easy to smile back and make her way over to the selection of crops. There are various colours, handle styles, shapes of tongue, thickness of shaft. She has quite a large choice...
As Jennifer hands her selection to the Assistant, the Assistant holds it gently by the handle and the end of the shaft. “Good choice,” she says, slipping it into an anonymous brown paper bag. She smiles again. “You will enjoy using this. Your boy might enjoy it too, in time!”
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Group One Elements. For Joe and Jenny, the drive across to Leicestershire passes in silence. It’s probably one of the longest 90 minutes that Joe has experienced lately. It is early January. The conviviality’s of Christmas and New Year are over but they were a disappointment, overshadowed by Joe’s unexpected redundancy. A new year stretches out ahead of them. It is a new year in which Joe has to find a new job and quickly, too. It is a new year in which Jenny has to work on her recovery, but...
Chapter Introduction Petra takes simultaneous initiatives in London and Warwick, Joe has some new and completely unexpected experiences, Jenny is given encouragement from an old acquaintance, and Manfred Randolf receives a surprise invitation. The Overseer In London, Petra Tennerby places a call to Manfred Randolf. She is using the Virgin pre-paid cell phone he gave her. The days are slipping by without much more progress in the case. The New Year had come and Petra feels as if she is...
Chapter Introduction Anatoly and Neena, Manfred and Petra contend over the fate of Tracy but when Tracy joins in the game later, does she realise that she is playing with a loaded die? Slave Market Neena had never realized that Edinburgh was such a city of mountains and spires, classical buildings, temples, elegant domes, broad streets and distant views of an eastern sea. She and the Kustenskies are staying in an imposing wedding cake of a hotel, all columns and baroque gables and, rising...
Chapter Introduction In London, Tracy falls into the trap set by Petra and her Father; Jennifer and Joe enjoy a chance meeting over lunch; Angela Dawney moves up Scott Anderson’s agenda; and Jennifer gains a new perspective on some past events. The Uninvited Guest We are back in London. Joe has been to University College Hospital again for a review with the surgeons who cared for him after he was assaulted. Of course, it’s good to have their expertise but every examination just means that...
Chapter Introduction Joe receives an invitation for Interview — and is asked to do something that girls like. An Invitation In Italy, the cult of the individual has not taken root as it has in many western countries. In Italy, the family remains an important institution, and especially so when the question of employment in a family firm is posed, even in a large firm operating internationally. There are others, too, who understand the importance of a suitable introduction. Pietro Cassini...
Chapter Introduction There is good news for Joe and Jenny, an anxious day for some Senior Officers of the Metropolitan Police, an interesting moment as Stephen Appleyard pulls another rabbit out of his hat and a sober reflection from Chief Inspector Grantby about the purpose of policing. Jigsaw It’s a good day for Joseph and Jennifer McEwan! Today, two letters arrived in the post. One told them that their Insurers were prepared to honour their home and contents insurance policy. It means...
Chapter Introduction Professor Angela Dawney, the noted academic psychologist and expert in research on the effects of stress, fulfils an invitation to work with some new colleagues, to improve their data collection methods for a new medicine, but is she a queen in the game or merely a pawn? The Set Up: Weed Eradication Protocol Catherine Hopwood is at work in her office in the State of Iowa Narcotics Enforcement Bureau when she receives a call from an old friend. Scott Anderson had been...
Chapter Introduction Stephen Appleyard leads a powerful expeditionary force to Moscow but can a well chosen word more achieve more than an army? Rules of Encounter Neither Grantby nor Ackroyd has ever been to such a hotel. Neither of them. The opulence. The extravagance. The scale. The grandeur — and also the people. Many seem relatively young, younger than either of the policemen. How had they acquired such wealth to be at home in such a hotel at such a modest age? The two glance at one...
Canopus In Paradise “Freddie! Ellie! So good to see you again, safe and sound.” “And you, Steve,” replies Ellie. “For your information, Steve, at the moment, we are Gordon Firth and Kristen Keller. He is British. I am German.” “OK, that’s good, really good. Did you have any trouble setting that up?” “Not really,” Freddie replies. “I had an inkling that a tactical retreat might be needed one day, so we have had these ready for some time. Others, too, in Bank safety deposit boxes in various...
Please bear with me if I take the liberty to insert a short timeline for Danny that gives the reader a better backdrop of his chronological development. I will also attempt to preface chapters with the point in time and the location of the scenario due to the fact there are several key timeframes and locations for the plot of the story. DANNY'S TIMELINE Danny's background ... Born 1950 Joined what is now known as PIRA or more simply (IRA) in 1966 First mission 1967 in Derry At age 20...
