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Subject: {ASSM} THE COPS' WIFE, PART NINE (F/MMMM+, FF, WIFE, GANG)
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Another installment in the Cop's Wife series by Rusty Shackleford. Earlier 
parts are available through asstr.org at 
http://www.asstr.org/files/Authors/tedebear/Other_Authors
And look for Rusty Shackleford.

Or search Google newsgroups (www.google.com) Rustyshac@aol.com for this and
other stories.

I post this information so you won't have to send me dozens of e-mail requests
for reposts of the earlier parts. Those are quite flattering but time
consuming.


OUR STORY SO FAR: Police officer Tom Barkley had arrested Marcus Dupree on
the charge of dealing Cocaine, and had testified against him at the trial.
After Marcus was sent to jail, Tom sold the dealer's coke, and the word of
this got back to Marcus. Now that he was out of jail, having served his
time, he was going to extract his revenge on Tom (and get his money back)
by making the cop's wife his whore and fuck toy. 


THE COP'S WIFE, PART NINE


"Friday night." Marcus Dupree said. 

"Date night." laughed Tanya sardonically. 

Amy looked up from the floor where she was kneeling naked at Tanya's feet. Her
eyes filled with fear, but she didn't stop her gentle sensuous licking between
Tanya's toes. Tom was slumped in a chair across the room. His eyes were dull
and lifeless, but as usual there was a bulge in his pants, from watching his
wife's humiliation.

Tanya reached down and grabbed a handful of Amy's thick curly hair. She pulled
the girl's head away from her task of foot-worship.

"That's right, Slut Amy." she purred, "Have you forgotten? Master Duke set up
a nice date for you, with his friends the Lobos."

"Oh God." Amy moaned, "A motorcycle gang? Please no...No more."

Tanya slapped her across the face hard. "Shut up bitch!" she snarled. "I can't
believe that you even try to pretend anymore. You know you love getting gang
fucked. We've seen you. Your hubby's seen you." she laughed again, "Half of
the Internet has seen you sucking and fucking and begging for more cock. And
yet you still act like the shy little innocent bride." She pushed Amy's head
back down to her feet. "Now get back to work slut!" she ordered, "I'm tired of
your bull shit."

Tears spilled down Amy's face, as she bent back to her work. She licked and 
sucked at the toes of Dupree's evil blonde assistant. Tanya sighed happily. 

"She gettin' pretty good at that?" Dupree asked. 

"She knows what's good for her." Tanya said. She reached down and toyed with
the rings in Amy's nipples. "She knows she better please me, or I'll whip that
ass right off of her."

"Yeah," Dupree said, "but not before the Lobos get their shot at it." and the
two of them laughed at the joke.

"How much longer?" Tom asked. 

"Well, whaddya know?" Dupree said, "Tommy-Boy ain't lost his voice after all.
What was that, Tommy-boy?"

Tom looked up, and repeated his question, "How much more?" his voice breaking
up. "Jesus, how many men have you whored her out to? How many tapes of her
have you sold? How many shows has she put on? You even took my car. We have to
have at least some of the money paid back." 

"I don' know," Dupree said. "I'll have to ask my accountant."

He and Tanya laughed. Then Dupree stood up. He walked over to stand over Tom.
"You still don't get it, do you Tommy-Boy?" he said softly. "It ain't just the
money. You ripped me off mother fucker. An' your sweet little wife over there
is gonna be payin' me back for that for as long as I want. An' when I'm done...
well, I ain't decided what to do with her yet." Tom put his face in his hands. 

There was the sound of a car door slamming outside. Duke, the fat biker who
had been one of Amy's original rapists, entered the house. He chuckled at the
sight of Amy on her knees licking Tanya's feet.

"Damn." he said, "You got that bitch trained pretty good." 

Tanya smiled lazily, and asked, "Do you want to see how well trained she really
is?"

Duke looked at his watch, and said, "Hmmm. We ain't got much time." 

