Chapter 64

Selena had her brief and laptop packed and ready to go 30 minutes before the three o'clock meeting that would end with her charging from the building to head upstate. She had just sat to review the trading screen when a knock came to her door. Ross Curran opened the door before she could respond to his knock.

"Ms. Hanson, sorry to spring this on you but we weren't forewarned either. The FBI would like to speak with you about the phone call from Doctor Gaiters this morning. They are here with one of our legal team and would prefer to meet in your office rather than in the Great Room. Is that OK?"

"Umm,... uhhh,... yes,... I suppose. I don't know what I can tell them." Selena said in a shocked surprise.

Very quickly Ross Curran entered her office and offered seats to Will Herzog, a WSGG lawyer and Fred Brickell the FBI agent who was currently displaying his ID credential.

"Ms. Hanson I understand that you do not know nor have ever met Dr. Gaiters besides your conversation with him this morning." Brickell asked.

Selena looked at the lawyer who just nodded at her.

"That's correct."

"Any idea how he picked you?"

"I guess he's familiar with the financial world and knows me, at least my face, from television. When one of our financial or market warnings are deemed newsworthy by the regular media they come here for an official policy statement and my face has been associated with those statements for the past year or more."

"Do you regularly make cold call backs to unknown numbers?"

"No, but it was odd to have been called so many times so early in the morning and when I saw the area code I knew it was San Diego or thereabouts. I had just done a profile on a client from that area and actually wondered at first if it had something to do with them."

"Did you think he was in his office then?"

"It never occurred to me if he was or wasn't"

"Did you think it was a legitimate call?"

"Yes, just judging by the fear in his voice. It was a desperation that came across the line."

"No way could it have been a prank, a set-up?"

"Not in my mind. I hadn't really seen the 20/20 show last night."

"Who did you tell afterwards? Did you call anyone?"

"No, I went to Mr. Ford's office for a little advice. I know he has dealt with the SEC and it seemed it would fall into that umbrella. We spoke and he thought it was worth a meeting of the partners. Officially we decided to do nothing. Mr. Curran here knew Dr. Gaiters from an association with a charity we work with as a financial partner. We did nothing official and that was the extent of our involvement."

"Has Mr. Curran coached you as to what to say as an official company line?" Brickell asked after a long pause in an accusatory tone.

"What are you implying? I think the track record of this organization speaks for itself and we have no reason to change or doctor a story right or left of the truth. If you came in here to get information for an investigation, fine! However if you came here to make accusations on your own paranoid suppositions..." Selena started to say raising her voice and sitting up in her seat.

"Whoa, whoa!" Will Herzog, the company lawyer jumped in quickly. "Keep your temper Miss Hanson, and Mr. Brickell you can get off your high horse if you're not satisfied with what you've heard here. Mr. Curran and Miss Hanson told you the same story because it is the truth and the way that it happened."

Brickell was exasperated and peeved at the outburst from both Selena and the lawyer.

"I'm sorry if you don't like my line of questioning but we are a little incredulous that this whole scam could have been done and manipulated without Doctor Gaiter's knowledge. In the whole root of his professional connections he made one call after gaining full knowledge of the shows revelations and that was to this office."

"Well for those who look to us for financial advice and guidance as news, Miss Hanson is the face of this company. She fronts our announcements and warnings. Both Gaiters and I represent our firms as volunteers for Oncology-Hematology Studies and Solutions. He may know me but I doubt he really knows who I represent. If you were desperate to get news of this type out to avoid calling authorities to incriminate yourself I can see why he picked Miss Hanson." Ross Curran said firmly to Brickell.

Brickell got up and appeared to stretch his legs.

"I want to believe all of you, Dr. Gaiters included. I guess what I can't believe is that a network and a government could be so easily duped; the network because it would have taken just a bit of investigation and legwork to reveal the whole scam, the Government because if this sort of apathy exists in other departments we are open targets for terrorists of any kind."

"Mr. Brickell, I do not think you would have to go very far to see that WSGG has a completely unsullied reputation as THE stalwart in this field. We are unique in many ways and protecting our own self-interest leads that parade. Just days ago I'm sure you heard about the Scottish banking disaster that resulted in their government forcing a merger to save financial collapse. We ferreted that out and saw it coming and even had the problems verified by an insider. However we had to watch that institution fall because of that verification. It would have made us look like co-opting partners in the scheme which we could easily have proven moot. However the simple accusation makes you guilty in many eyes, especially that of the media. We protect ourselves THAT much." Curran explained.

