With quick, nimble fingers, the doctor lets the piece of paper slip into an evidence bag, marks the location where it was found and adds it to the pile of other evidence that has been collected so far. The deck is starting to empty some, most techs are finishing up their work, though there presence made the mess on the boat bigger as it was. Everywhere smudges of finger print powder can be seen, all cupboards have been emptied and not by the most gentle hands. Slowly I let my hands go through a pile of finer clothes, finding a huge collection of panties and bra’s. Holding the smallest piece of cloth ever intended to hug the hips of a woman in the air, winking at Jaz, I turn towards dr. Gracious.
“Janice, who are the owners of the boat? I think it would be good to interview them. Have they been notified yet?”
“Yes Jonathan, we were able to reach mrs Lola Temperance. The boat belongs to the famous and filthy rich Baz Temperance. He is unfortunately unreachable. Even his wife could not tell us where he was. Makes you wonder.. Jonathan, a hint of advice when you see her? She’s known around the marina as a cougar, don’t get blinded by her charm”
“Oh, I’ll make sure he keeps his eyes at the right height dr Gracious”
Jaszmin steps in, squeezes both my cheeks with her fingers, telling me with her eyes that I’d better behave like a good boy while she tugs the panties from my fingers. I smirk, though she has always told me that I could do whatever I wanted, with whoever I wanted, I know the feeling of envie is not strange to her and she has pressured me before to let a woman slip from my fingers. “I’m just protecting your heart, Johnny-boy’ she said when she forced me to break up with a girl I just started dating. She had her way of not letting me have any choice in the matter.
“I think that is a wise thing to do Jaszmin. From what I understand, mrs. Lola does not take no for an answer. Now, I think I told you everything there is to know for now. Meet me back at the lab this afternoon and I will be able to tell more about the events that took place here last night”
Without wasting another moment, she turns with a smile and leaves the boat, raining commands down on her techs who instantly shift up a gear and finish their work quickly. Jaszmin starts to walk around the deck, looking at neighbouring boats, the distance to the road and the length of the pier. With at least 8 people present, there must have been some sign of cars left behind. Either at the parking lot or closer to the entrance of the pier.
“Johnny, why don’t you get your footing back and check out if they have surveillance cameras at the parking lot. I’ll look around some more and wait for mrs. Temperance to arrive. Girl talk might get us the clues we need to go on with this case. If she sees you, she might be focussed on something else.”
With the boat now empty, she slides her hand over my crotch and looks at me seductively, sending shivers through my body, my desire immediatly ignited. Fully aware of the effect she has on me, she places a soft peck on my cheeks, then slaps my butt hard as she sends me off the boat.
“Off you go, Johnny.. And don’t come back without a tape of the lot!”
“Yes ma’am”
I turn and scuffle off, holding my hands tightly squeezed around the railing and slowly making my way back to the gangway. I know she loves it when she can boss me around and I comply to her commands. I feel her eyes in my back until I disappear around the corner and finally make it across the gangway, finally feeling something steady under my feet. I take a few deep breaths while I force the nausea to dissipate my stomach. With the light sway of the boat now banned from my body, I walk down the pier towards the high gate at the entrance, turning my head from side to side, looking for high mounted security cameras.
So fixated on my search, I am almost hit by a car as it slides over the gravel that covers the ground in front of the gate to the pier. Startled I jump to the side, catching a brand new mercedes sl convertible in my view. Behind the wheel is a blonde woman, her eyes hidden by a large pair of sunglasses which also cover part of her face, making it impossible to estimate her age. A soft smile curls around her lips as I feel her eyes pierce through the darkened surfaces and slide over my face and body. Apparently pleased by what she sees, her smile widens and she opens the front door. Then she holds out her hand and waits.
This must be mrs. Lola Temperance. With a welcoming smile on my lips I walk around the car to her door, take her soft, slender fingers in my hand and help her graciously out of the car. As she lets her left leg slide out first, her short, cream colored skirt hikes further up her thigh, exposing her soft, bare pubic mound, crowned with a little heart-shaped patch of hair. Her lips curl even further upwards as she sees me freeze and lock my eyes in with the sight, then slowly slides out her right leg, closing the gap between her thighs and taking away the breathtaking, tantalising view.
