Chapter 19

I flew back to the City from Bangkok with Madelaine. I was feeling virtuous. Not only had I arranged for Hans to enter a Buddhist monastery but I had offered the Hildebrand-Smythes and Greta their freedom. Hans was pathetically grateful. Mellissa and Greta were not and both opted to stay on as "entertainers/junior executives" in the Thai branch of Kim's expanding vice-empire. Kim, too, remained in Thailand. She wanted reassurance that the deal I had brokered with the Organization would be honoured, starting with the promised payment of compensation.

Madelaine had chosen to return with me. Kim thought the woman could be usefully employed running her old property as an exclusive up-market brothel, or some such facility. The well-built forty-year old brunette was nervous in my company. She had cause to be. I had done her no favours in the past and had subjected her to a variety of physical and sexual torments. In the last few days I had, without trying, re-established my dominance over her. I was still amused at the thought a teenager like me could wield such influence over a woman who had once been a notable society hostess in the City.

"Madelaine," I said, somewhere above the Pacific. "Have you ever considered joining the mile-high club?"

She looked at me, with a sour expression a mixture of disgust and resignation and shook her head. "No, Sebastian, I never have."

"But you know what it is?"

"Yes, Sebastian, I know."

"Good," I said. "Then why don't you trot off to the toilet and get undressed. I'll be along in a few minutes. Unlock the door when you hear two double taps and I'll initiate you into the club and show you the pleasure of flying United."

I think she got the joke but she didn't laugh. Madelaine slowly unfastened her seat-belt and did as I had instructed.-

I was careful not to be seen tap-tapping on the toilet door and my partner was quick to let me in. Madelaine had removed her dress, bra and pants. She had lost a little weight from her waist since our earliest acquaintance but her breasts were as firm and round as ever. Her pussy, framed by a lacy garter-belt and matching stocking-tops, had been plucked clean of pubic hair by her recent employers. She was a handsome and desirable piece of flesh. I wasted no time in foreplay but turned the woman about and ordered her to touch her toes. She did as she was told. Her full breasts swung invitingly. I unzipped and slowly lubricated her proffered cunt with the tip of my erection while I caressed her dangling bosom. Madelaine was slow to respond but gradually, as I rubbed my cock up and down the length of her crack, she grew more responsive. I parted her outer labia and probed deeper. Madelaine started to moan and give little grunts of lust. She moved her hips to spread the source of her growing satisfaction. When she panted, "Please, Sebastian, for God's sake!" I speared her with one, solid, scrotum-deep, thrust. Madelaine's cry of delighted surprise and her later squeals of satisfaction, as I rogered her to a tit-bouncing climax, were probably audible in the cabin. The hostess gave me a knowing look as I emerged, relaxed and happy, from the toilets. I was followed some minutes later by Madelaine, flushed and embarrassed but now a fully fledged member of an exclusive club.

Ten days later Kim returned, in modest triumph, to the warehouse complex she had designed and built. Now known as "Mistress Black", she took her place as one of the three bosses of the Organization. She was joined by my half-brother, Conrad, who sailed the latest addition to his fleet a seventy-two foot ketch into the harbour and moored alongside the warehouse's jetty the same day. After a few days, when everyone had settled in, we all met for a celebratory lunch in Kim's refurbished, glass-walled, apartment overlooking the harbour.

I forbore from telling Conrad that his little scheme for getting me out of the way in Thailand had nearly resulted in my death. I didn't want to encourage the bastard to try again. Instead I regaled him with tales of piracy and gun-running, which I said I had documented, and I was sure would be published if I ever was shanghaied again. He growled a grudging apology and said such a thing was unlikely to happen unless I, again, got too close to his wife. As a family reunion the meal was not a howling success. I was happy to board my aluminium runabout and set off up the harbour in the afternoon sunshine, sure of a welcome from my ever-eager playmates, Charity and Theodora.

I was met at the boat ramp by an old acquaintance and two large Japanese gentlemen in black suits and mirrored sunglasses.

"Hello, Sebastian," said Lady Felicity. "Shall we join your little friends in the boathouse?"

