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were right. Isabel hung around outside after everyone else left. She was eavesdropping.”
“Yes, it seems so.” Thea was pleased to have found the remaining part of the jigsaw, though she took little satisfaction from any of it.
“But why?”
“Curiosity perhaps. I suppose it’s fair to say that by this time she didn’t trust us. Either of us. She must have heard you mention The Wicked Club, and assuming she heard the rest of our conversation she’d have been able to work out what sort of place it was. My hunch is that the picture was a spur of the moment thing. Maybe she didn't actually intend to use it. But then we had that row a couple of days later, when she walked in on us in here. And she was so angry about Jeremy Malone. Maybe she just acted on the spur of the moment, out of temper.”
“Maybe. I guess we’ll never know. One thing I do know though.”
“What’s that?”
“I need a new PA. Can you recommend anyone?”
“Leave it with me.” Thea closed down the CCTV link and turned to face Tony again. “Sir?”
“Yes, Thea?”
“Do you think we’ve earned half a day off?”
“What do you have in mind? A spot of shopping perhaps? Maybe we could take in a film.”
“I thought we might just go home.”
“Home, Mrs Richmond.” He glanced at his watch. “It’s not two o’clock yet. On a weekday too.”
“I know that, Sir.”
“Are you angling for another spanking, Thea?”
“I am, Sir.”
“I could oblige you here. It would be no trouble.”
“I’d prefer to go home. If you don’t mind, Sir. We can be more—unrestrained there.”
“Unrestrained? Tell me, Thea—exactly who are you, and what have you done with Mrs Richmond? She would never have countenanced sneaking off for a spanking and a spot of unrestrained fucking on a Tuesday afternoon.”
Thea got to her feet with a smile and moved across the room to Tony’s desk, unbuttoning the top three buttons of her navy blue silk shirt as she went. She leaned over to whisper in his ear, ensuring he had an unimpeded view of her lace-adorned cleavage. “Mrs Richmond is a fine manager. I’m sure we both have the utmost respect for her. It’s true that she doesn’t do unrestrained very well but she’s working on it. And she’s a fast learner, Sir.” She kissed his neck. “Home?”
Tony grabbed his jacket from the back of his chair. “I’ll drive.”
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About the Author
USA Today best-selling author Ashe Barker has been an avid reader of fiction for many years, erotic and other genres. She still loves reading, the hotter the better. But now she has a good excuse for her guilty pleasure – research.
Ashe lives in the North of England, on the edge of the Brontë moors and enjoys the occasional flirtation with pole dancing and drinking Earl Grey tea. When not writing – which is not very often these days - her time is divided between her role as taxi driver for her teenage daughter, and caring for a menagerie of dogs, tortoises. And a very grumpy cockatiel.
At the last count Ashe had around eighty titles on general release with publishers on both sides of the Atlantic, and several more in the pipeline. She writes M/f, M/M, and occasionally rings the changes with a little M/M/f. Ashe’s books invariably feature BDSM. She writes explicit stories, always hot, but offering far more than just sizzling sex. Ashe likes to read about complex characters, and to lose herself in compelling plots, so that’s what she writes too.
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