He spoke slowly, but he was quite audible. ‘You’re not some wheedling granny or plantation slave. You’re a woman seducing your lover. Tell me, L...xi, do you know how to seduce a man?’ He looked at her. Everyone looked at her. She didn’t move. ‘Well do you, dear? Yes or no?’ He already knew about Lexi and me. Everyone did. He knew I was sitting right there. He knew I’d come to see Lexi. How could he not know that? ‘Yes or no, sweetheart? Do you know how to seduce a man? Do you know how to talk. And his 'little mouse of a wife', as Joan had characterized her when he strayed from the marital bed with that buxom beauty, was turning out to be something else.Rachael Gibson didn't know what had got into her husband since about three months ago but, whatever it was, she was happy about it. Fourteen years ago she'd been an innocent, seventeen year old virgin when she married Bill. Sherry had arrived nine months later.She had accepted her role as wife and mother and had regularly submitted to. It was the first time we’d done anything with anyone other than each other since before we were married. All three of them had been fun, and he had surprised me each time and I’d gone along and enjoyed myself. So he really had nothing to be bitchy about. This was his idea, after all. I was just getting mine. It had taken him the full day to get his mind around it, but he got his head right. Kind of like I’d had to do a number of times over his year, like the first time he had spread his cheeks. Doch plötzlich stand Anne in meinem Büro. Sie schien von Arbeit gekommen zu sein, zumindest hatte sie noch dieselben Sachen an wie heute Morgen, außer dem Pulli. Und die Ärmel hatte sie nach oben gekrempelt. Ich strahlte und wollte sie gerade in die Arme nehmen, als mir einfiel, dass mich alle meine Kollegen sehen könnten. Okay, ich habe ein Einzelbüro, aber ein verglastes, so dass alle Leute immer reinschauen können, die dran vorbei laufen. Dennoch fragte ich Anne, was sie hier macht. Sie.