" I'll hold you to that."One more look at her pale face, and the rigid set of her shouldersconvinced him. "Five more minutes and we're out of here. ...That's apromise." * * * *Deirdre shook herself, then moved away from Garret once they had reachedher apartments and the servants had moved away to get them refreshment."That was a disaster." I thought you did very well, dear," Garret answered and was stopped fromsaying much of anything else by a dainty hand. So who would know I was missing, I could be gone days and nobody would know. If my mates tried to get hold of me they’d just think I was on one of drinking weekends. My god, I could be here days.As it went I had been tied to the bed for close on eight hours. Fear had stopped me wanting to carry out normal duties and that fear was about to increase ten fold. I must have been asleep as I awoke a little groggy when the stairs creaked, there were footsteps headed this way. I hoped it was Mary and. Wait a minute though, mum and dad had been at her funeral and that didn't make any kind of sense at all, they'd been dead for over four years!A little Asian chap was leaning over me placing a stethoscope on my chest,"Danny, how do you feel?" I'm not dead am I?"He laughed and shook his head,"No Danny, you're not dead" You're not dead either, are you sweet Jen?" No bruv" the tears were falling like bloody rain now, "No Danny I'm not even nearly dead!" Shit and I got all dressed up for the. “But, if you were to offer me something else, I could consider it.” She was quiet for a second until she stated the obvious. “You want to fuck me?” “If you put it like that, yeah. You are a very attractive woman if you don't mind me saying.” Barbara looked to the floor and then looked at me. She knew what she had to do. “Okay, but not here and it can only happen once. Deal?” “It's a deal and you have a month to pay or you are out. No second chances. Understood?” “Okay. Where and when do you.