The chronological order of my stories is as follows:

Todd & Melina series, Interludes 1-5, Sperm Wars series, Russian Roulette series, Case of the Murdered Lovers series, Case of the Murdered Chessplayer series, The Swap series, Interludes 6-10, The Murdered Football Player Series, Case of the Black Widow series, Teresa's Christmas Story, The Case of the Black Badge series, A Case of Revenge series, Teresa's Summer Race, The Trilogy series, Dark Side Of The Force series, Caught In The Act series, Case of the Murdered Bride series, The Credit Card Caper series, The Hot Wives Investment Club series, Seriously Inconvenienced series, Case of the Paper Trail series, Christmas Mystery Theater, The Porno Set Mystery series, The Medical Murder Mystery series.

The Eightfold Fence, Ch. 01.

Feedback and constructive criticism is very much appreciated, and I encourage feedback for ideas.

This story contains graphic scenes, language and actions that might be extremely offensive to some people. These scenes, words and actions are used only for the literary purposes of this story. The author does not condone murder, racial language, violence, rape or violence against women, and any depictions of any of these in this story should not be construed as acceptance of the above.

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Part 1 - Prologue

(Author's note: this story is something like the Interludes, with background and set-up material for the big stories to come, culminating in the Summer (story's Summer, that is) climax. Please enjoy it and look for the clues...)

Eightfold rising clouds
build an eightfold fence
an eightfold Izumo Province fence
wherein to keep my bride—
oh! splendid eightfold fence

-Attributed to the god Susanoo. This is the first poem to be found in the kojiki, the oldest anthology of Japanese poetry.

Police Lieutenant Cindy Ross sat in front of her computer at her bedroom desk in her apartment on Sunday, January 11th. She was researching the latest information that had come up, using the special website and access Laura Fredricson had given her. She coughed, wincing at the pain in her lung, the one that had been damaged when she'd been wounded the previous July. Why the pain had suddenly flared up in the past week, she didn't know.

"Cindy, you have a visitor." she heard Jenna Stiles call out from the breakfast room table, where Jenna was surrounded by more legal briefs than Cindy had ever seen in one room before, including at the Courthouse. A moment later, Don's mom Phyllis knocked on her door.

"Hello, my dear." said Phyllis, bearing a large thermos. "I brought you some of my special homemade soup. Jenna and Teresa both mentioned that you were coughing the last couple of days."

"Oh, thank you, Phyllis." Cindy said, gratefully and tiredly. "I don't think I'm sick, though. Teresa and I started training for the triathlon this coming July 4th. I think I just overdid it a bit."

"I see." said Phyllis, her pale blue eyes peering at the younger woman. "This soup will make you feel better, and give you more energy for your training as well. So, what are you working on?"

"Soup is good food, and an excuse to help me with my research, eh?" Cindy asked, knowing this was the real reason Phyllis had stopped by. "But I'm glad you're here. I'm researching some of the people that Don said might possibly be the so-called 'real Moriarty'."

"Which includes my grandson, I believe." said Phyllis. Seeing Cindy's look of shock, Phyllis said "My dear, I am not unaware of what is happening around me. My daughter has been involved in an international drug ring for years now, and I don't think my son truly knows the extent of his sister's perfidy. Additionally, Don had no choice but to resort to the elimination of my other grandson, Todd's maliciously wicked brother Ned. So I'm perfectly aware of the criminal elements in my family... and I could keep you distracted all day with stories of some of the wolves in Don's bloodline... on his father's side, of course."

"Why don't you tell me some of those stories while I drink this soup?" Cindy suggested, wanting to hear the stories.

"We'll save some of those for the right time." Phyllis said, then added as a distraction: "Meanwhile, perhaps I can help with your research. What are you finding out?"

"Well, some of it's classified, and I hope you understand when I say I can't talk about that." Cindy said.

"Of course, dear." Phyllis said, her eyes twinkling. "So, who is on your list of 'Moriarty' candidates?"

"Well, your grandson Todd is indeed on the list," Cindy said, "and I guess this shows why a good Detective has to keep an open and unbiased mind. Todd is a bit childlike... Teresa says he's immature and hasn't really grown up yet... but he has managed to form a technology company and really get it rolling, get money for it, and lead it... and I can't attribute all of that to his father, Michael Burke. Todd is getting inflows of money from private sources, which are set up as venture capitalists... but then I start looking into them, and I can't get info on them from internet searches or even police search means. I have to go to the classified databases, and even those are a bit spotty."