Charity and Theodora were in the small room cut from the native rock at the back of the boathouse. They were naked and gagged and were tied up in the most extraordinary way. The pair looked like two fleshy parcels with ropes going every which-way. Charity was tied so her pussy was open for inspection but anyone tempted to try vaginal or anal penetration of Theodora would risk rope-burn.

"It's a Japanese thing," said Lady Felicity. "Keeps my bodyguards happy."

"A sort of X-rated origami, or do I mean macrame?" I burbled as one of the heavies cuffed my hands behind my back and forced me to my knees in front of the smiling woman. She was wearing a pin-stripe business-suit, a black cashmere top and a string of black pearls. She prodded my knees with the toe of a highly polished black high-heeled shoe and, when I had obediently opened my legs, she kicked me in the goolies.

I could expect no mercy from Lady Felicity. Shortly after leaving the juvenile correction institution, I had helped Kim sexually humiliate the petite aristocrat and trick her into revealing the whereabouts of her wanted husband. I had beaten and raped her with enthusiasm, leaving no avenue unexplored. Kim and I had nearly dislocated Felicity's jaw with a ring-gag specially designed to cater for my super-sized organ.

I had last seen the little Lady when she was auctioned, her cunt-lips stapled together by an explosive padlock, strutting the cat-walk like a super-model. She, and the key to her pussy, had been sold to the representative of a Tokyo concern.

"You look surprised to see me, Sebastian," she said. " Surely, you must have expected me to assert my independence the first time the key was used."

I hadn't given the matter a thought.

"Of course," I chirped, an octave or two higher than usual. "After what you did to your ex, it was to be expected. What did you use this time? Another blunt instrument?"

Felicity smiled. "A samurai sword, Sebastian. Very sharp. Part of the furniture in the gang leader's apartment."

"And the gang-leader?" I asked.

"Lost his head," she replied. "It took some doing but I am now the leader of the Cherry Blossom Association."

"More blossom than cherry, I guess, after what I did to you," I squeaked, tensing myself for another spiteful kick.

"Very droll, Sebastian," Felicity said. "Your repartee was never remarkable. Unlike your principal attribute." She kicked me again. I bent over the pain and she put a foot on the back of my neck. "The Cherry Blossom Association controls drugs and prostitution in four of the major cities in Japan, Sebastian. I would have thought that a junior executive of the Organization, and a close relative of 'Mistress Black', would have known that."

"You're well informed," I muttered into the stone floor.

"I should be. I was present when you and the Vietnamese whore were put on display in Bangkok. Colonel Rugrien knew something of my history and extended a special invitation to me so I could enjoy watching you fuck your sister-in-law in public." She took her heel off my neck and I knelt upright. "You didn't quite get it up her, did you? It was difficult to see what happened when the shooting started. We made a hurried withdrawal."

"You should have stuck around, your ladyship. You would have seen Randy Rob get it in the ass from his niece." And, I thought, yours-truly laid low by a giant dildo.

"Yes, Sebastian, I know. I spoke to the delightful Laiya only last week. One business-woman to another. It's why I'm here. You see, when your brother staged his attack on the Colonel's night club, one of my aides left behind a lap-top computer. Laiya remembers Kim examining it and believes it was part of your sister-in-law's luggage when she returned to the city. I want it back."

"So, it's not revenge you're after?" I said.

She shook her head."Revenge would be very sweet, but no, I'm not after you or Kim. Get me that lap-top and all is forgotten and forgiven," she said, so sincerely I almost believed her.

"What's on the lap-top?" I asked as the two goons, on a signal from Felicity, hauled me to my feet and uncuffed my wrists.

"That doesn't concern you, Sebastian. You have five hours to recover my property before I start butchering your little friends."

She gave me a cell-phone. "Contact 'Boss' when you have something to tell me. No tricks."

I zipped down the harbour to Kim's headquarters where I explained what had just happened. Kim, dragged from her afternoon romp with Conrad, was crabby but helpful. She knew where the lap-top was. She had cracked all of the security passwords and tried to decipher some of the files it contained, without success. They seemed to concern financial matters and there were coded references to what could have been bank accounts. Kim had given the lap-top to her treasurer who, she thought, would have a better chance at decoding the entries.