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Cockatoo Part 5

Following the call to Kritsada, I stayed in Cockatoo, chatting to Nin
who had brought me another beer. I asked her to join me for a while, and
we talked about last night. She had really hated Tony and was delighted
with what we had done. I was quietly impressed, she was pretty, her
English was excellent, had a great sense of humour and a charming
personality. I didn’t know if Alex or Areeya had mentioned the job to
her, so I didn’t say anything, preferring to leave it to the girls. I
asked her again not to mention anything about Sam to Areeya or Alex. She
was obviously uncomfortable about it, but she agreed. I told her I would
take any blame and that it would be sorted very soon.

I drifted down the strip, stopping at one of the massage shops for a
Thai massage, performed by a very attractive masseuse. I politely
declined the offer of extra services but tipped her well, and fully
relaxed, I strolled back to the apartment to find Alex dozing on one of
the sofas on the balcony. I took a beer, sat down beside her and watched
her sl**p. Her face was almost c***dlike as she lay there, seemingly
untroubled by anything. I sipped my beer and thought about how far I had
come since my first evening here on Samui. It still seemed unreal that
so much had happened to me since then. I smiled to myself as I
remembered my shock when I met Alex, and how I had fallen for her so
quickly. As if aware I was thinking about her, she stirred, opened her
eyes and smiled up at me.

‘Hello baby.’ she said softly, stroking my face with her fingers.
I bent down to kiss her and she wrapped her arms lazily around my neck
pulling me down onto the sofa. She rolled over to make room for me and I
lay down beside her. She felt warm and soft, as someone does who has
just woken up. We kissed for a while before her hands started to drift
beneath my t-shirt where her fingers found my nipples, which immediately
hardened under her touch. They were still tender from the other night,
but she was gentle this time. I sat up and pulled the shirt over my head
and as I lay down again, she started to use her tongue on my now rock
hard nipples. My nipples have always been sensitive anyway, and the way
she was licking and sucking them now was getting my very excited. I
undid the buttons on the light cotton blouse she was wearing, one by
one, kissing her skin as it was revealed. She lay back and let me fully
undo the blouse, and opened it completely to let me lick her nipples
through the lace of her bra. I felt them stiffen even through the
material and she whispered, ‘Oh, I like that.’

I gently pulled down the front of the bra so I could reach her nipples
and I swirled my tongue around one, and then the other, returning to the
first to suck the diamond hard nub. Alex moaned softly as I moved up to
her neck with long, slow licks. She tilted her head back and I kissed
the side of her neck, making her purr like a kitten. Her hands went
round my head and she brought me up so that we could kiss, our lips and
tongues playing with each other, slowly and sensuously. She probed my
mouth with her tongue for a while and then slid off the sofa onto her
knees. Pulling me up into a sitting position she pushed me back against
the back of the sofa, her hands stroking their way across my chest. She
stopped as she saw I still had some redness from the other night, when
her nails had scored their way across my skin. She softly kissed the red
tracks, then kissed and sucked my nipples again. I closed my eyes and
laid my head back as she bathed my nipples with her lips and tongue and
then her teeth nipped one, but the small, sharp pain merely heightened
the pleasure this time.

I felt her drop her hands down and she undid the belt of my shorts and
opened the zip. I had not worn boxers today, so my cock stood straight
out and I felt her kiss the tip. I kept my eyes closed as I wanted to
concentrate on the sensations I was feeling. She took my cock in her
hands and stroked it up and down then sliding back the foreskin,
uncovering the head. I nearly jumped off the sofa as she blew gently
across it, before licking the tip. Giggling to herself, she pushed it
back against my chest and licked from root to tip, three or four times,
making me arch my back. She blew across the head one more time before
curling her tongue around it and finding my little sweet spot between
the head and the shaft. Wrapping her fingers around it, Alex slowly
started to move her hand to and fro, at the same time taking my balls in
her other hand, making me moan in pleasure once more.

She must have let some saliva drop onto the shaft to lubricate it as she
began to move her fingers faster and faster. I felt her wrap her lips
around the head and as the tip of her tongue found it’s way into the
slit, I nearly bounced off the sofa in surprise. Alex shoved me back
down against the sofa and I tilted my head back, still with my eyes
shut. Alex now plunged her mouth over my cock and took me deep until I
felt her nose touch my skin. Her head was moving up and down and I could
feel myself harden as my climax began to build. Sensing this Alex slowed
down, taking me to the edge, and then pulling back, prolonging the
climax. She moved back slightly and worked on the head, her tongue
flicking and licking the most sensitive parts.

