AUTHOR'S NOTE -- This is the final part of a trilogy. Reading the first two chapters will be essential in order to follow the story.
Chapter Three: The Hanging Queen
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With a knowing grin on her face, Abbey sank back into her luxurious black leather chair as she glanced down to appraise the object between her fingertips.
The beautiful gold heart which dangled from the thin black choker had only been used 20 minutes earlier, when it was secured around Emily's neck, relaying every word of her conversation with Shawn back to Victoria and Natalya. Having taken it off and left it with one of the guards at the main entrance, as instructed, Emily had led Shawn out of the bar by the hand and the two were already on the motorway headed back to Glasgow.
The interior of Abbey's office was more professional than it needed to be, with her extravagant L-shaped wooden desk, coated in charcoal-grey paint, reminding anyone who entered that the office was a place to discuss serious business. On the far wall, directly opposite from where Abbey was seated, was a bank of small screens transmitting the footage from the various security cameras throughout the premises. But when Abbey slowly looked up, her gaze settled on the sight of Victoria and Natalya sitting across the desk from her. With a glance across to Victoria, Abbey softly exhaled and responded. "I've had police officers and detectives sniffing around here ever since I inherited the place from Dad. Trust me, I've had all sorts pass through here trying to make a name for themselves... But I've never came across anyone like her in all my days. A girl like that? Like Emily? I'm telling you now, she might not realise it yet...but a girl like that simply doesn't know when to stop..."
Carefully, Victoria sat up a little straighter in her chair as she leaned forward and swooped up her glass into her right hand. Her glorious fuchsia-pink dress had found its way back onto her slender figure with the thick straps sitting just off the shoulder. After taking a slow sip of her vodka and lemonade, Victoria sat the glass back down upon its coaster and looked Abbey in the eye. "She certainly didn't disappoint. If you'd have been in the room with us, Abbey, you'd have sensed just how much she knew she was out of her depth. That body of hers is absolutely incredible, but you only need to spend a few minutes in her company to know that there's a lot more to her than that. If you know what to look for, there's an ocean of darkness behind those eyes of hers..." Slowly, Victoria allowed her fingertips to tap against the edge of the wooden desk before continuing. "But we were very clear with her, Emily knows the magnitude of her mistake coming here tonight. We've got her on camera and if she slips up for just one little second, she'll have a lot more to worry about than losing her job..."
The words coaxed a soft giggle from Natalya's mouth as she sat in the chair to Victoria's right-hand side. Dressed once again in her tight denim jacket and black miniskirt, Abbey was afforded the same tantalising glimpse of Natalya's black lace bra as the zipper was pulled down to present her sensational cleavage. With an air of confidence, Natalya drawled. "When she reached behind that pole and let Victoria slap those cuffs around her wrists...I wish you could've seen the look on her face. That's what was so delicious about tonight, she knows what we do...she knows what we are... Yet, she was so desperate for information, she let us strip her, cuff those wrists and devour that awesome body of hers. When she finally felt my lips press against hers, knowing the cameras were pointed straight at us...the way she kissed me back...knowing her investigation was getting torn to shreds...it was as if she couldn't control herself..."
Abbey could do nothing but offer a soft, genuine gasp as her bottom lip hung for a moment. Slowly, she arched her back as she brought her waist closer to the edge of her desk. Just listening to the way that they described their encounter with Emily had Abbey starting to feel the heat between her legs. She was still clad in her long-sleeved white top, with her own generous curves threatening to spill over the top of the plunging neckline, but the only change from when she met Shawn earlier was her sleeves had been rolled up past her elbows. Slowly, Abbey returned to Natalya's gaze and responded. "You two have been coming in here for the last couple of years, but every time you pull up a chair and tell me all about your adventures...you never fail to get me going. If that's my reaction after all this time, I'm guessing that it didn't take long for the pretty detective to become putty in your hands? By the time Shawn left this office and I brought up the live feed, Emily was already busy with your tongue down her throat."
