" Actually no one in my family knew that I have never been with a man, that I in fact never wanted to be with one. Outwardly my family thought of me a... a young antisocial spinster and that is all that I wish them to know. Oh, I had tried dating a few years ago, with men I mean, but none were even faintly enjoyable and nothing untoward ever happened on them."Get out Greg, leave before..."His hand reached down and grasped himself. "Your making this harder upon yourself cuz - I may have to punish. This wasn’t about her silence. I had known her long enough to take that for granted, she may well marry Thomas Montrose but her time here would be locked in her head. Even her marriage vows precluded her ever talking about it. This was about Jodie, her successor. ‘When she gets your backing, that’ll be all she’ll need Jack. She has the confidence to stare down anyone in this building if she thinks she is right.’ I nodded my head and told her I would think on it, she smiled at my lie. We both. She’d spent all day talking to her, chatting her up, finding out about her sex life, her fetishes for crying out loud, her desire to be spanked by a woman, something Beth had spent most of the afternoon fantasising about, but hadn’t thought to ask where she lived. What was wrong with her? This was like a schoolgirl crush. ‘On the top floor. I shouted you on the way out but you had your headphones in. I caught the bus behind yours, got stuck in a jam though as something had broken down in the. ‘You got a minute?’ Daniel directed him to sit and sat down opposite after putting the tub of dishes on the table. ‘Uh, sure. What brings you here?’ ‘You know why I’m here.’ ‘No, I don’t. You don’t come in here.’ Dan wasn’t in any mood to play games. ‘Okay, we’ll play your game. I’ve come to talk to you about Jo.’ ‘She’s your girlfriend. I stay on my side of the line. I get it.’ ‘Yeah, that would have been the speech , before, but you went over the line. I don’t know what you did last night,.