We Three Chapter 4

Chapter Four:

            “Who’s the new one?”

            “Don’t know I’ve never seen her before.”

            “She’s young, reminds me of a Barbie Doll!  All blonde and tanned and perfect!”

            “You sound jealous my dear.  She may have the looks but that counts for nothing in this business!  Its experience and maneuvering that makes for success!” 

            Alexandra Chase or Alex as she preferred to be called smiled warmly at the two women as she walked by.  Despite their suspicion of the newcomer they couldn’t help but smile back, partly a reflex action, but mostly because Alex seemed to engender it. 

            Her effervescent personality and the ‘Barbie’ tag that went along with it was a moniker she’d heard before many times.  She’d had to fight against it most of her twenty-three years to be taken seriously and it had always been a battle and her physical appearance didn’t help her cause!

            At 5’ 9” Alex was a complete knockout from head to toe!  Mid shoulder length blond hair, deep blue eyes, flawless lightly tanned skin, a beautiful, always present smile and sparkling white teeth set the package.  Exquisite firm breasts of precise size and shape capped with pink delicate nipples drew the gaze of onlookers who immediately panned down her flat hard feminine stomach to her thin hips and from there all eyes slid down her long forty three inch legs with their full powerful thighs and slim soft snake like calves and finally to her extraordinarily thin ankles.  

            However, all those looks came with certain drawbacks.  No one, man or woman, rarely got past them, the rest of Alex almost always had gone undiscovered, that was until C.O.I.L. and more specifically Charlotte Thorn came along. 

            They’d met on Australia’s Gold Coast; Alex struggling to do the final bits of research for her Master’s Degree in Oceanography and Charlotte simply on a much-needed vacation.   The C.O.I.L. spy offered Alex the use of her boat to complete her research and a place to stay that was so much better than the rundown hotel she currently called home. 

            From that point on the two were inseparable.  Alex thought nothing of it after several days, at first she though Charlotte was trying to seduce her with the use of the boat, dive equipment and a place to stay, a gorgeous beach house.

            “She hasn’t tried to get better acquainted with me,” Alex remembered thinking at the time.  “Maybe I’ve finally caught a break, not that getting better acquainted would be so bad, should it happen!”

            Best of all for Alex was that Charlotte listened to her, asked questions, valued her opinion and got to know that real Alex Chase.  Besides her parents and family this was the first person that actually cared enough to get past the looks and Alex wasn’t about to let the chance pass her by!  She talked and talked and talked to Charlotte, sometimes asking her if she wanted her to shut up, Charlotte never did. 

            “I think you need to do this,” was all Charlotte could say before Alex jumped back in. 

            What would have taken two months to complete only took two weeks, thanks entirely to her benefactor.  Alex was elated and depressed her work and her thesis was complete, but that meant she had no more reason to stay.  Alex came home to an even more depressing scene, Charlotte wasn’t home and her flight for the home left in less than two hours.  She threw her things, literally, into her suitcase, called a cab and prepared to leave tossing the house keys Charlotte had loaned her on the breakfast bar and walked towards the door just as it opened!

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“What the FUCK!” Alex yelled. 

            “You were right, she is a lot like you!” the other woman said with an unconfined laugh.

            Alex looked at her, a friend of Charlotte’s named Rachel Levy, then back to Charlotte before continuing her diatribe. 

            “All the ‘I think you need to do this crap’ was just a way to find out personal information for your own ends!  You didn’t give a shit about me from the get go did you?  All you wanted was have me run around your private maze, metaphorically speaking, so you could gather psychoanalytical data on me.  You never cared about me at all.”

            Alex took a breath before reaching for her suitcase; intent upon leaving she started for the door.

            “Just to let you know I would have leapt at the offer your making and yes I do realize what I’m turning down what woman with my psychological profile wouldn’t!  But you turned out to be just like all the others in your own way!”

            “Here take these with you it’s a long flight and I know there your favorite!” Charlotte said with a smile holding out a small bag. 

            Alex retreated a few steps and snatched it away indecorously before opening it.

            “I told you about this in passing,” she said softly.

            “Friendships are built on such things,” Charlotte answered as she reached into the bag and took a candy. 

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            “Who are you with?  Miss, who are you with?” the woman repeated.

            “Oh, I’m very sorry,” Alex said snapping back into reality.  “ Alex Chase, International Silk Importers.”

            “You must be very knew I haven’t seen you nor heard of your company before,” the woman said.

            “The company was capitalized only last year and listed on the London and New York Exchanges only several weeks ago so yes we are very new but very large.  At present I do the purchasing for over forty thousand stores worldwide!  And you?” Alex challenged.

            Alex watched the woman smile forcibly then beat a hasty retreat her tail tucked firmly between her legs!  The spy moved about the large ballroom her young lithe body gliding with effortless grace as she gathered information and made acquaintances at the same time until the raising tone of the music, until this time just a hum in the background picked up.  On queue all the men and women in the room made for their assigned chairs next to the runway as the fashion show started. 