"Oh, it won't take long." Tanya said, as she grabbed Amy by her hair again,
and pulled her head up. "Thee minutes!" she snapped at Amy, "He comes in your
throat within three minutes, or your pretty tits have a date with my pliers.
I'll really teach you what pain is."

Amy moaned and crawled across the floor to where Duke was grinning, as he 
unzipped his pants. "Tom," Tanya said, "why don't you keep the time? You've
got that nice watch after all."

Tom stared mesmerized, as Duke pulled his enormous cock from his jeans. He
looked at his watch. "Starting ... now." Tanya said. Tom looked down at his
watch, and then back up at the obscene scene playing out in front of him. 

Amy knelt in front of Duke, and sucked the half erect shaft into her mouth.
She looked up at him pleadingly, and began working her tongue against the
underside of his dick, slurping and sucking noisily on the big cock.

"Damn!" Duke gasped. "She's really has gotten good." 

"Mmm-hmmmm." Tanya purred, "Once she got some real men's dicks to work on, and
a little motivation. What's the time, Tommy?"

Tom looked at his watch. "One minute." he choked. Amy whimpered and redoubled
her efforts. Her fingers gently stroked Duke's hairy balls, which were hanging
outside of his jeans. She took her mouth off his dick and licked Duke's balls,
pumping his cock desperately with her hand. Duke grunted in pleasure. "Yeah."
he whispered down at her. "You gonna have a good time tonight. I showed the
Lobos some of your tapes," he grinned, "and they've been lookin' forward to
this all week."

"Two minutes." Tom whispered. 

A shudder ran through Amy's body as she sucked Duke's fully erect shaft back
into her mouth. She groaned and grunted like an animal as her head pistoned
rapidly up and down. Duke grunted in pleasure and wrapped his hands into her
hair. He began fucking her mouth hard. She sucked like a starving woman,
gagging slightly, as he hit the back of her throat.

"Two minutes thirty seconds." Tom said. 

After a few more moments, Duke threw his head back and yelled, "Ah, you sweet 
fuckin' slut!" he groaned, "I can't hold it, she's just too damn good." His
hands in her hair tightened, as he cried out in climax. Tom could see Amy's
throat working, as she swallowed frantically. After a long moment, he shuddered
and turned her loose. She pulled her head away, and looked at Tom beseechingly.

"Three minutes and ten seconds," Tom said. 

"Awwww." Tanya said with mock sympathy, "So close. Still, Slut Amy, rules are
rules. I guess that you and I have an appointment later."

"You bastard," Amy hissed at Tom. "You could have told her I made it." 

"Time to go." Duke said, as he zipped up. 

"Wait a minute," Dupree said. "We can't take her out in the car without any
clothes on."

"Hmmm." Tanya said, "Maybe Tommy should pick out something for her to wear.
Something nice and slutty."

"Good idea." Dupree said, "Bitch, take your hubby in the bedroom and let him
pick out somethin' for you to wear. And don't take too long."

Tom followed Amy into their bedroom, his head down. She stood by the bed, not
speaking, as he rummaged through her closets. Tanya's instruction to pick out
"something slutty" had been another cruel joke. They had thrown out all of
Amy's regular clothes and replaced them. Slutty was all she had left. He
pulled out a black leather micro-miniskirt and handed it to her.

"Oh yeah," she sneered, "you love seeing me in this one, don't you?"

Tom didn't answer, as he handed her a thin t-shirt. On the front, in large red
letters, was the word "WHORE".  Amy took it and looked at it. "Don't worry,"
Tom said bitterly. "It's not like you'll be wearing it very long." 

"You're right Tom," she said softly, and then stepped closer, until she could
whisper in his ear, "as soon as we get there, I'll be naked. I'll be fucking
and sucking total strangers. I don't even know how many, or what they'll make
me do. But whatever they ask for, I'll do. Anything Tom, any nasty perverted
thing that they can think of, I'll do it, and crawl around on my knees for
more. And you know what? I'm already soaking wet just thinking about it. I am
a whore Tom. Daddy Marcus' whore, Master Duke's whore, even..." her voice
broke, "Mistress Tanya's whore. And it's all because of you. Thank you Tom.
Thank you for bringing these people into our lives, so that they could show me
what I really am."

