“That explains why he sent the flowers to Kate, but I don’t like that he knows where we live. Alex, I really want to take Riley back to California for a while,” Joanna said seriously.
“Jo, we can’t, they have to catch this prick first,” Riley said, getting up to answer the phone.
“I understand, Joanna; look, as soon as the sketch goes out we should get some leads. If you go to California, he could find out and follow you and we can’t protect you out there. There’s no telling what this guy is capable of. Give it a while longer, okay?”
“Do you think so; do you think you’ll get leads?” Joanna asked hopefully. “Riley’s been through so much.”
Joanna saw Alex nodding her head, before she focused her attention on Riley who had turned pale as she hung up the phone.
“Riley, what is it?”
“Flowers… flowers for me. Lilacs, same as before, with a note,” she replied blankly.
“Shit, I’ll be right back, no one leaves till I get back!” Alex said, as she flew out the door.
Alex wore a solemn expression when she returned to the penthouse, where Kate, Helen, Joanna, and Riley were waiting for her.
“Carl took the flowers, it was him. He used a different flower shop but same MO. The guy at the shop said a female came in with cash and the note. We’re going to catch up with him; he’s going to make a mistake.”
“Christ! And what if he doesn’t? I don’t like this, I don’t like this at all. This bastard is toying with us!” Joanna exclaimed as she paced the floor.
“You said there was a note?”
Alex looked up at Joanna then over to Riley, who was waiting for an answer to her question.
“Yes, there was a note.”
“Let me see it,” Riley said, holding her hand out to Alex.
Alex opened her leather portfolio and handed Riley a plastic baggie containing a piece of paper. Riley looked down and read the typed written text aloud.
“My mistake, Riley, shame on me in my haste to find you. I’ll be waiting. Fuck, how did he get my name?”
“Probably the same way he got Kate’s, asking residents, public records? Riley, stay off any social media sites in case he has your last name. Better yet, close any accounts you have for the time being.”
“And just how the hell is it he’s running around, asking all these questions but you can’t find him? He’s been here, on more than one occasion by the looks of things yet you have nothing?” Joanna asked in obvious frustration.
“We’re closer, Joanna, now that we have the sketch. I know this is hard, but I need you to be patient. The uniforms will be outside twenty-four/seven. We’ll get him, I need to get going so we can circulate this,” Alex said, holding the file with Riley’s sketch inside.
“Jo and I will walk you out, Alex, you two stay here. I’m sure you want to compare war stories anyway,” Helen said dryly to the two younger women.
“You okay?” Riley asked her friend sullenly, after the front door closed behind Joanna, Alex, and Helen.
“Well, she didn’t give me any breaks! Forgot how hard that damn paddle is! What about you, I heard Jo tell you to fetch the belt.”
Riley blushed but knowing her friend had gone through the same ordeal earlier made it easier to talk about.
“Christ, that thing stings. Still don’t think it’s as bad as the paddle, but we won’t tell Jo that, okay? Let’s just say she made quite an impression!”
Kate grinned at her young friend, then her face turned to one of anguish as she saw the bruise that had started to appear, just below Riley’s eye.
“Shit, Riley, I am sorry, you’re starting to get a shiner!”
“Yeah, well, I’m sure it’s better than the bruises you’re going to be sporting the next few days!”
“Well, from the looks of you, you’re not much better. You better not pull anything like that again, Riley, Jo was furious!”
“Yeah,” Riley said, unconsciously rubbing her bottom. “Kinda surprised Jo did anything really, this whole business has made us so distant. All she seems to care about is locking me up here. I mean, I know she cares but she’s not there. I don’t know how to explain it, Kate.”
“You needed that spanking, didn’t you? You don’t have to explain it, I get it, really!”
“Maybe I did. God, I can’t believe I just said that! I think I’m going to wear the wire and see if he really is watching me. I can’t take much more of this, Kate, and now you could be in danger?”
“You’ll do no such thing, Riley, don’t even think about it. Joanna already said no, and Alex thinks it’s too dangerous. There should be no more discussion about this!”
