The Organization

Chapter 18:  Retribution

After drying herself off, she began to slowly walk towards the kitchen.  On her way, she knew she must instigate her plan soon.  She knew she couldn’t take much more of that type punishment without suffering permanent damage.

Finding the Gatorade, she drank nearly a full twenty ounce bottle.  Then she fixed herself a small salad and a roast beef sandwich.  It seems Steve liked to feed his slaves roast beef sandwiches.  Teri originally thought it was because he liked them so well but after making her discovery, she remembered that is what he fed her and her mother nearly every day for lunch. Just knowing that ruined her taste for roast beef but she knew she needed to restore her energy so made and ate two of them along with an apple.

It was time to put her plan into action.  She began looking for Steve and found him in the recreation room on the treadmill.  As soon as she saw him, she got down on her hands and knees and crawled over beside the apparatus. 

Steve saw her crawling into the room and breathed a sigh of relief.  He was worried that he may have let Gwen  go to far yesterday.  He knew she had hurt Teri badly but didn’t realize how bad until he had finally let her down and carried her to the bath. 

He turned off the treadmill and stepped down off it.  Teri crawled to his side and said, “May I speak Sir?”  Steve nodded his head as he said, “You may stand up and walk regular and speak as you wish until I say you are to be quiet.”  “Thank you Sir,” she replied as she slowly and painfully stood up.

Is there anything special you would like for dinner tonight? I will need to have you get some supplies from the store for me if we don’t have the ingredients on hand.  I don’t think I should be seen in public for at least a few days.”  Teri was hoping he wanted something special so he would have to leave the house to get some of the necessary ingredients.  She desperately wanted to get to her car and slip into the house the special “supplement” she had purchased before she returned from Friday Harbor. 

Steve looked at her closely and said, “’Are you sure you are up to fixing dinner?”  “Oh yes,” she replied. “I need to move some.  I just can’t move fast or stretch much.  It will help me recover faster if I can be up and moving doing some light activity.  What can I fix for your?” 

Still watching her closely he said, “I would like that asparagus curry chicken over rice that you make so well.”  Her heart fell.  She was sure she had all the ingredients for that dish but she said, “I think I have everything I will need but I will check to make sure.”  She turned and headed for the kitchen to see if they were still all here.  She found the frozen chicken breasts, rice, curry, mushroom soup, lemons, and mayonnaise.  She nearly shouted for joy when she couldn’t find any fresh or frozen asparagus.  Returning to the recreation room she didn’t find Steve there so she went to the den and found him working on his computer.  She told Steve she needed some fresh or frozen asparagus.  He stopped working on his computer and said, “I’ll get it when I finish this paper.”  Then he went back to his computer work.  Walking out, Teri would have had a skip in her step if she wasn’t hurting so bad. 

She was afraid to go outside to her car while he was still there so she began to prep for the dinner meal.  It was very early to do that but she didn’t have anything else to do and he hadn’t told her to kneel beside him like he sometimes did when he was working and she had nothing special to do.   Soon she had all the other ingredients ready and now only needed the asparagus. 

She walked back into the den and knelt by his chair.  He didn’t say anything except he stopped long enough to ruffle her hair which always irritated her.  She didn’t show any emotion and just kept thinking to herself, “It won’t be much longer before he won’t be hurting anyone any more.  It might take a month or two but eventually she was sure he would have a spell of illness.  When he wasn’t in any condition to punish her she would make her move. 

Steve finished up what he was doing and said, “I’ll be back shortly with the asparagus.  Are you sure you don’t need anything else?"  “No,” she replied. “I have everything else ready to go.  When you get back I will start the rice and when it is done I will finish the rest of dinner.  If you buy frozen, get several packages so we have some on hand for the future.”  He just grunted and left.  When she was sure he was gone, she hurried as fast as she could to her car and got the large container of the special “supplement” she had purchased. She also got two empty containers that said, “Calcium” and took them all to the kitchen. 

