Minerva's Ghost (12 page)

“Do they know everything?” Amanda asked.

“Yes, they know all we do. I don’t send my people into anything without all the facts I can give them. Can you remember what they look like? I don’t want to leave this photo lying around. It would put them at more risk. ”

Amanda looked hard at the picture. Scooby was very tall and dark and had beautiful teeth. Reese, also a tall man, looked like a Viking warrior with very high cheekbones and pale gray eyes. Dixon looked like a suit. Heidi had dark hair and doe eyes and Sue was model thin and a beautiful brunette.  “I can remember, “ she told him.

“Who is handicapped?” she asked him.

“None of them, as far as I’m concerned. The military felt differently. We all get a few dings as we get older, but all of them are capable and mentally tough, not violent, just capable.”

“They certainly look it, “ Amanda agreed.

He climbed out of the bed as he tore the photo into small prices and flushed it down the toilet. When he came back he realized her mood was completely broken.

He reclined back onto the bed and gathered her back into his arms. “Are you OK?” he asked.

She looked at him and looped her arms around his neck. “Let’s eat cake.” She made the suggestion lightly, hoping to restore the sexy scenario. She reached between them and stroked his erection. She was still wet and ready from watching him shower, and determined to exploit the opportunity of having him in her bed.

He drew her arm from around his neck and pressed her down on the bed. “You have beautiful breasts. “ He said it as he caressed them, pulling her nipples until the stood to attention. He ran his hand down over her narrow waist and full hip. He feathered his hand over her woman’s mound and persuaded her to spread her legs wide. His finger brushed her clit and slipped into her wet passage. She fluttered and gripped and he obliged her slipping a second finger in for her pleasure.

She gasped, not shy since she could see his body, too. He was flushed and hard, fascinating really. Her hand went to his cock and stroked it up and down just once. He was very hard and his cock jumped eagerly as he gasped. She reached under her pillow and extracted the rubber she stashed there earlier.

“Not yet,” he begged breathlessly. “Let me lick you, please, Amanda.

“I’m wet and I’m ready. I want you in me.” She was insistent and he wanted her. His control was wavering and he was instinct driven. He’d chosen her as his mate whether she had conceded or not. He pushed her legs wide and pushed too roughly into her. Slick passage or not, she wasn’t quite ready for him and she squeaked and tensed. He was only halfway in and she was not having fun. He reached for her little button with the knowledge that he was doing it wrong and without the rubber. He managed to wrest himself from her tight sheath before he lost himself in her, but it was a near thing. He flung himself belly down on the bed, head and shoulders between her legs, before she could tighten and withdraw from the act. She was limp and trembling, obviously unsure if she wanted to continue.

“Easy, Honey. I got a little carried away. Let me make it better. He pushed her legs open enough to get to her pleasure point and applied himself to resurrecting her passion. He knew he had to have the rubber on NOW, before he got too close again. He took it one handed and ripped it open with his teeth. She reached to help him roll it over his erection. He almost came, but ran some multiplication tables for control and then got down to business. He tweaked her nipples and licked her clit back and forth until she was undulating and gasping in pleasure. He slipped two fingers into her slick snug passage, working them in and out and deeper with each probe while his tongue rapidly flicked around and across her clit. A wave of pleasure came over her body as she came hard. He reared up and slipped into her with one smooth thrust before she finished coming and tightened down too much. His cock was balls deep in her tight wet cunt. Only then did he realize he was where he had been dreaming to be for too long. His heart stuttered and his body surged. Amanda wrapped her legs around his hips and surged back at him. Her hips rose with his and he was lost. He grabbed her waist as he pounded into her, sliding his cock in and out deeply with each thrust. Each stroke was long and deep allowing his tight balls to bounce off her butt. He let the head of his cock all but exit her with each stroke. As he continued to pump in and out of her tight wet cunt, he spread his big right hand over her belly so he could reach her clit with his thumb in a desperate bid to have her come with him. They were both gasping with pleasure. Gabe could feel the pressure building in him and knew he couldn’t last much longer. Fortunately, Amanda was teetering on the edge. As the pace of each thrust quickened along with his thumb on her clit Amanda began to scream. “I’m coming, I’m coming. Fuck me, fuck me.” Gabe began to pump in and out faster and faster. His balls were slapping her ass with each thrust. Amanda came hard, convulsing under him with screams of pleasure as cum exploded from his stiff slick cock.

He collapsed still in her but with the weight of his upper body to one side. He was still firm in her and reluctant to withdraw. She clutched him to her, still, but he knew they were playing with fire. The rule went through his head, ‘New hard on, new rubber. ’ He gathered his will power and pulled out of her as gently as he could.

Amanda gasped and clutched at him with her vagina as well as her hands, legs and arms. “I want more, “ she told him.

Relief poured through him. He laughed and said, “Good, I was afraid I’d botched it entirely. I lost my famous control. I was afraid I hurt you.”

“You felt good more than you hurt. The discomfort went away fast, as I wanted you more,  ” she assured him. “I want more tonight. This feels like what we, the two of us were made for.”

The next morning he woke first and made breakfast before waking Amanda. She was looking ravished again and sleeping hard. He ran her bath before he woke her.

“Wake up Amanda. We only have forty five minutes before our meetings.” She woke up immediately and he handed her a cup of tea.