“Yeah, well, she doesn’t have to know.”
“Oh, I think you need another thrashing! Damn it, Riley, I’ll slap you again if you even think about it!”
Chapter Twelve
A few more days had passed and Riley stared at the ceiling, not being able to sleep. Since the image of the killer had been released to the public, Alex had told them numerous people had come forward saying they had seen him at various places around the city. They had even got a lead on one of the women he paid to order the flowers, yet they seem to be no closer to arresting him. It had been almost three weeks since Joanna and Alex had essentially put Riley on house arrest. Joanna and Helen had even gone as far as to hire private security at the office. Everyone was on edge and Riley was at the end of her tether.
Despite the fear she had for the gray-eyed killer, he made her angry. Angry that he had attacked her, angry that she was now confined to Joanna’s apartment, and angry that he had taken the lives of so many women. She had to do something, she couldn’t just wait for him to be caught. Riley had talked to Alex again about going to the park to try to lure the killer but she was instantly shut down; Alex citing the incredible danger, as it was obvious this guy was capable of anything, including eluding the police, and Joanna threatening what the state her backside would be in if she even thought about it again.
She smiled at that thought and looked over at her sleeping lover. Riley thought how beautiful she looked slumbering peacefully on the pillow next to her. Her light brown hair cascaded around her on the pillow framing her olive-skinned face and Riley smiled again, as she imagined Joanna’s bright green eyes under her closed lids. There was something so very beautiful about this woman next to her in the dawn light that stirred her soul as well as her libido. Since the attack, they had not been intimate and Riley craved that, more than Joanna’s discipline.
Riley couldn’t help it, as she reached up and brushed Joanna’s nipple over the top of her satin cream camisole. Joanna stirred slightly and Riley took that as her cue, as she gently caressed it some more, her fingers sliding over the slippery fabric until she heard Joanna utter a little moan. Riley slid her hands slowly down over Joanna’s stomach and under the camisole, pushing the slick fabric up over Joanna’s breasts. Riley looked down hungrily at her stirring lover and bent down, taking one of her nipples in her mouth; she teased it with her teeth and tongue, nipping and sucking, as Joanna started to respond.
“Mmm,” Joanna moaned, as Riley wasted no time kissing a small trail down Joanna’s stomach to the top of her panty line. Riley hooked her fingers either side of Joanna’s panties and began to peel them off under the sheet. Riley sat up between Joanna’s legs and admired her girlfriend’s cleanly waxed mound as the sheets fell backwards.
“Riley, what are you doing, it’s too early,” Joanna breathed, as Riley began to play with Joanna’s slit, grazing her thumb over her clit that was beginning to peek out through her soft lips.
“I’m being a naughty girl, waking you up at the crack of dawn to have my wicked way with you!”
“Mmm… is that so, and what do you think I should do with this very naughty girl?”
“I think you should spank her ass and fuck her pussy until she’s begging you for more,” Riley whispered seductively.
“Well, I think I should spank her pussy
and fuck her ass, until she’s begging me to stop. What do you think you would do about that, Ms. Carrington?”
Riley smirked at Joanna, who was now wide awake beneath her.
“This!” Riley said, pushing Joanna’s legs apart and burying her head between her legs, attacking her sensitive bud with her lips and tongue until Joanna was writhing beneath her.
“Oh, Riley, that’s it, oh!” Joanna encouraged.
Riley sucked and licked until she felt Joanna stiffen beneath as her orgasm shook her.
“Oh, god, Riley, I’ve missed that!” Joanna sighed, as she tried to regain her breath.
Riley smiled as she looked up at Joanna. She crawled back up the bed to her sated girlfriend and kissed her, taking her lips in her teeth and sucking them gently.
“Mmm, I think you’re way overdressed, my love, strip for me, while I get what I need!” Joanna said, getting up from the bed and heading for the closet.
