Just after dawn, Priya slipped out of bed, leaving Sanjay sleeping under the covers. She threw on her robe and went to the living room. Peering out into the street, she saw…nothing. No black unmarked domestic make car, no flashing lights. She breathed a sigh of relief; it seemed they weren’t coming to arrest her just yet.
Reassured, at least for the moment, Priya went to the bathroom. Her ass was still sore from Sanjay’s spanking last night. She twisted her neck to try to catch a glimpse. It looked there were a few minor bruises, but nothing compared with the deep welts and gashes that the women caned at her Center had the morning after their ordeal. She wondered if caning were a possible punishment for the crimes she had committed. She would have to ask the attorney when she spoke with him.
Rubbing her hands over her ass cheeks, Priya felt a tingling running through her pelvis. Damn it all, she was horny! And while she was angry with Sanjay for having spanked her, she was grateful that he was still there and seemed willing to do what he could to help her through this jam that she had gotten herself into. And, she had to admit, her punishment at his hands wasn’t totally undeserved.
Leaving her robe in the bathroom, Priya crawled back under the covers, naked. Sanjay was naked as well after their shower last night, following the blow job she had given him. She reached her hand out, stroking his chest, then letting her fingers slowly drift down to his belly and then lower.
Sanjay stirred. “What are you doing?” he asked.
“You never fucked me last night.”
“I’m not sure you deserve it,” he said. Nevertheless, he was hard now.
“Shh!” Priya whispered, throwing the covers off and climbing on top of him, her favorite position. She took hold of his penis and slipped it inside of her. It slid easily into her very well lubricated pussy.
Deserved or not, Sanjay didn’t seem eager to deny her her pleasure. He reached down, grabbing her ass cheeks in his hands. She winced in pain as he kneaded the sore flesh, but he didn’t seem to notice.
Brushing the discomfort aside, Priya rode up and down on her husband’s erection, feeling the solid flesh deep inside her. “That’s so good!” she moaned. Sanjay gripped her harder, moving her body up and down faster, the pleasure mixing with pain, as they both approached their climax.
Finally, Priya cried out, “Ohh, fuck!” and she went over the edge, like the cars of a roller coaster reaching the top of the climb and plunging down the track. As her contractions ebbed, she could feel Sanjay shooting his warm seed inside her.
She collapsed on top of him, both of them breathless and sweaty. “I think it’s too early to call Jerry,” Sanjay said. “Come lie down next to me.”
***
The lawyer that Jerry recommended she call was named John Kennedy. ‘What is it with these dead Presidents?’ Priya wondered. His secretary said he was in court all morning, but he could see her at two PM. She should bring a check for his retainer-$10,000. More dead Presidents. Sanjay wouldn’t be happy.
She spent the morning at home pretending to work on some stuff related to the clinical study, getting up every fifteen minutes to look out the window for the cop car that was surely coming to arrest her. When none had shown by noon, she heated up some of last night’s leftovers for lunch.
Kennedy’s office was in an elegant old Victorian house in the center of town, a block from the courthouse. His secretary asked Priya to sit in the waiting room and brought her a coffee in a nice china cup. She supposed that given how much he charged they could afford the good stuff.
Before she had taken more than a few sips, the door opened. John Kennedy was a tall man around fifty, with a full head of reddish hair, tinged with grey. He wore round metal framed glasses and wore a blue and white striped shirt with a crimson tie decorated with the logo of a renowned Ivy League university, which matched the diplomas on the wall.
“Please sit down, Dr. Raman,” he said, indicating a plush leather chair in front of his desk. “I understand that a complaint has been filed against you regarding your former position with the Department of Corrections.”
“Yes,” Priya said.
Kennedy cut her off quickly. “I don’t want to know whether you are innocent or guilty at this point. It doesn’t matter to me; I will defend you to the limits of the law regardless. Why don’t you tell me about the contacts you’ve had with the authorities regarding this matter?”
Priya told him about Paul’s phone call and the visit by the two inspectors. He nodded gravely and took notes. “The best thing right now is for me to reach out to my contacts in the District Attorney’s office and find out where they are with things. You leave it with me and I’ll call you when I know something.”
“Do you think they will come and arrest me before I hear from you?”
“Since they just spoke with you yesterday, I doubt it. They don’t usually move that fast in these types of cases. In case they do, you’ll get one phone call. Here is my card.” He handed her a gold-embossed business card.
“What could they charge me with?” she asked, nervously.
“Official misconduct, certainly. Some variety of sexual assault, possibly, to use as a cudgel to get you to plead guilty.”
“And the punishment I could be looking at if they find me guilty?” Priya could barely get the word “punishment” out.
“It’s hard to say,” the lawyer said, trying to reassure her. “Corporal punishment, some time in prison, maybe both.”
“Corporal punishment?” she asked loudly
“Yes, you could be caned. But of course, given your former job, you know quite a bit about that, I suppose.”
Priya shivered at the thought. “How...how many strokes could I get?“ she asked, afraid to hear the answer,
“Let’s not get ahead pf ourselves, Dr. Raman,” Kennedy replied. “Let me talk to the DA’s office, feel out what evidence they have, where they plan to go with this. Leave everything to me and don’t worry.”
Priya knew that was easier said than done. “One more thing,” Kennedy added. “If you’re thinking of skipping town, running away, I strongly advise against that. That would be seen as indicative of guilt. Just sit tight and wait for my call.”
So, following instructions, Priya spent the rest of the afternoon at home, pacing back and forth, glancing out the window, waiting for her phone to ring, or perhaps dreading that it would ring with bad news. She saw a car approaching their house, slowing. For a moment she was scared, then she saw it was Sanjay’s. Then, she wondered how he would react to her news and was scared again.
He poked his head into the living room. “Hi,” he started to say, but before he could go any further, her phone rang.
“It’s the lawyer,” she told him before she answered.
“I’ve got some good news for you, doctor,” Kennedy said.
“They’re not going to charge me? They decided the whole thing is nonsense?” Priya asked hopefully.
“Not that good,” the lawyer replied, “But they aren’t going to arrest you.”
“That’s wonderful!” Priya cried.
“No, they’re going to allow you to surrender on your own.”
Priya was crestfallen. “Surrender? When?”
“Tomorrow morning. Come to my office at 9 and we’ll walk over to the courthouse together. They’ll book you, we’ll plead ‘not guilty’ and hopefully you can make bail and be out before dinner. How much do you guys have in savings?”
Priya named an amount that was respectable but not lavish. Too bad her Trabco options hadn’t vested yet. “And your house?” he asked. She told him how much they owed and how much it was likely worth. “That should be enough, I hope,” he said. So they would have to sign over their life savings and their house or she would rot in jail until her trial. She hoped Sanjay would agree to do it.
“OK,” she said, resigned. “I’ll be at your office at 9.”
“One more thing,” Kennedy said. Priya expected this wouldn’t be good. “The DA is going to notify the media, so they will undoubtedly be there to film you going in.”
“What? No!” she said. Sanjay looked concerned. “I don’t want to be all over the 6 o’clock news and have everyone see me! Can’t you do something?”
“I’m sorry, but that’s non-negotiatble. The DA is a publicity hound and he isn’t going to miss the opportunity to score points with both the anti-CP crowd and the pro-CP crowd.” Priya felt like screaming. “I’ll see you at 9. Wear something plain, but nice, nothing that looks too expensive or daring, OK.”
“OK.,” she said, feeling totally helpless and defeated. She hung up the phone and began bawling. Sanjay put his arm around her.