She poured the special supplement into the two empty Calcium containers and took the special container to the recycle bins out by the garage.  She buried the container deep into the bin.  Unless someone was looking for it, it was now well hidden.  They would pick up recycle material in just a couple of days.  It would take longer than that for the supplement to start doing its job.

Teri had just finished all this exchange and hiding of the evidence when Steve came into the kitchen with several boxes of frozen asparagus.  She thanked him and took the extra to the freezer.  The one she was going to use she put in the microwave to thaw.  Soon she had everything mixed and the dish in the oven.  When it was done she called Steve to the table and began to serve dinner. 

She had prepared a new squash soup as an appetizer and while Steve was trying it out she went back to the kitchen to ostensibly serve the main course.  When she dished out Steve’s portion she lifted up the layer of asparagus and chicken and spread a heaping tablespoon of the special supplement on the rice.  Putting back the asparagus and chicken, she made sure there was plenty of the curry sauce and cheese covering the whole thing and took it out to him. 

Steve had finished the soup and said it was good but a little too heavy on the nutmeg for him.  “Sorry Sir,” she replied as she served him the main dish.  He dug into it and Teri watched him carefully to see if he could detect the slightly bitter metallic taste of the supplement.  When she was sure he didn’t, she breathed a sigh of relief and went to get her own plate of food.  This became the routine for the next several weeks.  Teri would douse his food with the special supplement.  Sometimes it was a lot and other times just a little but every meal had some of it in his food. 

Steve didn’t use Teri sexually for two weeks following her punishment by Gwen.  He knew she was hurt pretty bad and wanted her to recover some before he began to use her again.  When he decided she had recovered enough to be able to have sex, he took her in the ass first and then made her clean him up with her mouth.  This became his favorite form of sex with her.  Teri hated it but didn’t try to deter him or complain.  She knew it was just a matter of time before he wouldn’t be able to do anything to her again. 

Several weeks after Gwen had punished her, Steve commented that he was having headaches for some reason.  Teri smiled to herself but said to him, “Maybe you have a sinus infection.  Why don’t you go to the Dr and get an antibiotic prescription?”  He smiled and said, “Not at this time.  It is only a mild headache and aspirin takes care of it.”

A week later he started complaining about muscle aches and stomach aches.  The headaches were getting worse and he said he felt like he was getting the flu.  Again Teri suggested he see a Dr. but he said, “It is just a touch of flu.  I’ll be fine in a couple of days.”  Smiling Teri thought to herself, “Don’t hold your breath.  You are getting everything you deserve you bastard.” 

Steve didn’t sleep well that night and felt light headed and like he might have something really wrong.  Teri offered to give him a couple of her sedative tablets to help him sleep.  He agreed to take them and told her he thought he better see a Dr. in the morning.  She said, “I think that is good idea.  You haven’t been feeling well for several weeks now.”  She asked him if he wanted her to sleep in the bed with him or at the foot as usual.  He told her to sleep at the foot.  “If the sedative doesn’t help me I will only keep you awake with my tossing and turning. “ “Yes Sir,” she replied and took her place at the end of the bed.  He turned out the light and within ten minutes was solidly out in a drug induced sleep. 

Teri decided that it was time for her to make her move.  She was sure that Steve was far enough along towards having a heart attack that she could make that happen with one more large shot of potassium.  His heart should go into rapid irregular beats and then into full arrest.   It might even happen without the potassium shot as she tortured him like he had so many other women and young girls.  It was payback time.

Lifting him into a sitting position, she pulled him off the bed and onto a blanket.  He was so far out he hardly even moved when his feet fell to the floor as she pulled him off the bed.   Grabbing the blanket by his shoulder she began pulling him out of the bedroom and down the hall to the wall that wasn’t really a wall. 

She had spent many hours searching for the way to open that hidden door.  She finally found it in the electrical panel in the kitchen.  It was a breaker switch that turned on a motor that lowered the wall into the floor and made available the steps leading to the hidden basement rooms. 