Riley complied eagerly, stripping off her tank top and underwear and lying back on the bed naked, waiting eagerly for her lover to return.
Joanna returned to the bedroom and Riley’s eyes went wide as she stared at the large dildo that was poking out from under Joanna’s camisole. In her hand she flexed her black crop.
“If you’re a good girl, I’ll fuck you, Riley. Is that what you want, my love?” Joanna asked, admiring her girlfriend.
“Yes!” Riley replied, as Joanna started to trace the loop of the crop over Riley’s body, across her erect nipples, and down over her belly to the neat landing strip of hair between her legs.
The touch of Joanna’s crop made Riley shiver with anticipation.
“Open your legs for me, Riley,” Joanna ordered.
Riley opened her legs and her hand absently strayed up and caressed her own nipple. She could feel cool air over the wetness between her legs.
“Wider,” Joanna said, bending down, blowing hot breath over Riley’s pulsing clit and kissing it gently, before straightening up again. Joanna brushed her thumb over Riley’s bud a few times before resting the loop of the crop over it again, every move making Riley tense in expectation.
Joanna flicked her wrist, snapping the leather loop of the crop across Riley’s bud, making her gasp with pleasure more than pain. Joanna repeated this a few more times in rapid succession, making Riley squirm with desire. Joanna continued until Riley was on the brink.
“God, Jo, I’m gonna…”
“No, you don’t, wait for me, Riley,” Joanna ordered, as she threw the crop on the bed and rolled the spanking bench out from under the bed.
Joanna glanced up at Riley who was still squirming on the bed, her hand hovered close to her aching pussy. She wanted desperately to touch herself and release her climax that was at its boiling point.
Before Riley’s hand had a chance to give her any relief, Joanna had the bench assembled and was on top of her younger lover, pinning her to the mattress with her long legs and arms.
Riley felt the strap-on push against her clit as Joanna crashed her mouth down on Riley’s lips, parting them with her tongue and exploring her mouth. Riley arched her hips upward, attempting to increase the friction of the dildo on her throbbing bud. Joanna obliged her by thrusting her hips up to meet her.
“Is this want you want, Riley? You want this inside you?” Joanna whispered, taking Riley’s lips in her teeth and sucking them before kissing a trail down to Riley’s breast and taking a nipple roughly in her mouth, sucking and biting it, making Riley give a little whimper.
“Yes, please, Jo!” Riley begged.
“Up on the bench, now!” Joanna said, pulling the camisole over her head, making Riley’s eyes widen with hunger.
Riley scrambled up on the bench, her knees and legs resting on the padded side surfaces and her bottom sticking high in the air.
Joanna started landing crisp spanks with her palm, as she addressed Riley. “Hmm, does someone want her bottom warmed up a bit? Is that it, Riley, you want me to spank this lovely ass of yours before I fuck you?”
Riley squirmed on the bench, so close again to release. “Oh, god, harder.”
“Tut tut, my naughty girl wants her bottom to really sting before I fuck her, is that it?” Joanna asked, bringing her hand down even harder in rapid fire on Riley’s cheeks until her bottom was glowing a dark pink.
That was exactly what Riley wanted and she raised her bottom high in the air, meeting Joanna’s hand with every spank.
She wanted to feel the dildo inside her. “Please, Jo, now, please!” she begged.
Joanna stopped the spanking and positioned herself behind her lover. Riley felt Joanna’s fingers between her legs playing in her wetness. If her fingers strayed any further forward Riley was going to explode. Instead, she felt Joanna’s finger, slick with her own juices trace up between her cheeks and slowly push into her little bottom hole.
“Ahh,” Riley breathed in surprise, as Joanna worked her finger in and out of her bottom. Riley could feel the tip on the strap-on at her opening and she tried to push back, desperately wanting it inside of her. Her attempts were met with a sharp smack that had Riley squirming with need, until she felt the tip start to move over her wet folds.
“Is this what you want, Riley?”
“Fuck, Yes! I want it all!”