"Nothing criminal, there." Phyllis said as she poured Cindy's cup full of soup, her words intending to get Cindy's flow of words continuing.

"No ma'am." said Cindy. "Mmm, this is good soup... anyway, Todd's been traveling a little bit. He went to Japan twice, Malaysia and Singapore on one trip, and Silicon Valley twice. Don never mentioned it, and I never noticed Todd was gone, either."

"Interesting." Phyllis said, not mentioning that it was her, Phyllis, that had helped Todd's wife Jeanine care for little Jack and little Doug while Todd was traveling...

Part 2 - Todd Burke

On the late afternoon of Friday, January 9th, Todd and Jeanine were driving up to Lake Amengi-Nunagen to visit Todd's father, Michael Burke. Their children were being cared for on this night by Jeanine's partner Tina Felton, and would be kept over the weekend by Laura, Don, and Phyllis.

"So you think my dad wants to get into your panties?" asked Todd. "Is that why he invited us up to his place this weekend?"

"He's wanted to fuck me since he met me back when I was first dating Tim." said Jeanine. "And since you and I have talked about swinging and swapping, and with me in my current 'condition', it might be an ideal time for us to try that out."

"I figured our first swap would be with Uncle Don and Aunt Laura." Todd said. "But I guess this'll be okay... now that you're pregnant. But do you think my dad's girlfriend... his former secretary that he's been banging for years... will be interested in swapping?"

"I don't know." said Jeanine, not telling her young husband all that she knew about what awaited them at Michael Burkes place in the mountains near Lake Amengi-Nunagen. "All I know is that while you were flying home from Japan, Michael called and said he'd made some arrangements for us this weekend."

"Dad's changed since Eleanor was put away." Todd said. "He used to get off being her cuckold. Aunt Laura said it was a 'relief valve' after being in charge of his business and all those people, and that many top executives get off by being cucked or tied up or whipped, etc. BDSM stuff. Uncle Don said Henry Wargrave was like that, too... had to be in bondage to get it up at all, but now the great billionaire Wargrave can't get it up at all, not even with Viagra. I doubt Dad has a problem getting it up, but I wonder if he's changed in his sexual habits now that he's retired."

"Me, too." said Jeanine. "But your father was... and is... a strong businessman, and I heard he seduced some of his competitor's wives and made simpering wimp cuckolds out of those guys. So he just might just become the aggressor this weekend. How would you like being the cuck?"

"That's not for me." Todd said. "But I guess I can fuck his girlfriend if he and you start hitting it off." Jeanine could not tell Todd's feelings about this situation, and she had little time to ask her young husband about it: they were arriving.

They had pulled off the main road onto the side road leading to the ring of cabins around the lake, and it was a short drive to Burke Cabin. As they pulled into the driveway of a nice A-frame house with large windows that overlooked a scenic vista with the lake in the distance below, Todd observed two extra cars in the driveway. One was an older model Mercedes, painted white; while the other was a Toyota Camry that was well-worn with age and use.

"Hmm, they have other company." Todd astutely observed. "Wonder who's here?"

"Let's find out." Jeanine said as she got out of the car. As Todd got out, he looked around warily. Everything seemed fine, but certain instincts within him, instincts that served his uncle, his mother and his grandmother, were giving him a 'gut feeling' that something wasn't 'normal'.

"Ah, there you two are!" called out a voice from the door. It was Michael Burke, looking fit and vigorous, his white hair almost glowing in the waning light as the sun sank behind the hills to the west. "We've been waiting for you. Come on in." Michael hugged Jeanine, giving her a kiss on the cheek, then shook Todd's hand firmly.

Once inside, both Todd and Jeanine got a surprise when they saw the two women in the living room. They were both very beautiful. One woman was short, buxom, with a great figure and auburn hair, almost brown, and she was in her late 20s. Her real name was Nicole Stanton, but she went by the pseudonym of 'Dawn Starrett'.

It was the other woman whose presence dominated any room she was in. She was in her upper 30s in age, and was nearly six feet tall, almost as tall as Professor Laura Fredricson. Her mane of hair was blonde and fell in gentle waves about her shoulders. Her body was toned by exercise, and she had had only a bit of breast enhancement to complete her magnificent rack. Her taut waist gave way to saucy hips, a firm heart-shaped ass, and exceptionally shapely legs and feet, especially in the high heel pumps she was wearing.

"Cherie! Gosh, it's been so long!" said Todd involuntarily.

"Ah, you know her?" asked Michael, knowing full well of the relationship between Cherie Ward and his son Todd.

