I went to work the next day, Saturday, but couldn’t really concentrate properly and was glad when it was closing time. I gave Christiana a kiss before I went upstairs where I met Miki and gave him a kiss too.
I ran a bath and gratefully sank into the hot perfumed water.
‘Do you want me to stay and see to your make-up,’ Miki asked anxiously, knowing that this was going to be important for both of us.
‘No Miki,’ I said. ‘If I do it wrong it’s down to me. Go and have a strong drink ready for me when I come down. Second thoughts, bring me one up now please.’ That he did as I shaved not only my face but legs and armpits while in the bath. The drink was needed. I got my usual erection when I put on the underwear and I spent a good half hour doing my make-up for I wanted it as perfect as I could. Then I put on the best dress I had and the matching wig and I knew that I couldn’t do any better when I looked at myself in the mirror. Knocking back the last of my drink, I slipped my feet into my half heeled shoes and went downstairs.
For tonight, Christiana opted for the dining room and it was thoughtful of Miki to suggest the candelabra for dinner, so we had soft light and he’d also put on a soft music record. He’d heard me shut the bedroom door and had hustled Christiana into the dining room to see my entrance.
‘Oh…my…God!’ she exclaimed, her mouth dropped open as she dragged out those three words. ‘Paul?’ it was this last that was the icing on the cake because even she wasn’t sure that it was actually me that had walked into the room.
‘No Chris,’ Miki said, quickly coming over to stand beside me. ‘This is my wife Pauline,’ he said most proudly and I almost turned to kiss him, but stayed as I was and smiled at my wife.
‘Well?’ I said.
‘I’m…I’m gob smacked,’ she finally got out. ‘If I was a man or a lesbian I’d be after you myself. It’s unbelievable! I could have passed you in the street and not known. It’s…it’s, well, I don’t know, the transformation is incredible,’ and she came over and kissed me as one woman does to another, cheek to cheek. She stood back, her hands on my upper arms. ‘You look beautiful.’
‘You’re going to run out of adjectives in a minute,’ I said with a smile, really glowing inside at this accolade I was getting from this sceptic.
‘Didn’t I say she would look wonderful,’ Miki said with pride.
‘I…I…I just don’t what else to say. I wouldn’t have believed it was possible. Sit down, I’m about to serve up dinner.’ I went to my usual chair and stood by the side till Miki came up and pulled the chair out for me to sit down.
‘Oh priceless!’ she cried and clapped her hands. ‘That was so perfect. Oh fuck! Miki? Would you be a sweet and bring the dinner in, I want to talk to Paul.’
‘Pauline,’ he corrected her with a smile and went out to get the dinner.
‘Paul, Pauline whatever. I can’t get over it! You did your make-up yourself? That dress is gorgeous. Your hair? Oh everything is so right, especially when you waited for Miki to pull out the chair,’ and she went off into a peal of laughter. She kept on asking questions as Miki brought in the dishes, she’d gone the whole hog I noticed, and she didn’t give me a chance to answer one of the many questions she asked.
I had sat down at the head of the table, which was my usual place but I realised, too late, that I should have sat to the side and left the seat for him, but this small gaffe went un-noticed.
With all the dishes on the table, I passed him my plate for him to serve me which delighted Christiana no end. She joined in by pouring out the wine from the open bottle instead of leaving it for the man to do.
She couldn’t stop talking throughout the meal.
‘If it wasn’t for the fact that I know what’s under that dress, you would have fooled me.’
‘Many men have made that mistake too,’ Miki said. ‘When Pauline walked into a bar, the place lit up. The same in any restaurant too. Men went goggle eyed at this beautiful woman hanging onto the arm of a black man. It boosted our image in the big cock stakes for me to have her on my arm,’ he laughed.
‘In your case it’s justified,’ she replied with a laugh.
‘Are you talking about my husband by any chance?’ I asked her in my ladylike voice.
‘Bloody hell, even that came out in the right tone,’ she giggled, spilling some of wine as she shook with laughter.
‘Miki?’ she asked and then spluttered into laughing and had difficulty in getting her words out. ‘Miki?’ she began again, ‘can I have the pleasure of having your wife fuck me tonight?’ and off she went again. ‘It…it…it sounds such a fucking stupid thing to ask, doesn’t it?’ and she laughed and coughed and had to have her back patted. Christ, she’s pissed, I thought. He then gave a hiccup and I wondered at how many he’d had to drink before I came downstairs.
‘Madame,’ he said all of a sudden being solemn, ‘As her wife, you can have my wife. As a husband who wants his wife’s wife, I think a husband for a wife is a wife that wants a husband that‘s got one for a wife.’ He scratched his head. ‘I think I’ve fucked that up somehow,’ he said with a hiccup and a laugh that made us laugh too. I think I’d better catch up with them fast or they’re going to lose me I thought as I downed my glass of wine for it to be filled again. It didn’t take long and soon I was cracking stupid jokes like they were.
Even though I was half pissed when we got up from the table, I was still able to act the lady which is more than I can say for Christiana. We were sat of the sofa having brandies and coffee when her hand came up under my dress and grabbed my penis.
