Chapter 3: The King Of Sleaze
Apartment 42, The Bowerstone Apartment Complex, 4th And Flint Street, Attison District, Temple City (3040).....
The early hours of the morning had not been a welcome sight for Baddwulf as he rolled onto his back and found the space on the right side of his bed had been recently empty as the tussled covers revealed that Mrs. Callens had been up for quite some time as he caught a glimpse of her bent over and seeing to her delicate feet fitting back into her red high heels. Baddwulf slid from beneath the crisp white sheets and tan comforter that lined his bed and strolled rather casually behind Mrs. Callens. Who gasped when she felt him behind her. As far as looks went, Baddwulf was most definitely a desirable man given his washboard abs, lean muscle mass, superior strength even when not in combat, and oceanic blue eyes that gave any woman pause. He wrapped his arms around the nearly dressed woman kissing her neck and shoulders as she did her best to keep from gasping aloud again.
She closed her eyes trying her hardest not to want to linger for too long as Baddwulf had been everything her husband had not been when it came to her needs, but she knew right off the bat it wasn't going to go any further than a few romps in the sack as a means of getting back at Thom for his treachery, but she was still drawn to Baddwulf like many of the women he took to bed.
The blonde woman decided to nip her feelings in the bud, but she couldn't help melting into his embrace as he wrapped his arms around her slender waist. Baddwulf smirked knowing all too well that she'd return once she'd ventured back home to her husband and he'd be waiting until she finally wised up about the nature of their newfound relationship or stopped wanting to punish Thom altogether. She took her to leave of him after a few more kisses along her shoulder with the unstated promise of returning for an encore performance as she made her swift exit from the bedroom and down the hall until she managed to get out the front door. Baddwulf smirked as he ventured backward into his bed as naked as the day he was born still reeling from the scent of her lingering perfume and arousal when she fled.
He smirked when he recalled all they had gotten up to before sleep overtook them and the first lights of dawn were upon them. He had also delighted in the fact that he'd knocked her husband out cold before returning home to find her willing to take another tumble in the sack with him despite everything she found out about the man she remained married to.
The seemingly gruff detective rolled onto his back with his sizeable cock sticking straight in the air as the images of the previous night ended up getting him excited all over again. He'd been almost sorry he let Mrs. Callens go back to her husband as he lied in bed with his right arm folded behind his head and stared up at the ceiling of his apartment. He had well and truly come a long way from where he began his life in this place, a lost and lonely kid trying his best to outrun the imposing monsters he'd awakened to find himself surrounded by.
His last good memories of his life before coming to Temple City had been of a vast greenish place where icy winds from the sea had been more often than not felt as the poor and the hungry huddled together or scrapped for resources in the wake of what had been left of the Gaelic Isles in the years following The War Of The Great Regression.
Amid the chaos and the warfare, he'd been only a boy of seven and sickly by all accounts as his father, and the only surviving member of his family not taken via the sickness that spread through the isles, had been so desperate that he handed his only son over to the visiting medical practitioners for treatment only for them to stick him with a DNA altering substance that essentially made him no longer classified as a human before effectively seizing him as their legal property due to him having the genetic coding of their drug in his body which overrode the genetic coding of his intended creation.
The heartbroken and grief-stricken man of The Gaelic Isles fought tooth and nail against the bastards trying to take his sickly son betrayed and shamed for being so desperate he fought until his last breath before they killed him via high-tech weapons in from of the seven-year-old boy's blue eyes and carted the kid off where he was thrown into a cage like an animal and taken from his homeland to a world of bioengineering labs and sterile environments with little to no human contact or warmth even for a child his age.
He recalled being poked and prodded via sharp metal instruments and questioned as if he had not been a person but an animal, and then one day a poking and prodding session led to him breaking out of the cage he was placed in. Half naked, starved, cold, and alone he became something else in the wake of his newly unleashed fury and escaped the highly secured compound.
He had not recalled much aside from the piles of bodies draped in white lab coats and black suits with shiny dress shoes as he found himself given to the one biological imperative not affected via genetic mutation, he ran as fast as his little legs could carry him and as far as he could manage.
He would up in some beaten-down alley behind an authentic Italian restaurant, run by a local thug by the name of Vincenzo Antonio Leonetti. The surprisingly kind-hearted man took him in after protecting him from beings collectively known as "The Black Hearts", a paid arm of the so-called government enforcers that were known for kidnapping children from lesser families for experimentation, and adopted him as his son.
Baddwulf had worked for his old man up until about ten years before becoming a private detective, which ultimately lead to his leaving his father's organized crime family in an official capacity due to a conflict of interests, but he remained in touch with them whenever he ventured passed the district line into Highland where Ian Baddwulf once more became "Francesco Michael Leonetti" better known as "Franky".
