In the morning, I awoke and shuffled off to the bath. Molly and Fatima in tow. Eva was at the bath door. One of us was going to use the room.
Eva tried to bow out. "I will come back later."
"No. Come in. I've got an idea. Don't worry I won't take advantage of you." We two walked to the bath with Molly and Fatima following. That gave me time to talk. "Eva you must learn how things work with the nobility. Servants like making us happy, that's all. Here. Let them spoil you. You'll see."
The girls undressed us. He stood in the recessed basin while Molly and Fatima used movable showerheads to sponge us off, cleaning us before the real bath. I stood inches from the tall, blonde Russian as I explained. "First comes the pre-wash." I enjoyed watching Fatima rub the natural sponge, dripping lather, all over Eva's lithe form. Eva's pale skin contrasted beautifully against Eva's. She too, was enjoying the play of the sponge over my muscular chest. I could see she was warming to the idea.
Then we lay in the steamy oversized bath. She let her heads hang over one end. Then the girls washed our hair. "The bath has a cistern for rainwater, the Victorians believed it was the best for hair. The girls are using that, collecting the waste in basins. "See, Eva? Such a simple service and it feels so good doesn't it?"
"Mmmm. Yes. Victorians. Those are the women with the big buns, like in the movies? I always liked those. But it is such a bother."
"It's not such a bother when you have help cleaning, drying and redoing your hair. I think you need a maid of your own." I thought about Faith.
"That reminds me, I have some re-writing to do" I got up to leave. Molly and Fatima looked horrified. "Don't worry. Everything's fine. Just take of my sister-in-law. Call me when the bath is ready." I left without waiting for a reply.
I went to my suite, used the old bell pull and asked Carmen for some coffee then set about re-writing this whole bloody mess. I made some notes, listing what I did to the town and school in general, then went into a long list (had I fucked that much?) of people I fucked with and how did it. I ignored Fatima's invitation to bathe. I skipped breakfast working around the problems. Carmen brought me some coffee and fruit.
As I flipped thought the pages of the book, re-reading my deviltry, I noticed that the pages were no longer stuck together. The ink that had glues the edges together was simply gone. When I made all the library books 'mint." I must have included the devil-book too. It was all in Latin, very old and sometimes very imperfect. It was fascinating. But then I snapped out of it. It almost had me.
"So? This is you use distraction this time? Tempt me with history, eh? Sorry, old boy. We've ruined a lot of lives, haven't we? Well, no more. You're running out of pages, so bend over and take it like a man."
After I figured out the cure for everyone's ills, then I looked the book and rang Fatima to draw me bath. As I started my soak, Carmen arrived to take my soiled robe and pajamas.
Back at my suite, Carmen placed her hand in my robe's pocket and delivered the key to my wardrobe to my puppet master. The book was there, but it was my notes they were after. I should have known I couldn't defeat the book so easily.
In the bath, I didn't touch Fatima. I was trying to wean myself off of her. Molly brought be a lager. I finished it. I let myself enjoy a good soak. I think I dozed.
I woke to Molly tickling my dick. "Mr. Punjabi at the door to see you, sir."
"Thank you, Molly."
"Miss Beryl has put him in the sitting room. Shall I dress you sir?"
I was worried. "Please, something comfortable." Molly toweled me down and put on a fresh robe. Of course, my key had been transferred
A half an hour later with Fatima three steps behind me, I entered the sitting room. He stood as I entered the room, leaving his sandwich half eaten. He bowed. "Sir. I have been busy. I have finished editing the first of your tapes."
"What?"
"Ah!" he picked up the remote and hit the "play" button. My concerns were justified. The parlor is the only room equipped with a VCR. There I was, getting it on with Molly. It was a much, much better production. I looked at him. He was rubbing his crotch. "Knock it off!"
"Oh, sorry. sir." But the tape kept playing. I snatched the remote from him and hit "stop." Fatima moaned in disappointment. Then I tossed the black box on a chair. "I cannot help myself. It is so erotic."
"Yes. I know." I smiled ruefully. "You are going to have to destroy it and any other tapes."
"What!" he put the remote down. "I mean it is your decision of course...but surely there is no need to destroy it...even for souvenirs."
That idea had some appeal. But before I could answer Amy passed by on horseback. She had the posture of an experienced equestrian. She was wearing khaki riding pants, boots and jacket and a red scarf. Her face was flushed and wind burned. Her black eye looked much better.
"Good job. I am very happy with you." He fairly beamed with the compliment.
"Yes, sir." He didn't question why...about that. "About the video store..."
"No. No renting it out. I don't care how much money we'll make."
"Yes, sir." Punjabi was heartbroken. Money would always mean the world to him.
"Good man. Now off you go." I instructed Fatima to burn the tape and returned to my room to re-write history.
On his way out the door. A person Punjabi had every reason to trust approached him. This person told him that I had changed my mind. That he was to involve the video store and to take a tithe for me. He bowed and left a much happier man. Fatima did not burn the videotape but gave it to someone she trusted. In return she was allowed to keep the CD-ROM and DVD her father had dropped by that day as well.
I was headed up the stairs, dwelling how I was heading back to the long dry spell. I regretted not keeping that videotape. Punjabi was right. It would be good to have a souvenir . I thought about inviting Violet, Rosa, the Starlings, Cindi, Rebecca, Amanda, Colleen, Yei and Yi up to the manor for one last hurrah. (Jessie and Sela would be busy with their business.) There was a separate entrance to the suites. Grandfather and Heath were out like lights before seven anymore. There was Beryl. But tonight was football night? Wasn't it? She would understand, the book had seen to that. "Yes, one last hurrah."
I took out my cell phone and called them all. It was easy. They couldn't wait for darkness.
I finished my outline just before supper. Everything was going to be back to normal. I even stopped trying to "improve" the children. Prudence would still carry my baby. (I had to have the last laugh on Caw.) But at least she would have her frigid soul back. And I could be proud of our good name, I hoped. I had no idea how I was going to confess all this.
I locked up my things and took a big vodka tonic in hand. I lay on the bed and wondered "Who would I date now?" It was funny. Of all the women I'd fucked, I wouldn't date any of them.
Supper was a delightful rack of lamb, herb potatoes with rice, spring greens and squash soup. Heath was taking pride in restocking the cellar. It all went brilliantly with the Pinot Noir he had selected. Marjorie and Heath talked numbers, Eva watched that Heath had more greens than lamb, Beryl loved all the attention. She was the great Lady of the House. All the servants seemed to love to dote on her.
Grandfather seemed in good mood and not so drunk. "Ladies and Gentlemen, a toast; to my grandson, George. A boy who understand what family means!"
"Here! Here!" Beryl usually didn't drink before a match but she did get Molly to pour her a sip for that.
Marjorie blushed at the double entendre of the toast and sipped to hide her secret smile. Eva joined in with Russian gusto but with mineral water. Heath wondered why I got the toast but sipped anyway. I was wondering too. "Have you finally realized that I have the book?"
I was going to break that old man's heart. Vikings, Saxon knights, Black Plague, enclosure, Roundheads, Cavaliers, Napoleon and Hitler couldn't kill the Carfaxes but I sure as hell could. "Thanks, grandfather." I put on a false smile.
Beryl left, every one else went to sleep. I had just enough time to write two lines, the last evil I ever intended to do. All the women George Carfax was intimate with got along like loving sisters...loving, incestuous sisters. My guests arrived, and parked around back. Molly and Fatima showed them to the rear entrance. It had just begun to rain so they held umbrellas for them.
One by one, they entered. I took their wet coats and kissed them welcome. Carmen tended the bar and Mareet had set up a light buffet. When the huge double doors were opened between the bedroom and sitting area, the suite was larger than some London apartments I had visited. Fitting fifteen people in was just cozy. Despite the short notice, every one of them was dressed very well. They were dressed in cocktail dresses, high heels and their hair was done up in some fashion. They had all unlocked the special jewelry for this event too. The mélange of perfumes made my suite smell like a French boutique. Violet and Rosa slipped into the Lady's suite to freshen up. They had to dress down so as to not arouse their husband's suspicions. It helped that they arrived together. They started a trend. The Lady' suite became the place for women to freshen up, or to be alone. The Starling's used it to slip Faith into a robin's egg pinafore.
Every party has a tone, a subtle subtext in the murmur of the crowd. This party was unlike any I had ever experienced. All the women spoke in soft, amused tones with each other. Yes, sometimes they compared notes on me, but most of the time it was gentle questions and honest compliments that fell from their lips.
The Starlings spread out, making conversation. Chastity, in cinnamon-red slip dress, looked like a vixen in a hen house. Cindi and Yi struck up a conversation in Cantonese. From snippets of proper nouns I could tell they were talking about their land of origin and England. Caroline and Yei seemed to find kindred spirits in each other. Violet leaned against the wall while Rebecca whispered something in her ear. What ever it was, Violet wanted to hear more. Rosa and Faith hit it off. The tall, fiery Latin recognized what a sweet treat Faith was immediately. Faith teased the Rosa a little, knowing she would enjoy the devouring as much as the devourer. Colleen and Amanda were competing for Hope's attention. Marjorie then entered. Amanda immediately slid up to my smart looking sister and introduced herself. Each was as tall and slender as the other.
I measure party time in drinks. By the second drink, things started heating up. Talk became looser and distance, closer. Eyes and hands wandered into friendly territory. And the talk always remained soft, friendly, with a bit of laugh amidst the growl. They all seemed more interested in getting to meet new people then to speak with me.
Ironically, it was Chastity who first saddled up to me. "So, who do you think will go for it first?"
"I could just say 'you and me' and jump your bones right here and now."
Chastity looked at me and laughed. "Not that the idea doesn't have merit, but it's hardly sporting. Besides I promised Jess to wait for her. Come on! A fiver. Who's first?"
"All right but we have to be right about both partners or bets off. And they have to be the first to kiss. Otherwise its too confusing And one more thing: let's make it interesting, let's make it a favor instead of a fiver."
"Bet's on. I bet my mom and that Chinese girl."
"Good bet. Your mother is very forward. Look she's stroking her arm already. My pick is Rosa and Faith. Rosa practically knocked me down once." Who would you have picked?
Chastity sipped her tequila. "You know, George, I haven't had so much fun in my whole life as I've had in the past two weeks."
"Glad you think so."
"We all think so. I mean just look at me. What a skewed life I would have had without you. Me wanting girls and thinking it's a sin. Something would have had to give and that something would have been my mind. I was wrapped so tight then! Mom feels sexier. Hope is who she is. Those other girls are healthier too. Everybody seems happy with their lives."
I must have had too many drinks, or I was too busy watching Violet begin to breathe hard. I didn't hear all the clues in her subtext. Chastity knew far more than she should. "Are you getting at something?"
"Ha! I win."
Caroline was bending over Yei and the two were French kissing. That seemed to start a chain reaction. Rebecca began gnawing on Violet's ear. Rosa fell into an old bustle chair and pulled Faith onto her lap. Marjorie whispered to Amanda. Amanda smiled and nodded. The two discreetly slipped off to the Lady's suite after freshening their drinks. Colleen and Hope compared tits. Cindi and Yi had each's finger up each other's pussy and were still politely sipping white wine.
"So what's the favor?"
"How about a little cunnilingus?"
"Just a little?"
She laughed and pulled me to the bed. I held out my arm and Molly instantly replaced my empty glass with a full one. Chastity stood at the foot of the bed and wriggled up her dress, exposing her newly shaved gate. Then she sat on the edge of the bed and spread her legs.
"What? No foreplay? Oh, where is the romance anymore?"
"Come on Lord Byron, less talk more action."
"If you insist." I was going to miss this. "I nibbled just inside her knee and worked my way upwards. I let her anticipate what was going to happen. I grabbed her calves and scooted her forward a bit. I kissed licked inward, being careful not to slobber. Then it occurred to me to read her fantasy. It was easy and it wasn't. Chastity loved cunnilingus. She wanted to make it her art form. Her fantasy required a deftness of tongue I had not needed before. Fortunately, she was a precise thing and quite clear in her mind about what she wanted.
I began by licking her labials and applying suction at the same time. Up and down, all around, saving the slit for last. When it received its due I kept the pace slow and loving. Then I moved back to the whole pussy mouth. I licked the alphabet and she loved it. I continued for several minutes, keeping it slow, keeping her on the edge, using the clit to keep her at peak and then labials to cool her off. I pause only to wiped my chin on her thigh. The trickle became the stream. My tongue was getting sore so I went for phase three.
I slid my right hand inside her and hooked it under her illium. Then I pressed down on her abdomen with my left hand until my right middle finger achieved solid contact with her g-spot. Then I munched on her clit and rubbed her g-spot like there was no tomorrow. I tell you truthfully, it was very hard to maintain that. Chastity bucked and it isn't easy to lick pussy with one's hands in the way. Still, the contortions were worth every effort. Chastity begged me to stop but I obeyed the chants of our audience. She called my name, begging me, begging me, until at last she came. Caroline says her daughter's eyes rolled into the back of her head and her eyelids fluttered. She lay there, panting like a, asthmatic Pekinese.
I wiped my mouth on her legs one last time and stood to cheers and applause. Hope, Yei and Cindi all asked me my trick but I kept my secret. Carmen handed me my drink and informed me that Miss Beryl had returned from her match and gone straight to bed. "We must be quiet." For emphasis she gagged my reply with her tongue.
