Consequences Pt. 10C

Consequences 10

Part C: Time for Erika, Aleesha and punishment for a scumbag.

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Cast of Characters at the end.

Tags: Development; Investigation; Retribution; Friendship; Relationships;

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Progress

Ruth began to make more visits as the development progressed and he asked Lauren to put her on the update list. Her input into Hotel design was proving invaluable and she was beginning to mention certain people she wanted to employ, asking if he could give her the go ahead to make early contact to gauge interest in joining. He was happy to agree, and was becoming increasingly impressed by her professionalism. Progress seemed to be moving along beyond expectations, and the contractors were hoping to finish by summer's end in time to start on their next projects. I spoke regularly to my Dad and Jane's Dad and often wondered what they knew about my home life. Despite every effort to keep the development low key there were bound to be rumours circulating and it occurred to David that they ought to make security a high priority. He decided to talk to Aleesha while they were in Ohio, or maybe when they got back if his hopes proved good. As he neared his forthcoming excursions he found himself worrying less and that had to be a good thing, didn't it?

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David

The news from Ohio continued to flow and I decided to see Olivia's parents again when I arrived to try to force them to come clean, no matter how nice they were as parents they seemed to have let her down and I wanted to make them face what they had or hadn't done then, and what it was doing to Olivia now. I rang Aleesha if only for an excuse to flirt with her but also to ask her to set up a meeting, explaining what I had in mind and asking her to be part of it. She thought it was worth a shot.

Moving on I wasn't getting anything back from Angela, so I asked Amber and Louise to check the recordings to see if she had actually visited Olivia. It took some time for them to wade through all the recordings as well as keep up with what they were doing so I asked Jo if she could help with it in the evening. Jo being Jo threw herself into it enthusiastically and she was to bring me something of a surprise. What she found were visits from Angela but the relationship was way too personal, despite my warnings Olivia was twisting her around her finger and the impression was that Angela was bursting to get into Olivia's panties. This was not good, although as yet their interactions hadn't quite reached that stage, Olivia was manipulating her desire and thus distracting her from what I thought she should be doing.

It was getting ridiculous, I was sure we had what we needed for the shrinks to make progress and in the meantime Olivia was constantly trying to get me to do something she could use against me and get her way. We needed something to pull Angela out from Olivia's spell. I thought if I put pressure on Angela then Olivia might have to step up the seduction, it was worth a try so I arranged for an appointment with her colleague John.

I decided to take it slow, make subtle implications but no accusations. In the end I summarised what we had and I saw him screw his face up with a look that said we had something but he couldn't help. It was obvious he respected Angela and couldn't conceive of anything that Angela might do wrong. So eventually I had to go with insinuation, I told him that I thought that the relationship was too friendly and as a result Angela wasn't being as impartial as she could be. I also insinuated about Angela not being happy when I called in the second opinion.

Then I tried showing him a copy of the opinion from the psychiatrist about the new information we had but still I couldn't break his faith in his colleague. Finally I told him some of the lengths Olivia was going to and dropped on him that we possibly had videos that he might not want to see. He started to get cross with me so I stopped him and drew his attention again to how much he was ignoring my evidence of what was going on.

"I am getting angry." I said, "I am trying to speak to you reasonably as I can't get through to Angela because Olivia has

Angela twisted around her little finger, but if something isn't done quickly then Olivia is going to do something that gets her hurt or killed. So I am going to start throwing my weight around before that happens. I don't want to fall out with either of you, so if you can tell me some other way to deal with this then do so, but don't you dare start with platitudes."

Without the platitude option he was stymied. "I thought so, I have monitored your practice and it is pretty clear that what you're good at is shovelling more patients into less time, what you are not good at is looking after Olivia." I scowled, got up and left the room enjoying the sound of his door banging very loudly.

I asked Jo to keep checking the tapes, then she said something that surprised me.

"You know David, she doesn't do that much."

"Really?" I responded disinterestedly.

"Yes I know you don't want to know about her sex life but I have been surprised so far."

"I bet she had a couple of young guys last night, one with a very large dong, we heard them making the arrangements."

"I think they are her favourites."

"I am hoping for evidence that they are both underage, if you can pick up their names I would be grateful." I think one of them may be related to Daniel if you could follow up on that."

Then I added, "I used to think it would change if she thought I would intervene."

She nodded thoughtfully, "maybe you might be able to use that somehow."

"Let me know if you think of anything but as far as I am concerned she is a lost cause, I'm doing my duty to get her well then as far as I am concerned she can go to the gutter."

"I will," then she changed the subject "Are you still intent on having Aleesha?"

"Yes."

"It's revenge isn't it?" she said sadly.

She didn't say more but it made me think, I didn't want it to be that, Aleesha deserved better. I also didn't want it to be as bad as some of the others did to me. Then I realised that it was too late, the dice had been thrown.

"Can you forgive me?" I turned back to Jo.

"As it's Aleesha I can, if you make it up to me of course, but don't do it again David, you're better than that, please don't disappoint me. Ohh and don't hurt Aleesha, she's a good woman."

