I admit, I’ve been hiding a bit. It’s not that I’m shy or terrified, it’s just been a little overwhelming, you know? Difficult to realize that the men you adore, men you’re head over heels in love with, are criminals.
Troy and Tyler are my everything, I know that now. And what started as a stunt, a cute little research project focused on teen shenanigans, has turned into something darker, deeper, much more troubling. Because through my investigation, I discovered that my stepbrothers are running an escort service.
They insist on calling it an escort service and not a prostitution ring because the two are supposedly vastly different. A prostitution ring is what you find in Thailand or the seedy parts of New York. Those are girls often have no options, addicted to drugs, manhandled and used by self-serving, arrogant pimps.
Not that my brothers aren’t arrogant. But they run their business by another code. For high-class escort services, the quality of asset is key … and for the Lyon twins, the assets just happen to be women.
But my brothers invest heavily in the women they manage. The pay for medical check-ups, vaccinations, regular STD screening, and have even sponsored visas for some of the girls so that they’re able to remain in the United States legally. Plus, they screen their male clients like the FBI to ensure that no one abuses or mistreats a girl in their care.
“How does it work?” I’d asked, my chin trembling. After the discovery of my stepbrothers’ true business, I’d felt shaky and collapsed, both under the weight of the revelation and because I was pregnant with their child.
“How does a girl join the Lyon twins’ escort business?” I’d asked again, my hands folded demurely.
Tyler and Troy sat on either side of me on the couch, slowly letting me into their world.
“It depends,” began Tyler, the business guy. “Usually we’ll get a tip from someone that a girl’s looking to move, looking for work, and wants to be placed at a stand-up establishment.”
I blanched a bit. “You guys are known as the stand-up establishment in this field?” I asked, my voice quivering.
Troy answered this time. “I know it’s hard to believe, little sister, but yes, Tyler and I are known for running an elite service, and we have a reputation to protect. So we only take girls who can meet our standards on a number of different fronts … physically, emotionally, legally, everything,” he said. “And if she’s not quite up to par, we’ll work with her if we believe in the product,” he continued. “We invest heavily, and that’s what’s made for our amazing returns.”
I still quivered inside, spooked at this talk of women as assets, as products with returns, that kind of thing. They were people, after all, living breathing women just like me. But on the other hand, I supposed it was no different for female celebrities, female models, actresses, etc. The product is the woman so to speak.
“But … but what if a girl is having trouble?” I said. “What if she has a bad experience, or gains weight, or has a baby?” I said, stroking my tummy.
Both my brothers looked at my abdomen as well, which was just beginning to swell. Their gazes were adoring, lighting their expressions with joy. But they answered the question head on, without trying to duck or save face.
“We fire girls who have a lot of trouble in their lives,” said Tyler. “We work with them, sure, to overcome obstacles. But there are times where the only answer is to let a girl go, and it’s one of the toughest parts of this job.”
“We don’t like doing it,” agreed Troy. “But at the same time, most girls don’t work for us for very long, believe it or not. We only hire girls who have potential … maybe they’re in a cash crunch, so they come to us for a bit. But inevitably they move on, and we’re happy for them.”
Okay, it sort of made sense. Suddenly, a thought struck me.
“Do you keep in touch with any of the girls who’ve moved on?” I asked, somewhat suspiciously.
Tyler and Troy exchanged a look.
“Yeah honey, we do,” said Troy. “You know Rachel, the weekday bartender at Club Luxe? She was one of our girls, but transitioned into bartending after she got settled.”
Rachel? Suddenly, recent events made more sense now. I’d bumped into Rachel at the club unexpectedly, when she was picking up some files for Tyler. I’d been mighty suspicious. First, Tyler hardly trusts anyone with his business, and second, I’d bumped into her at 11 a.m., when the bar was usually closed. But now that I knew she was a trusted employee, it all gelled in my head.
Plus, Rachel was pretty, lithe and slim, with good fashion sense. Good for getting tips at the bar, yes, but even better for mind-boggling tips from escort clients.
“Honey,” said Troy softly. “Why don’t you talk with Rachel about her past tonight? This is really overwhelming, and I know we’ve put a lot on you. It might help to talk with a woman, especially one who’s worked for us, to get another perspective,” he said.
I nodded my head. As a former employee, Rachel would have no reason to lie. I’d appreciate picking her brain a bit.
But another question stuck in my head, one that I didn’t want to ask, but knew I had to.
“Brothers,” I said slowly. “In the video on your computer, you fucked the girl who was trying out. Sandy, I think her name was. Do you usually sleep with your girls?” I asked.
Their expressions were carefully neutral, but again, I got the sense that they were trying to be open and honest.
“Baby … yes, we’ve slept with a lot of the women,” said Tyler slowly. “But we always used protection, and put them through the wringer when it came to regular STD-testing. But yes,” he concluded. “We did have physical relationships with many of the women who worked for us.”
“Did you have a baby with any of them?” I asked, my cheeks flaming. It was so hard to bring this up, but I had to know.
“Absolutely not,” stated Troy firmly. “We were militant about birth control, and honey, we haven’t slept with anyone since you’ve come into our lives,” he said simply. “You and the baby are our number ones, and we wouldn’t dream of being with another woman while we have you.”