She pulled him down the stairs and into the “training” room.  With a lot of effort she was able to get him onto the bed and spread out.  She cut off his undershirt and shorts and pulled the material away from his body.  He was now naked.  Her next task was to get wrist and ankle cuffs from the special closet along with one of the collars. 

Going back into the room she put the cuffs on him and then attached them to chains attached to the four corners of the bed.  He was now spread-eagled and helpless.  Next she took the collar and looking at the coded settings on it, snapped it closed.  Holding it in her hands, she walked towards the door.  As she got closer to it a tingling sensation began in her hands that traveled up her arms.  When she was within four feet of the door it became a painful shock.  She now knew the field around the room was active and would keep him in line.  Her last act before leaving the room and turning off the light and locking the door was to separate the ends of the collar and slip in onto Steve along with the blacked out goggles.  Now he was truly her captive.

Teri went upstairs, closed the wall door and headed for the master bedroom.  She stripped the bed and put fresh linens on it.  After taking care of her nightly duties she crawled into bed and went right to sleep.  She slept soundly the whole night without ever waking from a terrible nightmare.  Now it was time to call her mother and enlist her help. 

She got her mother well before she left for school and told her what she had done.  Kathy was shocked and very afraid but she had promised her she would help and so she would.  She would need to get off from school the rest of the week.  She thought she could do that by telling them she had a family emergency and would need a least a week to deal with it.  Then she said, “What do I have to do that will take a week?”  “You are going to be me at the Portland Sport Show on Thurs, Fri, and Sat.” Teri told her.  “Before you go I need to brief you on what you will be doing and how to do it.  You can also help with the punishment of Steve before you go.  Of course that is only if you wish to participate.”  Kathy thought about that for a few seconds and finally said, “I might actually enjoy that.  I’ll see you this afternoon as soon as I can pack a few things and get there.”

It was now time to deal with Steve.  When she entered the room, she could see Steve had woken up and had been fighting his restraints.  He had heard her enter and yelled, “What the fuck is going on.  Let me go.  Where am I? Who are you?  This all poured out of his mouth in a rush.  Teri had found the voice synthesizer and was wearing it when she answered.  “Doesn’t feel so good being on the other side of the goggles does it asshole.  By the way, you are no longer Steve Worth but asshole.  Do you understand?” 

He was quiet for several seconds and then tentatively said, “Teri? Is that you?”  “No asshole, this is cunt.  You remember her don’t you?”  Teri replied.  Now he was very quiet.  He didn’t say a word.  His thoughts were running wild.  How did she find out? What was she going to do now?  Is there a way I can escape?  These were all questions he was mulling over as he lay there waiting for what she was going to do next. 

While he was mulling these questions over, Teri had quietly gone back to the closet and gathered up a number of items she planned to use on him that day.  She didn’t plan to train him to be her slave.  Her whole purpose was to cause him a great deal of pain until after the conclusion of the outdoor show in Portland at the end of the week.  He had five days of misery coming before she administered the final shot of potassium which would stop his heart.  Of course at his age and with the amount of potassium in his system already, he might have a heart attack while she was torturing him.  She hoped that wouldn’t happen as he deserved to suffer like all the others he had tortured were made to suffer.

Finally he said, “Teri, let me go and we can talk about this.  I won’t hurt you anymore.  We can even get a divorce and you can go live with your mother or where ever you want.  I won’t bother you again.”  Teri now exploded in anger, “You think that will make up for you ruining our lives?  There isn’t a chance that will happen.  You are now going to experience what you put me and my mother through as well as all those other women you recruited for the Organization.  Then she began laying into his bound body with the thin wispy whip. 