"Oh yes, we've met." said Todd. He went forward and gave the blonde a warm hug.

"It's good to see you again, Todd." Cherie said, now that Todd had acknowledged her. "You look better than ever."

"So do you." said Todd, then remember his manners. He introduced his wife Jeanine, and Michael introduced Cherie and Nicole.

"Uh, Dad, where is Betty?" Todd asked, looking around.

"All in due time." said Michael. "Let's have a drink before dinner."

"Not too much for Jeanine." said Todd mischievously.

"Oh?" said Michael, whirling around.

"Todd!" Jeanine cried out. "You just cannot keep a secret, can you?" As Todd grinned like a troublesome schoolboy, Jeanine turned to Michael and said "That's what we came up here to tell you, Michael: I'm pregnant."

"Oh, that's so wonderful!" Michael said, coming forward and warmly hugging his daughter-in-law. But Todd noticed a seemingly strange look cross his father's face, fleeting and only for a moment.

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"So, Betty left for the West Coast. California." said Michael to Jeanine after dinner, as they looked out the window into the blackness of the winter night. They were in the glass-enclosed room that had once been an outdoor patio. Todd was sitting between the other two women on the sofa in the greatroom, facing a warm fireplace. Michael had refurbished this cabin, and it was simply but very luxuriously appointed throughout.

"She claimed to have family she was going to visit there." said Michael. "But that was the first I ever heard of her having family. Maybe she was expecting I would marry her after the divorce from Eleanor was final, and I have you to thank for that." Jeanine smiled as Michael continued "But she's out there now."

"What part of California did she go to?" Jeanine asked, looking at Michael, admiring her father-in-law's handsome face and impressive physique.

They had been stealing glances at each other all through dinner, Todd seemingly none the wiser as he kept the attention the other two woman. Jeanine could see where her husband got his good looks, and she felt her loins melting as she studied Michael and wondered how good in bed he was.

"Silicon Valley, I believe." said Michael. That turned a gear in Jeanine's mind.

"You didn't ever catch her going through your papers, did you?" the beautiful woman asked.

"She was my personal secretary for years, so of course she had access to all my papers." Michael responded. "Why do you ask?"

"Todd is always concerned about industrial espionage." Jeanine replied, not giving her full reasons. "I just wondered that, now that you're retired, she moved on to fresh pickings."

Michael look as if he were struck by the thought. "I... I seriously doubt Betty did anything like that while working for me." he said. "I'm pretty sure of it." Jeanine was watching the older man's handsome face, and wondered if for just a second she saw something in it... worry. Naah, I'm looking for what I want to see, not what's there, she thought to herself.

Michael partly misread her look at him, but he still made his gambit. "And you, Jeanine? You're looking more beautiful than ever."

"And you're looking even more handsome yourself, Michael." Jeanine replied. She stepped up to her father in law and slid her hands up his pectorals through his shirt. "You've been working out, keeping fit... verrry nice." She tilted her face up to him in offering.

Michael slid his hands around his daughter-in-law's slender waist and bent down to kiss Jeanine. Their lips slid together in a gentle kiss, then a deeper one. Their passions began to rise as they mashed their mouths together. Michael's tongue probed Jeanine's mouth, sliding practically into her throat, and Jeanine slid her tongue around his.

After a long moment, they broke the deep kiss and headed back to the greatroom. Michael headed for the door to the hallway as Jeanine paused to refill the wine glasses of Todd and the two women. They were cuddled on either side of Jeanine's young husband, their hands caressing his thighs, abs and toward his powerful chest. Jeanine knew that Todd would be well taken care of.

"Todd, your father is going to give me a tour of the house." Jeanine said, seemingly not in the least bothered by her husband carousing with these 'professional' ladies.

"Okay, babe, sure." Todd said, looking up at his wife, seeing the sparkle in her eyes. He watched as Jeanine left the room and joined his father in climbing the stairs, seeing the hot and steamy purpose in their eyes...

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Todd's tongue twined with the tall blonde woman Cherie's as they shared open mouth French kisses. The auburn-haired Nicole had Todd's pants unzipped and his huge cock out, and was sucking the young stud's massive member as deeply as she could. Todd enjoyed the sensations, but as he kissed Cherie and felt her body in his left arm, he knew what he wanted this night.

Breaking the kiss, he looked down as Nicole's head bobbed up and down as she fellated him. "Nicole..." he said quietly. She stopped sucking and looked up at him. "Tell you what, you can go ahead and go home. I'll make sure you get paid the full amount my dad promised you, but I'm not going to be able to handle both of you tonight."

