She couldn’t bring herself to admit to her son that she couldn’t get him the photo studio he so wanted.“Mom, we’ll get through this ... togeth...r.”“I ... I must look a mess. Let me go run a brush through my hair,” she said stumbling a bit through the alcoholic fog.“You look beautiful,” he called from the living room. “You always do.”“You’re so sweet, Honey,” she called back trying to make herself as presentable as possible.“You’re going to be a lot better off without him,” said David as she. “It’s about this contract,” Fairbrother began. To Allison’s dismay he dropped a copy of the document she had created for Cerys onto the desk between them.Allison realised that she must have left it on the photocopier the previous evening. She’d been in a hurry and nervous about being discovered. Then she had heard Lionel talking in the corridor outside and she had scooped up everything and dashed out. Obviously she hadn’t picked up all the copies. She blushed deeply and stammered. “I can. He went out of the flat without saying goodbye. I guess it was just as well, as my pussy was getting a right fingering! At school the following week Maria seemed a little odd with me. I guess it was because I was sitting next to Martin now. Mind you she seemed pretty moody with everyone lately. I know she had spilt up with some bloke she had been seeing, so maybe she was jealous of me and a few others. Anyway, she really was letting herself go lately, her hair was greasy and she had a few spots. My husband would listen while they fucked me to make sure I acted like I liked it. A few of them I actually did, but it was mostly faking. Sometimes it was more than one.”She became pregnant twice by who knows which cock that had been stuck in her. They were aborted and her tubes were tied without even asking her. The last few years, when she had been working with me, she was loaned and sold to make drug and other criminal deals. She was an asset for his business, nothing more. Now I understood.