as in some way vulgar, and Annie felt a flicker of pleasure as she realized she was enjoying hers

ut as if it were poison, 'that you will get your money. I'm quite happy to pay t

mile. 'Good lu

rnails so that they looked like talons against the faded denim of her skinny jeans. And she felt a corresponding flicker

n't give you the authority to make pronouncements about things which are no

might realize,' she said. 'More than y

t belie

true. But it doesn't have to get acrimonious. I'm going to be very magnanimous, Kar

t eyes narrowe

ind of

iving you an apartment more suited to a woman on a working wage, rather than this-' She gave an expan

at she'd simply been teasing and she could have whatever it was she wanted. Was that not how everyone usually behaved towards her? she wondered

I don't

. I will be forced to give you a month's notice and after th

ons all over her. And wasn't there a primitive side of Annie which wished she would go right ahead? Take them right down her br

th and trying to compose herself...while her erotic little

g out the words like splinters of ice, 'but even I know that you

might be spoilt and thoroughly objectionable, she was going to learn enough of life's harsher lessons in the coming weeks, without her rubbing salt into

idn't-because

d now he has sold it to me, I'm afraid he no longer has any intere

w around it. 'He wouldn't just have sprung it on me like

er to inform you what was hap

ne side and ignoring them. She'd done it for longer than she could remember. Letters only ever contained bad news and all her bills were

y unsettling. All she had to do was to speak to her father. There had to be some kind of mistake. There had to. Either that, or Daddy's brai

to leave now

proper job for the first time in your privileged life? The chance to show the wo

watching as Annie rose from the sofa and moved across the room un

e ready to see sense,' she said, putting

d, pulling a cigarette from the pack and glaring at Annie defiantl

'Hell would be a preferable alternative