‘How many men have done this to you?’ she asked.
‘Only Miki. No one else would have dared with him there,’ I said, and being as far gone as her, put my hand down the front of her dress and pulled one breast out for us to see. ‘How many men have done this to you?’
‘Only my husband and a woman called Pauline,’ and she began laughing again. I then went further and pulled her other tit out so that they were both out in view.
‘Well you’ve had it done twice now,’ and laughed too. She made no attempt to put them back but slid off the sofa instead and crawled over to Miki and pulled down the zip of his fly and pulled his cock out.
‘How many woman have done that?’ she asked.
‘Two. One named Chris and the other Pauline,’ he laughed, joining in the game. She got up from the floor and swayed a bit as she tugged her dress down over hips till it fell to the floor. She nearly fell over as she stepped out of it and stood with her legs apart.
‘Get up, get up,’ she urged me and so I got up. ‘Take it off! Take off the dress and be like me.’ She was still swaying and held onto me as I slipped the dress off my shoulders and stepped out of it as she had hers.
‘You’ve still got your panties on Chris,’ Miki pointed out as I was dropping my dress so she began pushing down her panties and we had to hold each other as I freed my feet from my dress and hers from her panties. I now had an erection guessing and hoping it was going to go one way or another.
‘Now what has Pauline got that I haven’t got,’ she slurred as she faced Miki.
‘A cock that you can suck on while I can give you what a woman can’t,’ he was taking his clothes off as he spoke and I think I was grinning as she turned and looked at me in my feminine underwear.
‘Oh God it’s true,’ she said as she sank to her knees, her hands fingering my suspender belt and trailing down the straps to the tops of the stockings. The hands then came up and one took hold of the base of my erection while the other took hold of my balls as her mouth took in the head of my cock.
‘Mmmm,’ she mouthed and then said something like better than after eight mints, but I’m not sure for she was quickly back onto sucking me. By now, Miki was naked and he lifted her up onto her knees and entered her from behind. Fortunately she opened her mouth to gasp and had not clenched her teeth or I would have been in trouble. So Miki fucked her from behind and I then face fucked her, both of us coming at about the same time, filling her both top and bottom. I finished up sucking and licking on her while she ended up sucking on him. I never did work out who had the best deal though I think she did.
I don’t remember us going to bed only that I felt rather furry in the mouth when I woke up after dawn. I saw that I was still in my underwear and so was Christiana. Our limbs were intertwined and I had Miki’s erection near my nose and it didn’t take much movement to get my mouth over the end to suck him awake. Next thing I knew was she had her mouth on mine. I filled her mouth as Miki filled mine. That was as good as breakfast there was so much to savour and enjoy. I didn’t ask what she thought of mine.
The Sunday passed in a haze and before we knew it, it was Monday morning. Christiana was lucky because she didn’t have a seminar this week. For Miki, it was to be his first day at Reading Hospital. Me, it was trying to solve a puzzle that I wasn’t sure existed.
I only found the answer by accident three weeks later. The scam was through the stock transfers. This I’ll have to explain carefully. All stock of every branch is done through the computer, which in turn is linked to that of Head Office. Now at any time, any manager can put in a request to what stock is being held at every branch, this will then come up on his screen. Now if I wanted a certain item, I would punch in the code and it would then show me which branch had this item in stock.
I could then punch in a transfer request for it from whichever branch to be sent to me. A transfer form would be formed and the goods requested would then be allocated and shipped out on the next delivery van to me. This would be shown on all the computers and held there until I received the goods. Now anybody could make these kind of requests, but only the manager of the receiving branch could punch in the right code number to say that he had received or rejected what was being delivered. So on the despatching computer it would show their present stock minus what was going out in a separate column. It would stay there until the receiving manager punched in that he had received it. The figures then on both computers would change, the despatching branch deleting and the receiving branch adding.
Now the manager or any of the staff can punch in a request from either the main stock depot or another branch, so over a week or two, this could amount to anything between ten and sixty items, but only the branch manager could key in his code of acceptance.
I’d just had a delivery of only seven items that had been ordered in this fashion on this day and on my computer screen it was showing that these were on the way and fortunately, it was from the central depot. The delivery was correct and I had it up on the screen and I then inadvertently pressed two keys at the same time and the screen went blank.
I cursed and set up the programme again but the delivery wasn’t there. I looked and saw that our stock hadn’t been increased, so I phoned the depot and spoke to the manager and told him that I’d had an error at my end and could he confirm the despatch.
I had to hold for a moment and he came back on the line to tell me that I had confirmed the delivery and his computer had verified my code of receipt. I was stunned but managed to thank him and put the phone down. He’d said that he got confirmation of our receiving the goods and yet my computer was still showing the original stock and that it hadn’t been increased.
I’ve got to back track slightly for I had intended to do a private stock take on my first Sunday, but that was the day after my exhibition for Christiana, so I didn’t do one till the following week. I only found one item over and one item down. This does happen occasionally when someone punches in the wrong code though they are taking out the correct item.
