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and instruct them what would be needed for it. The presentation they were working on would have to be a great

e phone on Clare's desk rang again

' she said answ

s David. Ho

r,' she said, r

he worry in his voice that something might have come

onight was the last thing she really wanted to do

a new toy. She couldn't bare to snatch it away from him, however much she

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David would inevitably demand from her after they'd eaten, going to the Italian restaurant she frequented just off

n his voice. The child had been given his toy again: now, she knew, h

till been busying himself in the back, usually on his own, his two other workmates long gone. But toni

. In the new bathroom she would have a separate shower cubicle with a powerful shower, but at the moment she had to make do with t

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of her clothes and stood in the rather sluggi

st her. She had had a variety of men in her life and some had been moderately fit, but she'd never had anyone like him, someone whose muscles looked as tho

l and cleaned her teeth. In her bedroom she chose a cream and p

the knee and showed a lot of her slender, shapely le

he front door. David was always very punctual. Puncti

ng her on both cheeks

t to get my b

s like a b

to co

out her keys, set the alarm an

behind the builder's skip. He opened the pass

t to change your mi

said emp

ttle of red wine. Clare had the impression that her lack of appet