            The rookie spy watched the parade of silk creations pass before.  Alex had to admit the colours, style and cut of the clothes all bespoke quality of the highest order.

            “But what else would expect from D.O.O.M.,” she thought.  She also wondered just how many of the models or for that matter even some of the buyers were D.O.O.M. operatives.  She knew sooner rather than later she’d most likely find out!  Alex smiled to herself at the though of the impending encounters! 

            The C.O.I.L. agent took dutiful notes, playing her part to perfection.  If truth be known, she would have liked to have some of the clothes for herself!  After an hour or so of constant parading the show came to an end as Rana Ali flanked by two of her models was escorted onto the stage to a thunderous roar of applause.  Alex too was on her feet her smile evident above all the others, she caught Rana’s eye and held her gaze for several seconds before nodding discreetly and looking away.

            “Step one!” Alex thought.  “She’s intrigued with me.  Now to see how intrigued?”

            The reception/order placing frenzy that followed the show was a sea of twisting jostling bodies and a cacophony of screams and shots for attention as buyers desperately jockeyed for position to place their orders for delivery first, all except Alex who separated herself from the crowd. 

            Rana Ali talked and smiled with some of the more important buyers, employing her considerable charm and personality to cajole more orders from them.  Alex noticed every so often her eyes would dart toward her and then back to whom she was speaking, her eyes told Alex everything! 

            “Those eyes have more than just curiosity in them!” she told herself as she causally uncrossed then crossed her legs to the opposite side. 

            Rana made an excusitory smile then started toward Alex who stood up and smiled as she came closer holding out her hand which was taken warmly.

            “You don’t seem to be in much of a hurry to place an order Miss?  Perhaps my fashions are not to your company’s tastes?” Rana said sweetly.

            “Alexandra Chase, Miss Ali, but please call me Alex.  On the contrary, your fashions interest my company and me very much, I just not sure you can supply all that we require, both in terms of quantity and shipping preference.  To be blunt International Silk Importers would like to make an exclusive agreement with you!”

            “That certainly is an interesting proposal Alex but I already have all the business I need as you can see and many happy customers is better for business than one happy one if you understand.  Also putting all my eggs in one basket is not good for my economic fortunes!” Rana answered.

            “I think you’ll find my company more than compensatory when it comes to your economic fortunes Miss Ali.  In fact I can guarantee it.  What are you currently getting from this crowd?” Alex said with a nod towards the assembled buying masses.  “My guess would be approximately ten on the blouses, 40 on the skirts, 75 on the Sari’s maybe a little more for the elaborate ones and what 80 on the kimono’s,” Alex stated flatly.  “What would you say to our offer of adding, oh say 10 points to each of those providing we are your exclusive buyer.  That is assuming you can provide us with all we require?”

            “I think your offer is intriguing Alex,” Rana said.  “Too intriguing I think for us to continue this conversation at the present without drawing unwanted attention!” Rana said as she turned away.  “Meet me tomorrow at my office,” she said from the cover of her champagne glass before walking away at a brisk pace to facilitate the illusion of discord.

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            “Please have a seat Alex, Rana offered as she slipped behind her desk.  “I hope now that you’ve seen my operation that any doubts concerning my ability to supply your organisation have been dispelled?”

            “Yes Miss Ali, I think I can safely say your tour was a real eye opener,” Alex smiled as she seated herself carefully crossing her legs within full view of the woman and giving them a little twist as she did!  Alex had chosen her clothes carefully, she knew Rana was interested in her on a whole different level than just business and her clothes spoken directly to that!  Her pale blue silk blouse opened dangerously down the front and her ivory skirt giving her legs the freedom to damage any onlooker who fell under their sway!  Her finishing touches of a pearl necklace and bracelets as well as her expert use of makeup and the application of a truly alluring scent made her hard to resist.  She’d felt Rana’s eyes roving all over her during the tour of her operation, scanning up and down her body!  Alex gave her the looks she desired but never enough to make it obvious. 

            “I take it then the terms I offered yesterday are satisfactory?” Alex said all business. 

            “Yes completely Alex,” said smiled back hungrily. 

            “Wonderful!” Alex enthused as she opened her briefcase and extracted a file.  “I’ll leave these with you then for your legal team to look over.  I trust there won’t be any complications or delays due to the other contracts you’ve signed?”

            Rana gave then a cursory glance.  “I’ll let my lawyers give me the Readers Digest version once they’ve gone over them, it should take more than a few days.  Fortunately I always maintain a right of first refusal those other contracts so nothing can come from it except of course upset buyers and well in the end that’s business.  In the meantime I’m having a party tomorrow night to celebrate my new line and of course you’re invited Alex.”

            The C.O.I.L. agent accepted readily, they talked a little more, Rana scanning Alex all the while in a predatory way.  Alex knew the woman was aroused and she did nothing to dampen it even as she left letting her ass dance back and forth as she exited the office offering her host a bright, but acknowledging smile as she left. 

            One door closed and other slid open.

            “Well what did you think of her?”

            “In what way Rana-san?” the woman said from her folded kneeling position.