"Okay." Nicole said dispassionately. If she had any disappointment about being asked to leave, she didn't show it. She was getting paid, in fact she already had been. She got up, gathered her purse, and a moment later Todd heard her car being cranked and leaving.

Meanwhile, Cherie had bent over and was now sucking Todd's cock, sliding her full, lipsticked lips up and down the long, thick shaft of his ten inch manhood. Todd let her suck him for several minutes, then her curiosity finally got the better of her.

"So, why did you send Nicole home?" she asked. "You can handle three or four women, if I remember correctly."

"I just want to hang out with you tonight, babe. Like for old times sakes." Todd replied. "Did my dad know that you and I knew each other when he hired you?"

"Not that I'm aware of. He didn't mention it." Cherie said. She resumed sucking the huge cock in front of her, reveling in its size and throbbing power. A moment later she asked "Shall we head up to bed?"

"Sure... I wonder where my dad and my wife have gone off to." Todd said. He stood up and put his cock back inside his pants, difficult as that procedure was. Arm-in-arm, they headed up the stairs.

The door to his father's bedroom was cracked a couple of inches, and they heard moans from inside. Ever curious, Todd went to the door and pushed it, and the door swung all the way open. Inside, and incredibly arousing sight greeted the young man and the tall, hot blonde.

Jeanine was lying naked on the bed, wearing only her high heel pumps. Her feet were high in the air, her legs spread wide open. Between those long, shapely legs lay her father-in-law Michael. He was naked, his aging but still very muscular body in a push-up position. His nine-inch cock was buried balls-deep inside his daughter-in-law's vagina, and their pelvises were pressed tightly together.

Todd saw the beginnings of a grin on Michael's face as he watched the older man grind his loins against Jeanine's, demonstrating his sexual prowess as well as his total sexual conquest of his son's wife. Michael and Jeanine did not stop the grinding undulations of their hips as their audience looked on.

"Your wife is an excellent houseguest, son." Michael said. "She knows how to thank a man for his hospitality." Todd heard the words, but was not looking at his father. His eyes were locked with his wife's.

"I'll see you in the morning, Todd." Jeanine said, something of a leering smile on her beautiful face, her eyes sparkling.

Todd grinned and leaned forward to grab the door handle and close the door. He took Cherie's taut waist in his strong arm and guided her to the guest bedroom.

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Todd groaned as he pistoned his huge meat in and out of Cherie's deep wet cunt with short thrusts, sheathing his full length inside her before partially withdrawing and slamming forward again. Cherie was meeting him thrust for thrust, using her years of professional expertise as a prostitute to bring him maximum pleasure. But unlike the thousands of other men her pussy had pleasured, she allowed Todd to bring her the deep orgasms she craved but rarely had, and she had taken him bareback, the only man she'd allowed such an honor in many years.

She felt Todd's cock pulsing, knowing is release was building. "Do you need to come?" she asked, more of a throaty gasp than actual words.

"I'm close, baby... where do you want it, your mouth or your pussy?" Todd asked.

"My pussy." the beautiful blonde replied. "Come inside me." To emphasize her point. she wrapped her long, slender, strong legs around the young stud and held him tightly as he rode her hard. Todd fucked her furiously, and it was only seconds later that he gasped out and climbed her all the way.

"OH GOD, I'M COMING!" he yelled out as he sank his cock into her, bottoming out, and climaxed, the first huge spurt of semen blasting out of his man-cannon and deep into her pulsing pussy. More spurts coated her cervix as Todd emptied his huge balls into the writhing blonde beneath him until he was totally spent.

"Wow, that was a huge cum." Cherie said lovingly, impressed, as Todd fought to catch his breath. "If I didn't know better, I'd think you haven't had any pussy in a month."
"That's just how good your pussy is, baby." Todd said. He leaned down and kissed Cherie, their tongues twining into a deep kiss for long moments as they settled down. Todd was thinking of how Cherie had easily taken his full length. Only one other woman had taken his full length nuts-deep, and that was his Uncle Don's wife, Laura Fredricson. Don was one hell of a lucky man, Todd thought. Even Melina had not quite been able to take him entirely.

The thought of Melina brought a flicker of torment back to Todd's heart and mind, and he worked hard to move past it, thinking of his wife and kids... he allowed himself to think of the scene he'd just witnessed, his father on top of his wife, her sexy legs and feet in the air as she took Michael's size...