"Your firm and the company in this room are not targets of any investigation; we are simply verifying and fact checking to look for the cogs that were mickeyed on this whole fraud. You all have to know that this was no coincidence. I have no reason to believe anything otherwise about WSGG and my line of questioning was for reactionary purposes. Dr. Gaiters is in our custody as a witness at this point and news reports should reflect that. No knowledge of this meeting should go beyond the people in this room." Brickell said, sort of turning his hand as it were.

"I can assure you that confidentiality is a nature of our business and no knowledge of this meeting will leave this room." Herzog said darting looks to both Ross Curran and Selena.

"You have our assurance." Curran said while nodding to Selena who affirmed her position with a nod of her own.

FBI agent Brickell and WSGG lawyer Herzog got up and swiftly left the room leaving the two stunned partners looking to each other.

"Did our own lawyer set us up for a fall there, or is there something else I don't understand?" Selena asked Ross Curran.

"I think Mr. Herzog just avoided a subpoena being served on us. The FBI just got all the information they needed from us without asking us under oath. I'm sure Will assured him we would be forthright. Subpoenas infer guilt even though the back-peddle on this one would have been easy to explain. You aren't naïve in your assessment of the situation, but maybe in your view of the government and power they can wield when they need information. They knew a call was made from Gaiters to here, whether from his home, his cell or the office. They needed context to match his story."

Just as Curran finished his explanation to Selena a knock came to the door before it opened with Will Herzog smiling at them.

"Well done. I just showed Mr. Brickell out. They just needed corroboration of facts. Normally businesses in our field do not disclose anything to maintain customer security but I could bend since neither Dr. Gaiters nor Galaxy were ever clients. Miss Hanson you fell into a common trap they set, losing your cool over assumed accusations. Keep that in mind should the situation should ever arise again. I think they sort of knew what they were going to hear, but you stamp out every fire until the smoke stops." Herzog said with a goodbye nod as he quickly left.

Ross looked to Selena with a sort of confident smirk knowing he had assumed the agents intentions correctly, and spoke, "I can't help but notice you are packed up and ready to fly as soon as our meeting is over so we better get going. I'm 10 minutes late in calling it." He said as he excused himself and rushed to his office and gather his notes and ask Deneigh to call the remaining group to the Great Room.

While Selena's mind was working throughout the meeting to help lay the bed for the newsletter as well as watch the live stock board in the background, her subconscious was on one thing; her love Joe Johnson and the great pleasure he would provide to sweep her away from all of this. She battled the stress of anticipation all through the shortened meeting. Even before the 4 o'clock end of the meeting Deneigh insisted she had enough to fill the early bed of the newsletter. She had volunteered to write the opening summary for that weeks financial dealings of the investment world. Sunday night The Six would critique it and add their own notes with the salient points they felt should be noted.

"I think we all want a chance to get out of here and enjoy this, maybe the last, sunny warm day to feel like summer as fall creeps in. We'll see you all on Sunday night for what should be a quick meeting. Miss Hanson is leaving for Upstate and will join us by Net Meeting. Have a safe trip." Curran said as he stood and ended the gathering.

Selena took her white coat and draped it over her arm and picked up her just closed brief. She wouldn't have seemed any more anxious to leave if she ran to the door. She stood next to the reception desk taking quick inventory of what she wanted and needed to bring with her to be sure she had everything.

"You and Joe have a safe and relaxing weekend upstate." Deneigh wished her as she gathered her own things and straightened her desk.

"Oh, we will. We both need to get out of the city and breathe. Do you have any plans?" Selena asked her as she took inventory.

"Yes, study and work. I know it doesn't sound too exciting but with Robben out of my life my head is finally clear of stress. Plus it's a penance for some of the things I've wrongly steered myself into. I look up to you and envy the peace you seem to have. I'm hoping my study and hard work will put me on a like path." Deneigh said quite frankly.

Her words stopped Selena in her tracks.

"Golly, I'm flattered you would say that about me. I wish there were some words of advice I could pass along besides to work hard, study hard and when the opportunity presents itself, play hard to balance your life. Reaching goals may not always be easy, but the effort alone will show you how to get further. There is a satisfaction in that. We will talk when I get back and we both have the time, OK?"

Deneigh smiled and relaxed her shoulders, tipping her head to look at Selena with a thankful face. "I would like that. We'll try to make time. You're so nice."

Selena smiled back, still flattered by Deneigh's admission and opened the door to the street where Joe sat waiting.

She flew down the steps as her eyes met Joe's and smiled. She dropped her brief behind the seat and slid into the car while kissing Joe hello.