Chastity's and my sexual exploit served as a starter's pistol. The lovemaking had begun in earnest. But the women did not dive into it. There was a great deal of tenderness.
Caroline and Yei held hands, walked over to my dresser and slowly, deliberately removed their gold jewelry and placed it on top. Violet kissed Rebecca's bare neck as she felt for and removed the pins holding her tresses up. Rosa was helping Faith undress. Amanda and Marjorie had returned. They had brought some oversized pillows. The shapely, long haired town girl lay at my sister's feet, atop one soft pillow, and licked my sister's calf. Hope had won the tit contest. Colleen was lavishing them with soft suckings and moans while Hope cradled her close. Cindi squatted on an old embroidered ottoman and worked her hair loose while Yi licked her feet with devotion. Suneesa arrived late and dived right in.
Fatima, Carmen, Mareet and Molly arrived with a cart of furs, lots of furs, the kind I heard we had in our former Scottish hunting lodge. The must have taken them out of storage. But they didn't smell musty. Carmen tended the fire, while the other three lay the furs about. The girls took a break from their lovemaking and in no time as all, lion, tiger, buffalo, zebra, a great deal of bear (Jeremy Carfax worked for the HBC and the old A&F as a buyer) covered every inch of the old oak floor. The blend of the smell of leather and perfume filled my nostrils. It was quite... primitive, for lack of a better word. Everything was heating up, I could smell sweat added to the mix.
Inside one cart was a box of candles. These I recognized as the ones we keep for blackouts. Each of the ladies again helped out, except Chastity. She was still a bit limp, so she rested on the floor. Carmen took a brand from the fireplace and shared it. Then she walked off to the Lady suite, presumably to stoke the fire there. When we ran out of candles we dripped wax and stuck it to the surface. Dozens upon dozens of candles twinkled in the room. I switched off the light.
Good English manors, like Carfax, may look elegant, but turn down the lights and it all comes flooding back. The oak and walnut paneling harkens one straight back to the days of smoky mead halls and roasted venison. The red-gold of the fire summons forth the old gods. Unlike the florescent tube, it actually encourages shadow and this things half-seen. Add to that a hide covered floor and a few trophy heads and one feels like they have been transported back in time. Great manors are elegant, but they also hold the bones of our ancestors within their walls.
Carmen returned. I could see the fire rising in the Lady's suite. Molly put a chalice in my hand. I sipped. It was a deep red Bordeaux. Perfect. I looked around the room, and savored my last night of lust. Firelight played over writhing bodies. Little moans, sighs and gasps were punctuated by the crackle of the logs. I let Fatima undress me. Molly filled my cup. Carmen checked on the safety of all the candles. Fatima slipped me into a pair of bronze hued satin pajamas and a silk paisley evening robe. Then Molly guided me back onto a leather lounge chair, the kind with brass tacks, at the office end of the suite. Then Carmen shooed Molly off and took her place at my right hand. Fatima sat one her haunches on my left. Molly gave her the silver ewer of wine and left for the Lady's room. I didn't wonder why.
I sat there lording over the bacchanal. Occasionally, one beauty would stand up to fix herself a drink. Another time I would hear one of them cry out or cry out my name in the heat of orgasm. Often I saw them reach for or drop down onto new partners. Someone had brought a double ended dildo. They were getting to know each other.
"They love each other because they love you." Carmen whispered in my ear. "See how happy you made them? They are free."
I handed out my goblet to Fatima for refill. "What nonsense." I thought. "They aren't free. Good thing they will remember nothing."
Faith had on white lacy lingerie' underneath her outfit. Her silky brown hair was still up in curls, held there by white silk ribbon. My dick twitched. I wanted her. I made to stand up, but Carmen held me down.
"No. Just watch."
"Excuse me?" I was shocked. "Just who is the boss around here?"
Carmen sighed. "Please sir, just watch? Your Carmen has a surprise for you. Please, for me?" she smiled. I looked at Fatima. She smiled too, obviously in on it.
"All right. But I won't wait long. Got it?"
"Oh thank you sir."
Venison?" Mareet had arrived and offered me a platter. The roasted meat did not help. I was getting hornier and hornier. Cindi thrashed her hair about as Amanda shoved a vibrator inside her. Jessica had arrived and joined with Chastity in a sixty-nine. Rosa and Hope drowned in each other's voluptuousness. Violet crawled on all fours towards me, moaning my name, begging me to fuck her. Carmen sent Mareet out to distract her. Their two forms, one ghostly pale, the other charcoal black slithered as my feet, inhaling each other's sex. Carmen fetched the double dildo and placed it between them. Splayed out like spiders they humped the gigantic latex thing and barked my name. Marjorie stood and allowed Faith drink her pussy's secretions.
Fatima filled my goblet and I felt, more then saw, Carmen visibly tense. I looked at her then followed her gaze to the door of the Lady's suite. The last woman on earth who I wanted so see in my debauch came in.
"Beryl!"
"George." She was dressed for bed and she wasn't. She wore a simple white cotton robe with lace fringe underneath a purple satin robe. Yet she wore gold earrings, a necklace and bracelets. Her hair was done up, curled and roped of twist gold encircled her brow.
"I can explain."
"Don't bother. I know it all."
"How..?" I looked around. None of the women seemed surprised. In fact, they were "dusting themselves off." They even began to dress. It was like the show had ended.
"It all began when I caught you and Carmen in your first moment. I feigned I hadn't seen what was going on and pretended to leave. But the old keyhole is very big George. I thought I was very naughty watching you two. I must confess I always had sexy little thoughts about you big brother.
"Me?"
"Yes. You. Haven't you ever noticed? No. To you I was always your sweet little sister. But you were always so kind to me, so understanding. I told you everything and you never laughed at me or called me foolish. Isn't it right and proper I fall in love with a good, kind man? I know. We are brother and sister, but this feeling never went away. It only grew with time. Sometimes...I would....never mind. Well watching you have sex like that tore it for me. I knew I couldn't resist these urges any longer." She sat on my lap. "Carmen left so quickly, she caught me at the door." She looked at Carmen and she smiled like it was all one big joke. "We talked and she said she would help me. I watched that second time. There is an old heating grate that connects to the hall. I unscrewed it and saw you have fun.
"I am sorry Beryl, I..." I was reeling. I had tainted the one good thing in my life.
"Sh. George. Sit down. Someone get him a drink. George. It was beautiful I understand and appreciate how much you love me. (The books words!) "Now let me go on with my story. The lovemaking was so beautiful, George but I couldn't see it all. So I had Carmen move your little liaison to the study." She giggled "You were so randy George, you never even wondered about the new writing materials."
"Then it was your boot prints outside my window."
"I said, sush! Yes, I saw you give that snobby bitch Prudence a damn good fucking. She was always on her high horse. But it was cold so I left early. Next time I sat in the rover as you took our three servants. Didn't you wonder why it was parked near the window? I frigged myself silly that night, I tell you, but it was still uncomfortable.
Then I remembered the guest suite with the adjoining lady's room and you were staying the weekend."
"Marjorie?" All our sister did was smirk.
Beryl nodded. "And Eva...every little orgy." The audience tittered. I heard ice in a glasses. "And when I couldn't resist any more, I had Molly blindfold you and I sucked on you." Her face took on a beatific aspect. "It was like I was born to do it my whole life. I had found my mission in life. I wanted to fuck you so bad, to merge our blood. But I knew I had to make it special. That's what tonight is all about."
I felt quite the fool. My little sister played me like a harp "Damn that book."
Beryl exploded into laughter. "You haven't guessed? I knew about the book all along, silly. I led you to it. Grandfather let it slip during one of his drunken rantings. I couldn't believe it when I actually found it. Oh the dreams I had! The Carfaxes were going to be the masters of all they surveyed once more. But it would be better this time. We wouldn't abuse our power. No! The new Carfaxes would help people, noblesse oblige would be the rule not the exception. We would look after our people like shepherds and they would love us for it. But the bloody thing only accepts Latin! I tried ever so hard but it was like my head was stuffed with cotton. I slammed it shut and left it for you to find."
"That explains the pen."
"I know that was bad of me. But look George..." Carmen handed her the book. I assume she took my key when I was changing. "I am not the brightest thing. It takes me hours and some helpful men on the Internet just to get a phrase or two. When I was at the market I saw Harold Fife looking like a mad bull. I ran to the school and wrote some in. Rosa and Violet helped me. See how much I care so much about you?"
She pointed out a little scribbling in the margin, near the spine. It was easy to miss. It read. "The man called George Carfax is ever a master's fighter who has been trained always soon." It was terrible. But I guess it worked. This explained why she needed my help. But now I questioned everything. "The Inn?"
"My idea. The first tape worked so well, we needed another. You see, dear George, we Carfaxes are very respected hereabouts."
"A national treasure!" Colleen burst out. "Here, here!" the crowd of ladies lifted their glasses in salute.
"Thank you. So getting them to cooperate was easy. And they all love you so and were so curious about your..." she stroked my chest down to my navel. "And I saw how wonderfully it served our purpose."
"What did you do, Beryl?"
"Me? Nothing. You did it all George."
"Molly. Come in here." Molly entered from the Lady's room. She was wearing her team shorts and a green sports bra and pushing a cart with a small TV-vcr on it. My sister whispered in my ear. "Molly showed our team a very special tape. You see, Molly's father owns' the video store. You didn't know that, did you? You and your books! So her mother has one of those new vans with a video screen in it. We usually use it to watch recordings of our games on the ride home. Well, it seems Molly always wanted a Carfax between her legs. So the brat puts the tape of you and the Indian girls in the player, right there! In front of the whole team! Then sits next to me. She knew what she was doing. At first I was shocked, we all were. Then one, by one we realized how beautiful it all was. With our headphones on, protected by each other's seat, Molly's mother never knew a thing, at first. Our hands roved to our vaginas and we diddled ourselves furiously. It was me. I was the first to start calling out your name. Then the others joined in. Molly's mom was furious. She pulled over, took one long look at the tape, then put in on speakers, laid back in the aisle of the van and joined us. Can you just picture it? All us beautiful young girls masturbating to your image, wishing it was your seed flooding our wombs? All except me. I had a perfectly devoted lover between my legs. Didn't I Molly?" She licked my ear. "I came with a blinding light. I had an epiphany. Why pollute Carfax blood? You and I would breed perfect, pure, sons, George. Our heirs will love England the way she should be loved." Then she started nuzzling my neck.
My cock rejuvenated. I tired to deny it but Beryl felt so soft and warm. I couldn't help it. "What happened to the tape?"
Beryl waved. Six members of the football team of young women entered. "These are only the pretty ones, George, the only ones worthy of a Carfax bed." They all were beautiful too. Each as lovely as the last and all of them panting, looking at me with abject lust. "They all want you, George, you and you alone. When I realized the power of their love I knew there was no limit to how far we could go. Your use of the book was far superior to mine. I changed my notion of enlisting you and threw my heart into marrying you. With your brains and my charm we would go so very far." She began to grind her loins into mine. "And the children we would make, pure Carfax children...."
The breathless way she spoke the last sentence revealed that this "pure breed" fixation and the resurgence of the nobility was at the core of it all. I had created a twinned horned devil. "Where is the tape?"
"I told Molly's mother to take it home and show it to her husband. I hear it's the store's number two seller."
"Number two? You were the one, not Punjabi the got it out?"
"Gracious no. He wanted the tape all to himself. The top rental is that tape of you and Molly. I intercepted Fatima's father and told him you changed your mind. He was happy to believe me. As soon as Punjabi is done with you and the Shamus girls no doubt it will drop to number three. Tell him about the exercise club, Amy."
Amy, looking like she had just taken a shower, dressed in white terrycloth robe and rubbing her hair with a towel, entered. "I played it for the girls at my health club. Ever see those televisions in front of the exercise equipment? After that, the showers were never more interesting, I'll tell you. By the end of the week, all the exercise clubs in town will be packed and women-only."
"Beryl, you ruined everything. How I will I ever undo this?"
"You won't. I've seen your silly notes. Good thing you weren't here the Friday before to hear all the phone calls. Even after the first video made its debut, women tried to make any excuse to come visit, find out where to find your cottage or just voice lewd advances. The men are more subtle, offering to come by and fix the manor for free. But the all want the same thing, you to fuck their wives, daughters, sisters, nieces, cousins, the lot. They all go into voice mail now. The number of messages is growing exponentially as they share the tapes with their friends. It won't make it to the Internet, thank goodness, I've seen to that. But it has already spun out of your control, dear brother." We caught a family of Americans on the grounds today." She waved twice the footballers left and then returned with a prisoner. I had no idea who he was. He was dressed well, but was coated with thick moor mud and moss. He threw herself on the ground before me, before us. The frumpy American kissed my feet and offered me his house in Connecticut and boat if I'd only make him a grand father. He removed from his coat pocket a folded photo of what must have been a family portrait. There he was, his wife and two golden haired teenage daughters, dressed in Christmas finery. It could have been an ad in magazine for toothpaste or life insurance.
"Tell his majesty how you got here." Beryl commanded then returned to nuzzling.
