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Lucia was standing with her hands up. Master's gun had been placed on the floor. Several officer's had their guns trained on her. Half swiveled their guns towards me when I came through the garage door. I stuck my hands up too, to show them they were empty except for my phone. Lisa, Reneé and Janet had handcuffs on their wrists and were standing by the police cars with an armed officer watching them. I suppose I shouldn't blame them for feeling touchy. The dead person was wearing a police uniform.
"The bad guy is dead," I said, indicating the body on the floor. "The woman you have your guns on saved my life, and possibly the lives of everyone else in the house. Call Detective Riley and he'll confirm. The dead guy is Jack McManus, not a police officer, who's wanted for a number of crimes including the rape of me and my friend, his ex-wife, Lisa, who you have handcuffed with those two other women."
"Detective Riley is on his way. He can sort it out when he gets here. We're just concerned for officer safety. Is there anyone else in the house and are they armed?" The speaker was in charge. I recognized the sergeant stripes on his arm, similar to Rhonda's.
"There are six others, sergeant, unarmed as far as I know as the threat is ended. I don't even know if they have guns in the house, five females, one male. They didn't have clothes on when Jack came here. They're getting dressed."
"Could you step over here, let us search you, then ask the others to come out?"
"Whatever you need," I said.
I slowly moved towards them and a female officer searched me. She felt the object between my ass cheeks. "What's this?" She asked.
"A butt plug," I replied.
She risked a quick glance under my skirt, confirming it was indeed what I said it was, then dropped the skirt.
"No weapons," she said.
Two officers were handcuffing Lucia, who remained perfectly compliant. "The gun at my feet is the one I used to shoot Jack," she said. "My fingerprints should be the only ones on the weapon and a paraffin test will show I'm the only one who fired the weapon. The other gun near the garage door is the one Jack was armed with. I don't know if it was his or the officer's whose clothes he was wearing. I haven't touched it. It should only have those fingerprints on it."
"It looks like a police weapon. An officer was found tied up, gagged and missing his clothes, car and weapon. I suspect it's his."
So now I knew how Jack got the uniform and squad car.
I went to the door of the garage and yelled, "Police are here and they're concerned about officer safety. Could you please exit the house with your hands raised and without anything in your hands. Please come to the garage door."
"We're coming," Mistress Dark said.
I could see her coming towards me. I stepped back from the door and they all exited with their hands up as instructed.
"I would appreciate if you didn't cuff them, sergeant. This is their home. We're just guests here," I said.
"If they sit calmly out in the driveway, we shouldn't need to cuff them."
"Thank you, officer," Mistress Dark said.
"Is there anyone else in the house?"
"No. You may search it if you like," MD replied.
The sergeant sent three officers into the house to make sure it was empty.
Mistress Dark led her group out onto the driveway and after they were each searched, they were allowed to sit down without handcuffs on. I was allowed to sit with them, and eventually, so were Lisa, Reneé and Janet after their cuffs were removed. Only Lucia still had cuffs on because she was the one who admitted to killing the dead guy. She wasn't panicked by it.
The three officers returned to say the house was clear, then had a whispered conversation with the sergeant. I supposed they'd seen the dungeon, which I suspected, wasn't something they ran across often. He looked at Mistress Dark a little closer. I hope she didn't have any problems as a result.
"My husband, and possibly two of his friends are on the way over," I said. "They are concerned about their girlfriends who work for me. How long before Detective Riley gets here?"
He made a call on the radio and he was told Riley was about five minutes away.
The sergeant asked all of us, "Is anyone not here of their own free will?"
Yes, definitely questions about the dungeon. We all answered we were here of our own free will.
"What's with all the bondage gear in the house?" He asked.
"I'm a dominatrix," Mistress Dark replied. "My name is Michelle Sombre. I own this house. These are my two submissives, Rose and Penelope. I run a submissive training business under the name of Mistress Dark. You can find me on the web. The other three are here for training. They are to be returned to their dominant's on Monday. They agreed to the training and may leave at any time by giving me their safe word."
He confirmed it with all of them. By the time he'd finished discussing it with them, Detective Riley arrived. Good. This should be cleared up shortly.
He examined Jack, noting he'd been hit in the chest four times all within about four inches, dead as a doornail.
"Who shot him, as if I need to ask?"
"The woman with handcuffs on," the sergeant replied.
"Hello, Lucia. How are you?"
"Fine Detective Riley, as soon as I get these cuffs off."
"Great shooting, by the way."
"Thank you, sir."
"You can remove her cuffs, Sergeant Hill. I think if you check his description carefully, you'll find the deceased is wanted for sexual assault, shooting into an occupied dwelling, battery and a number of other offenses."
Hill signaled to one of the officers, presumably the one who put the cuffs on, and they were removed. Lucia rubbed her wrists a little.
"Do you want to tell me what happened?"
"You told us to expect an officer to pick up the house key. One arrived about thirty minutes after you called. Julia went to answer the door with the key. She'd been gone for about five minutes and I was starting to get worried. At around that time, you called Julia's phone to tell her not to let any officer's in the house as a police officer was found outside her house missing his car, gun and uniform. Lisa took the call. You were sending police and were on your way. I took my weapon and looked for him and found him with a gun pointing at Julia's stomach while the others were getting tied up. I didn't have what I thought was a good shot given the circumstances. I returned to the garage, opened the door and sent the other three to hide in the backyard someplace and keep quiet. I stayed in the garage, sitting cross legged with the gun between my legs and waited for him to show up.