Mercury Decending (Mercury Black Authority Book 3)

by Finian Blake

  “I can do that.”

  Valentina stopped Petra, “No, you have your part to play with the girls. Go finish getting them ready.” Petra walked back knocking on the apartment door. Her hair was pulled back in a tight severe looking bun and she wore dark green steel rimmed sun glasses.

  “You are all busted.” Lori laughed as Petra pushed past her into the room waving a pair of hand cuffs.

  “It’s a good thing that Valentina warned us about your sense of humor. That outfit should be given to all the police women. You look really hot.”

  “I wanted to apologize for this morning. I thought that I was being funny. I didn’t mean to scare you.” Petra smiled hoping that they would accept her apology.

  “Valentina explained about your off beat sense of humor.” Petra caught Ludmilla’s eye.

  “Margarita is back with our special guests. Victor wanted you to join him in his office.”

  “I am on my way.” Ludmilla stroked Petra’s cheek as she left. “Valentina asked me to run things at the party so that you can stay with the girls for the whole evening. Why don’t you finish preparing them, and I will stop back when they are ready to start the entertainment.” Ludmilla looked at Lori and Connie with a honey sweet smile. “We would like you to stay after your little skit. Petra will stay with you for the whole night if you do. Valentina has a special surprise for you tonight. You will be thrilled to death. Don’t forget what I asked you to do.” Ludmilla left before Petra could ask any questions. Lori stood up and walked to the bath.

  “We might as well finish getting ready. Valentina has been so nice that I don’t want to disappoint her. Petra helped to apply their heavy makeup and finish their hair. The final touch was the lipstick. Valentina wanted them to use one that smeared heavily, so that everyone they kissed would have bright red lip prints wherever they were kissed. They adjourned to the bedroom where both women put their dresses on. The thin metallic material clung to their bodies. The dresses were too long to walk in, so Petra broke out the shoes. The shoes were the eight-inch-high heel platform sandals that Petra had planned.

  Petra knelt down in front of Lori and slipped the shoes on fastening the straps tightly. Petra finished the ankle straps with the locks. “We don’t want you falling off your stilts.” Lori swayed as she stood and walked around the bedroom.

  “I can manage this with some practice they will work. Try them on Connie.” Petra knelt in front of Connie to fit the shoes to her feet pulling the straps as tight as they would go. Lori slipped a pair of hand cuffs out of Petra’s belt.

  “Are you going to use these on us?”

  “Yes, we will do it just as we rehearsed. They lock as you ratchet them on.” Lori ran her hands down the sleeves of Petra’s blouse.

  “This material is so soft it clings to every curve.” When she reached Petra’s wrists, she pushed Petra into Connie with her knee ratcheting the cuffs closed. Connie took a piece of tape that Ludmilla stuck to the bed spread earlier placing it over Petra’s mouth. “Just like Ludmilla said. Give her a call.” Lori rolled Petra tightly in a blanket so that she could not kick. “Ludmilla said that we could stay here for six months rent free if we could bring you down to the party in hand cuffs. She said that you would laugh later. Petra could only offer muffled protests since her mirrored sun glasses hid the panicked look in her eyes.

  Ludmilla walked in the room dismissing Lori and Connie.

  Ludmilla grabbed Petra’s hair painfully, “Victor brought you and Ivan over two months ago so I could have some relief. The only thing you needed to do is follow instructions. Victor saw you standing with your heel on Alice’s throat, so you need to renegotiate your deal with him. I am unhappy with you because I must now work without relief until he replaces you.” Ludmilla sat down next to Petra and started to draw a smile on the adhesive tape with lipstick. “If you struggle I will pitch you down the stairs. You know what I can do. Now get up and walk quietly with me.” Ludmilla removed the blanket and pulled Petra to her feet using her cuffed hands. “Thank you for fixing the girls. They look great. Oh yes, Victor is putting Tina on the auction block tonight. He said that you could watch the buyer work. He thought you might object so here we are.” Petra started to mumble another rant. “Shut up or you will end up on the auction block with your little pet. He and Dennis decided to get rid of all of our useless assets. I can milk the cows and Tina can turn a profit. Now, go out that door quietly.” Ludmilla pinched her nose shut. After several seconds she allowed Petra to breathe. Ludmilla grabbed Petra’s cuffs and walked her out of the bedroom finding Connie and Lori waiting for her in the hall way. “You look great I love the way those dresses hang. You look like a million bucks.” Ludmilla laughed, “Well ten thousand anyway. Let me show you how to walk with her in hand cuffs.” Ludmilla pulled Petra’s cuff’s to her waist forcing her to bend over at the waist. “This is how you want to bring her out on stage. We will practice on the way down.”