"The woman at the Inn's bar, Jessica, spied my family and judged us worthy of joining your cult, sir. She introduced me to the pleasures of the flesh and then presented me with the tape. When I showed my wife..." his face looked rapt "...we made love to me like we were still newlyweds. But then I had to share our joy with our daughters. We wanted to use their bed. The sheets were cleaner. We dressed, opened the adjoining door and woke them up. We told them there was something we wanted them to see. Then we played the tape. We masturbated until my I called myself George.' Then they made love to me. They still love me. I am so relieved. I wanted them so badly and now you made it all right."
"Did you fuck them?" Amy seemed angry.
"Oh no. They are virgins, fresh as daisies. But we three together sucked me dry before turning on ourselves. Then Mrs. Shamus called to inform us about this night. So you see? We were invited, sir!"
"Punjabi has the wife and daughters in the cellar." Amy smiled.
" Aren't the girls tasty? I bet they're rich too. Dear Jessica and Sela have standing instructions to recruit only the finest to our cause." Beryl stuck her tongue in my ear.
I felt ill. I was clearly over my head. "What now?"
"You and I, George, we'll be the start of a new royalty, your illegitimate children will be the new nobles. We'll make a whole new Britain, George, us and the book." She pushed the book over to Carmen, looped her arms around me and looked deep into my eyes. "I love you George. Make me your Queen."
"Was this always your plan?"
"It's our destiny. Do it George. Use the book. Only you seem to understand how it works. Make me your queen. We can me England great again!"
A week ago I would have refused. But the book had done it job well. Little by little it had worn my morals down and given me a taste for power. I wanted it. I wanted to fuck them all and rule like my ancestors did of old. And I could never say no to Beryl. I kissed my sister and the room seemed to celebrate our joy.
The chair wasn't made for two. That was why I thought Beryl stood up. But I was wrong again.
My little sister held her arms out. Molly and Carmen slipped off her diaphones nightgown. She stood not three feet before me, naked and held out her arms. "Make me perfect, George. England deserves a perfect queen. A rolling writing desk, and the book appeared in front of me. I took up my pen. The words seemed to flow out of me. I made her more loyal to me, brighter and healthier in many respects. I made her and all our descendants fertile, honest, strong, clever linguists and canny about people, conquerors. Then I faltered. Beryl saw my hesitation and suggested, "Make my nipples point out. It will be easier for nursing."
I did. "Anything else?"
"Yes, George dearest, make me beautiful. I want to make you happy, as a woman, not just a mother and queen."
"But you're perfect Beryl."
"He likes long hair." Carmen shouted and Mareet agreed.
"Give me long hair." She removed her golden rope and pulled out her weaves.
I watched as her curly, sheaf-of summer-wheat hair took grew to her ankles. Remembered how she hated how it frizzed on humid days so I fixed that. One by one my other lovers shouted out, contributing what each knew I liked. Beryl's areolas faced more forward and her breast grew rounder. Her moles fell off. Her wirily bush turned downy soft. Her pussy was now made for my cock. I left her freckles.
"My ass, George. Make it smaller, like they said." She twisted to show me her derriere.
It was wide but firm, an equestrian's ass, shaped from years of riding. The obloids of muscle flared out slightly. "No. I like it."
"That's the first positive thing you've said." She smiled, her dimples appeared and her blue eyes shined.
"I know." I was aflame with desire. My dick was pure blue steel. "No more. Come here." I pushed the writing desk aside.
She swayed towards me, this perfect little sister. She reached down and tugged on my shaft. "Not yet, darling. We have to ensure everyone's loyalty. Don't go farther than Caym though, all right?"
I was crazy with desire. I would have sent the sun to nova if she asked. "All right." She pulled the writing desk back to me and knelt beneath it. She kissed my dick and called me her king.
That night, Caym-by-the-sea and it's surrounding area became a feudal state in everything but name. They were ever staunch in keeping this secret from outsiders.
I pushed the desk aside. "Done, now fuck me!"
Beryl stood and surveyed the room. The women kneeled. I grabbed Beryl's hips and pulled her backwards onto my lap. She guided her king and brother inside of her. I felt her hymen tear. My little sister winced and said "I was saving that for you." I drank in the intoxicating sight of my scepter in between my little sister's flared out rump. I was in heaven. I was in love. I understood it now. I always wanted Beryl too. I reached over grabbed her globes, leaned back and fucked my wife for all I was worth.
One by one, each woman licked the join of her king and queen and swore to serve us unto death. I gnawed at her nape. Her hair smelled of meadow flowers. It flowed around my thighs like a heavenly cape, tickling me. Other women entered the room. I didn't know who nor did I care. I was all for Beryl.
Beryl kept muttering, "Oh my king." Louder and louder until it became a shout, then a scream. As I fountained deep inside her womb I knew we had made a perfect Prince for our beloved nation, the first of many. We left the peasants and I carried her to bed in the Lady's...no my Queen's bedchambers.
There comes a time in every man's life, if he's lucky, when he meets a lover who needs no instruction, coaxing, or encouragement. Such it was with Beryl and I. We made love over and over. I was on top. She was on top. I took her like a brood mare. She sucked me and she loved my spray on her face. I usually don't relish oral sex after coitus, but now I drank eagerly from her chalice because she loved it so much. Making her happy gave me joy. We spent what seemed like an hour in sixty-nine. I plowed my sister/wife's exquisite pussy over and over. It seemed all too real. When she rose over me, rosy in the firelight, her tits glistening with my semen and spit like she was wearing a shirt of stars and her hair, catching the glow, like a crown of sunlight.
Have you been sure about the rightness of something? I mean absolutely dead sure, no doubt or anything? Ever? It was the book affecting me now. I knew it. In a person's life there always exists some nagging doubt. Human beings do not trust good fortune. No matter how great the boon we always look for the dark side or consequence. So there I was, fucking my gorgeous younger sister in the family bed without a care in the world. I was perfectly steady and sure that this was the right, the fated, thing to do.
After that, I understood why the people I meddled with seemed to enjoy what I did to them. Slavery of the body was as nothing to trade for freedom from doubt and despair.
As I took my sister-wife like a brood mare, I sat us back on the bed, to grab a drink of water. That was when Beryl saw us in the full- length mirror she straddling her sire's monster shaft and her tits bouncing. She reached one arm behind her and held my head. She was fascinated watching us in the act. Before I bent her over a chair, she dragged us over in front of the mirror, so she could spy me enjoying her from behind. All the while I banged her pussy, she called me her "king."
I knew I would do anything for her, even give her the soul of my country wrapped up with a vellum bow.
I hadn't graced Beryl with the sexual endurance I had. After her fifth volcanic orgasm, she pleaded with me to give her a respite. Cuddling, we slept.
In about an hour, I arose to answer the call of nature. I took up a candlestick, one of the few with wax left and glanced about. I almost tripped over the truckle bed.
We used them simply storage anymore, but this one had a mattress and blankets. Fatima and Molly lay inside, in embrace. I had to smile. It goes as tribute to Beryl's womanly virtues that these two vixens could make love at the foot of our bed and I never noticed. I sighed.
I knew I was doomed. But I didn't care. I relived myself. As I turned a saw the book laying on the on the vanity. Someone had brought it in. Casually, I flipped it open. No new writing was there, so I reviewed its earlier instructions. For the fist time, I considered, actually considered how writing had gotten on the vellum. In my euphoric reverie, I examined each stoke of the nib. It was then I had the shock of my life.
IT WAS MY WRITING! I HAD WRITTEN IN THE BOOK ALL ALONG.
Why hadn't I realized it before? Just before the mysterious writing appeared, I was always in the room. Something always distracted me, whether it was a fallen brand or an urgent need to take a crap. I must have blacked it all out. It was I all along. I fainted.
I was kicked awake. It was grandfather. I was so scared my balls ran inside my abdomen. But he didn't seem upset.
"Sh." He silently urged me to follow him. He slipped out the Queen's suite door. Curious and afraid, I decided to comply. I waited until he was in the hall before I slipped on some my new purple silk robe.
Beryl was sighing in her sleep. Molly and Fatima were passed out too. I peeked into the King's Chambers. Punjabi and the American must have brought up to serve as toys for the women's' amusement. The rest of the figures lay between layers of fur. Marjorie and Carmen had the bed. Between the sex and the booze they all slept soundly. There was no way I could navigate the field of bodies so I used the Queen's suite door as well.
In the hall, the old man remained quiet and appeared anxious to get me alone. Still, he seemed more fearful than angry. We padded to the study. It was lit only by firelight. I reached for the light switch but he stopped me.
"It's dark."
"It suits our business."
Now I was intrigued. Grandfather never talked to me like that before. We sat in the wingbacks and he pulled his chair close to mine.
His breath fumed of scotch. "So you found the book. Don't bother to deny it. Where was it? I searched high and low."
I decided to be honest. I thought I held all the cards. "There's a hollow in the reading bench near the bricked up window."
"There is most certainly not. I would have seen it."
That was my old granddad talking, always so sure of himself, always so arrogant. "The carpenters concealed it. Anyway, there it is. What do you know of it?"
"You didn't read what came before?"
"No. When I found it, the pages had been damaged." I didn't bother to inform him of the books new, "mint" condition. "No."
"It's old. Dates back to the tenth century. One of our ancestors, a right pagan he was, had a dispute with an Irish monk about Adam and Eve, theology and the power of words. The monk held that words had the power of making. Well, our old boy whipped him for insolence and sent him on his way. A year later he came back, with 'the book' to teach Old Alfryyd a lesson."
"The lesson is...?"
"Not to disobey heaven. Our fate is written, when we disobey it, we incur suffering."
"Sounds like Plato and a bit of Heraclitus."
"I didn't say he was bloody original! I just said that what the argument was about."
"So when we write in the book..."
"We thwart heaven's design and so inflict pain."
"Funny. I thought it was more the other way 'round, some sort of human sacrifice nonsense."
"If it were only so simple." He wrung his hands and the stony old man looked as if he were about to weep. "It has always been that way, for every bit of good we think we do we start a change reaction that makes everything worse than before. We gain money, but doing so cost's reputation in the long run, so our fortunes decline. Over the centuries, we used it only in the most dire emergencies."
"When did you use it?"
"I will tell you a secret. I have now doubt the book has kept me immune from your pen only so I could tell you this. It is no good sinning if one doesn't know it's a sin, you see."
"Stop being so dramatic, grandfather. Just tell me."
"We lost the Second World War, George."
"O come now Grandfather!" I actually laughed.
"It's true. You gamekeeper's cottage was one of the last command centers of the 8th Army."
"Really? I will be going now." I braced myself to leave.
"Stay George. Please."
The 'please' got me. The old boy was serious. "All right." I was getting a chill so I threw another log on the fire and grabbed the old throw blanket.
"It was over George. The U-boats had reduced us to eating grass and the Yanks refused to budge. Stalin suffered a German backed coup and the Hitler turned his Eastern Front troops against us. He landed outside of Battlesea."
"When did you start using it?"
"You know about Dunkirk?"
"Puh-lease, grandfather."
"That's the youth of today, no appreciation for close it all was. Well what you know, what history records, is the book's version. In the real world, the Panzers drove our boys into the sea."
"What else?"
"Hitler's delay of the V-1 rocket, Russia's severest winter in forty years, the German's paralytic efforts on D-Day, the Battle of the Bulge, everything that was close I turned the tide, with the book."
"But we were winning."
"Ha! I thought that up until Tobruk fell. Then the Egyptians rebelled. If we lost Egypt we'd lose the Suez, then India, then oil fields of Persia and, of course, Burma. It was then I knew I could never let up."
"What did the book demand, grandfather?"
"Oh, it was easy enough. I was a Pathfinder, a navigator-specialist remember? I think that was the book's idea. My boys were the sacrifice. I just had to lead them to heavily defended targets. I justified it to myself that they were willing to lay down their lives for England anyway. But the squadron wasn't stupid. They had me pegged for bad luck. If only they knew! It got to be that no one would fly with me, so they sent me to train the Yanks. For the remaining years I lost myself in a haze of action and reaction. I don't even know what purpose Schweinfort served.
In the end I came back to Carfax Manor but could find no comfort here."
"So you single-handedly saved England."
"No. England would have survived. I've come to believe that. It is just that I was a weak and stupid boy, like you, with no faith."
"Like me? You are nothing like me, old man."
"No?" He smiled wickedly. "You owe your gift with languages to me. I thought I needed someone who could read and write Latin better than your father. 'A grandson who understood the book perfectly well' is what I wrote." All you grandchildren are part of my design. But the book tricked me as it always did. When I asked for a financial whizzes, the book made them selfish and greedy. I asked for a scholar, the book happily provided me with an heir to continue that monk's revenge on our family."
"Father?"
The old man shifted in his chair like it was growing hot. "I asked for a man of integrity. I got it. The minute I told your father about the book and what I did to you lot, he knocked me down and hid it from me. It was summer, there were no fires. I ranted, I raged. I had him watched day and night. He was speeding to escape me when he and your mother crashed into that tree. That old MG was never any good in a turn."
"And Beryl?"
"He made me popular; a charming young thing to rebuild our reputation, didn't you grandfather?" She stood on the stairs, wrapped in our mother's silk robe, carrying the book. "Yes, popular and ambitious for our family the way none of my elders ever were. And now here I am, popular, beautiful and with a husband who truly understands our family's needs."
The old man hid his face in his hands, terrified of what he had created an incestuous, power mad witch.
I tried gentle earnestness. "Beryl. Let's burn the book."