            Rana tried not to look exasperated!  She should have known by now that she needed to be more specific with her questions.  Not that she minded playing twenty questions with the other woman.

            “Is she who she says she is for one?”

            “Chase-san appear to be telling truth and all information you relay to me yesterday prove true.  However cannot be sure.”

            “What then can you tell if anything about her?” Rana said this time letting the frustration show in her voice.

            “She natural blonde,” Rana-san

            “How do you know that?”

            “Vantage point offer clear look between legs.  Can also say she posses very strong legs!”

            Rana’s face flushed at the mention of that.  “What else can you tell me about her body?” she asked pressing for hopefully more erotic answers.

            “Clothes not help but would say Chase-san has fit strong body.”

            “Do you think she’s lying about being a fashion buyer?”

            “Find circumstance of her offer to you and time of her arrival most interesting given your project with D.O.O.M.  But they just that circumstance,”

            “I agree, but for me the circumstances are too circumstantial would you not agree?” Rana questioned.

            “Hai, Rana-san agree.”

            “As you know Miss Chase is coming to my party tomorrow night I would greatly appreciate it if she didn’t show and I would like you to handle the matter!” Rana hissed.

“Hai Rana-san, domo arigatto! Now if nothing else I go make plans for her death!” she said with a deep bow from her kneeling position

“There is one other thing Aki?” Rana said as she got up from behind her desk and stealthy moved toward the woman who rose from her knees to stand before her employer. 

Rana, her body still on fire from her time with Alex was now even hotter and she intended to cool it with this woman!  Keeping her eyes firmly fixed on the Aki, Rana delicately undid the silk Obi sash from her Kimono that fell open tantalizingly catching at the last second on the woman’s nipples!  Softly Rana inserted her hands around the woman’s openly displayed hips caressing them with a combination of her own soft skin and the pleasing feel of the sash!  Quickly but expertly Rana released and the recaptured the sash between the woman’s legs, the sensuous touch of the silk slowly winding its way up the Aki’s smooth leg like a coiling snake.  Rana noticed no change in the woman’s expression was she worked her charms until the silk began to make contact with her bush. Like a pendulum she pulled it back and across a constant knowing smile gazing into the eyes of Aki who she could feel was weakening to her spell.  Several minutes of constant silky pleasure and the woman’s head fell forward into the breasts of Rana.

A smile of self-congratulatory satisfaction formed on Rana’s face as she daintily touched her lips to Aki’s neck the woman responding to the touch with small body quakes that Rana aimed to intensify!  She lowered herself just a little and began long flowing runs of her tongue up between Aki’s firm divided breasts.   Breezy wisps of her tongue washed over Aki’s mounds the corners of Rana’s active tongue sweeping into the recesses of her body and mind!  The woman lowered herself to her knees her hot hungry mouth following her down until an endless sequence of surrounded her sex!  Rana pulled back her head for the briefest of instances glancing up at Aki’s face before striking forward her tongue poised to final capture the prize!  It fell into the soft warm moist palm of Aki’s hand!

“That far enough Rana-san,” Aki said in her usual soft voice.

“Why, don’t you like the taste of my lips?” she answered trying not to hide her frustration mixed with bewilderment.

“Hai Rana-san!” Aki answered.  “But you not like taste of my lips!”

Rana looked up into her impassive eyes then back down to the hand blocking her path, she gently leaned forward and kissed it a small laugh filling the silence. 

“Hai Rana-san.  But paradise coated with a deadly poison one kiss be your last!” 

“You are a true Poison Geisha,” Rana answered as she stood up and carefully retied Aki’s kimono.

“Now if you excuse have death of Chase-san to plan,” Aki said with a bow before leaving the room and an audible sigh from Rana.

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            Alex flipped open her laptop then disappeared into the bedroom returning a few seconds later with her small makeup mirror and a Cd.  Seating herself she accessed the program she wanted and opened the Cd door.  Tilting the mirror up to the right angle the spy reached a finger up to her right eye and pulled out the contact carefully placing and flattening on the Cd before repeating the process with her other eye.  Alex closed the door and activated the program, instantly the screen filled with a series of tiny cubic pictures.

            “C.O.I.L. technology at its best!” Alex smiled as she opened the first picture. 

            Each clear lens was in reality a three dimensional camera capable to 50 pictures each, the shudder activated by the blinking of her eyes!  Alex manipulated the cursor and the tool bar expanding certain points in each picture, turning the view left or right and overlaying one picture with another to create an entirely new one.  Slowly Alex pieced together the puzzle as to how Kum Silk Industries was manufacturing its piece of the explosive except for one part.

            Alex reformed, split and spliced a myriad of pictures together; all failed to yield the result she needed.  She’d seen all of Rana’s operation or at least she thought she had, the merged pictures however told her she’d been denied a small section, either on purpose or by accident, she was inclined to believe on purpose.

            “Since I couldn’t get what I wanted on the guided tour I guess I’ll just have to arrange my own private one,” Alex smiled as she encrypted the data she’d gathered, wrote a small note and sent the info off to C.O.I.L.