I smiled tremulously, my fears and doubts allayed for the moment. But I was still worried. Secrets are always hard to keep, and with one of this size, it was just a matter of time before things blew up. What would happen then? What would happen to my baby if my brothers’ business was revealed? What would people say if they discovered my baby was the result of an illicit relationship between siblings?
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
Tyler
I could see that Krissy was still worried. A slight crease marred her brow, and she frowned to herself, even as she tried to look cheerful. That’s what I love about our little girl. Always trying to be happy and optimistic, although we’d just dealt her a major blow.
Sometimes life takes twists and turns, and you just gotta roll with it. Tyler and I took a risk with the escort business, betting that the feds wouldn’t find out, and it’s paid off so far. We make boatloads of cash, have a stable of healthy, happy girls, and a steady male clientele always looking for more pussy. So it’s worked out.
But I understand why our sister is shocked and dismayed. I mean, what we’re doing is criminal, there are no two buts about that. So it’s a blow … that her little investigative report for the high school paper yielded so much dirt, unmasking a seedy underworld right in her own home.
But my brother and I have been trying to convince her that it’s not so bad, the way we have it set up. We’re responsible businessmen, committed to ethical behavior in a sense. We treat our employees well, make sure they have decent working environments, and conduct ourselves discreetly, all the while maximizing profit. How is that different from any business owner?
But I am worried. The security I use for Club Luxe called this afternoon, reporting a break-in. At first, I didn’t think it was anything. Krissy had fessed up to making a copy of Troy’s keys and sneaking into our office, so it was probably just her.
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sp; “No worries, Mike,” I growled into the phone. “I know about it already.”
“So you know your hard drive was mirrored, right?” he said. “These clearly weren’t low-grade thieves. It takes significant technical firepower to accomplish.”
Immediately, I knew this wasn’t the work of my sister. Sure, she’d peeped into the computer and even managed to figure out the password, but she wouldn’t know what mirroring a hard drive was. Shit.
“What are you saying?” I asked carefully.
“Mr. Lyon, mirroring a hard drive means that the thief made a copy of everything you had saved on your computer. I just hope you have back-ups of the files stashed in different locations in different formats,” he said. “Because mirroring sometimes corrupts the original files, rendering them unusable.”
Oh shit. I understood what security was saying, but I was concerned for a different reason. I wasn’t worried about corrupted files, or insufficient back-ups. I was worried because that hard drive had videos of girls on it, dancing and stripping, getting naked before fucking my brother and me.
And there were a lot of clips too. Probably at least a thousand total, and Tyler and I probably fucked at least a few hundred of those women in some way, shape or form. Okay, maybe not full on vaginal sex in all instances, but maybe some oral or fun with a dildo at least.
Fuck! We were red-blooded males, and it seemed that our actions were catching up to us.
“How did the thieves break in?” I asked. “How did they get into the secure facility?”
“Sir, we don’t know yet,” the consultant replied. “We have footage of a girl in a baseball cap entering your office, but she exits without ever penetrating the inner sanctum.”
And that was another reason why I knew it wasn’t our sister. Krissy had been floored by the stripper pole and the two computers out in the open. But those are just decoys, distractions to a thief. The real dirt is in a room beyond the room – a safe room if you will, only accessible through a cinder wall outfitted with a keypad coded to mine and Troy’s fingerprints. Low-level thugs would never be able to break-in, they’d never even know it existed, distracted by the low-hanging fruit in the outer office.
But someone had figured it out, and I needed to find out who.
“Troy!” I yelled into the hallway, hanging up the phone.
“Brother, what is it?” he called back.
“Get your shit together, the shit’s just hit the fan,” I growled, grabbing my keys before heading to the club.
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
Kristen
“So … how did you become an escort?” I asked shyly. It was ironic that I was the shy one, when Rachel was the one with the seedy past. But she owned it, unashamed of her history, and smiled at me kindly.
“Krissy, your brothers were good to me, and I’ll never forget it,” she said. “I was a broken woman, living with an abusive boyfriend with a burgeoning drug habit,” she said. “Your brothers worked with me, paying for rehab, paying for a place for me to stay so that I could get away from my ex and kick my addiction,” she said.
“But … how did you meet Troy and Tyler?” I asked.
She shrugged, sighing heavily at the memories. “I was a ‘street girl,’ for better or worse,” she began. Seeing my confused expression, she clarified. “I was a hooker who stood on the sidewalk, picking up random johns,” she said. “The lowest level hooker there is, the one who makes the least for the most amount of danger.”
Looking at her, I could hardly believe it. She couldn’t be a day over twenty-five, and even in the bright light of day, looked fresh-faced and friendly.
Seeing my disbelieving expression, she nodded. “I think that’s why your brothers hired me. When I met them, I was a mess. My boyfriend was my pimp,” she continued. “I thought he loved me because he let me live with him when I wasn’t working, and treated me nice after I got beat-up by clients.”
“I know it sound pathetic, like I’m a victim straight out of Law and Order. But it really did happen,” she confided.