"I don't think so. You see, I did use the Internet to learn one important line of Latin." She handed me the book. "That was as much as you let me learn, isn't it old man? What's the matter, a slip of a girl can't control the family secret? "
"You would just marry and then what w-would happen to the f-family na-a-a...." The old group captain broke down.
Beryl opened the tome and reveled the latest scrivening. There, below my writing was the Romanized version of "And they lived happily ever after." It was a catch phrase. All the declensions and tense correct: A double plus.
I wanted to rip that page to pieces, but I knew I wouldn't. With that simple little sentence, my sister had doomed us all. Latin is a great language. That's probably why they conquered the world. One has to think before one can speak. The language is also very definite.
The Romans never came up with zero because, for them counting nothing is irrelevant. Why count what doesn't exist? It's the same way with future tense. When they said they would do something, they meant they would do something. "Intention" was a different word entirely, not like in English, where "will" suffices for both.
When Beryl wrote the "They will lived contented from that time onwards." (a more literal translation) The word she chose for "happiness" connoted connubial bliss, prosperity and success. I was done.
By playing with love, I had ruined the one pure love in my life. I am a hollow man.
Beryl took her book back. "See, George? It's all going to work out. You'll see. Now go to bed, grandfather, my husband and I have a wedding to plan."
Defeated. The old warrior trudged upstairs. Beryl placed the open book on the study's writing table. I should have quoted Mac Beth when I took up the pen. She whispered things in my ears, her whole mad plan.
"Make Marjorie and Heath fall in love. Their descendants will be the new captains of industry. They will pay their workers honest wages, pay taxes without grudge, and not force Britain's children to endure pollution. But otherwise they will be unwilling to rule. That will be for our children's children."
I spoke as I wrote. "What about Eva?"
"You like her, you keep her. Her children will be the new Czarinas of all the Russias. The new nobility must be a worldwide affair if it's going to work. It is socialism in it truest form, a small group of qualified people measuring our resources for the common good, except this new socialist order will work. Think George! The school thought to heap scorn on our family by dumping the dregs of the world on you. It turns out they have handed you the keys to the kingdom. All these immigrant children will go home and bring our blood with them. You can keep them all, as royal concubines."
"It won't be enough. A dozen children conquering the world?"
"Hm. I guess your right. We'll start slow. Meanwhile, make it so women you only have one night with just happen to be fertile, regardless of medical problems, pills or devices."
"Beryl. I only want to make children with you."
"How sweet." She kissed the side of my neck. Her scent was intoxicating." Do it. For me, please. Nothing would make me happier then for my man to rule the world." She reached around and stroked my dick inside my robe. I was lost. "But I want do Molly back. I want her to be my handmaiden. Don't worry dearest. I am not a lesbian. I just enjoy the occasional peasant kneeling before me. Amy will be our stable hand. Fatima will be your valet...oh what will I do for a groundskeeper?" she squeezed me. "Isn't it just perfect?"
Heath and Marjorie were easy enough. I simply had Marjorie realize that her lust for me was really her love for Heath showing through. Then I wrote Heath that his cold nature wasn't due to his greed (which was the truth) but that no woman ever measured up to Marjorie. I kept Marjorie's penchant for foreplay and made the same true for Heath. I compelled her to ache for his brood. And he ached to breed only with her. The three, Heath, Marjorie and Eva would share the same house and sometimes make love. But Eva, a definite #2 in Heath's heart, would seek me out when she wanted children or just hot sex. (I did still want her.) Marjorie only bore sons. Each one would be more financially brilliant than their mother and father, yet compassionate and unambitious in a political sense.
I wrote, at my sister's behest until only one page, half a sheet, remained. We decided to save it for emergencies. Then we made love. Beryl and I lay naked by firelight, making love, not caring if anyone saw.
The morning reminded me of some ski holidays I had taken in my university days. People milled about in various forms of dress, scrounging for food then sharing conversation over tea. Colleen and Amanda were not there. They left early to help their mother during the busy check out time. Caroline Starling left soon after. She needed to beat her husband, the Vicar, home from his tryst. Her daughters remained.
The football team and I were introduced. The premise was originally a "sleep over", here, at Carfax manor. Now, after my writing, it was a breeding session. Each girls' parents sat at home, hoping, praying, that their daughter found favor in my eyes.
Beryl and I were deferred to, but there seemed to be no class distinctions. Neither Beryl nor myself could make Fatima or Molly stop attending us. The sitting room seemed to be the popular choice. Eva arrived and whispered in my ear that Marjorie and Heath said they wouldn't be down, "Until they made a baby." Then she said that she was ready for a bath when I was. My dick surged. The tall, blonde, leggy model was back in my stable of mares.
Amy remembered the two American girls and their mother. She brought them upstairs. They were famished. Beryl felt badly that they had missed all the fun and ordered Mareet to fetch them something to eat. As I ate, I could see why Jessica picked them. Their mother was slim, and pretty, but looked weary and worn out. Her skin was wrinkled from the sun. Her wispy nutmeg hair showed signs of thinning. Her face testified that a frown was her most usual expression. I had seen the look before, on the tenured professors who would quit in a second if they could figure out anything else to do with their lives.
The daughters were incredibly sexy. They had the sun-bleached hair and tans that California is so famous for. One wore designer overalls over an off-red t-shirt. The taut straps ran right over her nipples. The effect was one want desperately to see her globes "free." She had a body of all dramatic curves: luscious tits, an ass a man could sink his teeth into and thighs he could spent a month between. She had curled her shoulder length hair. The other's daughter was a study in contrast.
She wore a moss green peasant shirt with a loose cinch-type collar that hinted at the treasures beneath. Her grapefruit sized tits forced the hem up to reveal her navel above her tight, braided, low rider jeans. She possessed a healthy enough chest and a pinched waist but it was her ass that fascinated me. Her pooper was so small as to be non-existent. I could have bounced a shilling off of them. Her legs, pins to be sure, flowed into her back with barely a bump. Her poker straight hair would have run to the middle of her back, but she contained it in a pony tail.
My queen squeezed my hand and whispered in my ear. "You like them?"
"What's not to like? And money too? Jessica did a great job."
"You want them?"
"What, now?"
"Better get used to it. We have a world to conquer. That's a lot of wombs for you to fill."
Almost as on cue, the taller one in the peasant blouse recognized me as the man from the tape. In mid-chew, she nudged her sister and the two, hungry as they were, forgot their breakfast.
As the shorter one's chin rose up, her melons strained against the straps of her overalls. Mouths still, full, they looked to their father for permission. He nodded and then approached us, the mother lagging behind.
The short, fulsome one spoke first. "Hello, I'm Suzy."
"I'm Kimmy."
"I'm Catherine Moss. Pleased to meet you."
I saw their father, at the far end of the room when the girls spoke. His eyes lit up in anticipation. Then he soured when he heard his wife's formal tone of address.
Beryl had thought our initiation ceremony through. Like last night, they would taste both our sex.
I commanded the daughters to strip slowly. Their mother could take their place by my side. The worn, middle aged woman did not look eager to be seen naked in a room full of beauties. Our court drew the chairs around in a circle. Other chairs and cushions were fetched from adjoining rooms. This was to be our first formal, initiation.
The girl in overalls, Susan, unclasped the straps and let the denim fall around her feet. She wore what looked like hot pink boy's shorts. I couldn't be sure. Her oversized shirt draped loose beneath the shelf of her bust to her thighs. Susan pulled off her shirt. She wore no bra. She cupped her hands underneath her chest, leaned forward and licked her lips across her teeth, enticing me.
The girl in the low riders, Kimberly, undid the top button on her fly them slowly worked the brass zipper downwards. She had big blue eyes and thick lips. As she zipped open her fly, her eyes flicked up, silently, innocently asking "Like what you see?" She wore seamless purple panties. She opened her mouth in a smile as she shoe-horned out of her constricting jeans, drawing them off, inside out, like a stocking. She tuned and jutted her ass towards me, twisting her neck to watch my reaction as she slipped two thumbs inside either side of the elastic and slipped the satin down, over her hips. Fatima, kneeling at my side as always, watched my growing erection with adoration.
My lady commanded them to lay down on the Oriental rug. Beryl straddled Susan's face. She command her to please her Queen. Then I stood, my staff rampant and lay between the blonde's velvety legs. I recall they had small blonde hairs on them, almost a fuzz. I pointed and plunged. Her pussy was so eager for me, I audibly slurped my way in. She yelped as she took in my meat.
Carmen swore and went lifted up our bums to slip a tea towel under her, before her blood stained the carpet. But there was no blood. I took Beryl's then Susan's tits in my mouth. I slathered my tongue all over her glorious mammaries, picturing my child giving each suck nine months from now. I fucked and sucked until I spewed inside of her. I kept pistoning the wench until Beryl came. Then we two, bother and sister, swallowed each other's mouth, completing our sex act with the initiate.
We repeated the process with the second sister except I took her from behind. I had to try that abnormally flat ass for myself. Damn! She was as tight as drum. I wasn't sure I liked the lack of a bum. There is nothing like squeezing a healthy hunk of meat when taking a woman from behind. While she sucked on my prone sister-wife, I squeezed slowly in until I hit her cervix of her tiny pussy. No longer happy to spectate, Molly sucked on her mistress' tits and called a girl from the football club over to help. Once in, I didn't dare let out. I simply gyrated my hips. That was enough for Kimmy. She broke from sucking my wife to whimper in orgasm after orgasm. She was quite helpless, so Molly took care of servicing my Lady's needs. I paced myself to cum when she did. The waves of my seed-foam overflowed from Kimmy's tight envelope of flesh and dripped to the floor. Fatima was getting expert at eating back blow.
I slid out. My penis was red from the constriction. Fatima licked it clean as a whistle. I found her warm saliva soothing.
Their mother clutched their torn panties to her breast like relics and worked a single hand inside her twat while her husband scouted the beginning orgy for an opening. I waved Carmen to keep an eye on him.
I ended the orgy dressed and called the American man forward.
"Thank you. I've been wanted to do that for so long. Now it all seems all right." He grinned insipidly.
"Really? You don't mind impersonating me?"
"No, perception is the same thing as reality. My card." I had no idea what a "production consultant" was. He removed his checkbook. "Now, how much was it again, fifty thousand pounds okay to start? You know, I could help you a lot, if, you know, play ball. Let me tell you something about how Hollywood works..."
Beryl looked at me with anticipation. The poor girl, this was exactly what she intended, the rich and famous of the world paying tribute to me. She expected me to demand the house and boat, as promised, but grandfather and the book had taught me better. I surveyed the room. All eyes were on me. It was a dramatic moment. I knew the Carfax Dynasty would be marked by what came next.
It would be the time I would move beyond Beryl's designs. I had resigned myself to rule, but I was going to rule my way.
I punched Derek Moss in the nuts as hard as I could. He folded like a house of cards on a windy day. I stood and use the sole of my foot to kick him on the side of his skull. The cushion of the Flemish carpet kept him conscious. Then I placed my heel, hard, on his cheek. "How dare you!" I looked to my audience. My demonstration was for them. I was laying down the law. "A Carfax is never to be bribed, ever! You owe me complete obedience and I owe you complete service! How dare you try to put a price on loyalty? You fucking Americans you think you know so much. You don't know shit." I ground my heel in his face, tearing his skin. I felt a bone crack. "Listen here, you lot. No one ever takes a bribe. Got me? The Carfaxes are not going to be like every other government. We are going to be honest and hard working and more interested with the welfare of Britain and doing the right thing than our own careers. We are men and women NOT a pack of political jackals. Once we start taking bribes or courting favor with the likes of this bastard." I twisted again,. This time the cheekbone gave. "We've lost the right to rule. It's time we rediscovered what 'privilege' really means, serving the people of this great Empire is privilege not a license to steal." They applauded, of course.
Never mind I had stolen their souls. At least now I could be assured that if my heirs did rule, at least they'd be honest, efficient and really care about the demos. The people would lose freedom of the press and speech and probably the right to vote too. But then the Carfaxes would wipe out hunger, unemployment and keep the civil service all keen and Bristol fashion. As long as I kept the taxes low, I saw no reason why I shouldn't get away with it. Beryl was right. It was socialism in it purest form; the government controlled the natural resources and industry and parceled them out for the benefit of all. I deluded myself into thinking there was a chance for me after all.
I looked down at Derek Moss and hated him. He was embodiment of everything I loathed: rich, ignorant and self-serving. He would whore out his daughters to get in on the ground level. Only the appearance of integrity mattered to the likes of him.
"Punjabi, get this pig out of my sight."
The Indian man must have had some experience as a bouncer. He snatched up the man by cuff and strap with ease and gave him the bum's rush, But not before the Yank had the presence of mind to snatch up a tea towel to staunch his belled cheek.
His wife went to join him but I held her back. "Wait!" The whole room froze, waiting to obey what I said next. The feeling was eerie.
"Punjabi, take this maggot into town." I pointed to his wife. "You will stay." She looked very unhappy. Moss shot his wife a wicked look and then Punjabi took him away.
I spoke to the poor woman. "You didn't join us, why?"
"Look at me."
