She carried the used plates and cups over to the sink, where I started to run the hot water. It didn’t take us long to do the dishes, and once I had...dried my hands, I gave Cathy a big hug.“Now, we have the place to ourselves,” I said, before kissing her. As we hugged, I slid a hand up inside her tee shirt, and cupped her breast. “Was there something we were going to do today?”“Mmmm, I can’t remember,” Cathy said, “but that seems a good start.” She slid a hand inside the back of my shorts and. His friends were also sort of awake, but not quite--you know how sleepovers roll. They don’t afford much quality snoozing time.Jade grinned. She pointed to the closed guest bedroom door. ‘I’m just going to wake him up,’ she stage-whispered, before turning away from the puppy-pile of teenage boys and reaching for the doorknob.She was, of course, talking about her boyfriend. He’d stayed overnight the night before--New Year’s Eve--because he was about a year older than her and legal, and wanted to. " Of course Miss," Millie answered politely.I deliberately delayed a few minutes Marcia's appointment to see me, shehad to learn from the beginning her lower status in the office. All of asudden I smiled to myself.I realised that I was secretly enjoying what I was doing; I was enjoyingthe fact that Marcia would be my subordinate in this office; maid athome, office girl here my control of her life would be bigger than everand I was encouraging this to happen. A few minutes later I picked the. All this was fine until the company that I worked for was taken over by some Yanks who wanted to bring in their own people and had no idea just what making a few Brits redundant was going to cost them.Having trousered a considerable amount of money as a redundancy package I gave some thought to my future. Since at that time I was in my early forties as far as my future in the job market was concerned I didn’t have one, unless I was prepared to work for peanuts. I may be a monkey, but ... So I.