She kissed him lightly on the ear, before stepping back and pulling on the
T-shirt. It was so tight that Tom could see her nipples and nipple rings
clearly through it. Even the word WHORE was distorted.

"Come on Tom," Amy said, "I'm ready to go get fucked."

They took Duke's Suburban. Tom sat up front as Duke drove. Amy sat in the back
between Tanya and Marcus. They drove for a long time, out into the country.
Finally, they turned down a long dirt road that led through a grove of trees.
They came out into a clearing by a small lake. There were motorcycles parked
in rows at one edge of the clearing, and several more bikers roaring up and
down, the headlights cutting swaths through the darkness. There was a bonfire
next to the narrow sandy beach of the lake, with several men standing around
drinking.

Duke stopped the truck and got out. Several men began walking over, as Duke
walked around to Amy's door and yanked it open. "Here she is boys!" he yelled.
At Tanya's whispered command, Amy got out and stood by the truck. Tom could
see her trembling. As the group of men drew closer, Tom could see that they
were all Black or Hispanic. Many were dressed in battered leathers and jeans.
They were all holding bottles of either beer or whiskey. They gathered around
Amy in a tight circle. No one spoke for a moment. Amy looked at them helplessly,
her eyes wide, the eyes of an animal with no escape.

Finally one of the men spoke. "I guess this is the whore then." 

"Hey," one of the other men called out, gesturing at Amy's tight t-shirt.
"Julio can read! Who knew?" There was a roar of laughter."

"This is the one boys." Duke said, "Was I wrong? Ain't she one fine piece of
ass?"

"She's all right lookin'," a tall skinny black man with dread locks said, "but
how good do she suck dick?" 

"Oh, she's a good cock sucker!" Duke said, "Ain't that right, Amy?" Amy looked
down and mumbled something at the ground. "I didn't hear you bitch!" Duke said,
"Tell them how good a cock sucker you are!"

Amy looked up, tears glistening in her eyes. "Yes," she said. `I'm a g-good
cock sucker."

"Shit," a burly Hispanic man said. "I don' think I believe you, puta. I think
that maybe we get our money back."

"And you know what'll happen to you if we have to do that." Tanya murmured
from inside of the Suburban.

Amy looked panicked. "No!" she said, "Please...let me show you." as she dropped
to her knees and looked up at the men around her, licking her lips. "I'll suck
you. I'll suck you good. Nice and slow. Nice and deep. Please, please let me
show you." Tom reached down to stroke his cock through his pants, as he watched
his wife begging to please this group of strangers with her well-trained mouth.
The men were grinning now, amused by her eagerness to please. One of them
stepped forward and unzipped his jeans. His cock sprung free, fully erect.

"Show me bitch!" he snarled, "Show me that you know how to suck a cock."

"Y..yes sir." Amy answered, her voice quivering.

She began by licking his shaft slowly, running her tongue along the side,
looking up at him, to gauge his reactions. He closed his eyes and his breathing
quickened.

"I told you that she was good." Duke grinned. 

"She's all right." the man said, and then gasped, as Amy slid his whole shaft
into her mouth, taking his entire length into her throat in one smooth stroke.

The other men laughed, as the first man's nonchalance crumbled. "Damn." he
grunted. He grabbed the back of Amy's head, holding his cock deep in her
throat, grinding his wiry pubic hair into her face, until she was gagging. He
released her, and she pulled her head away, gasping for air. Tom could see
tears running down her face, but only for a second, as another man grabbed her,
and pulled her head to his cock. He gave her the same treatment, shoving his
cock down her frantically working throat, and holding it there. She was gagging
and retching, as he pulled back out to let her breathe for a moment.

"Please," she croaked, her voice raw, "Please give me a chance. Let me make it
good for you mmnghpf.." as another laughing man began to choke-fuck her. 

"Damn!" Dupree muttered to Tom. "I tole them not to kill the bitch." 