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Michael and Jeanine shared a deep tongue-twister of a kiss as they settled down. He had just come inside his daughter-in-law, filling her with his potent load that would regrettably find no egg to fertilize.

"I'm happy that you're pregnant," Michael said between gentle kisses, "but I have to admit that I was hoping to knock you up myself tonight."

"Mmmm, well, I'm not going to complain." Jeanine said. "I had one child by one of your sons, and now I'm going to have your other son's baby. You'll just have to wait your turn." She smiled up at her father in law. He bent down and kissed her, sliding his tongue into her mouth.

"I waited long enough for this moment, to make love to you." Michael said, finally coming up for air. "After you have this baby, I want to put the next bun in your oven." Jeanine smiled dreamily.

"Mmmmm, that does sound nice." she whispered. "We'll just have to see what happens."

Michael looked down at the gorgeous woman beneath him, feeling her body against him as he lay on top of her. He remembered how he had ached to fuck her even in the days she was dating Eleanor's son Jimmy ('Tim' to Jeanine), and how his lucky son Jack had seduced this woman, deflowered her and deeply fucked her. Thoughts of Jeanine had obsessed Michael's very being for all those years, all those years of BDSM slavery to Eleanor, all those years of deeply fucking his secretary Betty every day, of his occasional power fuck with women executives with whom he was negotiating...

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"Mmmmm..." Cherie moaned happily as she and Todd cuddled. "Just like the good old days, eh?"

"Yeah." Todd replied. "The good old days... what, hardly even four years ago?"

"Maybe a bit longer." Cherie said. "I always wondered if you were really eighteen when you started working in those women's clubs."

In Todd's early college days, he had been a male stripper at all-women's clubs, and did CFNM parties. He had his big cock sucked by numerous women, and a few took him inside their warm, wet pussies. He'd also been handsomely paid by the husbands of several trophy wives that he would fuck in front of those cuck hubbies.

One night, he happened to leave a club just as a beautiful blonde was leaving a nearby men's club. Cherie had come up to him and said hello, that she'd seen him in the women's club before. They went to a diner to eat; it was 3:30am and they were both starving.

He was barely of legal age and she was in her 30s, but they really hit it off. They did not have sex that night, but did meet at the diner several more times, and then Todd asked her to dinner. They spent the rest of that night making love in her apartment, and had sex frequently after that... when they could find the time between her professional appointments and his schoolwork and 'other' work.

It was pleasant and pleasurable, but as Todd moved through school and other interests took him away from her, he and Cherie saw less and less of each other. It had been over a year since he'd last seen her at all.

"Funny how my dad picked you for this weekend." Todd said sleepily. "As if he knew of our past relationship."

"I wonder if he knows..." Cherie began, and then stopped short.

"Knows?" Todd encouraged her.

Cherie turned to face Todd. "I heard somewhere that your parents, well, your dad and Eleanor, were really searching hard for information about your brother Jack, is that right?"

"Uh, yeah, someone had a P.I. getting info about him. Not much to tell, there." Todd said, lying about the depth and importance of the info obtained.

"Well, I wonder if anyone found out that you and I have another thing in common... besides being good in bed together and our sexual relationship."

"What's that?" Todd asked.

"You know the woman that your brother was in bed with when they were murdered?" Cherie asked. "Marie Arruzio?"

"Uh, yeah, what of her?" Todd asked. Her next words shocked him fully awake.

"She was my sister." Cherie said. "Your brother and my sister were murdered together, in the same bed, by her husband."

Part 3 - Seth Warner

"I'm still having a very tough time seeing Todd as a bad guy." said Cindy to Phyllis. "And an even tougher time with Seth Warner."

"Oh, now he's an interesting young man." Phyllis said, not mentioning that she, Phyllis, had sampled Seth's considerable sexual talents on a few occasions. Cindy didn't need it to be mentioned; she well knew already that Phyllis was enjoying the well-hung young men of the County.

"Yes." Cindy said. "His sister Karen is very beautiful, very promiscuous, and potentially a very bad seed. She married Brian Harlan a few weeks before he died, and she's been seen having lunches with Mr. Ward of Ward Harvester several times. Her mother is in prison, as well, and you know who her and Seth's biological father is."

"Jonas Oldeeds." said Phyllis. "A truly despicable man."

"My business partner also didn't think much of him." Cindy said drily, her sarcastic wit coming to the fore: neither woman had to say out loud that Cindy's gym partner and Phyllis's ex-daughter-in-law, now Melina Allgood, had exterminated the Reverend Jonas Oldeeds with extreme prejudice, via two brilliant sniper shots from 800 yards away.