His father had been none too thrilled about his eldest son leaving the confines of the family to venture into the cesspool known as Attison District but he supported his son and made a decree that should "Franky" need any assistance he would be there with his boys and a lot of guns the moment he got word. Despite his considerable wealth, Vincenzo Leonetti, also known as "The Godfather of Highland", never had any wish to venture into the Beverland district of Temple City knowing all too well that those sellouts were as fake as press-printed bills when it came to decency and friendship.
Vincenzo hated disloyalty among many things and never could stomach anyone coming from that hell hole. The nicest thing he could say about Attison District was that the people there were real twenty-four seven even if they were sex fiends, drug addicts, and thugs for the most part.
Baddwulf drifted off after his trip down memory lane and the hours seemed to pass without incident. He'd only awoken when he felt the inevitable call of nature and slowly pulled back the sheets and sat up in bed as he focused his efforts to make it to the toilet with his aching bladder and sizeable cock leading the way.
He did his best to ignore the coldness of the hardwood beneath his bare feet as he stepped into the bathroom and got a sense of the cold white tile. He grunted at the sensation as he made his way over to the toilet bowl and promptly began urinating as he looked about the room. The single high window that echoed the noise from the street had been what provided the most light with the lamp shut off. He briefly thought back to his time with Ms. Callens and a wicked smirk filed across his gruff handsome face.
It was some life to lead being Ian Baddwulf, he'd gone from growing up in the slums of the Gaelic Isles to the Highland Heights only to venture back to the slums in Attison District just for "shits and giggles" as they say.
He thought it an interesting turn of events that he'd even gone from number one mob enforcer for his old man to a low-rent detective whose main claim to fame had been along the lines of taking sleazy pictures to expose cheating scumbags to their long-suffering and clueless wives. He was often dubbed The King Of Sleaze when out and about by bitter husbands angry their wives had plenty of ammo for a full-on divorce.
Baddwulf finished up flushing the toilet once he had and washing his hands, but not drying them as he left the bathroom dripping water all over the floor as he ventured back toward his bedroom only to get a hankering for booze and made a detour toward the kitchen for one of the ice cold brown bottles that lined the lower rack.
He popped the top in a timely and expert manner and gulped knocking on his front door had gotten his attention. He strolled over toward the door, thinking that perhaps Ms. Callens was in for another go around when he caught sight of a familiar face that made his nose wrinkle and his blue eyes narrow.
Standing before him was a voluptuous redhead with porcelain white skin, ruby red lips, smokey grey eyelids, emerald green eyes, and a lovely set of legs that seemed as if they could wrap around a man's neck for days on end and still be long. Before he could say a word, she pushed passed the door bold as can be taking note of his exposed naked body and the subsequent effect she seemed to have on him and any other man that she came into contact with.
"Still every bit the Big Boy that I remember you being." said the redhead in a cool and casual tone.
Sullivan, who had been sleeping in Baddwulf's chair seemed to roll his eyes as he leaped out of it at the first sign of the woman in red. He hightailed it back toward the bedroom leaving the two humans to sort out their apparent differences.
"What brings you by Amanda?" asked Baddwulf not in the least in the mood for another one of her games.
"Not even gonna offer me a drink?" asked Amanda as if she'd been offended. "Not even for old time's sake?"
Baddwulf rolled his eyes this time mirroring his cat.
Amanda seemed to be amused by this and quickly snatched the beer from his hands and drank a bit of it down while simultaneously running her free hand along Baddwulf's bare chest. He hated that his body still responded to her touch, although his mind had acted as if it were vicious claw marks digging into his flesh.
"I know you missed me." teased Amanda before passing him back his bottle and watching him spitefully drink down the remainder to ensure she couldn't get another taste.
Baddwulf narrowed his blue eyes at her once more only for her to rush him, her free hand falling forward and caressing his cock as if it were a pet of her own. The low growl from the handsome muscle man only served to intensify her playfulness.
"Admit it, Wolfie baby." she teased him again. "You've missed me just as much as I've missed you."
"That ship has sailed," replied Baddwulf grabbing her by her wrist and pulling her away from him. The slight twist had hurt him a bit but he played it off very nicely. He wouldn't give her the satisfaction of having him at her beck and call again.
Amanda seemed disappointed that some of her old tricks weren't getting her anywhere.
"Well since you're gonna be that way," she said making her way over toward the sofa. "The least you can do is help me out...you are still a detective from what I hear even if it is mostly taking sleazy pictures of powerful men in compromising positions."