He let out a yell and said, “Stop that.  If you continue this course I will hurt you and sell you on the white slave market! “Teri ignored that and began to deliver a terrible beating with the whip.  He was screaming shortly after she started and really screamed whenever the whip hit his cock or balls.  She must have been at it for 10 min or so because when she quit, she was panting and there wasn’t a spot on his front that wasn’t covered with welts.  He was drenched in sweat and sometime during this beating had passed out and she hadn’t even noticed.  She was going to have to be more careful in the future as he didn’t consciously feel the blows after he passed out and that wasn’t what she wanted. 

Throwing cold water on him, she waited as he came around.  “Please no more,” he croaked.  “Oh we are just getting started” she said as she began to attach alligator clips to his nipples.  He hissed in pain but didn’t say anything.  He gritted his teeth and was determined not to let her make him scream anymore.  She didn’t stop with just his nipples though.  She placed one on each of his ball sacks and on the tip of his cock.  He was able to deal with the ones on his ball sack but when she released the spring and the teeth bit into the tip of his cock, she screamed and begged her to take it off.  She just laughed and walked out of the room.  She was going to let him deal with this torment for at least an hour. 

When the hour was up, she returned to the room and found Steve, moaning and crying for relief from the clamps.  She released the nipple clamps first.  He moaned even more as blood rushed back into his abused nipples.  Next came the ones on his ball sack.  They didn’t hurt as bad and he felt just a little relief from them being removed.  Thinking she was now going to remove the one causing him the most torment, he was surprised when she didn’t take it off.  Instead she began to slap the end of the clip which caused him even more pain.  “Please Mistress, take it off.  I can’t stand anymore.” 

Teri stopped hitting the clamp when he said this and began to laugh.  “You think calling me Mistress will make me stop?  You still don’t understand. I don’t want you as a slave. I just want you to suffer!  “Please, I’ll do anything you ask if you will just take the clamp off.” He begged.  “Well… there is one thing that might make me take it off,” she replied.  “What?  Anything, just tell me what you want.” He almost yelled.  “Give me the access codes to all, and I mean all, your bank accounts.  I already have the ones to your business account and local personal account but I want the ones from the offshore accounts you have as well as any other accounts you may have.  Gritting his teeth he hissed out, “I won’t give you anything that will leave me broke.  I will kill you now when I get free.” 

Teri laughed and said, “suit yourself, but I plan to have that information before you die.  How long it takes you to give it to me makes no difference to me but surely will to you in the amount of pain you will suffer.”  She then unfastened one of his legs and began to pull it up over his head.  He tried to resist but didn’t have the leverage and she soon had his leg fastened above him which put tremendous pressure on his groin since the other leg was still fastened to the bed.  Moving quickly, she soon had his other leg secured above his head.  Now his entire genital area was exposed.

Taking the largest of the butt plugs she began to force it into his asshole.  She hadn’t lubed it up so it was hard going and very painful for Steve.  He tried to withstand the pain but as it was forced into him and was tearing his insides he began to scream and beg her to stop.  “You know how to get me to stop.” She replied.  She forced the huge plug further into him and he screamed the entire time but didn’t give her what she wanted.  When it was fully seated, she let his legs down, fastened them to the end of the bed and told him she would be back later with some water and food for him.  She left the room and went upstairs to wait for her mother. 

While she waited for her mother, Teri made a roast beef sandwich, a small salad and poured a glass of wine to take to Steve.  This was what he brought her for her first meal after he had captured her.  Only fitting she thought that he get the same meal.

It was almost two hours before her mother arrived and Teri was getting nervous as her mother needed to get on the road soon for Portland in order to be there to set up the booth.  When Kathy knocked at the door, Teri let her in and quickly took her to the garage and gave her a quick rundown on what was in the van and how to set up the booth.  She gave her a written detailed list of what she was to do and how to do it.  It took almost an hour to do this.  “If you have any problems just call me on your cell phone.” Teri said.  “My cell phone,” Kathy repeated.  “Yes, we have to trade phones so all calls and communications when you are there will be credited to my phone.  That is also why you have to take the company van although it would be necessary anyway as you couldn’t get everything in your car.  When you leave I will pull your car into the garage.  I can’t be seen out and about for the next five days so I will stay in the house and out of site.  Remember that you are me and you must register in my name and answer to my name.” 