"But Seth seems to be the the good guy, the swan surrounded by the ugly ducklings." Cindy said. "Maybe Don is like that in your family, Phyllis?"

"It would appear to be the case, at least on his father's side." said Phyllis, seeing right through Cindy's attempt to get her to talk about Don's family's bad apples. "But we'll discuss that at another time. Tell me more about Seth Warner."

"He's now a business partner with Todd Burke and Barry Oliver in BOW Enterprises." Cindy said. "He's on the verge of winning the lawsuit against his sister and mother, and if he does, the Board will be able to sell out Dynacorp to BOW. Seth has also begun dating one of my police officers, Joanne Cummings, and they have become a hot item... a very hot item...

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"Oh, he's so wonderful!" Joanne had gushed to Cindy several days earlier, as the women finished up their physical training in the Police Headquarters gymnasium. Cindy had been training Joanne in 'defense' techniques, simplified martial arts routines that would make Joanne a much more capable fighter for those times when the need would arise. And the need would arise, eventually.

Joanne had proved to be a capable student. Though she looked slender and not all that strong, she was firm, toned and with Cindy's training was learning how to properly channel the power of her body to maximum effect. They were even doing some crowbar battles, and Joanne was learning the full devastating power of not only Cindy but the Iron Crowbar's use of that excellent weapon.

"You and Seth have really hit it off, eh?" Cindy said, happy for Joanne.

"Oh yes..." Joanne said, remembering the night before, in Seth's arms...

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Seth was pumping his large cock in and out of the blonde beauty beneath him, his hands clutching Joanne's luscious asscheeks and his lips kissing and sucking at her neck and cheek as he rammed it home again and again into the extremely tight wetness of her clutching cunt. He still could not believe how lucky he was that this beautiful woman and come into his life... and at the time he most needed it.

His beloved Aunt Katherine had betrayed him to his mother and his filthy, evil bitch of a sister. She was not his aunt by blood, and in his years of puppy love with her he had dreamed of marrying her and having children. Seth looked like a party animal kind of guy, and he'd had his fair share of hot and beautiful women of all ages, but in reality he just wanted to settle down with his true love, raise his kids and play with his dogs, etc.

Now, his meat was buried into the hottest, tightest, sweetest cunt he'd ever felt, and she wasn't just a piece of ass: she was this beautiful, loving, sweet young woman that was a policewoman (of all things) and was even smarter than she was beautiful.

"Oh yes, come inside me!" Joanne would gasp out as Seth came... every time he came, she was urging him on. "Yes! Oh yes, give it to me, give me every drop of that wonderful baby-making sperm!" This extremely religious girl could talk as filthy dirty as any sailor in a bar, Seth noted. It was one of the things that turned him on about her.

Once his climax was over and they were cuddling, Joanne said "I can't tell if the sex is so good because I'm so in love with you, are if you're just that good in bed!" It was a line she used to tease him, not realizing that it was some of both that made it so good for both of them.

"Were you as in love with the other guys you were with?" asked Seth. To his surprise, Joanne settled down... she wanted to talk, so he let her.

"You know, my first time was when I was sixteen." Joanne said. "Oh, I thought I was going to wait until marriage, and that premarital sex was sinful and all that stuff, but then I met Jack."

"Jack?" Seth asked.

"Yes..." said Joanne, "and yes, he's the 'Jack' that was the brother of your business partner Todd." Joanne said. "I didn't know that at the time, of course, though I later realized I could see the resemblance when I saw Todd. Anyway, Jack was really handsome and charming and he was in my pants before I hardly knew what was happening. I didn't mind, though... I wanted to fuck him like nothing I'd ever wanted before. I don't know what came over me, but I wanted him inside me."

Joanne continued: "He was even bigger than you are, and I was afraid he'd hurt me, but he was so gentle and loving when he took my cherry, and I was able to take almost all of him. After I got used to it, it felt really great... almost as good as you feel inside me. That first sex with Jack was really good, so I'm grateful to him for that."

"Wow, how'd you meet him?" asked Seth, knowing something of Jack's sordid past, where he'd kept to the shadows.

"It was at a church camp function." said Joanne. "Jack was working there as a handyman, or something like that. Oh, he was so hot! I remember how Pastor Westboro would look at me, and I could tell he wanted to get into my pants. He's a charismatic guy and might have succeeded, but when I met Jack I just knew it was inevitable that he would make love with me."