She didn't look that bad. A positive attitude would have done wonders for her sex appeal. Catherine Moss was a short woman, she was only in her early thirties but past her prime. In her younger days she must have looked pixie-cute. She figure was still wispy but it had a stressed appearance to it, like taffy pulled too thin. Her nutmeg hair was fine and hung limply around her head. Tension had obviously caused some thinning and the strands were of indifferently cut. Too much sun had worn wrinkles in her face. Her willowy frame bent with the weight of care. She once had pert tits and a strong gluteus. But gravity had gotten the best of both features and they sagged. She looked pitiful.
I considered my next move. I needed an American base. That was political reality of the world, for now. This family seemed involved with film and that could prove useful. But most of all, I genuinely felt sorry for the old girl.
I decided that she needed an unladening of her spirit, accompanied by increase in her energy and physical attractiveness. She also needed a man. Don't misunderstand me. I do not mean to imply that women cannot and do work fine on their own, but this particular woman, Catherine Moss, needed a man, like she needed her father or Derek before. He had to be someone she and I could control. I couldn't afford to have her leaking Carfax secrets to a series of boyfriends until she found one willing to serve our cause. I had to keep our circle tight, for now. Then I recalled something I had heard. The solution was distasteful, but after bedding my sister, I was hardly in a position to criticize.
"Catherine, I'm sending you into town, on a mission. You will need to trust me. This is all for the best."
I considered whom I wanted for her escort. I wanted my siblings in town to weigh financial situation of the Inn. Marjorie and Heath. If Catherine was going to head up the "California Office" she needed to be a priestess. That meant Rebecca and Cindi should be in on her training. Everything was so clear! Again that marvelous, guiltless feeling overwhelmed me and I put my plan into motion.
After a whirl of activity, Marjorie, Heath, Cindi and Rebecca were waiting in the rover while I said good-bye to Catherine Moss.
Catherine fretted "George, what's going to happen to me?" She looked up me with big, sad eyes. Her upturned nose and pointed chin made her appear to be like a very sad elf.
I did not blame her. In the space of a day, I, a veritable stranger, had driven off her husband, entranced her daughters and instructed her to trust me with her life and the life of her son. I talked to her like she was a schoolgirl. "Don't be afraid, Catherine. I am sending you to a very special place with Cindi and Rebecca as guides. Do what they instruct. There, you will get a second chance at life. When you get your chance you must seize it. You must take charge of this new life I offer you, understand?"
"No." she said pitifully.
"You will, trust me. Then I want you to talk to your son about us." Her mouth went agape in shock. Before she could form words I all but shoved her into. the Rover. Susan and Kimberly, her daughters, and I waved from the front steps. Catherine put on a brave face and waved back. As the four drove off, I returned to the study with Susan and Kimberly.
After making two phone calls, I instructed them to relate me the unvarnished truth about their family in general and their mother and their brother, William, in specific. With the data they supplied me as a springboard, I spun the following tale. I made it strong. The United States would be vital to any plans I made. Being as the supply of vellum was running out, I wrote down a series of key commands and adjustments. The list I created makes for poor reading and so the following passage is partially related as narrative.
The layer of snow crunched beneath Catherine Moss' boots as she jumped out of the Rover. The party had stopped in front of a charming forest cottage. It seemed the resident was not home. Marjorie must have been very familiar with the owner, Catherine reflected, because she walked in like she owned the place. The two girls followed got she went along.
The house was cold. The two girls set about turning up the electric heaters while Marjorie brought out a stack bathing towels and some patched army wool blankets from the linen closet.. "What's this about? This a long way to come for a bath."
Marjorie replied with one word. "Strip."
From her tone of voice, Mrs. Moss knew she meant business. Cindi and Rebecca undressed amicably enough. So she timidly went along, like she often did and hated herself for her lack of spine. She looked at the two women naked and was embarrassed by her worn form. She used to be so vain about her body. In her day she was the prettiest thing on Malibu beach. But that was before Derek.
Marjorie handed each a towel and a blanket. The girls wrapped the blanket around themselves and held a towel in their hand. Marjorie knew that her brother solved the secret of the rejuvenating waters of Wose House but she did not see any reason to delve into the mystic. She was a practical, modern girl. She would be far too busy making money. "Don't dawdle. We was a full day ahead." The two girls nodded and Marjorie set about occupying her time productively.
Catherine could not believe what she was about to do. Wrapped in a threadbare army surplus blanket, she gingerly stepped out into the snow covered ground of a late December morning. She followed the mad girls. Her feet were numb before she reached their destination, the creek bank. A dam had been built there and the backflow created a pond of sorts. The dam had been there a very long time for oaks grew on the riverbank, their branches overhanging the waters. It was those branches that Cindi and Rebecca used to hang their blankets and towels
They had to wrestle the blanket from Catherine's grasp. "Are you crazy? It's freezing!" she protested. Neither girl seemed bothered by the chill. But Catherine knew they must feel it, their nipples stuck out like tacks.
"You heard his majesty. He told you to follow out instructions." Cindi seemed impatient.
"Or don't you love him?" Rebecca cooed and softly smoothed each of her shoulders.
Yes, Catherine loved, no she adored, the great man that had inseminated her daughters. Watching him take them was like watching those nature films where a great beast takes a mate. Still, the water looked very, very cold. The mud was frozen. Arms crossed over her chest, she put one foot in the water. "Its......!" Rebecca shoved her in.
Cindi followed and tackled her, ensuring a complete ducking. "Get in there!"
The air in her lungs seized up. The water was bone chilling cold but it was also clean. It flooded her ears, her nose and her lower orifices as well. It flushed out her old life wherever it touched. Her whole body seemed to freeze and shatter. Then her old life fell away in shards, like frost on a sloped roof. The girls let her up and she stood, wiping the hair back and out of her eyes. She gasped and gulped the air. The snowmelt purified her in a way fire, or years of therapy never could. A phrase from her childhood came back to her, "cold comfort." Now she truly understood what it meant.
She was aware of her two sisters next to her but she had to have more. This time, voluntarily, she dove towards the deeps. She swam in the liquid crystal, enjoying the cold, enjoying the pain, it made her feel vigorous, alive! It was odd. He whole life was spent avoiding pain. Now that she had embraced it, she understood, really understood how pain made a life richer, more visceral, closer to the bone.
She came up for a breath and dove again. There, surrounded my life, she understood what her dear George had said. A baby begins its life in a cocoon of warmth. When it is born it cries because he is cold. But also the struggle and glory of its life had begun. Life is cold. She felt born again.
But even her born again muscles were cramping in the near zero degree waters. She swam to the bank. Cindi and Rebecca both gasped as she arose from the water and why not? Even as she whipped her sopping hair back, away from her face, she knew that she was beautiful again. The beauty that had drawn the boys from far and near was back.
Clear water dripped from her pointed, elfin face and champagne glass tits, sending ripples across the obsidian surface. Her skin was pale and smooth. She stood up straight. The slouch was gone. Her upper body was heart shaped, pinching in at the waist before flaring our dramatically at the hips. Her slight frame made her 32 inch tits and ass appear bigger then they were. And everything was hard, the muscles toned, just like in the old days, like she had spent hours on end in the pounding surf. One change occurred in the skin. It was smooth and as pale as ivory. She would never ruin it again with too much sun. She vowed much would be different.
But she knew the outside was mere reflection of the inside. This was what it meant to be a Carfax woman, to meet the world head on, without apologies. She could not love another man as much as she loved George Carfax in that one still moment when she stood waist deep in pure snowmelt, surrounded in the shade of oaks, dripping with rain, dusted with flake leaving two priestesses speechless.
Without a word, Cindi and Rebecca bent at the waist and nursed on the clean, perfect teats of the petite Venus known as Misses Catherine Moss, no her name was as she remembered it, when she walked the world with the power of her sex, Cathy Black. She caresses their heads, it reminded her of her wilder college days and a particularly sexy spring break at Palm Springs. But she didn't want women right now.
No, her pussy, practically new after three children and the last a tricky c-section, craved a man, but not a man like she was used to. No. She had walked down that path before. Derek in his day was a sweet talking Apollo, cocky, self-assured and a matador in the sack. But after marriage, his ego mania took on a far more menacing nature. Her father had despised him. She should have listened to her father. The old studio executive was far more canny about people than she.
His affairs started within a year of the wedding. (I did not make this up. He had almost bragged to his daughters of it.). He seemed to keep Cathy around only to make a son, a immortal image of himself. She was excused for having two daughters, at least they looked and acted like him. But when the third and final child came, it was a son with Cathy's features. William was small, slight of build, sensitive and artistic. That's the way it was, Derek's daughters: Cathy's son. He couldn't even throw a football. Derek went out of his way to let the boy know he didn't measure up.
It was with not small relief when William escaped the family van and booked an excursion to sketch churches in the Southwest. He was free of his father's and sisters pressures at last.
Cathy realized that William should have arrived back at the Inn by now. Cathy licked her lips. Her sweet, naïve son was so, so, tasty,. When her Lord had first mentioned William she was shocked. Now she saw the beauty of his plan. Cathy was sure he was a virgin. She would bring him into the fold .with relish.
She thought about having a young, hard, sensitive lover at her beck and call. She would train him to do all the things she liked. And he was such a momma's boy he would comply without much fuss. She would introduce him to sex. Then with any luck, she would be allowed to bring women to her precious little man.
The three walked back to the cottage. Though she used the towel, Cathy disdained the use of the blanket. She embraced the cold and embraced her re-birth into a new world, a world, a world where she, as a member of House Carfax, would rule.
Other events were happening concurrently; events I knew nothing about.
It was a slow morning at Caym Clinic until an American man came through with a broken cheek. It was almost an hour before the doctor on call showed up. He had a lot of time to snoop around the clinic. One photo caught his one unswollen eye especially. It was a picture of a big man with his arm around a girl he had seen in Carfax Manor, the one in the towels, the one Carfax had called, "Amy."
Moss hadn't gotten as far as he did by being ignorant of human nature. Now if the man in the photo was the doctor on call... When Doctor Fife did show up he had a medical tape on his re-set nose and two black eyes. Moss smiled. The scenario was better than he hoped.
Dr. Fife had probed the wound expertly and doctor on call stitched him up neatly. Only after the nurse had taken away the dermal staple equipment did he follow through on the cause of the injury. "Auch. This is only a stop-gap. You've got some broken bones dere. You'll need some reconstructive surgery sure. What happened?"
"What happened to me? What happened you, pal?"
"I had a little accident."
"Accident, huh? Well I had the same accident. The name George Carfax ring a bell." Fife black look told him all he needed to know. "I guess it does. Do you know where your wife is?"
The drive to town was interesting. Marjorie drove while Cindi and Cathy made out in the back. There weren't great deal of people on the streets. The rain had begun again. Marjorie dropped and the three off at a girls boutique near the hotel.
Cathy shopped for new wardrobe to suit her new life. She needed an outfit that looked cute and fresh. But it had to look mature enough for her son. She chose a silvery-gray, squared off shoulderless top under a coral jacket and a dusty pink tube skirt beneath. She was down a to her high school size, three petite , but she squeezed into size two's to make sure William got the idea. Then she found some black strapped high heels. Her bunions and callousness were gone too.
The girls wanted to shop some more but she had needs, urgent needs.
Back at the hotel, William awaited his mother in the bridal suite. William was slight, but his dancing lessons kept him hard, if thin. Unlike Derek's red gold hue, he skin was both pale a dark at the same time, liker hers. He had no chest or body hair to speak of. His hair was a fine nutmeg, like hers. And he was a sexual innocent. The poor boy was exceedingly darling with his fine facial features but he went to pieces around girls. He preferred nights with his sketch pad to nights out. He had arrived to be informed the family had changed rooms and gone a day trip. The room was fine for him. He sat down, placed his sketch pad by the widow and worked on rendering the harbour. He was so rapt up in the gray sea, he did not hear his mother enter.
She leaned over his shoulder giving him a whiff of some of the sexy perfume Cindi had lent her. "Hello, Billy."
"Oh, hi, mom! How was your trip?"
"I didn't go. I went to a day spa instead. What do you think?" she spun for him.
He swallowed hard. "Wow, mom! You look so young...I mean."
Cathy used her best laugh. She stroked his cheek with her new, smooth, long nailed hand. "Thank you dear, you always say such nice things about your mother." She bent over far at the waist and kissed him on the cheek. She remained bent to give a view of her cleavage, (It would have killed her old back) "Sketching again? I suppose you didn't meet any nice girls on the motorcoach?"
"No." He blushed beet red. "Just old ladies." William expected the usual, "get out more" lecture.
"Good. That will give us some time together. Come here!" With both hands Cathy grabbed her son by his arm and dragged him to the bedroom. He trusted her enough that he simply wondered what she was doing. At the foot of the bed, she stood close and smoothed his cheek. "Billy...no William, you are a young man now...well...I think I need to tell you something, now when were alone. I love you William." She touched his lips with a finger. "No. Don't speak. William I married the first man I slept with, your father. You and I both know what a mistake that was. I don't want you to make that same mistake. I want you to learn about love, from me William. I don't want you to make the same mistake I did. Now is the perfect time."
William was stunned. He should have been shocked and ran but it was like some strange force kept him there. Against all reason and morality, his blood stirred. It was like his dream come true.
Don't think of me as your mother. Think of me as a woman, a woman who aches for your touch. Look at me! Am I not beautiful? Doesn't your body feel something for me? Something happened to me here; something wonderful, for both of us!" Then she kissed him.