"Get me out of the city, then pull over and make love to me over the back of the car if you can, THAT'S how much I need you right now. I thought this day would never end." She told Joe bluntly.

"Well, I'm afraid you'll have to wait until we get home for that sort of hello from me, but don't think it isn't tempting; even in Manhattan THAT would draw a crowd." Joe said with a smile as he pulled up the street to start their journey home.

Traffic was intense, but surprisingly steady moving as they battled their way out of the city. Neither of them said much of anything as they each played back the reasons to get away in their minds, stress melting in their wake. Just past the George Washington Bridge exit traffic quickly thinned to a manageable pace where Joe's hunched shoulders finally relaxed and he settled into the seat.

"Back and knees OK, Joey? I can drive if you're hurting." Selena said knowing he would never give up the control of his sporty little toy.

"No, I'm fine. The hurting will be when I get out and have to work out the stiffening."

"I was hoping for a certain amount of stiffness." She said with a grin.

Joe smiled and put a hand on her knee, keeping his eyes on the traffic ahead.

The two remained amazingly quiet for almost the next hour of the trip as they listened to the world news and financial reports on the New York all news station. Joe was about to comment on something, breaking his road reverie when he looked at Selena and saw her staring at him with a look as if she was watching something very special.

"What?? Do I have a booger on my face? Did you just figure I was twice your age?" Joe asked wondering what she found so mesmerizing.

"I was just looking at the man that I love and thinking of all the things he does that make me happy and content. I'm just happy that I'm in love with you and even happier that you love me." She answered.

"Penny for your thoughts."

"You sure you can control the car if I tell you? It's pretty intimate stuff."

"Try me." He said with a confident chuckle.

"Oh, things like how when I lay next to you and rest my head anywhere on you and I smell you, your scent, and how that arouses my senses, makes me want you. I love the way you fondle my body, hold it like it's precious and adore it like you do. I love your hands on my breasts before you kiss my nipples to feel them harden in your mouth. Whether you're standing holding me or if I'm laying on top of you, you run your hands over the roundness of my bottom and squeeze me and give it a playful slap. When you hold my head in your hands and kiss my lips like you're drinking from the Holy Grail. I love those things. I love when you're lying on top of me and your excited cock finds its way into me and you flex enough to slide all the way up inside of me. I love the look on your face as you fill me as well as the feeling of being one with you. I love when you worship my most sensitive spot with your tongue and mouth. Your kissing and sucking my pussy makes me just insane. When I know you are opening me to get your tongue deeper to taste my very core it drives me up a wall. When you're lying on me pumping in and out and you suddenly sit up and let me turn over so you can thread your cock in from behind it feels so different and you fill me where other positions don't reach, that's one of my little heavens. We couldn't enjoy that if there were no love. When you thrusting in me that way I can almost tell when you've noticed my little hiney hole. I know you're going to wet a finger or your thumb to glide over it, or even push it in. It stings a bit at first, but then the fullness is wonderful. Sometimes I wonder if you'll decide you want to put your whole penis up there, now that's intimate, feeling you inside my very being after I've grunted and worked to accept you there. The stretching and stinging I feel are borderline pleasure and pain. Riding that cusp of both sensations is wonderful. I'm always amazed when a few minutes later you are thrusting into me there and it's so loose and I'm accepting you after I can feel every hair and freckle as you first go up into me.

Oh, and I've almost forgotten about your taste, it's so special to kiss your neck and feel that salty sting on my tongue, or better yet to kiss and lick on your wonderful penis. It's all stiff and excited for me and I know my mouth eases it's rampant excitement. But selfishly, I love the feel of the velvet head and the taste that is like no other taste in the world. But there is still one taste left and only you can provide it; the taste of the juice you cook in your balls that will make our babies plus the groan and cries of pleasure that go with it. You see Joseph, you give me so much pleasure and satisfaction, and not just through intimate sexuality, that I will do anything to please you and make you happy. So when I look at you like that I am doing a quick review of everyway that you please me and that I please you. Now I'm sorry that I may have made your driving position a little uncomfortable, but we'll take care of that discomfort as soon as we get home."

Joe had been a little dumbfounded from the second sentence of her "thoughts" he had asked for. He expected a few word answer, not a blow by blow description of the intimacies she craved. But he was not at all surprised at her frankness, because he too felt something beyond a normal "in love" feeling. She was truly broadcasting a karma or aura that he was receiving over the lines of his own broadcast of same.

Moving his eyes from the road and back to her a few times he suddenly became dry mouthed and at a loss of words.

He stumbled in his mind for words to say besides telling her he felt the same way, because it was implied and she knew it to be true already.