"Then there was Bob." said Joanne. "Bob French. He's the brother of Guy French, whose wife Helena is Commander Troy's new assistant. Anyway, I was babysitting to make money while I was in college. One night I was sitting for Bob and his wife's little toddler and Bob came home early. He was a handsome man and made me feel good... though I think he put something in my drink. I didn't pass out or anything, but I wanted to have sex with him, and Bob helped himself to me. He got on top of me and put his dick in me... at least he wore a condom..."

Joanne looked at Seth teasingly as she said "He wasn't all that big, about five inches... I know how you guys like to compare sizes." Seth just grinned, knowing that he would win almost all of those battles as Joanne continued "He had me a few more times in the next few weeks, then cut it off when his wife almost caught us. And then you came along and I'm not letting you out of my sight!" She kissed him to emphasize her point.

"Lucky me." Seth said, taking the initiative and kissing his girlfriend on her lovely mouth as his hand gently squeezed her breast.

"So, speaking of past lovers that I'm never going to allow you to go back to..." said Joanne, "how is your case against your aunt and sister going?"

"Good." said Seth. "I think we're going to win it." He did not say that it was actually a done deal, as he superstitiously didn't want to jinx it. "But that's not what worries me. My sister is up to something. I can feel it. She's been working a lot with Mr. Ward of Ward Harvester, and I heard a few rumors that she's been having sex with male prostitutes from that high-class BDSM club that blonde woman runs. But let's not talk about that right now." To emphasize his point, he deeply kissed Joanne again, pushing her back to the bed and letting his fingers explore her sperm-soaked labes.

"Mmm, let me warm you up for round two." the beautiful blonde said as pushed Seth back. She repositioned herself and bent over her lover's huge, thick, half-hard cock. He groaned as she took him into her warm, wet mouth, sucking him gently, feeling him harden as she fellated him. Joanne loved sucking Seth's cock. Not only did it taste good and his semen tasted good when he shot it into her mouth and throat, but she was desperately eager to bring pleasure to the young man she was so deeply in love with...

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At 6:00am Saturday morning, January 10th, two intense sex acts were happening in the Burke cabin near Lake Amengi-Nunagen. In the master bedroom, Jeanine was riding her father-in-law's nine inches, shaking her sweet ass up and down his length, the slap-slap-slap of flesh-on-flesh echoing throughout the room.

In the guest bedroom, Todd was slowly and deeply fucking Cherie in the missionary position. He had her legs bent back under his arms, her legs resting over his shoulders and he was licking and sucking her sexy feet and toes... her feet were some of the shapeliest he'd ever enjoyed, and one of the reasons she was one of the highest-class prostitutes in the State.

It had shocked him that Cherie Ward was the sister of Marie Ward Arruzio, the woman who Todd's brother Jack had been deeply fucking when they were both gunned down, and in the case that had been his uncle's first big success. Funny how the world is so small, he mused to himself as he languidly shoved his cock in and out of Cherie's very wet, well-used cunt. His motions looked slow and languid, but he was pistoning his entire length in and out of her, and she was moaning and occasionally climaxing as the power of his thrusts seemed anything but slow and languid to her... he was fucking the living hell out of her, she thought as she enjoyed the long fuck.

Todd had not used any Viagra or other similar substances, but Michael had used one to keep up with Jeanine. They had fucked a second time, long, deep, slow, and loving, then fallen asleep. Now in the early morning, Jeanine was taking another ride on her father-in-law's meat. She had come several times as Michael had fucked her, but she concealed the fact that she was enjoying him physically, while it was obvious that he had much deeper feelings for her...

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"So, where's Dawn?" asked Michael as the four sat down to breakfast.

"I sent her home last night." Todd said. "I told her she'd be paid anyway, but it's hard enough keeping up with Cherie." Cherie smiled and Jeanine's eyes sparkled, knowing that her husband could keep up with any woman, and then some.

"That's fine." said Michael as he glanced at his smartphone. "So, your uncle solved the case of that murdered doctor, I see." There was a bit of a bitter edge to Michael's voice; he remembered who his son Jack's college roommate had been, and who had declined to help him find out about Jack's past.

"Not much gets by him." said Jeanine, not quite aware of Michael's feelings toward the Iron Crowbar. "Why anyone would commit a crime in that county is beyond me."

"So Dad, what's on the agenda today?" Todd asked, adroitly changing the subject after seeing the look in his father's eyes.