With Riley’s affirmation, Joanna buried the dildo deep inside of her lover with one fast thrust, then pulled it out and thrust it back inside of her, working her finger simultaneously inside Riley’s bottom, filling her deliciously.
“Oh, yeah, Jo, that’s it, harder!”
Joanna didn’t need any encouragement, as she thrust the dildo and her finger in and out, while landing well placed spanks at the same time on Riley’s reddened backside. After two more thrusts, Riley screamed out, as one of the most intense orgasms she had ever had ripped through her core, making her flop onto the surface of the bench, moaning and gasping for breath through her open mouth, the aftershocks of her climax still pulsing through her center.
Joanna removed the strap-on and left Riley limp on the surface of the bench while she cleaned up and straightened the bed. She went back and helped Riley kneel up on the bench, then picked her up in her arms and carried her back to the bed.
Riley woke up a couple of hours later, deliciously sore in all the right places. She crawled down to the bottom of the bed where Joanna was wiping down the bench.
“So, where exactly did you get this contraption from?” Riley asked, as she ran her hand across the leather surface of the bench.
“It’s a lovely piece, isn’t it?”
“I wouldn’t exactly call it lovely; functional, yes.”
“Oh, my darling, you’ve only experienced a little of it, and that was all fun, I assure you. If I ever needed to give you a real reckoning, you would spend a most unpleasant hour or so over it! As it is, I’ve had your lovely bottom and other assets just where I want them.”
Riley shivered slightly at the prospect, as she took in the polished dark wooden surfaces with leather straps and metal buckles. There were metal eyelet bolts and locking pins about the frame and the padded surfaces could be adjusted to different heights and various angles.
“You didn’t answer my question, where did you get it?”
“IKEA!” Joanna deadpanned, as she began to dismantle the device.
“IKEA?” Riley said in disbelief. “No way!”
Joanna’s smirk made Riley roll her eyes, as she realized Joanna was less than forthcoming about the origin of the contraption.
“You of all people should know you can get anything online. I had it custom made.”
“Oh, really, and exactly how many whipping girls have you had over it?”
“Oh, darling, if I didn’t know any better, I’d think you were a little jealous?”
“Not jealous, it’s just weird is all. You, having other girls like me over it for your pleasure,” Riley replied in a slightly pouty tone.
“Oh, honey, first, let me tell you, there is not,
nor will there ever be, anyone like you. Second, I bought this one for you. There have not been any other girls, just you, my love. You are my one and only whipping girl, and this belongs to you!” Joanna said with a grin.
Riley gave her a mischievous smirk. “Well, I’m glad to hear it, although I think I’d like to see what you look like tied down over my bench. I think I might like that!” Riley grinned, raising her eyebrows suggestively.
“Might you, young lady? Well, since you appear to be dreaming, it’s time to get up, you have a busy day!”
“I do? I finally get to go to the office? Awesome,” Riley said, jumping up off the bed gleefully.
“Hold it, that’s not what I mean, Riley. You still can’t leave the apartment.”
“Shit! Then why am I gonna be so busy?”
“Because, my very ingenious girlfriend, the deadline for the intern boot camp applications was yesterday and Cathy said she has over one hundred interest packets. I spoke with Helen, and we agreed you should screen them and come up with the top ten. Then all three of us can sit down and decide on the shortlist. Maybe we can get David to weigh in on the final selections.”
“Cool, remind me again what boring stuff you and Helen wanted them to include?”
“Riley, we wanted the whole packet so we can make an informed decision. This is a huge opportunity and we want to make sure we get the right candidates. We asked for a cover letter, indicating why they are interested in AKD, an endorsement letter from their department heads, a photo and current GPA along with your marketing exercise.”
“It was hardly an exercise, I asked for a marketing strategy to see who can think outside the box. Frankly, I don’t care about endorsements and GPAs! And why do we care what they look like? I wanna see what they can do!”
“Well, Vinnie is bringing over the packets. I expect you to look through them objectively and not jump to the graphics and presentations. Do you think you can do that?”
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