Jo had a knack of seeing things clearly. I realised that I should take her advice more often. At that moment she was sitting in front of the computer going through endless hours of nothing. "Could you stop that for a minute, I'd like some more of your sage advice."

Over the next few hours I poured my heart out to her, everything that was happening and how each made me feel. I would like to say that her advice gave me all the answers I needed but she did more in some ways, she listened, cuddled me, and stopped some of my anger by putting the issues in context. I went forward from there with a new heart and I think Jo forgave me a little more; I certainly hope so.

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A letter to Jane and Bree

If you two have come back then I hope you are well and that your hearts are intact. The ladies have been watching over you, hopefully you didn't notice them, but now it will stop whether you have come home or not. Your week is up and if you have decided to leave I hope it works out well for you. I can't face your decision so I shan't be around for a while, it should give you enough time to clear out your things if that's what you have decided. Love David

The information soon came in about Ashley. I had much information about his employers, his family and his friends and I began speaking to people with connections to his life. It might take time but eventually I would make sure he wouldn't want to stay around long regardless of how things went with Jane and Bree. I went to speak to my old friend Phillip, the Detective, about Rose and whether if she suppressed information they would have a possible case against her. So, while I was there I mentioned Ashley, which sent him into fits of laughter again as he did the last time it came up. "If he is a bad one," I said, "I want to discredit him, any chance of some pointers?" He screwed up his nose suggesting it was a big ask, "not much," he said a few moments later after looking at his computer screen, "a few complaints probably disgruntled husbands I'd guess" and he started to laugh again.

I added to his mirth by saying "I think you owe me just for keeping you amused, you should come to my local bar, they think I am going to represent the USA at the sex Olympics and it's going around that I am a porn star." "Wouldn't be surprised," David's friend laughed.

Having wiped away the laughter and tears as David regaled him about some of his adventures at the bar, Phillip said, if you get me anything I can work with I'll be happy to put him through the mill. What about asking that cute little ex-wife of his, better still bring her in here for a full shake down and search.

"I might just do that, you dirty dog" said David smiling but thoughtful and later he set about drafting a bogus undertaking for Rose to sign in the presence of Philip. He would talk it through with the others, many of whom were still sore from the original problem Rose caused but his motive to run Ashley out of town began to persuade them, although Lauren remained quiet. Then Nina offered to do some background research with some old friends, "it's about time I caught up with them, they were a good crowd back in the day." She said,

I rang Rose, "I have decided that you are to sign an undertaking in front of the Detective you saw last time."

"He was cute," she put in.

"But it might be a while before I can set it up, in the meantime I need something about your ex husband so that I can get him to move on."

"Still after your ladies is he?"

"Whether he got them or not I don't know, I'm keeping out of it, he went after them and that's enough for me."

"But you agreed to swap."

"Only under pressure and he never found one, let alone two women."

"I'm quite hurt," she said.

"You don't count, you had other motives."

"I suppose."

"As I see it no swap ever would have happened so he started putting pressure on them including taking them out the back." David said acidly. "So he will pay whether you help me or not but you owe me."

"I suppose," she repeated.

"Are you going to help me or not? If I get information he will simply be run out of town, if not he will end up in hospital" David lied slightly, he had already decided what he would do regardless.

The only thing she would give him was a drunk charge around his early twenties.

David rang his friend, "It's not much, every other student has got some kind of charge, we'll take a look but don't hold your hopes up. David decided he would take the law into his own hands and sent messages to his ladies. 'Find me an evening before I leave on Monday when Ashley is either at home on his own or with women other than Bree and Jane.'

On Sunday he got a call, "He's on his own David, there may be other women there but it's not Bree and Jane."

"Ok I am going to take a chance while I have it. Stay around if you can just in case I don't come out."

"We'll all be there," a group answer came.

"Keep the recorders going, just in case" David had plenty of time to decide how he's going to deal with Ashley.

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On arrival he knocked on the door and the man himself opened the door.

"You know why I have come." David said.

They aren't here.

I'm aware of that, you know that you have to pay don't you. Why you haven't had arms broken or legs broken before is beyond me. You crossed the wrong man Ashley would you prefer jail or hospital for a couple of years.

"Well surely we can still do our deal."

"Too late for that."

"What if I told you I have hot ladies waiting for you right now."

David's antenna was up.

"Found some more married ladies already or are these mine?"

"No, these are ripe and ready, have a little taste of my cock and are desperate for more, think you can do the job?"

David looked at him like a piece of shit that he was.

"I suppose these are somebody else's wives too"

"Well you know, they take one look at my cock and their mine."

"But that doesn't mean they will be interested in me."

"Don't worry my man, a little roofie each and I get what I want and so can you."

"Are you sure about that, my ladies are worth a lot more than a couple of doped up wives. Maybe I should take a look at them."

On the bed were two women coiled together, eyes unfocused.

"Hi ladies." David said.

"Hello handsome, have you come to give us some more of that big dick," their words came slurred.

"I have just what you need ladies, what's your names?"

Ashley started to get anxious at that, "I think you're not after what's on offer, in fact I think you are up to something else."

"I am staying a while, to make sure these women are ok, and their husbands come get them, if they still want them."