Danny was certain to be on time for his "date" with Molly not because he was trying to get into her pants but because he needed to talk to someone young who was not of his time and unlikely to scrutinize him for mistakes in relating events. They were already serving some gratuitous snacks to the after-work crowd when Molly showed up at the door. She drew a lot of attention from the randy lads lined up at the bar but they were all too lazy to get up from their drinks and free snacks. She...
Danny was not at all happy to be in London and he knew he was only there to pay back some old debts to his early handlers in Belfast. At least the ones that were still alive. He had been immersed in struggles of a different sort in parts of the world that made Belfast look like the lap of luxury. Even in the early days, the signs of the Troubles were slow to explode like one of those hand-made pipe bombs that often didn't work when they were supposed to. He had spent some time giving...
July, 1989 My real birthday is only two days away, I thought as I watched the gulls flying over the Irish Sea from the back of the ferry. I was heading back to Belfast, alone. Eoin and Ambrose tried locking me in my room, but that only worked for a couple of days. Last night, after everyone was asleep, I opened my bedroom window and used the rope I wove out of curtains and sheets to lower my bag down to the ground before sliding down myself. I slipped by the roving guards, stationary...
(MOLLY'S STORY – LONDON 2001) Now that she was a married woman with a husband that tended to her needs like a proper man is required to do with constant regularity, Molly was fearful of accepting the position in London not certain about her husband Danny's reaction to being uprooted from Belfast. She wondered how he would adjust to living in the midst of the English in the center of the UK and so close to the Whitehall. It was a subject that he never commented on verbally and she was loath...
BELFAST – 1995 The story of Belfast in 1995 was how this story started and it was highlighted in the following eight chapters. (CHAPTERS 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 11, 16, 17) It is conceivable that this timeline will be presented in a different format because it is a bit confusing to the continuity of the storyline. Suffice it to say that the chapters dealing with the time period prior to 1995 were historical in nature to the flow of events and the final chapter 26 will be the concluding Epilogue to...
S10:E07: Donna Paterson (50), from Belfast We fade in on sleazy dark set. A single spotlight illuminates a steel-frame bed – no bedclothes or pillows, just that stained old mattress. It looks cold and dirty – it needs a hot woman to warm it up... There’s a clicking of heels as this week’s guest walks onto the set. She arrives in the pool of light and we see that she is a middle-aged lady, quite trim for her age, clearly doing plenty to stay fit. She’s also somewhat eclectic in her style...
With series 12 completed, we roll straight through into series 13 - the same hosts, doing the same things all over again ... Aren’t we getting bored of this yet? Well, it appears not ... So... We start this week’s show with establishing shots of quiet suburban streets – semi-detached homes, very middle class and safe... And then, stepping into frame from the side, moving from behind the camera to infront - this week’s host ... Still the nation’s least likely sex symbol – short, fat,...
A hand-fasting was always a very special event. The pagan marriage ceremony, joining a couple in love before their friends, family, community and gods was usually held outside in woodland. This would be followed today, as was the custom, with an evening around the camp-fire singing, joking, drinking and eating into the early morning. Scarlet thought this one had a fine pagan feel to it, particularly given that she was, once again, on all fours, face in the dirt with her hands gripping the earth...
CheatingOccasionally, a story has to be written. This one is mostly true. The incidents really happened much as portrayed. For my loyal readers, this story has been in my head for a number of years waiting for its time. Its time is now. Hopefully you will understand it and the bitter memories I have carried most of my life. * ‘Have you heard from Sean? He was arrested in ’79.’ Jenny shook her head. That was all she could do. So many dead or arrested. Arrested was the same as dead back in those days....
BRIGHTON 1984 The Polish woman was a special case because she was more the professional and her experience equaled his own. Danny didn't like that fact but it was orders from up above and he was stuck with her. Besides, she had contacts that he didn't have and would most likely prove more valuable on the back-end rather than in the middle of the mess. Pretending to be an ignorant tourist, Danny traveled around the area noting the military and police strong points and was astonished at...
BELFAST 1972 The warmth of the changing seasons slowly thawed out Danny's bones in the spring of 1972. He was only just past the magic twenty-one and he felt like one of those old farts sitting on the cement benches to soak up the friendly sun. For some strange reason, he was off the birds and wasn't sure the reason why. Maybe the juices of spring would bring his libido back so he could pretend to be young once again. He was sat in the little nook just inside the curtain-drawn window...
BELFAST – 1968 1968 was a year of dying in many places around the globe. It was the year of the "Tet Offensive" and the casualty figures from Southeast Asia drove a wedge into the hearts and minds of the American people as sharp and painful as the division between Irish Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland. The business of dying in Belfast was often an unexpected thing. It didn't come just in bed after a long life of struggle to make ends meet. It didn't come only in an...