"I've got a couple of snowmobiles here." said Michael. "The higher ground to the north of here is snowbound, but we can use those and I can show you guys some of the area and the better views."

"This is Federal land, isn't it?" Cherie asked, her knowledge of the area surprising everyone.

"Er, no, not the actual houses." said Michael. "But we border the Wildlife Management Area. Lake Watchacoochie to our east has cabins ringed around it, but it's totally surrounded by the W.M.A. No one can buy a cabin there unless they have special inroads with the Federal Government, pun intended."

"My uncle and his wife were talking about looking for something there, but nothing is for sale." Todd said, then realized he'd slipped.

"Oh?" asked Cherie. "Do they have 'special access' to the Federal Government?"

Oh shit, Todd thought to himself. Michael pretended he wasn't listening but Todd could tell that he very much was, and Jeanine and Cherie were openly interested as they looked at him.

"Well, Uncle Don has worked with the FBI on some of his cases," Todd said, "and I think Aunt Laura has had some contacts with them through her college researches as a professor. The Federal Government is very interested in sex studies."

"As is everyone else." said Jeanine, helping her young husband cover his mistake. Michael nodded absently as he typed out an email, but inside he was elated. He knew there was some connection between Todd's family and the Feds, and Todd had just unwittingly confirmed it. Now for what that connection was, he thought to himself...

"Okay, everyone." Michael said. "Let's drive down to Cummings Outdoors General Store and get some supplies, then we'll take the snowmobiles out."

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Joanne Cummings entered the women-only side of Town Fitness Centers, ready to work out, when she saw Melina Allgood on the balcony in front of her office. The young policewoman had been told and then read police reports of how Melina had shot dead four intruders from that perch on the balcony. Joanne also had seen Melina's prowess with firearms on a couple of deer hunting trips the previous month. The woman was far and away the best shot Joanne had ever seen, and Joanne was trying to better her own shooting capabilities by having Melina teach her. But hopefully there would be no bullets flying in the gym this morning.

Melina waved Joanne up to the office and when Joanne got there the two women hugged. "So, how are things with the Police Department?" she asked as they sat down behind the closed door of the office.

"Good." Joanne said. "Your husband is all over the place, trying to figure out why your ex-husband is such a good Detective." She meant it jokingly, but saw Melina's eyes turn sharp.

"A lot of people would like to know those answers." Melina said. "All I can say, and that includes my years of marriage to the man, is that he inherited it. His mother is even better at seeing things than he is."

"That's what Cindy- er, Lieutenant Ross said." Joanne said.

"Cindy says you're doing a fantastic job, as well, that you're observing and deducing nicely."

"Aw, that's sweet of her." Joanne said with every touch of political correctness. "She's been training me in weaponless combat, too. By the way, I learned something that you and I have in common."

"Oh?" said Melina, "what's that?"

"That the guy who took your virginity is the guy who took mine, too." Joanne said. Melina's eyes sparkled.

"Jack Burke? Really?" Melina asked. "How did you know him?" Joanne repeated the church camp story.
"Well, I'll be damned. Small world." Melina mused. "By the way, Cindy told me to start saving money for a wedding gift... for you."

"Oh my gosh!" Joanne exclaimed. "Seth is great, but we're not at that stage yet."

"That's not what my business partner, my ex-husband, and my ex-mother-in-law have said." Melina said straight out. "And as you know, they are all very good at seeing things..."

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Fifteen minutes after clearing the breakfast table, Michael Burke, his son Todd, Todd's wife Jeanine, and their visiting prostitute Cherie piled into Michael's four-wheel-drive SUV and headed into the little hamlet that contained the General Store. Just as Michael was about to make the right turn onto the main road, Todd noticed the merest flash of red and blue lights around the bend to the left.

"Dad, let's go see what's happening over there." Todd said.

"Okay." said Michael affably. He turned left and they headed around the curve. The sign telling them they were entering the Wildlife Management Area (W.M.A.) loomed large, then whizzed past them as the drove along.

About 50 yards later they were stopped by a uniformed Forest Service agent. "Sorry Mr. Burke," the agent said to Michael, who he knew, "road is temporarily closed." Fifty yards further down the road was several Forest Service and police cars, as well as an ambulance.

"Somebody died?" asked Todd, a strange feeling coming over him.

"Yeah, young woman. She's been murdered. Left by her car. FBI is on the way, as it's in the Federal W.M.A."

Cherie was looking ahead when she suddenly shrieked. As everyone looked at her she exclaimed. "Oh my God! That's Nicole's car!"

To be continued.