The comment prompted Victoria to offer a sly grin of her own before the memory of her encounter with the detective compelled her to offer her own satisfied groan. With a subtle tilt of her head, Victoria looked into Abbey's brown eyes. "Don't get me wrong, in this line of work...we've told plenty of lies to plenty of people. But, my God, Abbey...I can't remember the last time I met such a gorgeous little liar. I'll give her credit though; we had her dead to rights in that back room. She knew that we could've made one phone call and she'd be handcuffed in the back of a van headed for the port right now. But she kept herself together, despite knowing that she was beaten...knowing that she'll never be able to build a case against us...knowing that we were going to enjoy every inch of that fucking body..." After a quick glance to drink in the look on Natalya's face, Victoria returned to look Abbey in the eye. "In saying that, the lies she told us about Shawn were the ones who stole the show. We were playful with her, coaxing the truth out of her... But even I was shocked at how direct she was when she was honest about him. It was as if she allowed her mask to slip all the way off and crash down onto the floor..."
Carefully, Abbey's fingernails on her right hand lightly tapped against the surface of her table as she turned to respond to Victoria. "She's got it for him so bad. To think, it's only been 22 days since his girlfriend was kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery...not even a month's passed and she's driving him back to her place...where she's going to ride him so hard, she might break him in half..." The very thought of Emily's sensational figure crawling into Shawn's lap was enough for Abbey's right hand to brush against her own chest as she felt her nipples starting to harden under her thin white top. "For a detective to do that, it's just so...fucking scandalous. Mind you, I can see why she wants him. From the minute I walked up to him out there, I barely looked at that lean body and pretty face of his and I had to fight the idea of kissing him right there and then." After a brief pause to clear her mind of thoughts of Shawn, Abbey continued. "But I did what you asked, I brought him in here and told him about how these deals are done. He's going to tell her about Dragunov...and she can get the ball rolling from there..."
Natalya couldn't help but let a lurid giggle escape from the back of her throat as she listened to Abbey gush about Shawn. Slowly, the Russian blonde stood to her feet and ran both hands against her tight black miniskirt to smooth out a few wrinkles. Once satisfied, she glanced up and looked Abbey in the eye. "I'm not sure how she's going to brief her bosses on the details, but she'll find a way. The girl is an absolute star in the making, she's got potential to spare. But having listened to what she said to him out there... The lies she told to get him to kiss her...to get him to slip those fingers inside that soaked little pussy...she might only be getting started with him, but we're not close to being finished with her. Not by a long shot... Victoria and I were talking about it just before we came in here. It'll take a little bit of time, but we think we've got just the thing in store for the remarkable Emily Lane..." As the grin started to widen across Natalya's beautiful face, she paused for a moment before continuing. "As for Shawn? The poor boy's been through so much already...I'm sure it hasn't taken you long to come up with a way to nurse him through these difficult times?"
The comment about Shawn only hung in the air for a fraction of a second before all three women started laughing. Abbey's cheeks started to flush red as she brought her right hand up to her face and used it to theatrically fan herself down. Abbey then rose to her feet, which prompted Victoria to do the same, before Abbey responded. "I already knew what I was going to do when he was sitting in here with me. Part of him must know that Emily's been manipulating him, but he can't stop staring at her perfect tits to do anything about it. But he's so fucking beautiful... In a situation like this, I'll leave the manipulation to her...and I'll simply look him in the eye and make him an offer that he won't be able to refuse..."
Almost half an hour later, just before 11:00 p.m. that same Wednesday night, the front door to Emily's flat in Glasgow City Centre swung open after an almighty shove from the blonde detective's left hand. With her key still in the lock, Emily let out a frustrated grunt as she kept Shawn's right hand in hers and reached out to yank the key free with her left hand. For his part, Shawn allowed himself to be pulled into her dark flat before Emily eventually managed to wrestle the key out of the lock and kicked the front door shut until they both heard it click.