Baddwulf ventured toward a desk and slipped a cigarette from the pack he had stashed in the drawer between his lips and lit it via a pack of matches. He struck it and let the flame die down as he turned his attention to the redhead on his sofa.
"I ain't doing you no favors," said Baddwulf in annoyance as he puffed on his cigarette.
"Not even if it's to get one over on ol' Marty St. John?" asked Amanda with an arched brow knowing the history Baddwulf had with St.John since they were teenagers.
There was a flicker of malice that flashed behind Baddwulf's eyes as he puffed on his cigarette. As badly as he wanted to bring the arrogant rich boy prick down a peg or two, he had considered that he was dealing with Amanda Smalls of all people. She always had her nose in other people's nefarious business and had a bit of her own as far as her life as a streetwalker had been concerned. There wasn't a cock in Attison District that she hadn't ridden at least twice and that went double for Beverland District.
After blowing a few rings of smoke into the air, Baddwulf considered his next few words very carefully.
"Say I might be interested, what are the job details and how much do I get paid?" he asked holding the cigarette via his fingers and looking very sternly in Amanda's direction.
"How do 5,000 black pennies sound?" she asked in a casual tone.
Baddwulf nearly spits out his cigarette.
"Five thousand black pennies?" he asked as if he heard her wrong and his hearing was quite acute.
"That's right," replied Amanda. "You get two thousand for taking the job in advance and the rest when it's complete with possibly another five thousand in bonus if the evidence is right."
"Client must have deep pockets," remarked Baddwulf.
"Indeed they do," replied Amanda in agreement with a giddy smile. "Client wants you to catch the no-good bastard in a compromising position with good shots and I mean good to be the proof needed to do some preemptive decision-making."
Baddwulf had not liked the sound of it but he did like the sound of money and he had no love loss for the likes of Marty St. John in the first place.
Another puff on his cigarette saw him finally making a decision. He knew he'd regret getting mixed up in whatever Amanda Smalls had cooked, but 10,000 black pennies was a lot to pass up especially with his slow rate when it came to clients that couldn't pay much, if at all.
"I'll look into it," he said in a gruff tone before puffing on his cigarette once again. "And this better be on the up and up."
Amanda seemed pleased as she got to her feet and made her way over to him.
"King of Sleaze you may be called from time to time, but everyone knows you're the big bad wolf," she said before kissing him on the cheek and wrapping her hand around his impressive cock once more.
She bit her bottom lip and took her to leave of him, sweeping out of the apartment as quickly as she had arrived. Once she was gone, Baddwulf let out a breath he had not realized he'd been holding.
Amanda Smalls had been nothing but trouble ever since he met her.
It seemed that girls that wore red and wolves always seemed to find themselves in a world of hurt.
Chapter 4: The Answering Of A SummonsJoe's Diner, 5th And Miller Street, Attison District, Temple City (3040)..... It was more of the usual when Baddwulf finally arrived at Joe's Diner, which he often frequented for a cup of hot coffee and a few donuts before heading out to see what he could scrounge up in terms of keeping his ear to the ground and his finger on the pulse of one district in Temple City that he'd been most fond of even as a youngster growing up on the outskirts of Beverland District due to the connections and vast wealth of his adopted father. Like any other day, he arrived in dark slacks, brown dress shoes, a tan long-sleeve shirt with black suspenders, a black tie, a black fedora pushed forward to cover his eyes, and a long grey trench coat. He smelled of cigarette smoke and didn't care who might have had a problem with it as he headed toward his usual seat in the front of the counter where he ordered a black cup of joe, and an aged glaze donut. He had plans f
Chapter 5: In For A Penny...In For A PoundingAttison District, Temple City (3040)..... The sweltering heat had not appeared to have let up as Baddwulf found himself in search of a bar for a cool drink to stave off the effects. He had been sweating up a storm, but managed to keep his head level as he moved about the street he wasn't too thrilled about his father having used Amanda Smalls of all people to track him down for the offer as he had known all too well that the redhead and his son had a history. It was a steamy undeniable history but there was always something to be said about a wolf chasing after a girl in red. Baddwulf had been halfway toward his office on the main street when he was suddenly ambushed by two goons in hoodlum attire that pushed him into a nearby alley. He wasn't surprised when they held him at gunpoint and started talking really tough.Of the two, one was the shortest and wore a dark brown suit with matching dress shoes and a worn fedora. He was a pale f