"WHAT THE FOCK IS GOING ON HERE?" a loud female voice cut through the air. 

The men stepped back. Amy collapsed to the ground, gasping and wheezing. A
woman stepped through the crowd. She was tall, almost six feet, with long
raven-black hair, that hung down her back in a long braid. Her face was
striking, rather than beautiful, with her high cheekbones, she looked like an
Aztec Goddess. She was wearing a black leather miniskirt, and thigh high
leather boots. The woman strode to the center of the circle, and stood over
Amy for a moment. Then she looked up at the first man Amy had been sucking. 

"So Julio," she said in a low, dangerous, thickly accented voice, "this is
what you been doin', while you think I wasn't aroun'? Fuckin' with this puta?"

"Awww, c'mon Juanita baby." the man said, looking almost sheepish. "You know,
it's just a party. Duke here sold us this bitch for the night."" 

The woman looked down at Amy, who was struggling to her knees. "What about you
whore?" she sneered down. "You think you woman enough to take my Julio away
from me?"
 
"No." Amy said, "Please...I'm sorry..I didn't have a choice..I'm..I'm just a
whore."

"Huh?" the woman said. She stepped closer and added, "I think you like it,
though. I can tell."

She reached down and began rubbing Amy's breasts through the thin shirt. It
was then that Tom noticed that her nipples were totally erect. Amy moaned as
the woman rubbed her nipples. "Maybe I take a piece of this lil' puta myself.
What you think boys?"

Julio made as if to protest, but he was drowned out by the roar of lustful
approval from the circle of men. Juanita grinned at her boyfriend. "Looks like
you out voted baby." she cooed, "After all, sauce for the goose, right?"

Julio muttered something and stomped off. Juanita just tossed her head and
laughed. Then she grabbed the hem of her miniskirt, and pulled it up. A leather
thong, that matched the skirt, was her only undergarment. She grabbed Amy's
head and pulled it to her crotch. "You like to eat pussy, whore?" she spat.
Amy's only response was a moan of desire. "Fuck!" Juanita said, "Who cares if
you like it or not. Just get to fuckin' work." She rubbed her leather clad
crotch against Amy's face for a moment. Amy's hands came up to pull down the
thing, and the woman slapped them away.

"No bitch!" she barked, "Put your hands behind your back, and use your teeth."

Amy groaned as she complied, crossing her wrists behind her. She took the
thong between her teeth and began trying to work it down. The woman didn't
make it easy for her either. She squirmed a bit, causing the thong to pop out
of Amy's mouth, causing the men to laugh and jeer. But gradually, Amy was able
to work the narrow strip of leather down far enough, to reach the dark haired
woman's pussy. Only then did Juanita relent, and pull the thong the rest of
the way off. She pulled Amy's head between her slightly spread legs, and began
humping her crotch against Amy's mouth. 

"Mmmmm." she moaned, "Yeah, work that tongue...UUUnnngh...Oh yeah baby...you
pretty good at that!" She pushed Amy over onto her back, and straddled her
face. As Amy went back to work on Juanita's pussy, the dark-haired woman
arched her back and groaned. "Uunnhhh. Yeah puta, eat my pussy, eat it good."
Some of the men standing around were stroking their cocks from the sight.
Juanita looked around, and laughed deep in her throat.

"C'mon boys," she crooned. "I ain't selfish. Ahhh...yeah, bitch, right there...
come get some of this cunt."

The men advanced on the two women. One of them hiked Amy's skirt over her
waist. She wore no panties, of course, so he was free to shove his cock into
her. Amy's scream of pain and pleasure into Juanita's crotch made her groan
louder.

"NNNNNnnngh...yeah! She like that...Fuck her man, fuck her ass off...ahh...ah
yeah, she gonna make me cum. You fuckin' whore, lick it...lick it...lick my
pussy....I'm...I'm...madre de dios, I'm cuming." she said as she threw her
head back and screamed from the pleasure that Amy was bringing to her. Shudders
ran up her body in waves, as Amy's tongue stimulated her to orgasm.

