“I had to smile at the last sentence. It was perfect. The amount of money I offered her was insane, this wasn’t about having sex. This was a state...ent, that if I wanted something or someone, I could get it. Or her, in this case.The next evening, at 6pm, I was sitting in my office again. I could only imagine how loud Marie must have laughed, or cried, or whatever, when she read the contract. The first thought surely was disbelief, but then she probably realized just how much money I offered her.. Liina answered the door, with Sara toddling alongside – Peter, now a ‘big boy’, was in school.I heard the doorbell, and Liina’s steps to answer it, then a man’s voice. “I’m looking for Rebecca Upthorpe.”After a brief hesitation, Liina said, “She’ll be in school right now. If you’d like to come in, I’ll see if...” another hesitation, “Reverend Dulcie will see you.”Some confused noises, then Liina’s footsteps along the hall, then she popped her head round the open door of my study.“I heard,” I. I will need longer withSteven to get deeper into his psyche," the psychiatrist explained."Don't bother Doc; you've confirmed what I thought all along," Wendy slidout of the chair, smoothed her skirt and dropped fifty quid on thepsychiatrist's desk."Ms Grayson please! It doesn't work like this! You can't..."His pleas were lost on Wendy Grayson.She went straight home and confronted her son."Come with me Steven," Wendy said and led him upstairs to her bedroom."Sit!" she pointed to the chair in. Josh talks about you and Al all the time." Her voice was a smile that covered me all over with warmth and tenderness. A sense of mystery and intrigue wrapped up in fun and beauty. No smoke and mirrors here, just a real person, a person just like me.We got to talking like we knew each other for the last hundred years. A lot of business of course, but a lot of other stuff as well. She could buy designer knock-offs for next to nothing and I new this place where you could get a massage that would.