"All you're going to do is leave and leave quickly."

"No, I am phoning the police."

"You and whose army?"

"You will see, I expect the ladies' husbands will want a word with you too, we only have your word that they came here of their own accord."

"Man, you know the women are all over me."

"Sadly I do, but if that was entirely true you wouldn't need roofies would you. So I reckon you just pull them to use them and chuck them out to face their husbands, destroying their marriages."

Ashley made a mistake then, he didn't believe the police had been called and so threw a punch at David. David reacted with a kick into the place where Ashley should have been castrated long ago. Unfortunately the only camera recording would show that he fell over, hit his head and knocked himself out.

It took a while for his friendly Detective to arrive, but even he found it secretly very funny that Ashley had extensive damage to his scrotum after throwing one punch. Then David made sure he accidentally heard the wives names from Phillip and thoroughly enjoyed giving a tip-off to the husbands about the wives being roofied. Then he rang Rose. "Here's your last chance Rose, and he told her what her ex had been doing to women, giving them roofies and then abusing them. There's a big story here, I am sick to death of you protecting your ex, so this is your last chance, get the story on the front page or be implemented as an associate." Rose, panicked, pleading, and promising once again, David's patience had long since run out and was half hoping he would have to take action against her too.

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On the way to the Long Island Villa on Monday, David was on the phone almost the whole way. Ana was beginning to get bored and antsy after a while and tried to distract him even though she knew why the calls had to be made. There were a lot of helpful words down the phone but the hand on his thigh was interesting too. He pulled over for a minute and kissed her, he thought he was in an uncertain situation as it was and the last thing he wanted to do was upset her. They groped like teenagers for a good long while.

"I'm sorry." he said, "I'll leave it for now, I'd rather be with you."

"Ohh you're just saying that to get into my panties."

"I miss you when Zoe is in your panties, so yes I do."

"Yes, she does like being in my panties and me in hers, do you mind that much?"

"Of course! but I was just teasing, you have to expect me to be a bit selfish and very jealous."

"Your old girlfriend might want some of you too."

"I will be more than satisfied if you will help restart the friendship I once had, I have no other motive."

She conceded the point although a little afterthought reminded her that Zoe was back home.

He saw the shadow cross her face, so he tried. "As long as it's you and me that's all I need." Then "Does Zoe know anything more yet?"

"I haven't had the courage and I want both of you."

"Would you let me talk to her?"

"Maybe, if it comes to it."

"OK I trust you implicitly, just let me know if there's a change. I will understand."

The two days with Tania were fantastic in many ways and it helped that she and Ana fell into an immediate friendship. When they arrived there were introductions, except Tania's partner wasn't there. Ana asked, "Is your partner not with you?"

"Yes she is here, won't be long, we weren't absolutely sure what time you would arrive and she was determined to have something for us to eat." Tania finished with an affectionate smile which suggested the two were close. A fine featured beautiful woman finally fluttered into the room and went straight to Tania, the two kissed and then Christina crossed the room and enveloped them. David was entranced immediately and Ana's face said the same.

From that point on, one would have thought they had been friends for life, they talked long into the night. It was almost harder not to tell each other their personal stories than to get them off their chest. They were fascinated by Ana's problem, and no more certain about the way forward than David and Ana were. The four literally talked themselves to sleep. The following day was the same, they chatted at breakfast, then as they wandered on the beach, just as Tania and David had done all those years ago. And then again at dinner, so that when the evening was coming to an end there was a growing feeling of impending loss. David took Tania aside and they walked out onto the balcony again as they had once done. Eventually David had to say it, "I don't want to lose you again Tania, there was unfinished business between us but I know now that that may never be resolved. What I want you to do is come and visit soon. I would be honoured to receive your opinion and delighted if we four can continue our friendship."

"I was afraid of what you might expect of our reunion David and admit that my life experience has meant I am cautious when it comes to men. I was very lucky when I met my Christina and I have guarded carefully to ensure that nothing outside would impact on our relationship. I always feel like I'm so blessed to have her as my friend." She looked at the worried expression on his face. "Yes, I know that's been very selfish of me, who knows, maybe our meeting was fated and you will bring something fresh into our lives. I'm not good at taking risks with my heart, David, and Chris is such a good confidant and ally."

"It's not more than that?"

"Sometimes, but it's not the basis of our relationship, I worry like mad, but I don't ask questions and she doesn't ask me."

"It sounds so much like the situation I have with some of my ladies. I know in my heart that we are a waystation, the women indulge in sex within our home without inhibitions, but one day they will meet someone who wants them to be monogamous."

"You're worried that might happen with Ana?"

"Yes I almost expect it to happen because I can't be exclusive."

She nodded her understanding. "You've not mentioned your wife while you have been with us!"

"Promise you will come and stay for a while and I'll tell you the whole story." David knew he faced a battle because of her fear of notoriety. "I don't know if I can convince you, I just hope you want to keep our friendship, maybe you can help me keep Ana, no that wouldn't be fair, but I am running out of ideas." he smiled. "You have to come and meet Jo," and he went on to describe her history.