Summary: Castle and Beckett are offer an undercover operation dealing with a sex club with female employees being found dead.
Apricots
Chapter 1
It was late for the end of August 2021 with the Pandemic calming down slightly.
Susan Moore age 31 years of age had been sitting down by the harbor by herself after she had been finished with her shift at the Nexus sex club only a few blocks away from the harbor.
She was tired and needed to relax by smelling the harbor waters with a partial moon now out from behind the cloud. She sighs for the moment sitting down on the green bench with no one else around.
She really didn't wish to go home to her husband of five years losing his job at the club with fighting with the owners asking for more hours. They had refused...
She had been sitting on the bench for twenty minutes. When all of a sudden she heard a noise as she begins to get up to take a look at who is around. "Hello! who's there?" she said trying to stay calm the best she could.
She wasn't able to see anyone at the moment. When once again something had dropped to the ground to give chills down her back.
She headed towards one of the buildings on the boardwalk that was closed at this point with business being bad with the Pandemic. "Again whose there?" she snapped back again with the response.
She continued reaching the door to find it locked. Even though she moved once again to another smaller building. She had taken out her flashlight that she keeps in her purple purse.
This time this particular lock looks as if it's been broken into. Taking in a deep sigh to exhale before moving inside with seeing if the light switch works. Nothing at all...
Moving in further of the building and with the only light from the flashlight and the partial moon. Her heart was beginning to beat quicker, along with her blood pressure in spite of being exhausted.
"Hello, is anyone here?" she cried out with her response.
She heard someone scurrying away into a corner. She found it to be a rat eating something on the ground. She needed to get out of the building. When all of a sudden she found herself being caught by someone with a rope around her neck as she tries to scream out before some type of knife was stabbed into her back.
Whoever was doing this to the woman had pulled the body out of the building to be pushed onto the Broadwalk and down below onto the sand.
There was a blood trail as the switchblade having been used dropped as well onto the sand next to the body face down bleeding out.
It won't be until early morning with the joggers to be finding the female body at 6.30 a.m. in the morning. Even though Susan Moore's cell phone had been going off with text messages and voicemails from her husband.
Castle's apartment
Beckett didn't wish to answer her phone with Castle sucking on her nipple in his mouth, after an early morning rope before going to work, and with Castle to be going on a local book tour with a new novel.
She was making all types of noises from what her husband had been doing to her and making her nipple so swollen, tender, and red from his mouth, teeth, and tongue.
"OMG! How do I love sucking your apricots since they had gotten bigger of late Kate? But why is your phone continued to be ringing and going to voicemail?" Castle was annoyed that another one of his loving sessions was being interrupted.
"I don't know Rick! However, it must be important to have them keep on calling?" she grabs her phone to see who is calling before having a serious expression on her face. " There has been a murder down by the harbor Rick. I need to go get dress and find out what is going on?" she was in her serious mode.
"Go already. It's important that you be there with the press no doubt will be showing up as well?" Castle said with moving off the bed to find his black shorts to make breakfast for himself and the family.
Since he was a book interview upstate with taking his private jet with his mother Martha to be watching everyone with the school to start in a week with all of the changes made by the Pandemic.
"Rick, I will be sure to text you with what might of cause the murder in the first place?" she was getting dressed wearing her blue jeans and loose black long sleeve blouse, along with the black boots.
She checked her purse with the essentials especially when it comes to her revolver to protect herself and those around her. Spraying just a tad scent of her favorite perfume, she was now ready to go with making sure to kiss her husband good luck with the interview.
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HARBOR...
Traffic was being held up by the Metro police with the crowds building at the edge of the harbor along with the press needing a story.
Ryan and Esposito along with the new Coroner transferring in from Albany, New York. Doctor Gerald Dennison age 65 years old. Both detectives had been canvassing the area for any type of evidence.
Ryan was walking the Broadwalk when he saw a trail of blood heading for the second building on the Broadwalk. The door was slightly ajar when Ryan called Esposito to have him join him at the second building. Placing back on the blue gloves he walked inside to find a rope with blood and a business card sitting on the floor that said the following...
NEXUS SEX CLUB
233 West 24th street
The Bronx
Please call for your party groups of all ages
Call this number
Listed were three numbers and including a fax number
Detective Ryan had found this rather interesting when his partner had shown up calling out to him.
He walked in to see Ryan holding a piece of the evidence and the name of the Nexus Sex Club.
"Ever heard of this place Javi?" Ryan had to ask the importance of the question.
"Never heard of it." he croaked out with his phone was ringing having to be Captain Beckett arriving asking for his location.