  Ivan pulled the van into the garage and closed the door. Margarita stepped out first followed by Anna. They both needed to assist Nadia and Seraphina since their hands were cuffed behind their backs. Seraphina had fumed for the whole trip.

  “You sold us both out for that stupid child of yours! She just had to do what you told her not to do and now you are trading us for her. You didn’t even discuss it with us. You just tricked us and cuffed us.” When she shut up, Nadia started up.

  “You know that you are selling me out as a whore. Why did you have us dress so fancy? As a whore I can make money naked. You sold me as a whore for your stupid bitch daughter. That was Ivan driving up front. He beat all of us at the base. I hope that he beats the hide off of you.” Margarita was walking between Anna and the other two with Ivan walking behind everyone. Anna could not figure out why he missed the guns in the other ladies bags. They were bait so that it did not look like they were rolling over. Tom had disabled the firing pin on the obvious gun which was the silenced 38 revolver. There were two other guns in each purse. Ivan also missed the straight razor hidden in Nadia’s boot. When he checked their hair, Anna was sure that he would find at least one vial of knock out drops. Margarita had Anna stop by a door taking the silenced 38 from Ivan. She motioned Anna inside pushing Nadia and Seraphina in behind her. Victor was beaming ear to ear over his victory. Ever since Anna out maneuvered him in Pakistan Victor had wanted revenge. Anna was always acting superior when she visited his base with Gregory and now she came to beg for her daughter. The other two would gladly skin her for turning them over to him. It was time to see how far they would go.

  “Anna how nice to see you how is Gregory?”

  “You know that he is dead.”

  Victor enjoyed playing the game, “Well how is your new husband Noah or is it ‘Hermes’?”

  Anna said, “You can just call him ‘Hermes’. He uses several names.”

  “I hear that you made a good profit from bringing in their heroin and wholesaling it.” Victor was fishing.

  “I am here for Alice. I brought you these two for her.” The door opened behind Anna and Ludmilla stepped in the room pulling Anna’s arms behind her back holding her tight.

  “We decided to change that deal. After some thought, we will require Seraphina’s expertise not yours.” Victor noticed the chain around Anna’s neck. He examined the key on the chain. “This is a handcuff key.” He walked behind Seraphina. “You seem to have a problem with Anna. What is the problem?”

  Sarah spoke with contempt, “She betrayed me to you for her daughter. The bitch is always for herself. I was dating Gregory and she stole him from me.”

  “Perhaps we can talk about a deal? If I take these cuffs off can we talk?”

  Seraphina turned her back to Victor, “If I am not wearing these handcuffs, we can talk about anything.” Victor removed the cuffs and handed them to Ludmilla.

  “Put these on Anna. I will have words with Seraphina.” He looked at Sarah while she applied the cuffs that she was wearing to Anna. “What do th
ey call you these days?”

  “Call me Sarah.”

  “Sarah can you forge IDs? I need to bring in more help. ‘Mercury’ seems unwilling to keep her bargain.”

  “Yes IDs are no problem. I can do papers from several countries.”

  “Will you help us? Poor Ludmilla is so over worked, since Petra just volunteered to become part of the inventory. I hope my other guests were able to follow your instructions. Anna is under control.” Victor laughed. “Ludmilla why don’t you check on Petra to see if she has been prepared for the evening, the other guests are here and we can start our party in a short while. Ludmilla released Anna’s arms and pulled her head back by the hair.

  “We will play later. You were always a snooty bitch and I often dreamed of this day.” She squeezed Anna’s breast painfully and forced a long kiss on her leaving quickly. Valentina restarted the conversation.

