Consequences Pt. 12F

"Yes, he's fast asleep, but his mum's in trouble and the guard has just called me for help."

"Ohh I see" said Jo, in her 'I'm not easily convinced' voice.

"I know, I know, I wouldn't be going if the guard hadn't called me."

"I suppose not, that would be negligence. OK fetch the little darling over and I'll keep an eye. I'll need thanking later though,"

"You are getting more than thanking" he teased, already on his way with carry cot in hand.

As David fired up his sports car he was pressing the dial for Janice, "Any news?"

"They seem to be making their way towards the hotel but she doesn't look happy, she's not fighting but definitely not enthusiastic. What worries me is one of them is on the phone and whether he's calling up his mates"

"Any ideas how you could delay them?"

"Well I could just go up to her and speak, I could take those two if they started."

"OK that sounds like a plan, see if you can find out if she is going willingly, I'd like to know whether she wants me to get her out. If she wants help but they do go into the Hotel, see if you can get a room number for me. Leave Sue in reception to let us know if anyone else comes in."

David was now hurtling up the freeway, oblivious to any speed limit, it was going to be tight he thought, he rang someone he had been hoping not to call again. "Lee, I promised not to bother you again but something might be going down that could need cleaning up, are you anywhere near town"

"Sorry my friend I'm in Washington right now, let me see if I can find you someone to help."

David cancelled the call and then he had a thought and chuckled to himself. He rang Janice back again.

Janice's conversation with Olivia was strange indeed, she felt like she was talking to two people, when asked 'whether she was ok' she shook her head, 'do you need help?' she shook her head, 'would you like David to come get you' she nodded enthusiastically. 'Jeeze, no wonder this woman needs help,' she realised all she had seen of her up to now was the madam who was constantly pushing at the limitations of her life.

As David neared the centre to drop off his car at the office, he had a mental picture of what he was about to face, something inside him couldn't bring himself to worry about the sexual implications of what might be happening, his driving need was to keep Sean's Mum alive for the boys sake. He wondered if he was doing the right thing long term if he got her through the early stages when Mother and Child bonded, only to have her gone before long, he was reminded how Ciaron suffered. 'He shouldn't have to be worrying about this on the streets of his own home town' he thought and that made him angry.

At the hotel, David met Susan in the reception, how many up there now he asked, "About five" she said. "Okay please buzz me if anymore arrives, I might put it on vibration so just let it ring." She nodded her understanding. Arriving at the floor, Janice directed him to what was needed and the door of the hotel room, it was pushed to but not closed, "They are obviously expecting more men" he commented "Slow them down as much as you can."

He considered the situation again then said, "OK give me time to check the room and I'll give you a signal, then hit it, I'll let you know if not." Janice moved to her station.

In the room, he found the guys and Olivia naked on the bed, one guy was ploughing her furrow while she held and sucked on others, there were more sitting waiting. As he entered, Olivia turned and gave him one of those trademark smiles he knew so well. Ignoring the men he asked, "Has anyone come yet?" she shook her head, he had to admit she did look like she was enjoying herself, but that wasn't the point he reminded himself. "OK guys he said, you have three options, either you make her cum now or you leave or you accidentally fall out of the window. Which is it to be?" They ignored him. "I'll tell you what I'll be very fair and give you say 10 minutes to deliver or you spend the next few weeks in hospital having your balls removed, that's a good deal I think, don't you Olivia?" She didn't take her mouth off the latest penis in her mouth sucking him deeply so he took that as a yes.

David took his phone out, "Right I am going to record what goes down now. I am this woman's legal guardian as a ward of the court, and you have not asked for my permission to bring her to this room and have sex with her, therefore this is rape as far as the law is concerned." One or two not already involved looked concerned but collectively they weren't about to be bullied by one man. "OK" David said, "You have been warned."

He turned around to leave and Olivia called out, "don't leave my love I need you to rescue me."

"What you mean is 'make you orgasm because they won't be able to.' There's no way I am going near you after you have been with this gang of shitheads and scumbags, you better say goodbye to them soon because you won't be seeing them again."