William kissed his new girlfriend back. He saw the truth and didn't run away. He had a loved his mother his whole life and hated his father for just as long. If he wasn't abusing his mother, he was tormenting William with names like "queer-bait" and "fag." His sisters were even more awful, embarrassing him in front of his female friends and exposing his failings in public.
He had gotten to know his mother. She was just like him, shy, sensitive, quiet and a good honest woman. Now even more beautiful than before. She was smooth, without hair, just the way he liked women in the magazines. The times he wished he could take his father's place, the times he jerked off to this beautiful woman's image were beyond count. "I love you, Catherine." It was the first time he called his mother by her first name.
The kissing was good but it did not slake their thirst. "Strip! I've go to go to the rest room. I want you nude when I get back." When she returned, they stood, naked, three feet away from each other. The more experienced partner took charge. It took every bit of control for William to keep his hands by his sides. His cock prodded the air, like a ships' jackstaff.
Cathy took in the scene. He was as smooth as she, hard too. His dick was a respectable six inches or so, but it was very, very thick. ( I did not know if it was true. I thought I was doing him a favor.) Her pussy flowed as she imagined it stretching her wide. She didn't want to waste time. She approached, cupped his cheek in her left hand and pulled him close for a soul deep kiss, meanwhile her right hand reached down and stroked his phallus. Her hand barely fit around it. She made a ring of her fingers and ran in up and down. She still felt a little slack. He was still nervous. But she knew one sure way to get a man his hardest. The bed beckoned. She flattened her palm and pushed her virginal lover onto it.
William propped his arms up. Cathy dove onto his cock. William closed his eyes and moaned at the sensation. It was better than the kissing and that was better than he ever hoped. His dick swelled another inch and half. His hips trust upwards, meeting Cathy's full lips.
Without the tempering of experience, William went instantly from the familiar burn in his balls to ejaculation. But his paramour anticipated that this might happen to the young man. His squirting did not catch her unawares.
She actually enjoyed for the first time in her life the taste of a man's cum. Derek had always forced her head to stay. His cum tasted nasty, like an alkaline salt. But William's tasted both sweet and salty, like a chocolate truffle. She drank it down.
"I'm sorry m...Cathy."
"Mmm." She wiped her chin. Years of bedroom abuse had broadened her mind, sexually. "Don't say that. It's beautiful, William. You do love me, right?" He nodded dumbly. "Love makes it beautiful. Besides, now your second time will last much longer. And now I will have to suck you some more to get you hard again. Or was that part of your plan, you nasty boy?" Down she went. William lay back, closed his eyes and relished the moment. With the energy of youth, he was hard again in minutes. "There! Mmm. That's m'boy.
Lust burning in her amber eyes like coals, Cathy lifted her body above the youth. She held his prick between her thumb and forefinger. William craned his neck and was amazed as the amount of saliva dripping from his lover's pussy. It was drooling for his dick.
"This is going to feel sooooo goood!" Catherine lowered herself of the fat prick, enjoying every slow inch. "Damn but you are sooo thick, William. You spread me sooo much. Oh my lord! Lord! LORD!" An eruption of erotic flame coursed through every never in her body. Her pussy was never that sensitive in the past. It must have been HIS doing, her lord, George Carfax. As she felt pure erotic pleasure set fire to her very toes and fingertips, she praised the day she met him. Sex with Derek had been a pure ego trip for him. This fucking was for HER! It was all her. Her sweet delicious boy was giving himself to her, gift-wrapped in a milky white bow.
As for William, Catherine's pussy struck him with its pure heat and smoothness. Her drool coated his thighs. Catherine closed her eyes and called his "My big lord!" Over and over. He felt like the man. Catherine was right, He did last longer. He was happy to watch her ride him, her taut breasts jouncing. Her sweaty palms stroked his bare skin. She threw her head about. Her screaming and words urged him to meet her frantic pace. He felt an odd burning at the base of his shaft. Instinctively he arced upwards, just as his woman bore down and the two crashed together like an like a wave meets a seacliff. Trite as it sounds, "the earthed moved."
Catherine felt like she had building up that orgasm for decades. It was like an enormous weight had been lifted from her shoulders. She had finally had sex for HER sake. Spent, she flopped over to William's left side and caught her breath.
"So, this is what it is like to be a man." William thought. "My mother is my lover." It felt right. He felt an odd obligation of some sort. He played with his dick. It was hard in no time. He rolled over and spread his lover's legs.
"William what are you doing?"
He knew exactly what he was doing. He was attempting to play the man's part. "I love you, Catherine."
"I love you too, but for...oh lord!"
William ended her protests by slipping in before she could say 'no." It was far too late for "no. " "I love you, Catherine. I love you, Catherine. I love...I...!" Over and over he shouted with each lancing. His motion was just like a man shoveling coal and her pussy was the furnace.
Catherine reeled. She had always been a more than one orgasm girl, but this fat-dicked boy of hers was driving her mad. Over and over he lunged between her legs, desperate to please her and she was quite helpless to resist. She fucked a boy, now a man fucked her in return. She wrapped her arms and legs around him. "Fuck me good, William, oh yes, give me a really good fucking." She had no idea she need another one so badly.
He kept up his motion. This time she came TWICE before he finally shot his load. Then he rolled off of her. But he didn't go to sleep.
They lay there staring at their reflection in the mirrored ceiling, holding hands. Their breath slowed over minutes. Her juice stuck to his thighs and light nest. Her pussy leaked his milky cum.
"William, I have a confession. Your father abandoned us, your sisters and me this morning."
"I thought it might be something like that." He squeezed her hand. "Don't worry. I'll take care of you now."
"There is one more thing."
"Oh?" He got up on his right elbow.
"There is a man I want you to meet, George Carfax. He wants to help us. He's very powerful. I think you, as the new head of the household, should talk with him."
He squeezed her hand again. "All right. If you want me to." He stood up.
"Where are you going?"
"The shower. I can't meet him like this."
At first, Cathy was stunned by his stamina and sudden maturity. Then a smile grew across her face as she considered all the sleepless nights that lay ahead of her. When she heard the water running she pivoted towards the mirrored closet and removed her contraceptive sponge. With the sponge in one hand she slid open the closet door and handed it to the man inside. "Here. Get rid of this. You get all that?"
He held up an ashtray for the sponged, refusing to touch it. "Yes. And his Lordship says for you to eat dinner in the lounge before you go. The bartender knows more." "Sound's good." She slid the door shut. Then she went off to wash. Her boy was so new to sex, he didn't know that two could wash as easily as one.
THE STORM
I had little more than one half a page left, but I needed an American base. That's lay of the land.
After the shower, William and Cathy dressed in nice clothes. The only thing that fit Cathy anymore was her little black cocktail dress. William wore a simple shirt and slacks with his bomber jacket. William was famished as well and agreed to quick bite.
The two strolled into the bar, arm in arm. Becky was waitressing, happily taking the order of a nice, elderly couple. Cindi sat at the bar, sipping a ginger ale. Jessica seemed at home behind her bar and waved Cathy over.
Cathy was excited but did not think William should hear her instructions. She guided her son over to the corner booth. "Wait here. I'll order us some drinks." As she walked over to speak with the barkeep (and Cindi), William admired the way her high heels made her ass jiggle.
"What is it?"
"George wants us to give the boy a taste of what to expect. He wants him to have time to think about having other women in his life."
"So soon?"
"Sorry, Cathy. But its for the best. Now were are all supposed to flirt with him but who do you think stands the best chance? Personally I wouldn't mind. He looks like a tasty treat."
Cathy looked at Jessica. The tall, tan blonde was too much like his sisters and every other California beauty who hurt him in the past. Rebecca was keen enough but her boy would feel guilty pulling her away form her job. Then she considered Cindi and smiled. She had once found three racy magazines while cleaning her son's bathroom. Two concerned Asian women. (the other was a clothing catalogue that featured very young girls in very revealing clothes). And then there were all those anime books and movies he liked. "Cindi would care to join us?"
"Sure."
"Play it sweet and innocent. He likes that." She patted Cindi on her knee. Cindi smiled, picked up her drink and walked over to the booth with Cathy.
Cathy sat across from her lover and introduced the two. Then Cindi slid into the bench right beside a blushing William. "Cathy, you didn't say your boyfriend was so cute." William didn't notice she wore the same perfume as his mother, but it must have played on his subconscious. When Cindi sat close enough to touch he did blushed and tensely look to Cathy who only smiled. He relaxed. He only cared if she did.
"Don't worry William. It's only natural that other women find my man attractive." She smiled and slipped off her shoe. "In fact I find it quite sexy." She ran her foot up his pants leg. At first he was startled, then he enjoyed the feel of the genuine silk stocking on his leg.
Becky showed up to drop off menus and take their drink orders. William was about to order a soda, but his mother stopped him. "He'll have a lager, something local please. And not too unusual, this is first time."
"Sure." Becky never needed to write any order down, now. She spun off.
"Mom. I'm not twenty one."
"You are eighteen. This is another country. The rules are different here."
The idea finally began to sink in. "Oh yeah."
"Shame on you Cathy for keeping him all to yourself."
"He is really thick you know, Cindi."
"MOM!".
"Oh, is he?" Cindi purred.
William reacted poorly. He scooted into the corner and sulked
Jessie gave me a ring at the manor. I was just getting ready to leave for a jaunt on the moors. Her report was not as good as I hoped. William cared far too much for his mother. Still dressed in my heavy wool jacket, I kept on the line as I banged off a few notes and molded the American boy to my purpose.
William found girls' attentions satisfying. He had always had a penchant for oriental girls and now that he was feeling quite the man, he did not shy away from Cindi's attentions. When Cindi stroked his thigh, he did not turn away. He simply looked her in the eye and returned the favor. William was a man now. Cindi found him attractive. He found Cindi desirable. It was a simple as that.
"Cathy, you didn't tell me your boyfriend was so cute." Cindi nuzzled up to his ear. "I could just eat him up alive."
"I wish you would. William always had a thing for Eastern girls."
"Really?"
William picked up her hand and put it on his cock. "Really." Jessie told me the good news and I hung up.
I was almost out the door when my cell phone rang again. It was Umaphong. I took the news as quietly as I could.
"Who was that?" Beryl appeared and wrapped herself around me. Damn but she felt good.
"Umaphong, Suneesa's mother."
"The nurse? Why did she phone?"
"Seems like Harold Fife was Derek's attending physician. Derek's spilling his guts about everything he learned here. They are planning to get together all the men and teach us a lesson."
"How? Can they do that?"
"Ordinarily I'd say it was so much hot air. But the first person they enlisted was Caw. He'll make sure they follow through. They are going to burn my house to the ground."
Beryl laughed. "We'll they have a surprise coming, don't they? Want me to get the book?"
"No. I used the last page up securing our American base of operations."
"George. We agreed we were going to save it for emergencies." Her voice sounded disapproving. "Oh well, we'll live happily ever after no matter what."
"Not necessarily. We could be happy and broke, or happy and crippled or worse, we could be happy until the end of our lives."
"You mean we are not safe? Didn't you secure their loyalty like I asked?"
"That's what one gets for writing when I am not right in the head. All I did was make this a feudal state. Peasant uprising were common enough in the old days."
"You were supposed to make us safe!"
"Get real, Beryl. How could one sentence make us safe from the whole world?"
"I told you we should have saved that last page! Now what are we going to do?" Her face took on my grandfather's aspect. "Oh, George, how could you have been so stupid?" She panicked and began railing at me. She had lots of ideas, remaking the book and such but I knew, just knew, that none of them would work. The book was used up. Its fate was finished.
Beryl was behaving like Grandfather so I did what I always did when the old man got my nerves. I went riding out on the moors. I took grandfather's bay gelding . I simply needed time to think; just the heaths and the sky for company.
I crossed the road and galloped out to the hillocks facing the sea, the ones with the standing stones. In ancient times, the Beltane fires would be lit here and carried on to the next peninsula. It celebrated the return of the sun.
That day the sky was perfectly gray. The sea seemed as slate black, with foamy whitecaps speckling its surface. The wind almost whipped my old fashioned Monmouth cap off my head. This place, this weather, suited my mind temper perfectly.
I made a mental list of all my enemies, husbands, fathers and the rest. There were a lot of people who hated me and had me within reach.
I thought about how, bit by bit, I had entangled myself into the book's web. Most of all, I wondered at my writing. I had served as the voice of the book, me, George Carfax. What did that mean? I chuckled. An idea came to me. I tried it out and spoke my first Wyrds.
"It looks like a storm is coming." The far edge of clouds took on a bruised appearance and the wind picked up. "Cornwall is not far from the terminus of the Gulf Stream. Sometimes it throws a lot of energy our way. It looked bad, the storm of ages." Thunderheads swelled up from the weather front.
I experimented. I closed my eyes and spoke a vignette, freehand, so to speak. I selected two women I didn't care that much about and imagined them performing a feat no sane woman would even attempt. It had to be something credible and harmless, yet definite. Then I spoke the words into the air.