Chapter 6: A Nose For TroubleBaddwulf's Office Building, Main Street and Park, The Attison District, Temple City (3040)..... It was just another day at the office for Jake Summers as he sat at his respective desk mulling over the paperwork for the latest series of cases in a bid to figure out which one to present to his partner that would be interesting enough to pique his interest. The surprisingly thin, slightly pinked younger man, barely out of his teens and still wet behind the ears, had worn a pinstripe white long-sleeve shirt, a loose dark blue tie, and dark blue suit trousers and often paced the hardwood floor of the office wearing black dress shoes. Jake was a good kid, all things considered, he was orphaned after a fire saw his life going up in smoke along with his parents following a gang extortion attempt gone wrong. He grew up in Attison and met the smooth-talking wit-savvy brute known as Baddwulf when he'd taken on the thugs that burned the building he lived in dow
Chapter 7: Tempers And Tantrums4th Street and Ryanair, The Attison District, Temple City (3040)..... Coming hot off the heels of his recent attack via the thugs sent after him via Blacky Clay, Baddwulf had not been in the best of moods when prowling the streets that night. He'd been looking over his shoulder at every corner, but not out of fear as his rage was beginning to boil to the surface. As he continued his lone stroll it had occurred to him with the shouting around the corner and the shattering of glass and windows, that he had not been the only one upset about the way their day had been turning out. There was a woman who had caught her husband red-handed laying pipe for a younger woman in their living room while she'd been busting her hide all day at work. He'd gotten fired from his gigs so many times everyone had told her to ditch the bum. She stuck with him and put up with his laziness only for him to cheat on her with a younger woman while spending her hard-earned me
Chapter 8: Something Rotten, In The District Of AttisonMain Street and Park, The Attison District, Temple City (3040)..... Rapid-paced and bright flashing lights had gotten the attention of quite a few onlookers as many a curious and nosy person gathered outside to see what became of the person who had been merely a body with a crisp white sheet tossed over it while beat cops and onlookers muttered about what could have possibly happened and why. Baddwulf had already summed up the tragedy in a matter of seconds. From the brutality of the slaying and being that it was out in the open it proved that someone was adamant about sending a message of some sort, given the trajectory from being near his office, he knew that someone had wanted very badly to send a message. The beat cops came out of the woodwork to keep things civil and from spilling into Highland mostly to make the mayor look good. They ordinarily never patrolled in Attison District and it was a dead giveaway that the crime
Chapter 9: Dime A Dozen DamesThe Dope Diamond Gentleman's Club, Forth And Parkway, The Attison District, Temple City (3040)..... Hot pink and red neon lit up the dark black backdrop of the gritty inner city as Baddwulf found himself walking up toward the front door where the bouncers were ready and willing to throw anyone out to spoil the good time out into the street for so much as looking like they were going to be trouble. He plied them with a few black pennies for their thoughts before they allowed him inside with the strict warning that there was to be no trouble from him once he'd been let in. Baddwulf smirked, it was apparent that his reputation of sorts was getting around even in strip clubs. Of all the places in Temple City to bring the conflicting classes together, The Dope Diamond was just such a place, or at least it had been the case for the degenerates across the conflicting classes at least.The flashing pink and red neon had been a welcome staple for the darkened
Chapter 10: A Sucker For A Pretty FaceApartment 42, The Bowerstone Apartment Complex, 4th And Flint Street, The Attison District, Temple City (3040)..... By the time Baddwulf had stuck his key in the door, he noticed that his apartment had not been how he left it, almost immediately the scent of something akin to perfume and arousal hit his flaring nostrils and he stepped inside almost driven by impulse. He'd still been more than a little riled up due to the dances at The Dope Diamond Club, but he had done his best to see his way home and keep his mind on business. Sullivan seemed to have been fine as he made himself known via the center of Baddwulf's reclining chair as the puzzled detective moved about the apartment locking the door behind him and tossing his keys onto the nearby table. Whoever had been inside, was definitely female as the scent of arousal began to have a tremendous effect on him causing his cock to rapidly swell and tent the front of his trousers.Moving swiftl
Chapter 11: A Dark Web's EntanglementApartment 42, The Master Bedroom, The Bowerstone Apartment Complex, 4th And Flint Street, The Attison District, Temple City (3040)..... Early lights of dawn loomed over the horizon as Baddwulf found himself lying naked amid wrinkled crisp white sheets, as he attempted to make sense of what happened over the past previous hours since he'd arrived at his apartment following his trip to The Dope Diamond and found none other than Amanda Smalls lying naked in the center of his bed of all places for her to turn up once the hour had passed. They fell into their old routine like so many nights before when she turned up and spread her lovely slender legs for him. The sway she had over him had never seemed to change no matter how many years had gone by at least when it came to their mutual sexual exploits. Both their bodies still glistened from the serious workout they'd endured via their entanglement and Baddwulf took a moment to slick back his dark