“mrs. Lola Temperance? I am detective Strike, in charge of the investigation of the burglary of your ship”
“Detective.. nice to meet you. I see you have a keen eye. You know where to look for clues…”
Slowly she pushes her sunglasses up into her hair, revealing her soft, aqua-colored eyes. She oozes sexuality as soon as she casts her sultry eyes up to mine, locking me firmly into her gaze. Though time has not left it’s mark noticably, I can tell she’s mid fourties. Her face is smooth, soft, her make up soft and subtle, accentuating the exceptional color of her eyes. Her lips full and luscious, her nose small and delicate, every line in her face adding to the aura of sexuality she carries around her. As she raises herself from her carseat, her slender body stretches, her eyes almost meeting mine in height.
She tosses her soft, long blonde hair back in a sensuous flick of her head, then looks at me from the corner of her eyes, showing off her profile. I swear I can almost hear her purr as she inperceptibly turns her body to offer me the best view of her frame and face.
“Mrs Temperance, my partner is waiting for you at the ship. I will join you later when I have finished my business here. If you’d be so kind and meet her at the scene of the crime?”
“Ofcourse detective, though it is a shame toleave you behind… Such a cutey… A nasty business all this. An orgie I heard? Too bad I wasn’t present there myself.”
She coos the words at me, keeping my eyes locked in with hers to vadem the effect of her soft, sweet-toned voice while she slowly turns and starts to walk down the pier. Half way down the wooden structure, she halts, turns slightly and casts a shattering look of desire at me, then continous her gracious walk towards the ship. When I am able to tear my eyes off the slender figure of mrs. Temperance, I see Jaz stand aft of the ship, her arms crossed over her chest and I can feel the look she gives me. With a cheeky smile on my face I wave, turn and walk towards the small office building at the entrance of the parking lot.
“Mrs Temperance, how valliant of you to let us have some of your time”
Jaszmin’s voice sounds cold, professional, unlike her normal warm tone, her eyes stare directly into the aqua eyes of mrs Temperance, where they are met with a sultry, softening look.
“Now now sweetie, I was just toying with your partner a little, nothing to be nerveous about”
Flawlessly mrs Temperance judges the welcome she receives from Jaszmin while she slowly walks around her, her eyes shamelessly sliding over the well-proportioned body of my partner. Used to getting attention from both men and women, Jaszmin doesn’t flinch and answers the sultry look of mrs Temperance with a cool, professional glance.
“I’m not worried mrs. Temperance. I would like to ask you some questions if you don’t mind? Just to establish some facts. When was the last time you spent time at the ‘Mathilda’?”
“I was here yesterday during the day, but I left at around 8 pm. I wasn’t planning on returning to the Mathilda for another night at least”
mrs. Lola’s eyes start to sparkle and lips curl into a seductive smile while she keeps circling Jaszmin. My partner, patient and not quickly thrown off, waits patiently until mrs. Temperance moves in front of her to ask the next question.
“Where did you spend the night mrs Temperance? And where was the crew last night? Aren’t they supposed to be on board?”
The sparkle intensifies and nipples start to peak underneath the sheer fabric of a peach-pink blouse as mrs Temperance steps in closer to Jaszmin, almost dragging her body along her back, having circled around her again. Her voice is warm and husky when she brings her mouth close to Jaszmin’s ear.
“I don’t think it is a secret that I was present at a Gala at the Achat Palace Hotel. But with who I spent the night with, seems irrelevant to the investigation. I can tell you though, that I didn’t get much sleep.”
Jaszmin takes a step back unconsciously as the chest of mrs Temperance is dragged along her arm, noticing the hardness of the nipples underneath the silky fabric. Although she is used to women making advances, the intensity of the flirtatious mrs. Temperance makes her cheeks blushed.
“The crew I gave the night off, as I wasn’t due to be back for another day. I will send the captain to headquarters today, to make a statement. I am sure they spent the night at the Achat Bar&Grill. It’s the hottest place in town.’
“Do you know where we might find your husband”
Creating a little more distance, keeping mrs. Temperance in the corner she slid into, Jaszmin takes control of the conversation which evokes an immediate reactions in mrs. Temperance. Her look turns cold, the slow, prowling circle is abruptly broken off and a coolness breezes over the aft deck of the ‘Mathilda’.
“The bastard is probably in the cabin, shagging his slutty secretary.”
The words are spat out and dangerous flashes of lighting flicker in her eyes of mrs. Lola.
“Here’s his number. If there’s nothing else, I’d like to get in touch with the captain and have this mess cleaned up. Until then you can reach me at the Achat Palace Hotel.”
Without casting another look on Jaszmin, mrs. Temperance turns on her 6 inch heels and charges off the ship, leaving Jaszmin stunned behind. Having just left the marina office, I walk towards the gate of pier 69 when I see the blonde fox charging down the pier, seeing her slow down as soon as she spots me. She adjusts her hair and walks up to me with a blinding smile on her face. With a finger twirled in her hair, she looks at me, letting her hand run down along the collar of my jacket.