When her blissful convulsions subsided, she looked down at Amy and laughed
with delight. "Damn, puta," she said hoarsely, "you make a pretty good dyke!"
She made no move to get off of her face, but turned her head to speak to the
man behind her, who was brutally fucking in and out of Amy's cunt. "How's that
pussy feel Carlo?"

"Tight." Carlo grunted, "She squeezin' down on my dick like a damn vice, man."

Juanita laughed, as she swung her leg over, to dismount Amy's face. "I bet
that ass is nice and tight too." she said.

Carlo grinned, "Let's see."

Tom saw him pull out and take his cock in his hand. Juanita stood up and
grabbed Amy's ankles, pulling them almost back over her head. Then Carlo began
pushing forward.

"AAAAAAAUUUUUNNNH!" Amy screamed, as the big man forced his cock into her dry
ass. Her back arched in agony, as she tried to squirm away, but she was held
fast by Juanita's iron grip on her ankles. "Fuck her harder Carlo." she hissed,
"Split that ass wide open!"

"PLEASE!" Amy screamed, "PLEASE! It's too BIIIGG AAAAAAAHHHH!" then her cries
trailed off into broken sobs, as her ass was forced to accept Carlo's length
with no other lube than her pussy juices coating Carlo's cock. When he was
buried all of the way inside of her, he began fucking in and out, with short
brutal lunges.

Amy's head lolled in the dirt. She was almost fainting from the pain. Her
breath was coming in short grunts, forced from her by Carlo's battering of her
body. Gradually, as her unlubricated ass hole painfully adjusted to the
invasion, she began to respond. Her hips began moving, not in an attempt to
escape, but up against the cock skewering her. Her grunts of pain were turning
into the familiar groans of masochistic ecstacy, that Tom knew only too well.

"Yeah slut!" Juanita crooned, "You like that big dick in your ass, don' you?"

"I love it." Amy sobbed, "God help me, but I do so love it. Oh please...harder
...fuck me harder."

She writhed shamelessly in the dirt, as Carlo continued to do just that.
Juanita released Amy's ankles, and stepped away from her, towards Tom. Tom got
a glimpse of Amy grabbing the backs of her own knees, and pulling them up to
her chest, as she continued to beg for Carlo to fuck her ass even harder. But
his gaze was transfixed on Juanita, who sauntered slowly towards him. "You
like it too, don' you?" she whispered, "You like watching your lil' wife get
fucked by other men?"

Tom had been so transfixed by the spectacle before him, that he had forgotten
that Tanya was there. "You bet he does." she said, "Look how hard his little
dick is getting."

Junaita stepped closer to him, so close that she was breathing in his face.
Her dark eyes held his, as she reached down and cupped his crotch. "What the
fuck is this?" she laughed softly, "It feels like a dick, only smaller."

Tanya and Marcus Dupree laughed uproariously at that. Juanita continue to cup
and fondle Tom's crotch, her fingers moving sensuously. Tom groaned. "Oh you
like that too, eh maricon?" she taunted him. "Is that lil' dick gonna squirt
for me?"

"Yes." Tom groaned. "Oh god."

Behind her, he heard Amy's screams of climax. "GOD! YES! YES! FUCK ME! FUCK MY
ASS!"

He started cuming then, his cock spurting madly inside of his pants, as
Juanita laughed derisively. Tom's knees trembled as he came and came. When he
was done, he was gasping like a distance runner. Juanita stepped back and
pointed at his crotch. "Mira!" she giggled. 

Tom looked down. His cum had stained the front of his Dockers, making a
prominent dark stain. Tanya was laughing too, and so was Marcus. Soon there
was a circle of men around him, laughing and jeering at him. Tom sank to the
ground, and put his hands over his face, his humiliation complete.

After a few minutes, the laughter subsided. ""Hey sissy!" he heard a voice say.
"This has been fun an' all, but I think we're gonna go fuck your wife now."