BELFAST – 1995 There was a small note in the slot behind the hotel clerk where his key resided. He was a bit upset because it was just folded over and anyone could read it without any effort. Fortunately, it was from his Legend insurance girl Laura who had recently given him cover before his journey to Belfast. She was a simple girl and easy to please and her note said it all. "Danny, I miss you and hope you think of me at times. I am sorry I asked you for too much. Please call me so I...
BELFAST – 2015 There was a bit of chill in the air when Molly came home that evening. It was a bit too early for the really cold weather but the wind made the sudden drop in temperature feel colder than it really was. Danny dug out his wooly-pulley from the back laundry room where it had hung for several months out of sight and out of mind. He enjoyed the feel of the familiar cloth on his shoulders and thought that the thing was a bit like him being stuck away out of sight and hopefully out...
(MOLLY'S STORY – LONDON 2005) Molly had been reading the report on the Brighton bombing in 1984 and she kept coming back to the mysterious suspect that seemed to be putting obstacles in the way of the bombers at every turn. That was quite surprising to her because she had assumed they were all working to the same objective of terminating the Prime Minister with extreme prejudice. Now, she was of the opinion that there were different agendas at work in the days leading up to the explosion...
(BELFAST – 1972) It was far too early in the morning for whiskey in his coffee but Danny had that urge to soak up the bite of the dog before facing the stern faces of his masters in Belfast. His recollection of the evening before was a bit cloudy but he distinctly remembered inviting his landlady in for a drink and then found her stretched out next to him snoring when he woke up the next morning. It would have been a matter of amusement except for the fact her jealous husband was on the...
BRIGHTON – 1984 Danny was not happy that they called him in on the whole sordid Brighton affair at the last minute. His suspicion was that the hierarchy was in a state of confusion because of changing circumstances and the threat of retribution after the assassination of a ruling Prime Minister was pushed front and center with shocking realization. When he first was read into the operation, it was his cautious nature that kept him from standing up in the small room filled with frightened...
Series 2, Episode 9: Hope We’re at Birmingham airport, waiting with the crowds for an incoming flight. It’s 09:50 and the arrivals board notes that the 08.55 FLYBE flight from Belfast has already arrived. We watch as various businessmen walk through the arrivals gate. Then a mother and her young son – not her. A couple of flight attendants – they turn and walk away from us – not them. Then the cutest young thing - a pretty teenager with a bright smile and long auburn hair flowing over her...
So this is what happened between me and my good friend.. I’ve been thinking for a while of sharing this little tale as I know you’ll enjoy this one! So this is the night before, we are celebrating my 30th birthday at my flat, there is about 10 people here and the drink is flowing and everyone is having a great time x This is Penny on the left she’s 28 and we’ve known each other since college and she’s been through a lot with me. Me looking the birthday princess in my tiara. So after everyone...
One thing I know: we girls like to talk about exciting things in our lives, both good things and those not so good but we spend oodles of time sharing notes in our lives with each other. That is how it is and so the good news of her erotic encounters with Teddy and Roger, as remembered by Phyllis, were soon told to her friends. The friends were either amazed or disbelieving but also full of curiosity and giggling at it all. I mean, what girl has encountered a neighborhood boy, then his...
Ich heisse Sabrina Buchholz, bin Lehrerin und seit 2006 verheiratet. Den Tag des Weiberfastnacht 2008 werde ich nie vergessen, veränderte er doch mein gesamtes Leben. Ich war zwei Jahre verheiratet und sehr glücklich mit meinem Mann, hatte er doch sexuell genau die Vorlieben die zu mir passten, er war dominant und ich devot, und wir liebten es geil und hart. Wir hatten uns sexuelle Freiheiten zugestanden, da er oft wochen- oder monatelang als Bauleiter im Ausland unterwegs war es eine zwingende...
I was now on my first crusise on the ocean...I seen Melissa Gilbert up on the rail crying....I was running towards her when she jumped, I jumped in after her....Got hold of her and called for help but no one could hear me...we were adrift seems like hours with i see a small island and swim for it... When we hit the beach some time later and i got a fire going and gather some fruits and anything else i could find...I ask Ms. Gilbert why she jumped ship ? Well she said that her and Bruce had...
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This is a fantasy story mixed with reality. A few months ago I as evicted from my apartment. I had nowhere to turn, no friends or family who would take me in. I had to turn to my sister who lived 100 miles away but I had to do what I had to do. At the house lives my sister, her husband and their two daughters, one 21 the other 19. The 19 year old I had last seen when she was 11. She was a small blonde little girl. Oh my how the years had been kind to her. She had grown tall, still blonde, her...
