She was at least twice my age. Shapely but in shape if you know what I mean. Beautiful. Blonde. Sure of herself. Dad invited her and her husband as po...ssible investors, so I’d never met her. Her husband ... they were obviously beards. He was on the fey side of gentlemanly. Focused on Charlie, which is always a tell. She focused on Charlie’s sister, Essie...”“Your dad’s wife,”“Yep. Until she turned her focus on me, catching my stare. And smiled rather sinisterly. And beckoned me to her. It was. ’And that was that. They didn’t do any more psychoanalyzing that night. They just played a few more games, and then each of them went back to their own living room, Louise to watch a movie, Alex to roll a joint and think things over. He did feel more relaxed somehow. A sense of relief, as if a weight had been lifted off his back. With just a few casual questions, asked at the right moment, she had taken away a lifetime of worry. He felt grateful to her and decided to honor her and not. As she knew thatshe hadn't put it there, there was only one way that the informationcould have found its way to her hard drive and that was that Michael putit there. But as he was also the man who found the information nobody atthe office would believe her and she was fired.Meeting Clarissa and Jenny with their tales of philandering anddeception simply made her hate for Michael even fiercer.CherylThe fourth of Michael's victims was easy to track down. Doctor CherylCooke was a consultant at one. ." But..." ... no ten, strikes of the cane."Her face dropped instantly and she shook her head. "I'll do a hundred spanks but please not the cane," she begged. Her eyes looked pleadingly at her sentencer but I shook my head unwavered by her pleas."Fifteen if there is any more insolence," I threatened and beckoned the young lady to my side with a wiggle of my index finger. She slowly shuffled to my side of the desk, head bowed, and I pushed my chair with the backs of my legs; she knew the rules.