There was another gale of laughter at that. Tom looked up. Men were drifting
away to join a circle of people standing around Amy. She was still on her back,
her legs were high in the air. Another man was between her legs, fucking her
fast and hard. From the angle at which he was plunging into her upraised loins,
Tom could tell that he was in her ass. Another man knelt on her chest, pulling
her head up painfully by her hair, so that she could suck his cock. Tanya was
kneeling just outside the circle, her mouth full of another man's cock.

As Tom watched, the man Amy was sucking cried out, as he climaxed. He pulled
out of her mouth and spurted his hot cum all over her panting face. When he
was spent, he got up. The man between her legs slowed for a moment, then
pulled out. "Now bitch," he asked, "are you ready to taste your ass on my
dick?"

"Ooohhhh..." Tom heard Amy groan, "Yesss....please bring it to me, and let me
suck you...let me suck you dry."

He pulled out, and took the same position that the other man had been in. Amy
slid her lips eagerly over the head of his cock, and began sucking on it
voraciously. She reached up and fondled his balls for a moment, before gripping
the base of his cock tightly. Amy's tight and well-trained ass had worked him
to a peak of excitement, so that when the man Tanya had been sucking, plunged
his own cock into Amy's ass, her scream around his cock was enough to tip him
over the edge, and into his climax. She pulled him out of her mouth, her hand
still pumping him, and she moaned as he too came on her face. 

This went on for hours. Tanya would suck one of the men to a full erection,
then he would come over and ravish Amy's ass, until he was ready for her to 
finish him off, by sucking him to his climax. Some men had her more than once,
as Tanya's skilled mouth brought their cocks back to life. After a while
however, all of the men were drained. They stood around the campfire, drinking
beers and talking in low voices. They ignored Amy, who lay there moaning in
the dirt, her face and tits covered with sweat, and a layer of drying male cum.

Tanya, Dupree and Duke wandered over from a nearby stand of trees. Tanya was 
naked, and her tousled hair and unsteady walk suggested that she had just been
subjected to a long hard fucking of her own. Dupree and Duke were both stripped
to their waists, and their hard cocks hanging out of their pants suggested
that they were the ones who'd been doing the fucking. "Looks like Slut Amy
earned her money tonight." Tanya giggled, and then she kicked Amy in the side.
"Get up, you lazy cunt!" she snapped. "You've got some more work to do." 

"No. Please. No more." Amy whimpered.

Tanya reached down and grabbed one of the rings that pierced Amy's nipples.
She pulled up slowly. "AAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Amy screamed in agony. She desperately
tried to get up to ease the pain in her tortured nipples.

"Stop!" Tom yelled, as he ran forward. He put his arm around Amy's shoulders
and tried to help her up. Finally, he succeeded in helping her to her knees.

"Awwwww." Tanya sneered, "Isn't that sweet? Now clean the Masters' cocks
bitch!" Tanya ordered, as Duke and Dupree stepped up to her. Tom watched,
tears running down his face, as Amy began obediently licking and sucking first
one cock, and then the other.

The men began to abuse her. When she was sucking Duke's cock, Dupree would
pretend to be jealous, pulling her away after a few moments, and slapping her
face hard, before shoving his dick into her mouth so deep that she gagged.
The exhausted girl couldn't keep up with their demands, and she was weeping
from pain and fright. 

"Stop. Please. Give her a chance." Tom begged.

"What?" Dupree asked, "You want to give her a break, I'll give her a break, if
you take her place and suck our dicks." He pulled his cock out of Amy's mouth
and held it out. "How about it faggot?" he taunted, "Maybe you'd like suckin'
it as much as your wife do." 

Tom hesitated for a moment, then shook his head. "No." he sobbed, "No, I can't." 

"Then get out of the way while your wife sucks our dicks." he said gruffly,
knocking Tom to the ground. Tom just laid there, watching his wife desperately
trying to satisfy her brutal Masters. Finally, with a grunt, Dupree came in
her mouth. Then she was able to devote her attention to Duke. Within a few
moments he too exploded deep in her throat.

"Okay." Dupree said. "Time to go home."


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