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I stiffened. And not in a sexual manner. My daughters were too young to be preparing for marriage. I was going to sit them both down... “They’ve both taken home economics in school to learn to sew and cook. That nice Mrs. Abernathy actually teaches a little about managing a household. You should be proud that our girls are preparing for a future husband and home.” “I thought you meant...” “Oh, I’m sure Lexi is pure as the driven snow. Our little puttana, though ... I’m sure she is sexing...
We had a great time. After dinner, Dad led us all out to the fire pit. He must have taken the whole day off because there was a new addition. He had a kind of tent like thing set up that looked like a Navajo hogan. He'd slipped out earlier to light the fire and it was blazing when we got out there. We just sat around for a while telling stories about how life was going after the first full month of school. The guys were excited about basketball season coming up and were bummed that my class...
When she hit my life, I was living in Belfast and she blew in like a hurricane. To this day, I’m not quite sure where or how I first saw her, the memory is hazy now. I think I had gone to a friend’s house to borrow something, his latest girlfriend was there and we were introduced. Somehow we left together. We ended up having a drink, then a meal and later that night, for the first time, she shared my bed. She was an insatiable lover and I was just as besotted. Note that I said we shared a bed,...
When she hit my life, I was living in Belfast and she blew in like a hurricane. To this day, I'm not quite sure where or how I first saw her, the memory is hazy now. I think I had gone to a friend’s house to borrow something, his latest girlfriend was there and we were introduced. Somehow we left together. We ended up having a drink, then a meal and later that night, for the first time, she shared my bed. She was an insatiable lover and I was just as besotted. Note that I said we shared a bed,...
Straight Sex"You've been shot" the doctor said, Dave grinned somewhat sourly, "Congratulations doc" She returned his grin but I detected a hint of respect, "You have a spinal oedema" "Yes" he said, "I've noticed" "So why did you call me?" "I didn't, she did" he inclined his head in my direction, "Why, Jackie?" "Because one minute he was standing at the window and the next he was on the floor, crying, have you ever seen a man cry doctor, a strong man?" "Many times" she said...
BRIGHTON - 1984 In a way the incident at Brighton should never have gotten off the drawing board because it came at the wrong time and in the wrong place for long range benefit of the future generations of the residents of the Free Irish State. Just because the sheer arrogance of the much maligned female PM had so affronted the lads in Dublin to the point that they were drinking unusually long and with reduced satisfaction was no excuse for the ill-timed bombing project. Danny was called...
BELFAST – 1968 Danny was one of those morning people that pop out of bed and look for that first cup of coffee to get all their systems working top notch. This particular morning was not one of those days. The hazy memories of the night before recalled the free rounds of drinks at a place called O'Horrigan's with the dark murky shadows of hidden nooks and the bored housewives looking for a bit of strange. He barely remembered what he was drinking but from the taste in his mouth and the...
BELFAST – 2015 The newspapers were filled with stories about the killings in Derry in the old days before all the negotiations and the peace that seemed to be holding despite all odds. As if to offset the sensationalism of the print hype, there were some smaller articles about some retired military types being arrested and brought in to assist with the new police force's inquiries about the massacre. Danny read the articles with some interest because it represented a new approach to the...
(MOLLY'S STORY – BELFAST 1995) Molly knew that there was something not quite right about Danny but he was such a darling of a man she was ready to take things as they came and not question him too much about his past because it might drive him away and that was the last thing she wanted to happen. A few times in those early days, he would disappear for a few days and then tell her, "Away on business, love, thinking about you and hope you do the same." It always made her giggle because...
BELFAST (1968) The year of 1968 was almost over when Danny got his marching orders from the section outside of Dublin that had administered most of his "in-house" training that was filled with sessions in defusing of explosive devices and identifying various weapons and ammunition from the current stock in their inventory. He really was not one to take great pride in the planting and activation of the explosives but he knew it was their primary weapon right now and would probably remain so...
(BELFAST 2020) The tired looking older man with the shaggy eyebrows sat on the park bench watching the young lads playing football on the open field. It was one of those lazy summer days when the weather was perfect and everything was nice and shiny-clean because of the quick afternoon shower that pounded the sidewalks and the streets and left tell-tale moisture on the grass to remind people that growing things needed the damp to make them grow. Danny was interested in the pace of the play...
We start this week’s show with an establishing shot of a stereotypical concrete council estate. Back in the 1960s, on paper, this probably looked like a futuristic worker’s paradise, but right now, in reality, it just looks boring and grim. Grim people walking by grim buildings on grim streets. Then another grim looking figure – short, fat, hairy and decidedly ugly ... It’s our regular male host, the Cockney geezer called Dennis, the owner of the lady pleaser – the Doberman named Romeo ......