Kathy looked at her daughter and said, “Are you sure we should do this?”  Teri smiled at her mother and said, “Oh yes I am very sure.  Come with me.  I want to show you something.”  She took her mom to the wall and had her stand there while she went and threw the switch that caused it to open.  Kathy’s eyes got big as the wall slid into the floor and there was a set of steps.  Teri had returned and led her mother to the hidden basement.  As soon as she was in the basement she knew this was where she had been taken when she went to ransom Teri. 

Going to the training room door, Teri unlocked and led her mother in.  Kathy gasped in surprise when she saw Steve spread-eagled on the bed. She also saw the red welts on his body and knew that her daughter had been whipping him.  “Wait right here,” Teri told her.  “I need to get something from upstairs.  She went upstairs and got the lunch she had fixed for him and brought it down.  Walking to the bed she said, “here is the meal I promised you.” 

Steve raised his head as Teri brought a corner of the sandwich up to his mouth.  He took a bite and realized that she had fixed him the same kind of sandwich he always gave the slaves.  He only paused for a second and then wolfed it down.  She fed him the salad and then gave him the wine.  He was expecting it so was able to sip it without taking a large gulp as he would if it was water.  When he was finished he said, “Thank you Mistress.”  He was hoping she would respond to his efforts to supposedly submit to her.

Immediately after saying that he screamed in pain as Teri struck his cock and balls with a knotted strand of rope.  “I told you I am not your Mistress,” she said and struck him again.  He screamed again and said,  “I’m sorry, I’m sorry.”  He would have doubled up if he hadn’t been tied down.  His balls ached and he felt like he might throw up his food.  Taking several deep breaths he finally got himself back under control as the pain diminished to a dull ache.  

“I have a special friend here to see you” Teri told him.  She had motioned her mother to come close to the bed.  When Kathy was beside the bed, she said, “It isn’t very pleasant being on the receiving end of the pain is it Steve?”  Steve turned his head and said, “Kathy is that you?”  “Yes it is,” she replied.  Taking a deep breath he said, “Please try and talk some sense into Teri.  I have promised to release her and leave you all alone but she just laughs.  She is asking me to give her information I can’t and won’t reveal.  Make her understand that if something happens to me, she will be the first suspect and with the marks she has left on me, it will be a dead giveaway that I was beaten and tortured.  She can’t get away with her crazy plan.” 

Kathy laughed now and said, “Oh I think she will.  She is very smart.  Her plan should work just fine but I have to agree that she will have to wait a week or two for the welts and bruises to disappear before she can actually end your miserable life.  I’m sure she will find other ways to make you suffer while that happens.  She shouldn’t have left marks on you now but I can understand her anger and rage.  I don’t think you are going to enjoy what little life you have left.  You destroyed our lives and now it is your turn.”  Turning away from the bed, she walked out of the room and motioned Teri to come with her.  She lashed out one more time with the knotted rope and again Steve screamed in pain.  “Since I can’t do this anymore I had to have one last shot,” she said as she headed for the door.

When they were back upstairs, Kathy turned to Teri and asked, “What kind of information are you trying to get from him?”  Teri smiled as she said, “I want all his bank account information including his offshore accounts and the passwords.  I am also going to get information on the Organization so I can make sure they don’t do anything to us or Lynn.  If I have enough information on them, I think they will realize that the best course is to just leave us alone.  I think I already have all the account numbers and where they are located as well as the passwords but I want to make sure so I am going to make him tell me as if I didn’t already know the information.”