“I need more time than that to get ready,” she complained.

“How much time do you need?” he asked as he watched her walk stiffly to the bathroom. Oh, Yeah, he’d been too greedy. Four times was clearly a bit excessive for her. He was going to have to put her in training to handle his overactive libido.

“An hour works,” she told him. She seemed prepared to let him stay. It made him happy and relieved. She hurried and they got to work on time for the meetings.

Doris met them in the lobby with Allison at her side. The women went to Amanda’s office and Gabe headed for the meeting with Justin.

Allison characteristically got down to business immediately. Doris had joined them but neither Amanda or Allison objected to her presence.

“Amanda, the report Gabe sent me for our costs is wrong, ” she told Amanda. “He’s showing we have 58 full and part time employees, when we only have 49.”

“His numbers came directly from our accounting at the top level…right from our data, “ Amanda said. “I’m betting the error is not Gabe’s or yours.”

“I prepare our payrolls and send them to corporate. These are copies of the data I submitted for the last few months. None of it matches corporate office’s numbers,” Allison said. “Something is wrong. All of our people pick up their checks here. We don’t handle the money at all.”

“Justin hasn’t been auditing or paying attention to controls,” Doris said. They all knew it was true.

Amanda realized Gabe was right. She turned to Doris. “Could you go to Justin’s office and ask him and Gabe to join us…discreetly. I don’t want to jump to conclusions, but this looks bad.”

Doris left the room and Allison said, “I’ve felt hesitant to say anything. Martha has told me to route everything through her. She seems to be threatening Michael and even me, though I don’t care what she thinks. She’s told him he could be charged for theft, but he doesn’t even know what he’s done to cause such stuff.”

In moments Gabe and a very nervous looking Justin joined them. Amanda got right to the point. Justin we’ve discovered discrepancies in the payroll report for the last six months. Allison shows fewer employees than we are paying. I have not yet been in contact with manufacturing or distribution, but they could have the same issues. Do you have any explanation for these problems?

“I’m sure Allison either has made an error or she’s stealing from you.” Jason looked much more worried than Amanda thought he should.

“If, as you say, she was stealing from us, why would she tattle on herself?” Amanda asked mildly. “And, more importantly why have the controls we had in place to prevent these problems failed since you’ve been here?”

“It’s not my fault.” He said it defensively, looking panicky, now.

Gabe stepped into the conversation. “Easy Justin. Think man, do you have groups of pay checks that are routed in some unusual way?”

“Well, yes. A few checks, approximately 30, go through Martha’s office instead of accounting. “ Justin said.

“Who ordered that?” Amanda asked.

“Martha said Minnie did.” Justin replied. “I never thought to question it.”

“How long has this been going on?” Amanda asked.

“About six months,” Justin replied.

“Thirty paychecks at an average of ten dollars an hour for six months is over a quarter of a million dollars, in fact $312,000, not counting benefits,” Gabe said. “In fact the number could be substantially more than that depending on the hourly average.”

Justin turned a sickly shade of green.

“New checks just went out the day of the staff meeting.” Doris said.

“The same day we saw Martha at the club.” Amanda said looking at Gabe.

“Oh, God,” Justin said, “I swear I didn’t know what she was up to.”

“You should have, Justin. You’ll have to swear to it in a criminal trial, too.” Amanda said it to the group, but she could have sworn it was Minnie they all heard.

Justin looked lost and shocked. “I was working with Martha because she promised me a promotion. She said the company was going public and the new stockholders would take care of me if I did as she asked.”

“When did she make these promises to you?” Amanda asked.

“When I was hired, over a year ago,” Jason said.

“You do realize Minnie’s death was probably murder,” Gabe said. “We’re working from the assumption that someone has committed first degree, premeditated murder.”

Justin almost collapsed. Gabe grabbed him and shoved him into a chair. Justin said, “I just wanted my wife to come back. When I didn’t immediately get the president‘s position I expected when I came here, she told me something felt wrong…off, sort of, to her. I wouldn’t listen. She told me I was going to get in trouble. She was right, wasn’t she?”

“She was right,” Gabe confirmed. “Now you are going to stay here and speak to the police. You are not going home until we have more control over this situation. If you help us catch the culprits, you may avoid prosecution yourself.”

“I don’t know any more than I already told you,” Justin said.

Amanda, Allison, Doris and Gabe all heard Minnie say, “Now THAT I can believe!” None of them were surprised to hear Minnie’s voice.

“Well, I have to get back to the farm,” Allison said.

“I have things to do, too,” Doris said. She reached for Justin and lifted him out of his chair and herded him with her. “I’ll watch him,” she told Amanda as they left the room. Justin seemed too shocked to protest.

Two minutes later as Gabe and Amanda stood in the hall outside her office, she looked up the long hallway and saw Doris coming back toward them…running. Doris never ran. Her boobs bounced too much…and she had on high heels that lifted her to three inches over six feet, but she was running.

“Those two perverts of Gena’s got Allison in the parking lot,” she shouted.

Gabe’s phone rang and he got the same news from Scooby. “Scooby’s on them,” he told Amanda. “They’re heading for the farm. I bet they are going to try to force Michael to their side. The shit’s about to hit the fan.”