Now I hadn’t been fully convinced about these two men and the assistant manager having the same day off week after week and that they were all on duty on a Monday which was my day off. Our weekly deliveries were on a Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
So on the next Saturday, after the staff had gone home, I stayed late and did a complete stock check in our storeroom. I was six items up on what I should have had. Those would have a retail value of nearly two thousand pounds. I checked on the delivery notes going back a few weeks and couldn’t find a note with these items listed. It was midnight when I got home, but I had warned them I would be very late. The same would apply to Monday I said for I would be going in after the store had closed.
I went after the staff had gone home and I couldn’t find these six items. I then went through all the sales for the day and not one of them appeared to have been sold, yet they were missing.
The next step was to back track on these items as to when they were ordered and I found that they had all been ordered on the Friday by my assistant manager from the central depot. Next morning, I phoned the manager and asked him to verify that we had received these items and said that I had accepted them on Saturday morning as normal. I thanked him and now knew how it was being done.
I phoned Head Office and had head of our security visit me on Wednesday. When he arrived, I told him how the scam worked and set up a demonstration. On the phone with the central depot and having their stock up on the computer, I picked a line of which they only had one in stock and put in a request for this on my computer. The other end confirmed that it now showed on their screen. Now I showed the security man where this should come up on my screen when I entered my acceptance code.
But, I said, I can get round that code and showed him how by pressing the two keys that I had done once before by mistake. My order then disappeared from the screen but nothing showed up where it should have done. Central depot, still on the phone confirmed that I had punched in my code and had accepted the goods for he was now showing zero stock on that item even though it was still there in central depot.
So we set up a plan that would be put into operation if a late order was sent over on the Friday to central depot, and it worked.
On Friday a four item list was sent to them, now before they closed, they made duplicate copies of the delivery notes that would be sent out to us and I had these couriered to me on Saturday morning before the delivery van arrived. I let the normal activity take place, the goods being delivered, checked and signed for by Cedric who then brought the delivery notes through to me. But before he came through with them, I had my screen on for these orders and I watched and suddenly this four line order disappeared but not come up on our stock line. Bait taken.
He had obviously cleared it off on one of the computers before bringing me the delivery notes. I checked those that he did give me and this particular one was missing.
The next step was that evening after the shop had closed, I remained to let in the security man and we went to the back where the goods came in and found the four items. He then pushed into each one just above the bar code what looked something like a large drawing pin which was in fact an electronic bleeper.
Back to the office we went for him to unscrew the control panel of the surveillance camera system we had. What exactly he did, he wouldn’t explain to me, for security reasons he had chuckled. He switched on a mobile walkie talkie and asked if he was getting it? He, was another part of the team outside in a van who confirmed that he was picking up the pictures on his monitors inside it. The cameras were on all the computer cash points and also the storage area where we could see those items quite clearly.
Nothing more could be done at the shop and it was arranged that he would pick me up in the van on Monday morning and then park it near the shop. While I went home, he went to the police station to set things up there.
He picked me up from home on the Monday morning and drove us off to the shop. This was in like a small square that had one entry and exit and it contained twenty shops round three sides with parking lanes in the middle. We parked outside of another shop for he said that as long as he was within a hundred yards of our camera control, we could pick up the pictures.
He pointed out a grey saloon car that arrived just after us which had parked quite close to the shop and told me that it contained his partner. We could see the shop entrance from where we were and so we waited.
We watched the daily activity in the shop through our monitors, people coming in, buying things and going out again. At about ten, we saw the first tagged item being collected from the storage room and we saw it again on the counter and it was Phillips who was serving the man. We saw money pass over but it wasn’t rung up on the till and the man picked up the box and walked out.
This was where the man in the grey car came into play. Our shop, like many others had those two chrome hoop type rails just inside the door. These picked up the signal from the insert pin in the box and alerted the man who noted what vehicle the man got into and the registration number. This he passed on to a waiting police van outside to later stop and pick up this man and the box.
Two of the items went next, served by Cedric about half an hour later with the last one an hour after that, this staff member being Stoneman. Fifteen minutes after this last box had gone, the man in the car came over to the van and got inside.
‘All three have been picked up and should be down at the station by now,’ he said. Security man then showed him the three we were after in the store and he was to wait outside the shop until he saw all three go into my office before bringing in the plain clothes police who had just pulled into the square.
Now was my time with our security man and we got out of the van and went into the shop.
‘Oh hello Mr. Newton,’ Cedric said. ‘We don’t normally see you here on a Monday.’
‘No, there’s a few things to catch up on, can you come into the office? Oh, go on ahead,’ I said to him for I had stopped by Maureen. ‘Tell Phillips and Stoneman to come to my office please,’ I said to her in a low voice and then went into my office followed by security where Cedric was waiting.
‘Is there a problem Mr. Newton,’ he asked when I sat down at my desk. I didn’t answer for there was a knock at the door and security opened it and the other two came in. The door was shut behind them. They knew that they’d been found out for you could see it in their faces. They shifted about as I just sat there without saying a word. There was another knock at the door which Security opened again to let in three plain clothes policemen.
The faces of my three staff went white when they were shown the police warrant card and they were arrested and taken away.