Kathy smiled and finally said, “It would have been better if you hadn’t left any marks on him.  They are going to take at least a week maybe two to disappear.  You can’t give him a heart attack until they do or your plan won’t work.  He can’t just disappear as that will raise questions and suspicions.  This sport show is only four days long isn’t it?”  Teri nodded her head yes and said, “You are right.  The next show is two weeks away so I guess I am just going to have to say he is out promoting the charter business and won’t be back for a month.  That way I can make sure he is well healed before I administer the fatal dose of Potassium.” 

Kathy nodded in agreement and said, “You go to the show and I will stay here and take care of Steve.  I’ll nurse him along and make sure he is well healed so by the time the next show is over you can be rid of him.  I’ll make him give me the information you want without leaving any marks on his body. 

Teri looked closely at her mother and finally said, “How are you going to do that.  I hurt him plenty and he still wouldn’t give me the account numbers and passwords.  I haven’t tried to get him to give me any information about the Organization but I’m sure he won’t do that easily either."  Smiling a very sinister smile, Kathy said, “I have some ideas on how to make him see the light and give up the information.  I’ll have four or five days to work on him and by the time you get back I’m sure I’ll have what you need.  You better get on the road or it will be too late to set up by the time you get there.   After you pull the van out of the garage, I’ll move my car in and no one will even know I’m here.  As far as anyone will know, both you and Steve are gone for a few days.  I’ll keep the lights to a minimum as well so unless someone is trying to see if anyone is home, it should appear to be unoccupied.  Now be on your way.”  

Teri looked at her for a few seconds and then shaking her head headed to her bedroom to pack a bag.  It only took her a few minutes to pack and then she was ready to leave. “I’ll call you every evening to see how things are going” she said as she went through the laundry room to the garage.  After Teri had pulled the van out of the garage, Kathy pulled her car in and shut the door.  Now it is time to start working on Steve she thought to herself.

When she entered the room, Steve lifted his head and asked? “who is there?”  “It is the Bitch” Kathy replied.  “I will not stoop to your low standards and give you a derogatory name.  I’ll just keep calling you Steve.  I will also suggest that you tell me what we what to know or your miserable life will not be pleasant.  If you tell me now, I promise I won’t hurt you too bad.  If you don’t tell me, then I will just keep upping the consequences until you eventually do tell me.  I know you think you can resist and take anything I will do to you but I promise you that is not true.  So let’s start with the bank account numbers and passwords.  If you don’t remember them just tell me where to find them and we can move on to other matters.”

Steve almost laughed as she said this.  He felt a lot better about Kathy trying to get him to talk than Teri.  She frightened him but Kathy was older and more mature with a better sense of restraint.  At least he hoped that was true.  “I do not plan to tell you where the money is all deposited so don’t waste your time trying.  Teri worked me over pretty good and I didn’t tell her,” was his only response.  Smiling to herself, Kathy said, “have it your way.” 

Leaving the room and going to the equipment closet, Kathy chose a set of ankle cuffs with about a 12 inch chain between them, a wide sturdy leather belt with rings riveted around it, and finding the tens machine and case of attachments she added that to the other items.  She returned to the room and sliding the belt under his waist she fastened it around him.  Next she unfastened one of the wrist cuffs and pulled Steve’s arm down to his side.  He tried to resist but Kathy just reached out and grabbed his balls and began to squeeze.  He resisted for a bit but he wasn’t able to break free from her grasp and she was really starting to crush his balls so he quit fighting her and let her fasten his wrist to the belt.  She did the same with the other arm and now his hands were secured to the belt.  She then unfastened the spreader bar and released his legs.  Sliding them to the edge of the bed she told him to stand up.  With some effort since he couldn’t use his hands or arms, Steve sat up on the edge of the bed.  Letting him rest so he wouldn’t get too dizzy, Kathy went to the wall switch and began lowering the hoist.  Steve heard the hoist start down and knew she was planning to restrain him with the hoist in some manner.  Without the use of his hands or arms he didn’t see any way he could stop her unless she made the mistake of letting both hands go at the same time.  If she did, he would make his escape attempt.  He was confident that he would be able to get the collar off even without being able to see the numbers on the lock if he could immobilize her some way.  It would be easier if he could see but he didn’t think she would take the goggles off.