"Violet and Amy worried for their beloved. They resaddled the horses they rode in the morning and looked for him on the moors. As they rode, each reflected on what George meant to her. For Violet he meant a fine good fucking. He was a man, the only man for her. The galloping pace reminded her of the rhythm of him taking her from behind. The memory made her feel wild. She tossed her cap aside, pulled at her binding and let the wind whip through her long black hair. For Amy, George was the finest, fittest man in the world. He had healed her when her other, inferior man had hurt her. Now she and the raven-tressed beauty rode to him over the moors. There was no need to wonder what each would do when they found him. They would mate with him, ferociously, wantonly the way nature intended. She tossed her cap aside as well. Her short, golden brown hair whipped about in the wind. More, her breast seemed to burn. She reigned up. Violet reigned up too and watched her to see what she was about. Amy tucked her jacket away, unbuttoned her shirt and removed her bra. The winter Cornish air was cold and refreshing. Her breast felt free and invigorated. She stretched like a cat, reveling in the sensations. Curious, Violet tried the same thing. Yes, the wind did feel electric, transformative. The lack of confinement impressed a sense of the Amazon on her: bare-chested horseback, riding across the moors. She closed her eyes and inhaled her newfound feelings. When she opened her eyes, Amy was right next to her. The bare-chested women leaned together and shared a passionate kiss, their hands behind the other's neck. The shared tongues, spit and passions. The felt their free breasts touch, caress and crush the others. Erect nipples gently scraped the other's areola's summoning forth gasps of amazed pleasure. The horse shied away and that broke the kiss. They were left breathless. Then Violet got a determined look in her eye. "Let's go find that man of ours." Amy mirrored her sister's ferocity. "Aye." They galloped across the moors, bare-chested to the elements. They allowed their pussies to slap against the saddle; every horsewoman's special thrill. With each jounce they imagined that it was their powerful lover banging their Venus-gate. It wasn't long before they spied him next to the standing stones. He was facing the sea, rapt in his own thoughts. They didn't think he even noticed them when the bracketed him. Only when each touched a thigh did he seem to come to attention." "George?"
"George?"
I saw them, bare-chested, next to me on a day when no woman should be without her woolens. But here they were, topless as strippers, their hair tangled and wind-tossed, bosoms red and wind burned.
I opened my cell phone, called Sela and warned her about the incoming Southwester. Marjorie and Heath were with her so they were the first to know. As I talked to Marjorie, it occurred to me that she and Heath were still being discrete. They may still be holding on to the old ways of doing things. I wanted them to embrace the new and I tried to conceive of a way to make it happen.
Then I wheeled and led the two women to the center of the circle of standing stones. There lay a dolman, a gray lichen-spotted slab-stone table with a slanted "roof." At the low end a monolith lay half buried in the earth like a megalithic stepping stone. Local legend had it that the druid priest stood on the step when performing the unspeakable fertility rites. It was time to see how far the Wyrd went.
"How did you two know where to find me?"
"We just knew."
"Aren't you cold?"
"Yes, but it feels good."
Violet and Amy couldn't take their eyes off their man they rode slowly to the dolman. To them he seemed to be singing a song, under his breath. They ignored his mumblings. The ride to the stones had gotten them quite hot. They promised to do nasty, sexual things to him.
"George let me suck you cock."
"Me to. I want to drink your sperm down."
Amy, the health fanatic, broke every rule she ever had about hygiene in her desperate urgings for George. The need for him to render her unclean brought her to tears.
"George let me lick your anus clean. Or piss on me. Please, need it so much." She wept. "Oh, why ever did I say that?"
Violet, the cold snob, wanted nothing more from life than to be his thrall. She panted as she swore to perform the meanest acts of submission if he just let her call him "master."
"George, you are so strong. Please, I'll do anything. I give you all my wealth. Just, jet me wear a collar to your name on it's tag. Hold the end of my leash, anything, just let me call thee, master. What am I saying?"
We were almost at the dolman now. It was clear. Everything had to be plausible or I had to spend time making it so. Violet would wear a leash and collar but she would loathe it. Amy would lick my anus clean but vomit after every swipe of her tongue. I wiped their memory and tested the depths of plausibility to which I must sink. Golden showers held no appeal for me so...
As the three approached the dolman the girls remember nothing of what each had spoken moments before. All they remember is that magnificent beast, George. Amy was quite sure that he was the fittest, greatest man on the planet. She had obviously settled short when she married Harold. As she stared upon George's magnificence, she fantasized curling up on his leg, obeying his every whim, her womanhood bending to his virility, fetching her lusty man cigars, brandy, whatever he wished. In her fantasy, she wore a collar, a collar that marked her as his property. Her life she had been searching for a man worthy of her utter devotions, at last she had found him.
The Carfax family was far older than the Sheffield's. Violet thrilled to be close to such and old, noble family. The blood of kings and princes pumped through George Carfaxes veins. She could almost feel the majesty radiating off of him. He was good, he was kind, he was strong, he would be the sovereign of all England. She felt her old blood stir, the blood that called her to mate with the conquering knight while her father's old castle burned to the ground. He would carry her off on his horse and be a serving wench in his keep, serving in his household, breeching HIS magnificent bastards. Serving this man would be the greatest dream she could ever hope for. She clutched her neck, wishing she wore some sign so other women would know who it was she served and could bow down before her.
As I dismounted the bay, I tested my handiwork. "How are you feeling ladies?" In an instant I had each clutching a leg. I almost toppled over.
"Splendid, my lord."
"Fine, my lord."
"Excellent. Now let's see if the legends are true. Strip down to your boots." Eagerly they did as I instructed. "Violet, place your hands against the lower lip of the dolmen." Violet obeyed and jutted her ass forward. I stripped , except for my boots and heavy, wool great coat.
As George rutted Violet, naked Amy wrapped him from behind. Inspiration struck. She uttered oaths of devotion and felt a spark of psychological pleasure. The more depraved her oaths, the more her mind rewarded her.
Violet was definitely catching a chill. I had to make this quick. I stepped onto the slab and slipped into her. She sighed. I banged her pussy good. I felt Amy's arms and a leg. She was dry-humping me as I fucked the slack-jawed brunette.
"Fuck her, master but fuck me next. My pussy burns for you, my hot stud, my master. I will be your slut, your whore, your cunt, anything as long as you command it."
"Fine. Then encourage me to fuck Violet."
"Happily, my lord." She bit my ear. "Fuck her my lord. Bang her cunt hard, harder! Look she moans! I can hear her slurping. I can hear your balls slapping against her ass. Fuck her! FUCK HER!"
Over an over, she encouraged me. Violet was now, cheek down on the bare stone. I saw how exposed I was, how public it all was. The fertility rite left nothing to hide. I thought of Marjorie and shot my load, groaning with delight. I bent over Violet, cheek to back, enjoying the last spurting inside her hot slit.
We changed positions. I sat up on the dolman. The stone was cold on my cheeks. Under my direction, Violet licked my dick clean, while Amy squatted beneath her lapping up my spare essence mixed with her juices. Then it was Amy's turn. Sitting up on the dolman gave me an idea.
Amy spring up, sat on the dolman, lay back and spread her legs, awaiting her mate. She noticed the sky was gray. She could feel the cool ocean breeze all the way to her cervix. Then her rampant man filled her cave. She ran her hands over his chest. He was like some magnificent animal. Her arms ran under his pits. She bent forward and ran her nails down his back. She slid forward on his pole and gasped at the extra penetration. He took a cheek in each and lifted her up. Then he bounced her on his obelisk. Up and then an abrupt stop over and over. Her boobs bounced hard. Drunk with overwhelming emotions she felt she lost all humanity. She was a rutting animal, a bitch in heat, a life support mechanism for her cunt. Her male's dick was both the only thing tying her to the planet and launching her into undreamed of heights. Meanwhile, Violent clutched her man and whispered vile secrets in his ear.
So, Amy bounced, helpless on my dick and Violet whispered obscene secrets of the upper crust in between licks. Amy came with a howl and that set me off. I lay Amy on the damp ground and dripped upon her slack, satisfied face. Violet cleaned off the rest.
Satisfied, Amy and Violet dressed and rode back with their new lord and master. They would ever relish the memory of the day at the stones, the day they bonded with their new lord. They would serve him with a fierce, proud love.
Back at the Inn, Becky was on one side and Cindi on the other and his mother playing footsie with his leg when William heard the of the oncoming storm. Sela Shamus burst into the lounge and delivered the news. "Ladies and Gentlemen a severe storm warning is in effect for the coast. You are advised to evacuate immediately. I have made accommodation for you at the Gold Key Business Suites fifty kilometers inland, safe from the storm front. I suggest you make speed. Maps to the Suites are available at the desk. Now, MOVE!"
Sela's daughters and Rebecca, Jessica, the Blacks and the temporary staff had the storm shutters barred in trice while Sela helped the customers to evacuate. Marjorie, Heath, and Cindi allowed William and Catherine to use the rover and invited them to last out the storm at Carfax Manor. They left the Inn only a half an hour after Sela, her daughters and the Foss girls.
Fife, Moss and Caw met at Foss's bar. They had noticed the strange goings on. Moss's testimony firmed up their suspicions.
"The Carfaxes always were a queer lot."
"My father said they were in league with the devil. Now this proves it."
"Brainwashed my girls they did. I gave them nice clothes, steady jobs and food on the table. Now they just up and leave me, their dear old dad, witchcraft that what that is."
"And my wife."
Caw did not mention where he suspected where the Carfaxes struck his family. He did not want the men to know he was vulnerable. It was all about business to him anyway. He loathed his little shit of a son since the day he was born. But this was an opportunity. "Mister Moss. Would you be so kind as to repeat the names you heard that night."
"Chure." He now spoke with a lisp and had a permanent nasal drip. He kept a box of tissues handy. "But Ish don't know all the namesh."
"Caym-by-the-Sea is still a small town. First names and descriptions should suffice."
"Wot den?"
"Then we make a few phone calls."
William sat in the back seat between Cathy, his mother, and Cindi. Marjorie and Heath sat in the front and the first raindrops began to fall. It was long, lonely, dark drive and getting darker by the minute. Cathy took her son's jaw in her hand and drew him towards her. The two kissed to kill the time. William was a fast study he had already discerned the subtlety of kissing actively without being vulgar.
William felt a long-nailed hand on his left thigh. Cindi was feeling left out. When he broke from his mother they made a smacking sound. He rolled his head to his left and found Cindi's gaping mouth awaiting him. He met her and welcomed her tongue as she welcomed his. She tasted warm and sweet. Her mouth was bigger than his mother's and there was much to explore. She tasted different, somehow. Judging from the deep throated moans issuing from her throat, he was performing well.
He felt his mother's hot breath, then her tongue on his right ear. Then she took his right hand and brought it over onto Cindi's heavy, right cup. William was grateful for his mother's cue. He was still new to the game and understood he needed guidance. Cathy's hand did not leave his. Her fingers guided his, teaching him how to alternate between sharp pinching, massaging and gentle caress. Cindi arched her back and gasped into his agape mouth to show how much she appreciated each touch.
He cast his eyes to the front seat. The Carfax siblings seemed to be discussing a serious matter in low tones. They were deeply wrapped up in their own affairs. William might have been reading a book for all the reaction the siblings showed.
Suddenly, the auto swerved of the track and onto a gravel road. The potholes were a bit jarring but not so much that it stopped William's mother from pressing her boy's mouth onto Cindi's self-exposed tit. Suddenly, the Rover ground to a halt. Heath and Marjorie, dressed in their Kashmir overcoats, left the auto. They left the engine and the heat running. The blast of chill wind put a halt to back seat escapades. William noted that there wasn't a house to be seen for kilometers. The two black figures were marching off to a series of gray standing stones a less then a dozen feet away. One set of stones formed a slanting megalithic table with a fallen stone forming a kind of stoop at the lower end.
Cindi made a sound of recognition. William asked, "What is it?"
"It's the old stepping stone. I wonder if...they are! In the rain and everything. Just watch." Marjorie and Heath proceeded to unbutton their coats. Marjorie shimmed out of her hose and then hopped her bum onto the edge of the dolman, a black mark on the gray, lichen stained stone. Heath stood on the actual "stepping stone" and guided himself into her.
In the cold, wet, Cornish weather, in the face of a breaking storm front, Marjorie and Heath Carfax threw aside their reasonable selves and dove face first into the old rites. Heath covered his sister with the flaps of his Kashmir overcoat and rutted like the druids of old. It wasn't just sex for them, it was their final act of commitment, a public signing of a contract. They could deny nothing now.
William was fascinated. It was if he could feel time rolling back. The hair on the back of his neck tingled. He could feel his blood stirring. His heart beat like a drum. His lungs filled with air. He looked to either side, the rite was doing something the women to either side of him as well. He wasn't sure what. Catherine was gnawing on her upper lip and rubbing the back of her sweaty neck. Cindi was wiping the palms of her hands, hard, against her thighs, splaying her fingers wide.
William had seen porn videos before but never someone doing it live. He didn't see anything, really. Heath's coat covered them both. But it was incredibly sexy because the couple's act contained an explosive yearning and urgency to it. Marjorie strained against her man's phallus. Heaths cried out to the nature that made him in pure gratitude for the moment.
In the distance he saw the Inn's red van drive by on the road. On the way to Manor, he surmised. His attention was taken away from the road by his mother's hands. She was unbuckling his belt and licking her lips while Cindi lifted up her behind to get her own skirt off. Cathy pulled down both his trousers and boxers to his ankles. Cindi side-stepped until her peach-fuzz ass was staring him in the face. Then he felt his mother's thumb and forefinger guide his thick prick into the lowering form of Cindi. She felt sweet and warm, like a hot tub for his dick. He inhaled her thick, silky, black hair. She leaned her head on his left shoulder, allowing him to enjoy the ride with her. She bumped in time with Marjorie's convulsions.