  “Sarah where is ‘Hermes’?”

  “He is finishing an arms deal. He will return to Milwaukee with five thousand kilos of heroin for Tony in a few days.” Valentina purred at the news.

  “Can you find out where? We would like to make an offer on that shipment.” Victor made a shooting motion with his fingers.

  “I am not sure. Anna has been playing games with me lately. I should be able to find out something. It was supposed to happen in Milwaukee. We were up there waiting for him when Anna pulled this shit. If I help you I will want a full share.”

  “We have room for another partner. Margarita recently gave Vladimir a nine millimeter divorce. If we cut you in for his share will you help us?”

  Sarah stepped up in front of Anna, “We would have to kill ‘Hermes’ when we were through. He does have a nasty side to him.” Anna tried to mumble something through the tape. Sarah turned to Valentina. “She sold me out, why not?” Nadia offered her cuffed hands to Victor for release.

  “I am afraid not. I have promised you to Ivan. You and Anna will stay with us as long as you live which may not be past sunup. Poor Alice will just have to stay too at least until we auction her off. She is older than the rest of our inventory but she is fresh.” Valentina looked Nadia and Anna over. They were both wearing mid length silk dresses that clung to every curve. She opened the button front of each dress and smiled back at Victor.

  “We do not even need to have them change.” She pointed to Nadia. Sarah you have the tape; would you do the honors?” Sarah tore off a piece of tape putting it over Nadia’s mouth. Ivan led Nadia and Anna out of the room and down the hall.

  “You will do exactly as I tell you, or you will pay the price.” He had a firm grip on each set of handcuffs. Anna was hoping that he would not turn them the wrong way and release her early.

  Sarah scooped up the purses and started to follow Ivan down the hall. Valentina stopped her.

  “Why do you need all three purses?” Sarah stopped and pulled out a thick envelope out of Anna’s purse. When she opened it Valentina’s jaw dropped. There were three, inch thick stacks of hundred dollar bills in the envelope.

  “We each have the expense money for ‘Hermes’ when he arrives in Milwaukee, so that he can pay off the help. If I am joining you, it belongs to me now.” Victor wanted the money, but he needed Sarah’s cooperation more.

  “We are having a live auction and Anna will be part of it, so you may want to bid.” He escorted Sarah out the office door to the basement. Victor had to regretfully acknowledge that he only asked Ivan to check for weapons.

  Rich was watching the garage from six PM. He was getting nervous. They picked Anna, Sarah and Nadia up on time. There was a steady stream of cars dropping people off with the cars being driven to a parking lot around the corner until the van showed up at quarter of seven. A van pulled in the garage and he clearly identified Nadia getting out of the van deciding to wait for twenty minutes before starting the Victor operation.

  At Dennis’s place, there were only two girls over in the dormitory and since they were the first batch, Wanda picked them up personally. There were five targets left and they were being held on the ground floor. The two guards and two matrons were being kept restrained and sedated. Suki started to interrogate Tanya and Dennis. Tanya looked at Angela suspiciously, as she slipped the Rhinestone shoes on.

  “Were you going to use these on us?” She ran the toe of the shoe between Tanya’s legs. This move produced an ear splitting scream.

  “You can’t do this to us. It will never stand up in court.”

  “Who said anything about getting near a court? Now, if you will just answer a few questions, we will end this unpleasantness.” Suki had all she needed to know within fifteen minutes. Angela was disappointed that they broke so easily. She thought that Tanya might offer some resistance since she was so good at handing out pain. Suki dressed in her little girl costume again and rode the pink bicycle to Noah’s van.

  “Stay on channel two of the TAC radio. We are secure over there. I finished interrogating Tanya and Dennis. They folded rather quickly. Angela raked each of them a few times with those shredder shoes and they caved in when they realized that they did not have the right to remain silent or have an attorney. Frank is having the boys finish the demolition and retrieving anything of value. Angela is back in her perch at the front of the building and we are here?”

  “There were several cars delivering people. It looks like some kind of a party,” Rich said.