She mewled at that, her inner self fighting with what was left of her sanity.

David looked at his watch, "3 minutes gone guys I'll be back." He stepped out, hearing movement on the bed behind him he turned and saw Olivia trying to pull away and was as surprised as he had ever been. Jeeze surely he didn't get through to her after all these months of trying. He felt her hand on his shoulder "Please don't leave me David," his insides did somersaults, he turned and took her by the hand. The guys crowded behind her in the room.

"Come with me."

"My new clothes!" she exclaimed.

"I'll buy you more if I have to." And he pulled her out of the room giving Janice the signal as he stepped out and slammed the door shut. The fire alarm went off like a banshee scream as Janice was using the internal phone to report a fire in that room. Seconds later the sprinklers came on. Sue added to the confusion as his phone went off and he went to stand at the room door handing off Olivia to Janice.

"Ring the police and report a rape, then send them this recording," he said handing Janice his phone. "Stop anyone coming out of the lift if you can while I keep this lot shut in," he said, still pulling on the door. She returned his phone and he rang Susan, "I need a room for Olivia to be until we can get her some clothes, can you arrange that, preferably not on this floor. Then come up with the key card. We'll let the lift door close when you are ready." It was becoming frantic as the guys inside were collectively trying to pull the door open. What was delaying everyone, there should be staff here by now, then he saw that Janice had the lift door wedged open, 'Excellent thinking' he thought, 'now they all have to come up the stairs' which was exactly where she was now standing waiting to greet or beat.

Eventually the nurse took Olivia home whilst David and Janice dealt with the various authorities most of whom looked bewildered. The hotel tried to complain about the water damage until a number of people all put in a complaint that the Hotel was allowing one woman to be brought in by a gang of thugs; well a little exaggeration didn't hurt. David offered to get the room cleared up and rang the service he used, to do this for him as an emergency job.

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Returning to the Retreat he had a lot of stories to tell and everyone who was in, crowded around at dinner time to hear. He told of the sites found out west, the friends they had made, the story of the heifers which delighted them as did the fact that the 'bull' might be working for them. There were several ribald comments and offers to go work over there. Then the subject of Olivia came up and he explained what had been discovered and the antics of today, the description of all those guys looking like drowned rats when they finally came out was an effective way to round up. He thought that what pleased them all the most was that Olivia actually responded and this time no one got hurt except for a few accidental kicks in the crotch.

After dinner, he chatted to Bree, Jane, and Jo and they expressed concern that Olivia didn't join them for meals and other activities, he said he would speak to her and it would carry weight that they had asked. To David it seemed that he had been away months instead of days, everything was moving so fast, he could see that work would soon scatter them to the various sites as they readied to open, there were already three waiting to open. He thought that in their minds their first would always be home but it was understandable that people changed their lives over time. Nina was blossoming in her new role, Lauren was getting to grips with managing the retreat and all the others were now involved in some capacity. The problem was that people needed training; thankfully some of the friends they made along the way were doing well. He was hoping that Ana was going to bring Elle with her when she came and hopefully even Sophia,or maybe Cairon. They were preparing the house but Elle still needed to talk to Brynn. He decided it was probably time he visited his Grandmother, that site needed signing off and it would be an opportunity to try and garner support.

Olivia was so happy when he arrived that for a minute he thought that he had imagined the previous hours. He told her about joining the others and she looked pleased but she was more intent on thanking him for the 'rescue', "that was masterful David your best yet, except you didn't ravage me afterwards."

"I thought that I'd save the best bit for later," he told a white lie, not saying when. I have to go to Florida and you will be off to Texas as soon as I can arrange it. She radiated so much happiness that he wondered how much sanity she still had left but he decided to settle for whatever worked in the moment. He decided to go and talk to Susan, until there was anyone more experienced in protection skills he would try to get her help for the time being.

