It has been a really long time since I posted the previous chapter of Paradise Island. I moved jobs and became really busy and the muse just left me. Thanks to everybody who kept sending me emails to carry on writing the story. Without those emails, I wouldn't have found it in me to restart writing. Hopefully, the next chapter won't be so long in the writing!
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It's best to go back and read the previous chapters. If you don't want to, here's a brief summary:
Paradise Island is a tropical island in the south seas. It is very isolated from the rest of the world and is divided into five estates. Some trace elements in the soil of the island skew the population so that twice as many girls are born as boys. The girls are also quite beautiful and 'feminine'. The head of the estate has complete control of all the people on his estate.
Tom's sister Jill has recently been widowed. She had been married to the head of the Fontana estate and she suspected Serbius of murdering him. Serbius wants to take over the Fontana estate and Jill asked Tom to come over and take over as the head of the Fontana estate. Tom came over, enjoys himself with several girls and gets engaged to Macy - the previous Fontana head's sister. However, the council doesn't agree to Tom taking over as the head and asks him to leave with Jill and Macy once they are married. Before they get married, Tom is framed for the murder of Serafina - one of the girls on his estate..
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Tom looked up in a desultory fashion when the guard came in and announced visitors. There was no specific prison in Paradise Island and he had been held in the Council building with a few guards.
Jill and Macy came in. He had been sitting listless and wan and Macy came running into his arms. He held her without any great force. His sister Jill said, "Tom, you've got to buck up. All of our lives are at stake here. You cannot just sit quietly while they railroad you into a murder charge. We know you couldn't possibly have killed Serafina and you have to prove it to everybody."
Tom looked in surprise at his sister at her angry tone. Slowly, some of her anger seeped into him as well. He became more aware of his fiancee's body in his arms. He held her more tightly and smiled grimly at Jill. "You are right!" he told Jill, "We've got to find the bastard who killed Serafina and make sure Macy and I get married, so we can all leave the island."
"I have to tell you something else," said Jill, "We just heard last night that Dad is dead."
"Pa! dead?" said Tom looking shocked.
"Yes," said Jill, "I'm leaving now to go home. The council agreed that I could leave the island and go to Mom immediately. The boat leaves in half an hour. It's bad timing but Mom needs me more."
Tom shook his head.
"It never rains but it pours!" he thought.
Aloud, he said, "You are right. Your place is by Mom now. Don't worry about me. Macy and I'll sort out this charge here and come out and meet you back home."
He disengaged himself from Macy and stood up. He hugged Jill and kissed her lightly on the forehead.
"We'll keep you informed of developments here," he said. Jill nodded and left.
Tom sat down again and took Macy's dainty hands in his larger hands. His keen lawyer's mind had started ticking again. "Find out what Serbius was doing in the days leading up to the mid-summer party and who he was with. It wasn't a coincidence that he was so conveniently around to accuse me as soon as Serafina was knifed."
Macy nodded. They hugged and kissed until it was time for Macy to leave.
The council met two days later and Tom was called in. He looked around past the guards' shoulders. The room was crowded and there was a large contingent from his own estate. He recognized several girls that he had fucked and more that he hadn't. Tom realized with a pang that even if he beat the rap, he'd still have to leave Paradise Island in a few days and the days of masterful debauchery would be just a memory.
The five council members (including Macy who was representing the Fontana estate) sat in the front of the dock. Tom was seated in a chair and four men stood guard round him. Serbius was seated in the front row of the audience, looking very pleased. As the senior council member, Lukid called the room to order and asked the prosecutor to start his work.
The prosecutor, a dry old-ish looking man, gave a brief outline of events leading up to Serafina's knifing. Tom raised no objections as the case was laid out against him. Several witnesses were called who testified that they had seen Tom looking angry when Serafina danced with other men. Another witness, a girl from the Fontana estate, testified that Tom had pulled Serafina out of the unknown man's hands and the next thing they knew was that Serafina was on the ground with clutching her stomach and bleeding.
Tom stood up and looked at the girl carefully. He remembered her as the girl who had served him breakfast a couple of times. He remembered the feel of her bottom in his hands as he had felt her up while she was bent at the waist serving Jill or Macy. He had even felt her tits - smallish but with very perky and sensitive nipples - when she bent in front of him while serving him. He smiled at her and the girl blushed. Tom suddenly remembered her name.
"Marie," he asked, "Did you see me stab Serafina?"
"No Sir," she replied.
"Thank you, Marie," Tom said and added, "No more questions."
It was now Tom's turn to lay the case for the defence.
He called for Firni to be his first witness.
"Firni, did you dress me on the day of the murder?" Tom asked when she was seated and sworn in.
"Yes Sir," she replied.
"Was there a knife on me?" he asked.