“Call me at the Palace Hotel, detective, if you want to submit me to an intensive cross examination… But leave your partner at the precinct.”
With a toss of her hair she passes me, enters her car and speeds off, casting a seductive smile at me from under her sunglasses, leaving me behind in a cloud dust. Rubbing the dust from my face and my eyes, I slowly start to walk back to the ‘Mathilda’, reluctant to go on board again. But as I arrive at the gangway, Jaszmin is already waiting for me, leaning relaxed against the railing, a victorious smile around her luscious lips.
“What did you say to here?”
Jaszmin smiles and bumps into my shoulder as she steps passed me. She turns her head as she starts heading back to the car.
“I asked where her husband is. That’s all…”
Shrugging my shoulders, not understanding what it means, I follow right behind her, admiring the soft wobble of her buttocks, tightly stretched over by a short skirt, allowing her long legs to show themselves in their glory. When we arrive at the car, she turns and casts a destructive look at me, all too aware of my open admiration of her backside. But then a smile breaks through and she leans in for a quick kiss on my cheeks
“Naughty Johnny… We’d better check in with the chief and then meet up with dr Gracious.”
“Isn’t it her weekly donation hour today?”
“Yes, I think it is.. But has it ever stopped us from swinging by her place? I wonder who the lucky cop is today.”
Dr Gracious experiments with facial creams in her spare time, using semen as the main ingredient. She conducted her experiments in the NSPD crime lab, having demonstrated her methods of collecting her samples very convincingly to the Major. She insists on oral withdrawl, claiming she uses her oral and olfactory senses to determine the quality of the donation, but in fact she really loves giving a blowjob. Her weekly donation hour was usually overcrowded with cops ‘taking a break’ and she tried to alternate as much as possible, ‘to get good reference samples’.
On our way back from the marina, Jaszmin filled me in on the conversation she had with mrs. Temperance and I showed her a disc with the images of the night of the burglary and informed her of my run in with mrs. Lola.
“Be honest Johnny-boy, are you going to call this cougar? I am sure she told you to…”
“She did and I am still considering.”
I knew this would drive Jaszmin crazy and she would try to kill me with her silence, but it also gave me some time to think and concentrate on traffic. The lazy town had woken up and the sun had climbed quite a bit in the sky, promising a scorching hot day. No wonder half the population was still awake deep into the night.
***
Location: Headquarters NSPD, 12:30 pm
After signing in at the front desk and admitting the disc with the footage of the surveilance cameras into evidence, we walk up to our department and step into the office of Captain Mitia. His ice cold blue eyes pierce into mine as I lump down on the chair in front of him. Refusing air conditioning in his office, believing that mankind should not influence the weather outside and should just suck it up, big dark circles had already formed under his arms and droplets of sweat had started beading and collecting in his brushy eye browes.
“I see you both survived a meeting with mrs. Temperance? When is she expecting you in her bed, Johnny?”
Except a slight, easily missed sparkle in his eyes, noone could have guessed this was the captain’s attempt at a joke, but knowing him well after 5 years, I learned to appreciate his sense of humor.
“I gave her your number chief, told her you are twice the bull I am”
“I hope for both our jobs, you didn’t… Mr temperance is a close friend of both the Major and the governor, so keep it cool. What’d ya find?”
Only a twitch of his eyes betrayed the joke had landed with the captain, before his look turned back cold and unreadable again. Leaning back aganst the chair, he moves his eyes between me and Jaz, listening carefully to each of our reports.
“dr. Gracious reported to me she had found out what the scribbles on the piece of newspaper mean. It’s a meeting at the Bar & Grill, this next Friday, a very easy encryption method used. I think one of you should check out the bar, before we do a stake out. Venice, that’s your thing. Johnny here is too well known around town. He’ll be spotted right away”
I nod, I know most of the underground world of Achat City and it knows me. I’ve spent many hours in bars and clubs, in back alleys, waiting for snitches or subjects to show up. I have connections through out town, which is helpful and a pain at the same time. I hear Jaszmin answer, standing behind me, her hands on her back, pushing her chest forward as always, hoping to catch the captain glancing at her cleavage.
“Yes sir, I will go there tonight, when the regulars have arrived.”
“Good, Strike, you will be here and look at those security cams. See what you can find out. And it would be a good idea to have a chat with mr Temperance in the next few days. I understand he likes being around good looking women, so you might be able to warm him up, but Venice, keep in mind that cautiousness is key.”