"Are you feeling the same discomfort?" He managed to say.

"My pussy is leaking, my panty is soaked and only the thought of you making love to me in the next few minutes is keeping me from thrusting my fingers inside myself to relieve the knot I have." She said as she placed her hand over his that was resting on the stick shift.

He repositioned his hand and they intertwined fingers and silently held hands through the light but steady traffic until their exit came into view, needing his hand to downshift. In less than 10 minutes they were pulling into the garage as the door was closing behind them. They flashed eyes at each other and quickly got out of the car and Joe adjusted the security system to its new mode. Selena opened the elevator and held the door as Joe gimped through his driving stiffness to the door and it closed. Moving up the one floor she looked at him and a small smile crept over her lips as she anticipated the next few moments.

The door slid open and they stepped off, Selena turning to the back of the sofa. She reached under her dress and took her damp panty and pulled it down and stepped out of it before bending over the back of the sofa. All the while Joe was struggling with a zipper that refused to cooperate and a penis that was too stiff to come out of his fly. He undid the snap on his shorts and pulled the front of his underwear over his manhood as he stepped to Selena and pushed the red dress over the globes of her ass. Her breath caught as he placed a hand at the base of her spine and the other grasped the cheek of her ass. His thumb resting just a few inches away from her moisture shined asshole, he pulled her open just enough to put the head of his cock to his puffed pussy lips and sink into her. She arched her back up at the intrusion grunting a long hard "yesssssss" as he filled her. He stood pressed into her and as she arched up as he reached around her crossing his arms in front of her filling his hands with her breasts, pulling her to him.

"God, I love you so much. You make me happier than anything in the world, anything in this life." He whispered in her ear before nipping it with his teeth. He then felt her weigh heavy in his hands and he let go letting her fall forward with her arms on the cushions of the sofa to support her. He could hold back his lust no longer. He pulled from her and slammed back home with swift slaps over and over again pummeling her with a lustful vengeance that she welcomed.

"Ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh aaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiEEEEEEEEE!" She wailed as he fucked the daylights out of her.

Holding her lovely tanned ass as he plowed her pussy filling his desire for her more. The cute little wrinkled hole of her bottom was winking with each thrust and the thought of pulling from her pussy and plowing her there crossed his mind,

but it certainly would have ruined the moment, even though she would have welcomed it. This was an animal lust fuck to satisfy the inner sexual beasts in each of them. Quickly after her second hard orgasm he felt his cum rising as he was almost leaving his feet on each thrust. He couldn't fuck her hard enough as her feet were off the carpet and her body was balanced on the top of the sofaback, her pussy like an offering at his altar of sex. He could hold back no more as a grinding grunt came from deep within himself as he sent shot after shot of his hot cum into her womb. Soon he fell onto her breaking the perfect balance she had sending her forward and flopping to the floor, riding the sofa cushion she had been hanging onto under her. Joe's cock slipped from her as he hadn't anticipated the tenuous balance she had before him and he fell almost head first into the vacant cushion slot before twisting and landing on the sofa, laughing at the situation.

Selena was giggling and holding onto her pussy, now with both hands.

"Oh, you beat my poor little pussy up! But it felt so good! I needed that so bad and by the wads of cum I'm leaking, you were a little needy too." She sighed.

"As if I wasn't bad enough, your little dissertation in the car really got me churning. Just getting away where we don't have any commitments, especially you, is so spirit freeing." Joe said reaching for tissues from the end table for Selena to stem the flood.

"Can we take 5 more years of the city?" She wondered as took the tissues to dam her pussy and save the cushions and sofa from fresh cum stains.

"Oh, we can do that, especially together like we are. We just have to plan get-aways more often, getting to see old friends and your parents on a more regular basis. Being able to have the Sunday Night Letter via web cast will make all the difference in the world." Joe said as he began to gather himself to get up and help Selena.

"I'm OK Joey. Just lie there and relax. I'll be back in a minute to clean you up as well." She said struggling to her feet.

"I can do... " He started to say as started to get up but she quickly pushed him back with a finger to his chest.

"I SAID to lie there are relax! You're going to have to start listening to me and letting me help you some times. I see you struggling with your knees and back and I want to help and you're going to let me. If you think it's a question of manhood, think about what you just did to me. You're ALL man and I'm going to do what ever I can to keep it that way for as long as I can. You think I can't hear the grunts and groans after you get out of the car after a trip, or after watching TV for a while. I may not be there every morning when you get up, but I know you struggle for a bit. Now stay there until I come back. GOT IT?"