Once the hoist chain was about waist high she stopped it and went to Steve.  “I know you heard the hoist coming down so don’t try and fight me.  If you do, I will hurt you very badly.  Teri doesn’t know the human body like I do and I know where the sensitive nerves are.”  Having said that, Kathy reached down and pinched the very end of his cock which caused him to hiss with pain.  Next she used just her fingernails to pinch with and Steve yelled in pain.  “I understand” he yelled.  She helped him up and he was led to the hoist.  Kathy wasn’t about to release both hands at the same time so she released one of them and when he tried to resist again. She stomped on his instep which made him yell and lift his foot thus putting him off balance.  Kathy kept him from falling and quickly fastened the cuff to the hoist chain.  She did the same with the other hand and arm.  She began to raise the hoist pulling Steve’s arms up over his head.  When he was nearly on tiptoes she pulled his left leg out to the side and fastened it to a floor hook and then did the same with the right leg.  He was now suspended with all his weight on his arms and shoulders. “Don’t go anywhere,” she giggled.  “I have to go out and see if I can find another piece of equipment I guess I am going to need.  It is a tool for putting castration rings on young bulls.  I figure that having one of those on you will loosen that tongue pretty quickly.  If it doesn’t, you will become a eunuch just like the bulls become steers.”  Laughing, she left the room with Steve hanging there.   Now there was some fear in his eyes and heart.  Kathy was turning out to be worse than Teri!

She let him hang there for over an hour.  During that time she had opened and closed the garage door as if she had left and then about forty minutes later did it again.  She knew Steve could hear the door opening and closing and would assume she had gone out looking for the tool she mentioned.  He hoped she wouldn’t be able to find one in Anacortes.  There was no way he was going to let her castrate him.  He would give her the bank account numbers before he allowed her to do that.  It was his one weakness.  He feared losing his manhood. 

When she entered the room, Steve was moaning as his shoulders were in extreme pain and he feared he would shortly dislocate them.  Kathy walked up to him and grabbed his balls.  He let out a yelp and then began pleading for Kathy to let him down.  She smiled as he begged and continued to squeeze his balls.  Soon that pain overcame the pain in his arms and shoulders and he screamed.  Letting go of him she said, “It took awhile but I was finally able to find the tool.  It is time for you to tell me what I want to know or you will lose these.”  She again began to squeeze them.  Panting and moaning Steve said, “Alright.  I’ll give you the account numbers. Just let me down and I’ll give them to you.”  Kathy looked at him briefly and then went to the switch and began to lower the hoist.  “If I think you are trying to hold back any of them, I will string you back up and you will lose the jewels you seem to hold so precious.”

Once he was able to stand on his spread legs she stopped the hoist.  “Alright, you are down now.  Give me the account information.”  Steve started to pull his arms down and even though he was still fastened to the hoist he had some room to bring his arms down some.  Just that small change in position brought searing pain in his shoulders and back as his stretched and abused muscles reacted to the new position.  He hissed in pain but shortly it subsided as he reached the end of his tether.  They weren’t all the way down but his wrists were now about head high and he could put a little of the weight of his arms on the hoist chain.  Steve began to give Kathy the banks, account numbers and access codes.  Kathy compared them to the list Teri had given her of the ones she had learned over the past two years while she sat by as he worked on these accounts.  He didn’t know that Teri already had the information but that they were checking to see if there might be other accounts.  When Steve finished, Kathy compared what he gave her to the list and it was complete.  Apparently there were no other accounts.  “Are you sure this is all of them?” she asked.  “Yes, that is every one.  Now let me go.”  Smiling, she replied, “Oh no we are just getting started.  We have a lot more information we need to know.”  Pushing the button she began to raise the hoist again.