Tell Me - Ashe Barker Page 0,33

day. It would be pleasant though to take her tea back upstairs, snuggle up in Tony’s king size bed, maybe have a shower later…

“Okay. You’re my corporate services director, I guess it’s your call. Mrs Metcalfe it is then. Will you talk to her tomorrow? I suppose we’ll have to brief her on what’s been going on.”

“I’ll handle that if you’re happy to leave it with me. I’m confident about the outcome, but these are still just allegations until the police have conducted their enquiries so we need to be careful what we actually say.”

“Fine. Understood. I’ll get started phoning round to tell the rest of the team to come back in. And you Mrs Richmond, can just chill out, watch some daytime TV. Relax.”

Thea smiled as she dropped her teabag into the cup and poured the hot water over with her free hand. A day off was starting to sound particularly attractive, though she would pass on the daytime television. “Maybe I’ll take a bath. When will you be home?”

“Not late, Around sevenish I expect. Will you still be there?”

“Do you want me to be? I could go home…”

“I want you to be.”

Something squeezed and warmed, low down in her belly. Thea’s pussy moistened.

“Should I cook? I could probably find something…”

“I’ll bring a takeaway.”

“Okay. Shall I wait for you in the dining room?”

“Now there’s an attractive thought. I’ll bring something we can re-heat.

Chapter Seven

Would she take the hint? He hoped so. He could give her explicit instructions, she would obey him, no question. Given the twist their relationship had taken he probably needed to spell out his expectations in more detail, and he would. Soon. Still, it would be interesting to see how she interpreted their conversation this afternoon.

She’d be in the dining room when he arrived he was sure of that. But would she be perched on a chair, fully dressed, the table laid for their meal? Or would he find her kneeling, naked, her collar to hand ready for him to fasten it around her neck?

His cock swelled and hardened in his trousers at the thought. He shifted in the driver’s seat, trying to make himself more comfortable. He was still thirty minutes from home.

It had been an eventful day. He’d grabbed a couple of hours sleep when he and Thea first got back to his house, but as he’d been dozing most of the previous night while she worked he wasn’t that tired. He got up around mid-morning. Thea was in a deep sleep, but still he crept around the bedroom so as not to wake her, and he left for the office.

He’d picked up a take-out coffee on the way, and arrived at his office just before lunchtime, to find the staff wandering around bemused. He couldn’t blame them really. The place was rife with gossip and rumours, most of which seemed to arrive at the conclusion the firm was about to close and they’d all be out of a job.

He’d called an immediate staff meeting in the canteen. It was standing room only. He explained that there had been some accounting and admin irregularities, but that everything was now under control and they should all continue their duties as normal. The absence of the entire finance section did not go unnoticed, but he opted to make no reference to that. No one else saw fit to point it out either, with one exception.

“Come on. Spill. What’s going on?” Isabel had followed him back from the canteen and into his office. She plonked herself in the chair across from his desk and crossed her legs. She was going nowhere without an explanation.

Tony had regarded his most trusted employee, the assistant who had mopped up his messes for the last ten years and whose loyalty was not in doubt. “Fraud. It’s a police matter. Or it will be. I’m about to call them in.”

“Shit! What? But how? Who…?” He’d allowed himself a quiet smirk. Isabel was rarely rattled, let alone lost for words. She hadn’t seen that coming though.

Not that he’d had any notion either. But for Thea this bunch of thieves would have carried on making a fool of him for a while yet. He’d have cottoned to it eventually, but they’d have got away with a lot more of his cash before he did. As it was, he reckoned Thea’s estimate of around a hundred and twenty thousand pounds between them, over two to three years, was conservative. In his experience thieves were greedy