“Anyways,” she continued, “a client is the one who tipped me off to Club Luxe. He took pity on me, the scabs on my arms, the cigarette burns on my skin, and said he’d set up an audition with your brothers.”
“They took me in, Krissy. I was in no state to dance, malnourished and bony, sweaty from withdrawal. But they put a bet on me … that they could help me turn my life around, and worked with me until I was ready to join their service.”
“Did you feel like you had to escort? Did my brothers make you do it?” I asked. This was a crucial question. If Troy and Tyler had forced a woman against her will … I didn’t know what I was going to do.
Rachel’s smile was so wide that it was like the sun had broken from the clouds.
“Oh god no, Troy and Tyler never forced me into either stripping or escorting. It was I who begged them to let me do it,” she said. “Remember, at this point in my life, I had no skills. What else was I going to do? I probably couldn’t even get a job at McDonald’s because of my drug history. So I wanted to strip, I wanted to see men … to build myself up, to start making money so that I could move onto the next phase of my life,” she said confidently.
I was silent for a while. This was a side of escorting that I’d never dreamed of. I’d always thought that the women were pressured into service, that they had no other options. And it was true, in a way. Rachel had had no assets except a delectable body and pretty face. But it sounded like she’d done it mostly for herself, to build up a financial cushion, and even improve her self-esteem in some sense.
“Did you like it?” I asked. And then the million dollar question. “Do you still escort?”
Rachel laughed at this one.
“Baby, I loved it. I loved taking my clothes off for money, letting men touch my tits and cunny. There’s nothing quite like a guy stroking himself, all the while unable to tear his eyes off you,” she confided.
“And the money … honey, I’ll never see money like that again. I made between two and ten thousand per night,” she said. “Bartenders are paid well, but not that well. And no, I don’t escort anymore. I have a boyfriend, a real boyfriend now, and while he knows about my past, I’d never think about stepping out on him.”
And I smiled. Although I’d been stunned by this turn of events, I was happy for Rachel. I was happy that she’d found her own contentment, a stable job and relationship with someone she loved. Would I ever escort? No way. But I couldn’t judge her for taking this path, and with my brothers’ guidance and support, it looked like she’d come out okay.
Relieved, I smiled at her and said thank you.
“I really appreciate your time,” I said. “I know it can’t be easy reliving your past, sharing your history with a stranger.”
“No worries, Krissy, I’d do anything for your brothers,” she said. And then more seriously, “and I really mean anything, after they took me in during that dark period of my life. But honey … when are you going to announce the pregnancy?” she asked.
And I gasped, coloring. How had she known? I was barely showing.
“Other women always know,” she laughed at my baffled expression. “Take care of that baby will you? It’s a Lyon baby,” she said with a wink.
How had she known that it was my brothers’ child? But she’d slid off the bar stool and disappeared before I could ask.
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
Troy
I was sure that Tyler’s fears were overblown. My twin is just too focused sometimes, too serious, making everything a full-blown red alert when it’s nothing. Honestly, this whole break-in thing? Who the fuck cared if there were some dancing girls on video? They were just try-outs and no money was exchanged.
As I understand it, convictions still have to be based on hard evidence, not circumstantial stuff like naked movies. There has to be a transaction, and there wasn’t in this case. But I guess Tyler has a point … law enforcement isn’t exactly rational, and going to tr
ial would be a pain in the ass better to avoid.
“So what is it brother?” I asked, letting myself into the office.
The security consultant was there as well, and both heads turned as I strode in.
“Whoa, so serious!” I laughed, holding my hands up. “Looks like the doom squad is here.”
Tyler frowned, and I swear he was almost growling under his breath. But Mike, the security guy, was a professional.
“Mr. Lyon,” he said smoothly. “As you know, the safe room can only be accessed through the touchpad, which is keyed to you and your brothers’ fingerprints. Even identical twins have unique prints,” he said slowly.
“So what are you getting at?” I asked. “That I stole Tyler’s prints?” I still wasn’t taking this seriously, even as the snarl on my brother’s face intensified.
“No,” replied Mike. “The keypad history reveals that you were the one who broke in,” he said. “It’s your prints that opened the door, and your prints all over the computer in question.”
That got me.
“No … fucking … way,” I drawled with a smirk. “A ghost … with my fingerprints.”
Evidently, Tyler couldn’t take it anymore. He burst from his chair and tackled me, both of us falling to the ground with a hard thump and seized my collar.
“What the FUCK is wrong with you?” he roared, so red that his face looked like it was going to fucking burst, spittle hitting my chin. “What the FUCK?” he yelled, pounding my head against the floor.
The security man tried to intervene, but he was small and slim, no match for two six five athletes intent on beating each other to a pulp. I twisted in my brother’s grasp, managing to wrestle him into an awkward position and got a good punch to the head. By now the fight was loud, papers flying everywhere, furniture getting banged around, and I knew people outside could hear.
“There is NOTHING the FUCK wrong with me,” I roared back, not giving a fuck who knew we were fighting. The only thing I wanted was to pound my brother’s face, make him bleed. “You’re such a fucking DUMB SHIT!” I added with sucker punch to the groin. I don’t fight fair, especially with Tyler.
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