Three Reasons Why

Hannah stepped out of the shower and took a towel off a nearby, heated rail, not bothering to cover up but immediately beginning to towel herself dry. As Chloe exited the shower also, Hannah threw the redhead her own towel and the two naked girls took to clearing their skin of the remaining water clinging to their bodies. Chloe kept an eye on Hannah, the older blonde woman pensive and hesitant, her face turned in a half frown, but Chloe kept waiting for an answer, and Hannah knew that she wouldn’t leave without one.

“Your friend Lisa was arrested yesterday morning, right?” Hannah prefaced, glancing at Chloe as she brought the towel up to her hair.

Chloe nodded as she replied, “We’re not close. I only know her because Zack dated her. Until she showed up at the cabin this week, I hadn’t spoken to her in months. Though we were all really surprised when they found those **** in her bag.”

“Well, there’s been another development in the case,” Hannah revealed, sighing. “Her father has also been arrested now too, for obstruction of justice.”

“Wha-what?” Chloe froze, ceasing the drying of her body, still as she stared at Hannah, waiting for the blonde to say that it was just a joke.

“It’s true,” Hannah insisted. “It just happened this morning and they released the report just before you woke up.”

“I don’t believe it,” Chloe declared, shaking her head. “What…what did he do?”

“He accosted a judge, tried to get the man to dismiss the case against Lisa and got angry when he refused, supposedly trashing the judge’s office, though he didn’t actually get violent with the judge himself, but it was enough I imagine that when the judge reported it they felt willing to take him in,” Hannah explained.

“That was a bold move,” Chloe said, resuming her towelling as Hannah finished hers, or her body at least. With her hair still damp, she moved back into the bedroom, finding her clothes laid out on the bed where she’d left them, Chloe following closely behind. “Carlos Rivera is well-liked around town. He’s going to have public opinion on his side.”

“He’s an idiot,” Hannah growled as she slipped her feet into the dark purple thong and slid it up her legs, Chloe watching as the material slid between Hannah’s round ass cheeks. “Lisa probably would have gotten off easy if he’d just stayed out of it. What kind of police officer makes that kind of judgement call?”

“The kind who’s also a devoted father,” Chloe replied, leaving the bedroom momentarily to place her towel back on the rack. When she’d returned, Hannah had encased her large tits in the matching purple bra. “It wasn’t the smart decision, but I can understand how someone who loves his daughter might react like this, especially if she’s innocent.”

“Well, it was quite unexpected,” Hannah admitted, slipping her blouse on and beginning to button it up, leaving a few undone so as to show off an enticing amount of her gorgeous cleavage. “I can’t imagine how Robert is going to react.”

“Why? Will this even affect him?"

“Yes. As his intern, in order to help with my degree, Robert allows me to shadow him in some of his business dealings. At other times, I’m not much more than a glorified secretary, but during my time shadowing him, he told me about a new project he was working on, and it was stressing him out,” Hannah replied then paused, biting her lip. “Perhaps I shouldn’t even be telling you this…but since it’s you…”

“I don’t want to get you in trouble,” Chloe said, looking around the room for Heather’s borrowed bra and panties that had been discarded before their activities the night before.

“It’s alright. I trust that you won’t tell anyone,” Hannah assured her, as she slipped her legs into the skirt, pulling it up and covering her ass as she began to tuck the blouse in. “Not all of the board were willing to sign off on it, but enough were able to agree, on the condition that he could acquire all of the land needed. Unfortunately, he’s had some trouble getting all of that land. Namely, because Carlos Rivera refused to sell the land on which his cabin resides. The two have been in negotiations, but the project has begun to stagnate and Robert was worried that some of the board on his side were beginning to lose faith.”

“Wait, Robert wanted Carlos’ land?” Chloe pulled the blue lace panties up over her ass and straightened up, looking at the blonde with arched eyebrows. “Doesn’t it seem strange to you that right around that time Lisa is arrested for trumped up charges?”

Hannah straightened up as well, as she finished zipping up her skirt and looked at her redheaded friend with a tilted head and blinked. “What?”

“Robert needs Carlos’ land, but Carlos is holding out on him,” Chloe said as she put the story together in her head. “What if Robert framed Lisa while he was at the cabin last night as a way to put pressure on Carlos during the negotiations? Or even worse, if he anticipated Carlos’ reaction, and used it as a means of getting him out of the picture so that he could acquire the land? Doesn’t it seem odd to you that this all happened right around the same time, just when Robert’s deal seemed poised to fall through?”

The blonde shook her head confidently. “No, it’s not Robert.”

“How can you be so sure?” Chloe asked, confused.

“Because, one, we don’t know that the charges were bogus. Maybe the **** were Lisa’s. You said yourself you hadn’t seen her in a while, and a lot can happen to people, especially in the aftermath of heartbreak,” Hannah explained, picking up Chloe’s bra and handing it to her, silently prompting the redhead to keep getting dressed.

“Yeah, that’s what Gavin said too,” Chloe admitted, thoughtfully, as she slipped her arms through the straps on the blue, caged bra and reached around her back to clasp it shut. “But, doesn’t it seem at least plausible that Robert set this up?”

“Which leads me to my second point. I don’t think anyone could have predicted how Carlos would have reacted. You’re assuming a lot on Robert’s part to not only successfully manipulate a man but to also completely and adequately profile him to know that he would react like this,” Hannah said, as she took her laptop and placed it in a bag, putting the strap over her shoulder. “Not to mention, I have no idea if this helps or not.”

“Well, ok, maybe he didn’t know how Carlos would react. I admit, he’s always seemed like a very level-headed police officer, and it can be tough to know how someone would react when you target their family. It could have been dangerous because Carlos might simply have doubled down on trying to catch his daughter’s framer and pursued the investigation even harder,” Chloe nodded to herself as looked around the room. “Hm…I think my other clothes are downstairs.”

“Exactly,” Hannah agreed, following Chloe down the stairs to the living room area where her leggings and peplum top still lay in their resting place from last night’s lap dance. “Besides, you’re only saying this because you don’t know Robert. He’s a good man, and smart. For instance, he allowed me the use of a company car and this hotel room because he wanted me to be able to come and go as I pleased. He told me that a young woman should have her independence.”

“Sounds like he was trying to butter you up for something,” Chloe smirked as she slipped her leggings on, glancing at Hannah as she made the implication.

“I’m a beautiful woman, I’m used to people giving me things because they want something in return,” Hannah confessed, matching Chloe’s smirk. “But what Robert wanted, I don’t think it was sex. I think most bosses, if they wanted something from their employees, they would browbeat them, or threaten with loss of wages or overtime. But Robert gave me the car and the room, free, and happily, without asking for anything in return. Yet, I wanted to give him something in return. I wanted to do good work for him, to impress him. I think, before I even started working for him, Robert was already trying to teach me something.”

“Oh?” Chloe asked, curiously, as she reached for her top. “And what was that?”

“That if you want to engender loyalty and support and good work in your employees, sometimes a good deed goes further than a bad word. What’s the old saying? You catch more flies with honey than vinegar?” Hannah laughed, her face brightening. “Actually, speaking of gifts, I have something for you.”

Chloe finished dressing, straightening out her top and slipping on her shoes as Hannah fished through her laptop bag for a few minutes. Finally, Hannah pulled it out, Chloe’s eyes widening as she saw what Hannah wanted to give her.