  A concerned look came across Suki’s face, “A snuff party,” Mark decided to move. Grace was dressed in her police uniform. She looked every inch a police officer. The uniform was real and so was the badge. She stopped at the edge of the garage knocking on the wall. Stephan walked to the door opening.

  “What is it?” He looked Grace up and down. She was the best looking cop that he had ever seen. He looked over her uniform and pistol belt. She was packing a Glock.

  Grace started in without hesitation, “We have a complaint about all of those cars you are parking at the Jewel.”

  “We have an agreement with them. You have nothing to say.” He went to push her away from the door. Grace drew her gun. Stephan laughed, “Do you even know how to fire that pistol?”

  “Well enough to turn your head into a canoe. Turn around and get on your knees.” After he complied, Grace gave her next command. “Put your hands on top of your head and cross your ankles.” Grace cuffed him quickly exactly as Frank had shown her how to do. She made a quick peek around the garage and waved to the men. She secured his feet in the crossed position with duct tape and the men loaded Stephan in the van. Mark handed her the bag with the restraints in it. “Stay behind Rich and repeat that hand cuff routine as many times as necessary.” Grace ran to the van and returned with a plastic bag.

  “I bought a cactus for Vladimir just in case you don’t kill him. I owe him some special attention.” Rich turned to Brent.

  “Hold down the exit and we will do the rest. There have been too many cars dropping people off to take a chance on Grace guarding the garage.” Mark called up to Angela on the third floor.

  “Take out the sniper.” Angela opened the window and pointed her Dragunov at the front door across the street. She wore a face cloth so that her face could not be seen. The sniper in the other building waved to her. She pointed to the front door of his building. He opened the window starting to lean out. Angela swung her weapon around and fired three times in rapid succession with the silenced weapon, hitting him three times in the chest. The shot was from less than 75 feet, so there was no doubt that he was dead. The first shot killed him the other two were insurance.

  “The sniper is down, go.”

  “Hold the front. We are going in the back. Try not to shoot the paper boy.” Mark turned to Brent.

  “Brent, keep a close eye on the back. I will take Rich and Grace in with me.” Suki pulled Mark’s sleeve.

  “I am going in, too. We can get one more in side.” She turned around and Rich ran the hand cuffs through the top loop of the back pack and Mark taped her mouth rubb
ing some more dirt on her face. He read the note written in Russian that she pinned to her green blazer.

  “That should work.”

  Victor took a raised seat dead center to the stage Valentina as took a seat on his left, Sarah sat next to Valentina and Margarita sat on the other side of Victor. He sat Nadia and Anna in lower seats in front of them. Alice was led out in hand cuffs fully clothed followed by the nine sickly looking pregnant whores dressed only in lingerie. They were all wearing the red high heel platform shoes. Valentina sat Alice next to Nadia and Anna. The guests were slightly behind them to the right and left of the raised seats. The whores were at the end to the left and the guards were to the right. The stage was against the center of the opposite wall. Victor started the party with an announcement.

  “To start things out tonight, we have a little drama.” He dimmed the lights. When the stage lights came up Petra was propelled out on stage with her hands cuffed behind her back. Both video cameras started to roll. Lori and Constance walked out on stage behind Petra dragging her to a pole at the center of the stage.

  “You miserable cops are always trying to bust working girls. All we are trying to do is make a living. It’s time we teach you a lesson.” They pushed Petra to her knees, so that one foot was on either side of the pole cuffing her ankles together and then re-cuffed her hands so that they were around the pole also proceeding to lightly spank Petra peeling her blouse back as far as the handcuffs would allow. They then used scissors to cut her clothing the rest of the way off. They lightly spanked her lecturing her some more. Ludmilla walked out on stage with her Madame’s costume on. She wore a see through robe and a tightly laced corset, with black fishnet stockings, and the crowning touch was a pair of the shredder shoes finishing off the outfit.

  “You need to teach this pig a real lesson.” Ludmilla grabbed Lori by the hair backing her to the pole and slapping the cuffs on, securing her to the pole. She quickly secured Connie the same way.

  “You are not following the script,” Connie wailed. “We are supposed to beat her. Let us go.” Ludmilla looked at the girls.