"Fuck her, William." His mother hissed. "Fuck her. Claim her for your own."
William's head swam. How had it come far, so fast, so soon? But Cindi felt, smelt and tasted so right. His mother urging him on triggered something inside him. He wrapped his arms around his lover, grabbed Cindi's globes and tweaked her nipples. "That's my boy." Catherine's tiny, pointed tongue licked his ear. Then she reached around and tickled Cindi's clit.
"Oh Cathy, he IS so thick. You are so think William. It hurts. It hurts so good." She whined
There in that confined space, he jerked up and down, until he shot his teenaged wad. He was hot, sweaty and sticky. He felt great. Then his mother got his lover to cum. Cindi's cumming cunt squeezed his dick like a fist. This was the best vacation ever.
Foss's Pub was a mean, dark place made than much meaner with the ugly, angry men inside. They men had dripped in one by one. Each was nursing a grudge against George Carfax. One by one the pieces fell together. Moss was more than happy to put off his surgery to fill everyone in on just who he had seen that day and night at the Carfax orgy. Foss was kept busy refilling the pints and shot glasses as the Yank related each sordid detail. Foss did not count the cost, Caw was gladly picking up the tab for all of it.
One father no longer wondered about Sean and Colm running off with a Thai bitch twice their age. Cindi's father knew where she had run off to. In general all the fathers, brother, husbands and sons now knew why their daughters, sisters, wives and mothers exercised and seemed so intent on attending classes or school functions. Collective shame filled each man that his failure should be aired in public. At first, their wrath was directed against the messenger, Moss. But Sheffield, with his solicitor acumen directed their outrage to its proper target, "Look. Carfax took his girls, just like he took ours. There is only one bastard I want to teach a lesson, only one man who has made a pact with the devil and that man is George Bloody Carfax!" The roar, in that confined space, was deafening. The glasses emptied in a blood toast.
"Look. I've got enough flares and petrol to take of that George Carfax asshole once and for all!"
I say we burn his lordship's bloody manor to the ground!"
A spewing of hate erupted from the men. Fife took it from there. "Go home. Get your things. Get everyone you can. Meet back here in fifteen minutes, then we burn down his fucking place!" It was another half an hour before everyone filled their flasks and walked purposefully to their homes, every man jack of them boiling over with hate. Even Foss left his till to drag out his family's antique Purdy.
Caw thought he was the only one there. He helped himself to his first drink of the evening. Things couldn't have worked out better. After the smoke cleared, no one could blame him. He would claim he bought the drinks in an effort to assuage the mob. Losing the manor was a bit of a hurt, but the real money was in the land. That was something the Carfaxes had taught him when they had tossed his family out of the home they had inhabited for a hundred years. Land was everything. Then he heard weeping.
He bent around the corner of the bar to see a dark, Italian-looking man cradling a near empty bottle of port, weeping. He was dressed in wrinkled cotton shirt and ordinary denim jeans and very unkempt. He was curled up in a corner, staring at a photo that lay on the sticky plank floor.
"Who are you?"
The dark man, his eyes puffy, lifted up the snap towards Caw. The snap captured a happy man and a happy woman on a sunny day. The woman held a bouquet of lilies. The two looked like they were standing in a garden. "She left her family for me, you know? I am just a poet but she left everything behind for me."
Caw had know idea who the I-tie was. The girl was nice bit. He couldn't fault Carfax for his taste, that was sure. Maybe, after it was all over he could find out Carfax's secret. "I am sorry lad. Here, let me help you up."
The windows were steamed up when the two peers re-entered their Rover. They had to roll down the windows but the cool air felt good.
They drove until they rejoined the main drive then proceeded onto the manor. The weather had really picked up. It was a driving rain when the auto sopped and Heath stepped outside. William could see two stone archways, one larger than the other, in the gloom of the headlights. Marjorie flipped a switch, activating the rear facing floodlight. It's beam allowed him to see what Heath was about.
He was opening a pedestrian gate, a postern gate. He recalled it's name from Shakespeare. Then Heath crossed to the auto gate, dropped two pins, a bar and locked it tight with the padlock he took from the postern gate. He re-entered the car and kissed his sister. She re-engaged the clutch and drove on.
That's when I re-entered the house, with Violet and Amy a proper three steps behind me. Beryl was more than a bit concerned.
"Where the hell have you been?" she was holding a shotgun.
"The horses needed rubbing down." I brushed the barrel aside. "Put that away."
"But there are hundred's coming."
"Who told you this?"
She pointed to Starlings.
"Caroline how good of you to come." I kissed her and her daughters lingering on Faith.
"May I introduce Pilar?" She indicated the young woman holding the vicar's leash. Starling was licking her bare toes. I noticed Amy and Violet's reflexively move their hand to their throats. I thought about the play on the words "bridal" and "bridals."
"George!"
"What?"
"Pay attention. I said there is a mob coming to burn down Carfax Manor. The whole town is coming. The Vicar was there to hear it all."
"And you brought him to me? How thoughtful. But I already know."
"You do?"
"Yes. And it's not the whole town. Just those who haven't seen the videos. Miss Pilar, my pleasure. So what inspired you bring us this news?"
"To be honest. I was hoping for a reward."
"A reward? For doing the right thing?" the girls went silent. "Very well." I offered my hand to the tiny island beauty and spoke wyrds. I no longer needed to speak them aloud. When she first came to the manor it was with the intention of cutting a deal. But that was before she laid her eyes on him. Now she knew there could be no compromise with so great a man. As the vicar was hers, she was his utterly and completely. "What kind of reward would you like?"
She fell to her knees. "I seek only to serve." She rubbed her cheek against my boot.
"Mistress!" Carmen burst into the entryway. "I see fire."
For safety's sake I took away Beryl's gun and we, as a group stormed upstairs to Grandfather's room. It commanded the best view by far. Grandfather was already there, staring at the glow the distance. "It looks like the Gamekeeper's Cottage."
Caw was disappointed. He wanted the manor burned down, not George Carfax's personal residence. But it was in the nature of mobs to go a bit askew at times. At least now, his Jaguar, once at the end of the line, was now at the front. He would lead them to Carfax Manor. Meanwhile, he would let them dance about the burning building, pass around the whiskey and feed their frenzy.
"Oh, George, the cottage!" Faith began to cry. The other girls clucked like chickens.
"What do we do?"
"Let's call for the police!"
"No."
"No?" Heath whipped out his cell phone.
"The electrical storm had knocked out all the cellular phone towers and land lines by now."
"Bloody hell. He's right. Nothing but static."
"What do we do?"
"There are more than enough guns." Grandfather suggested. "Enough to make a stand."
"George?" everyone looked to me.
It was as good a way as any to keep them occupied. "Fine, but grandfather, you will keep all the ammunition to prevent accidents. We'll see them coming from a long way off; plenty of time to load. No need to go shooting ourselves."
"Quite right."
The crowd dispersed, grandfather leading them to the old hunting locker. Only my faithful Carmen remained by my side. Ironic, considering she was my first. "You are staying?"
"I am not afraid, master. Even if they burn the manor Carmen will be by your side, always."
I mumbled Wyrds she couldn't hear and the glow in the distance winked out. I turned to see her reaction. She was crying. I wonder why.
"Good thing I am the one leading the mob." Caw thought, "The fools almost burned down the cottage. I can' t afford for them to expend all their wrath on the wrong target." Everyone got back into their autos and proceeded to the manor, at least now Caw, in his jaguar, was in front.
The procession of autos pulled up to the gate to the ground of Carfax Manor. It was chained well and good. No doubt the chain could be broken, but he wasn't about to ruin his brand new Jaguar. Fife and Sheffield, impatient as always, jumped out of their cars and checked the main gate by hand. It was Fife who noticed the pedestrian gate was open. It was only a hundred yards or so to the manor, nothing a to intimidate a real Cornishman.
They snatched up their weapons, petrol cans, flares and torches and streamed towards the old estate. The freezing rain and driving wind felt appropriate, somehow.
About then my people re-entered the room. They carried a hodge podge of weapons. William even carried an old halberd. It was just as well, there was barely any ammunition. I opened the balcony doors to give them an unobstructed view of the enemy's approach. At first they were cold. Then they were too frightened to care.
In dread, they watched the mob surge towards them, three hundred plus men, all well armed with weapons they knew how to use. I surveyed the room. We had nothing but five men, some women and very few of us knew how to fight. In another world it would have been a slaughter.
Beryl panicked. "George, do something!"
I could never refuse Beryl anything. "Don't worry Beryl." This time I spoke aloud. I let all witness my power. "Crossing the flat moors during a winter storm is very dangerous thing. In Cornwall, every year men are killed by lightning strikes. Usually it is golfers. They are out in the open, carrying rods of steel. But the same rules apply to a gun toting mob. Crossing the moors, during and electrical storm, with steel in one's hands is very unwise. Suddenly, a lightening bolt struck the mob, dead center."
In the ordinary world, a lightening bolt DID hit the mob, dead center. Thunder drowned out the screams. I looked at my sister-wife. She was dumbfounded. I continued proving my point, that this was no accident. "Miraculously, the lightening bolt did not kill all. A few men stood up. But they still clutched their rifles. Lightening does strike twice in the same place, when metal is involved. A second bolt hit the survivors."
We saw a few men rise. Suddenly, everything went white and the windows rattled with the thunder. This time everyone held their hands to their ears. They couldn't hear my last paragraph and third lightening bolt stuck any that remained living, dead.
Little by little, hearing returned. I saw Caw's Jaguar turn on the road and peel back to town. I shut the balcony doors.
"George?"
I followed the sound of Beryl's voice. Grandfather lay dead on the carpet. Seeing me become the living book had been too much for the old man. I think I could have brought him back but I have my limits.
Carmen knew what to say. "The Lord is dead."
My court took up the cry. "Long live the Lord!"
Caw drove back to town at breakneck speed. Over a thousand men, dead. He saw it all. He was sure it was that George Carfax he saw standing in the window watching three lightening bolts strike the mob down. He was taking it all so calmly, like he expected it! Pact with the Devil! That's what it was.
On his way back to town, the storm dissipated. He was grateful for the improved visibility. The good, clear night improved his mood. He began to make plans. He had friends in politics and the press. Carfax might win, but it would be messy, very messy indeed.
He turned into Market Square and hit the brakes. Everyone was there, decked out like for a fair. The first thing he noticed was the lack of men. Of course, most of them were back there, dead on the moors. He called to Officer Greene. "You there, what's going on?"
Greene stood right up to Caw. "I'm not sure I like your tone of voice, Charles."
"That's Lord Mayor, to you Officer Greene."
"I suppose it was, Charles. But I still don't like that tone of voice."
"Was? Look. What's gotten into you? What's going on here?"
"I'm directing traffic, sir. All this running about is very disorganized. But I suppose we'll have it all worked out in no time."
"What running about?"
"While you were off with mob sir, the citizens had a little meeting. We elected a new council and re-instituted some local traditions."
Caw was not stupid. He was getting the idea. He dropped his haughty tone and tried to calm down. "Pardon my prior rudeness. I did not know. Please, tell me, what new laws."
"That's more like it, sir. Why, it's right of first night, the night when his lordship beds our best and brightest. It wasn't easy choosing I'll tell you. But the women got it all sorted out. Oh here we are."
A dozen women all dressed in heavy felt, fur and finery processed passed the two men. They were surrounded by candle bearers.
"Go on Gertrude! Bring us back a full belly!" Gertrude Wynns husband yelled while he held their daughter in his arms. He picked up his daughter's hand and used it to wave. Her mommy, a chestnut haired beauty since her school days, waved back.
All around him Caw say the same scene repeated with different players. The Kenyans sent off their daughter with tears of joy. Weeping friends congratulated Kelly McGuire. In every case the friends and relative cheered the women's coming pregnancy. Suddenly, a tall German woman caught his eye. "Heidi!" He tired to rush towards her but Officer Green held him tight.
"Let. Go. She's my m...friend. Heidi! What are you doing?"
"Why I'm going to get bedded by our good and gracious lord, Charles. Isn't that great? I can't believe I was chosen."
"You silly bitch. I'll have you kicked out of that fancy townhouse, out of the bloody country for that matter!" She ignored him and walked onto the decorated tour motorcoach with a beatific expression. "Look here, Greene. She's my mistress you can't do this."
"Beg pardon, Charles but I think the fact she's your mistress sealed the deal. You and the Lord being enemies and all."
"No!" With his last bit of energy, Caw tried to break free and that gave Greene the excuse he needed to knock him down.
A detective approached the scene and looked sown at the fat, damp, unconscious man. "You all right here, officer?"
"Fine. Thank you, sir. Been wanting to do that for the longest time, I must confess, but he gave me no choice."
"Quite right. Well the motorcoach is away. I suppose the pubs will be filling up."
"Yes, sir. And if I may. I like to buy you a drink on the occasion of your happiness: a niece and your sister? You must be quite proud."
"Very." He grinned from ear to ear. "I was rooting for your own twin daughters. Oh, well, there is always next year. Meanwhile, I think we can go off duty."
"What about him?"
"Leave him. His sort is nothing his Lordship need bother about again."