He thought how much he missed Ana, Elle, Sophia and Ciaron even though he was back with people he loved, it was just different, he had the need to call and find out how they are doing and get back there as soon as he could.

Meanwhile, Ana was having a great time but she was worried, Miranda/Sophia had gone to catch up with her life and to organise her future. Ana and the others had finished the house preparations and were very pleased with the results. She was almost ready to go except she didn't want to leave Elle until she had seen Brynn and made her mind up. At the same time Bree and Jo had been updating her on the Olivia incident and she was terrified that he would get sucked back in to the same old 'merry go round'. She decided to give it another day and spend the time following up on the sites they had identified and then the phone rang and her world went back to turning.

The call came from David, "How are you my lovely, I miss being there with you, we had such a great time."

She was so pleased to hear from him but teased "Are you sure you're not missing Sophia's breasts or Elle's insatiable desires?"

"Nope I'm missing the most beautiful girl in the world."

"She's popped out for a while but I'm happy to stand in for her if you are interested."

"I said the most beautiful, not the one that's popped out," he laughed. "So what's happening?"

"The house is finished but I just wanted to stay until Elle has been to see Brynn, I'll go with her if I can. I was going to do follow up work on the sites we found until she is ready. Sophia has gone home to catch up, I think she is going to look at semi-retirement or part-time so that she can spend more time with us."

"I am glad you're staying to go with Elle, take as long as you need, I am planning to go to Florida tomorrow and then on to you as soon as possible."

"What's happened about Texas?"

"I am sending Olivia with Susan the nurse, I've seen the nurse in action, she's a bright girl and it's the baby who is most important. I spoke to her and hope she will give it a try."

Ana breathed a private sense of relief, it sounded like the recent events had not changed anything. "So you are ok, nothing has changed for you?"

"I've learned a few things that have been helpful and progress is really moving fast here, everyone is so busy. When's that party that Dawn invited us to?"

"It's Friday night."

"Are you all going?"

"We are going to try. Have you heard anything from the investigator yet?"

"No I haven't, he has your contact details too if he needs anything, you have my full authority to act on my behalf by the way."

She giggled. "From what you told us about him we would need your authority."

He laughed too, "You just look after yourself, don't get pregnant, that's my job."

'Good thing I'm on the pill' she thought to herself or David would have made me pregnant multi -times over. "I'm not ready to have my wings clipped quite yet." She replied. "And I wouldn't want to spoil a chance with you."

"I understand but you know what they say about the mind and the heart, I trust you to love me, you've had ample reason to leave for someone else."

"I suppose but I would never want to hurt you the way Olivia has, even when you gave her permission we could see how much it hurt."

"I hope I am over all that. It certainly felt like it yesterday, I walked in on her with a load of guys and she looked like she was having a good time, in fact I walked out on them to let the guys finish her off. I was more intent on getting the sprinklers to go off, it was great fun."

"I heard some of that, it sounded great for a change."

"Amen to that."

"So what are your plans?"

"Hopefully the nurse will agree to accompany Olivia and I can arrange for someone to get them down to Texas. Then I go see Grandmother's outfit in Florida and finally fly to have a wonderful few days with you and whoever you have with you and then we return east with whoever wants to come."

"That last but one bit sounds a bit special, looking forward to that already."

"We are going to be alright, you and me, do you know that?"

"I know, but sometimes I worry."

"Well let's make a life for you with so much interest and fun that you don't have time to worry. I'm sure Elle and Sophia are going to be around to help get you into all kind of scrapes and there will be more to come, I think Dawns got ideas about joining up with you, I am just not quite sure in what capacity, I will be a lot happier once the investigator has something concrete."

"Me too, believe me, there's something about that whole day we had in her town and at her father's land that doesn't quite sit right with me yet."

"I totally agree."

"You sure you want us to go to the party?"

"No pressure there, go if you want to but I think I would be happier if you weren't alone, otherwise don't go." He surprised her with that assertiveness, now that was what they were all waiting to hear.

"I hear what you're saying and hopefully we three musketeers will be together."

Not long after David's call, Ana received a call from the PI. John Horsey "Hi there, I phoned to introduce myself and I'm hoping you might be able to help me out in some way."

"Well it's nice to hear from you even if it's to ask a favour. Maybe I should hear what the favour is?"

"I understand you have met the wife and other members of her family, I wondered if you had any ideas how I might get closer to him, it's a very tight knit community and it's hard to get anyone to open up about him."

"Any ideas of the type of introduction you are looking for, the wife knows a certain amount about our set up so I would need a reason for you to exist in our small local circle."

"I'm happy to work up a persona if you can give me a starter."

"OK let me think about it, we have an open invitation to a party at their house on Friday, we've heard it's an adult party and we know he's into getting his wife into various activities but no detail outside of what I am sure you already know. Would you be able to make Friday if I could work something out?"

"Definitely."

"OK, well if we can work out a profile for you, you will be escorting me and two close friends of mine. We will probably saddle you with the story that David has asked you to keep an eye on us as we don't know the people and he worries." She added a little laugh at the concept. "I think that should work, Dawn the wife has met him and knows we are a tight knit group.

"Sounds perfect, please let me know of anything you need me to do."

"I might need you to meet with someone to get background, but I'll be back in touch later, also I'll message the hotel details we'll be staying in on Friday.

A call to Sophia helped her with the problem; she had some ideas on the identity of somebody who had been out of town for a long while.

On the Friday, Ana and the others were meeting at the Hotel. They were trying new clothes and were starting with underwear that didn't involve more than minimal covering when there was a knock at the door and a certain John was standing there very early. There was a rush for robes, unusual for them when on an adventure but as he stepped inside together they realised it was the safe move; he was way too good looking.

"I see that I have arrived at a good time," said John.

"Depends upon your perspective," said Sophia "Why are you so early?" The ladies sat in a ring that put him under close inspection. He was a very confident man but this was not a comfortable arrangement.

"I'm sorry, have I upset you?"

"Well, it might have been nice to have some notice that you were coming this early." Her accompanying look at him was one that had sent many a crook to jail and he felt it.

It was a new feeling for him not to work his charms on women and he was fast realising his bravado was wasted.

"So why are you here?" Sophia continued.

"I was hoping you could fill me in on expectations for the evening."

Ana decided to put in "We don't know much except that it's an 'Adult' affair. Given that we met her at an 'Adult' bar where people participated in open sexual activities, that's probably what can be expected." She turned to Elle.

Elle continued, "From what we know the husband encourages Dawn to do increasingly 'different' things and she's not happy about it. So if you can protect her from some of her husband's ideas you will get into her good books. However I believe that you need to get close to the husband so that's your problem. If you go along with his ideas you might make a friend but long term you need to stay friendly with Dawn."

"Hmmm, that's a puzzle. Maybe if I get friendly with her first then play along with him but check with her, pretending to go along with him if necessary, it might work, especially if she agrees to complain to her husband regardless. All depends on what he has in mind." The ladies nodded thoughtfully.

Ana said "We will introduce you to her and see if we can wangle her to introduce you to him."

"Great."

"While you're here, you might as well make yourself useful," broke in Sophia. "You can help us decide which dresses to wear."

John thought this was a good way of getting their approval and besides what could be more fun than admiring attractive women, and he agreed wholeheartedly. Sophia of course was not about to make it too easy for him, she had his measure.

When an hour later John had gone, looking somewhat distracted, Sophia remarked, "why is it we can't have a harem of guys like him at our beck and call, why is it the men in history always got a whole bunch of women at their command. Even David has us three but I think we are different or are we?" The other two looked at her thoughtfully, they agreed but somehow didn't agree about David, he didn't make them feel like they were his to be shared, often it was the other way around because they felt free but by its very nature that very freedom made them feel connected to him and to each other. If they took other men like that John they would feel guilty even though the notion was somehow absurd, especially as David expected them to, and although Ana was closer to him and both Elle and Sophia had other partners they still felt the same.