She stopped suddenly, yanked my shorts down and pushed a finger into my
mouth. I sucked hard on it as she moved it in and out through my lips.
Pulling her finger from my mouth, she pushed my legs apart and moments
later, I felt her finger slipping into my hole. I squirmed at first as
she moved it deeper into me and then withdrew. She was teasing me by
rubbing between my balls and my hole, making me moan out loud once more.
I was now jerking my hips as she slid her finger in and out I felt the
climax growing deep within me. Alex, sensing I was now so close, once
more wrapped her fingers around my shaft and pumped hard, keeping her
lips locked around the head. I threw my head back once more and groaned,
‘I’m coming, I’m coming now.’ I felt myself spasm as my cum pumped into
her mouth and Alex kept her lips tight around the head, swallowed
everything as I jerked three of four times, and then fell back. As I
slumped back against the sofa, I heard people giggling. I snapped my
eyes open to see Areeya and Sam standing on the balcony, smiling
broadly.

Areeya started to clap and said, ‘That was lovely, we really enjoyed the
show, thank you.’

‘bl**dy hell, Areeya, you will make me stroke out one day.’ I looked
down at Alex, who was grinning like a chimp. ‘Did you know they were
there?’

‘Of course I did, I had my eyes open. I didn’t think you wanted me to
stop.’

‘You could have warned me.’ I grumbled.

Standing up, Alex said, ’Where would the fun have been in that?’

I managed to do up my shorts and found my t-shirt.

‘Hello you two, did you have a good time?’ Alex asked, kissing them both
on the cheek. Somehow, I had managed to get my t-shirt stuck around my
ears, and Alex had to come and get me free. I stood up and rather
sheepishly greeted Sam and Areeya.

“How was the trip?

Sam jumped in, ‘It was wonderful. The other side of the island is so
pretty and the snorkelling was fantastic. We had a great time thanks.’

She seemed so buzzed, it didn’t feel like she had found out about Tony.
Yet again, I had that nagging feeling that I might have got this all
wrong, but I had clearly seen them together. I needed to be very
careful, and very sure of my facts before I did anything.

Sam sat down and said to Alex, ‘How was it over here?’

Alex smiled, ‘Oh fine, nothing exciting, although we did have a pest
control problem.’

‘Oh, what was that about?’ asked Sam.

‘Oh, we had to get rid of a big rat, that’s all.’ Areeya sniggered and
Sam gave her an odd look.

‘What? Here at the restaurant, or the bar?’

Alex grinned, ‘It was just an annoyance, nothing more than that. Problem
solved.’

I was watching Sam closely, but nothing in her face led me to think she
knew what we were talking about. Sam stood up and said, ‘If it’s OK with
you guys, I’ll go back to the boat and get changed before dinner.’

Alex said she needed to go sort out the restaurant for tonight’s service
and Areeya wanted to have a sl**p before we met for dinner. I said I
fancied a massage so I would walk into town with Sam on her way to the
boat. We headed off to the strip and chatted casually about the trip on
the boat until I said I’d changed my mind about the massage, I would
drop into Cockatoo instead. We parted company and I did go to Cockatoo,
but nodded to Nin and then walked straight out the back and followed Sam
from a distance. She didn’t appear to have any idea that she would be
followed and it was pretty easy to keep tabs on her.

As I had guessed, she didn’t turn off to the pier, but walked on to the
hotel where Tony had been staying. She went straight in and emerged a
few minutes later with a puzzled look on her face. if there was ever any
doubt, there was none now. She was involved with Tony up to her neck.
She looked around, clearly confused by Tony’s departure, then walked
towards the pier and was obviously heading for the boat. I followed her
onto the pier and caught up just as she was about to board the boat.

‘Sam.’

At the sound of my voice she whirled around.

‘James, what are you doing here? I thought you were at Cockatoo.’

‘Sam, we need to talk, right now.’

‘About what? Can’t it wait until later?’

‘No, we have to talk now, Sam, before you see Areeya tonight.’

She started to look worried, catching the look on my face.

‘Er, OK, let’s talk on board.’

We walked onto the boat and sat down at the table.

‘Sam, I want some honest answers, what’s your relationship with Tony?’
Her face went blank, ‘Tony? Tony who?’

‘Sam, don’t treat me like a fool, you know perfectly well who. Tony, the
journalist who wrote the stories about Alex, Areeya and me after the
pirate attack. He’s been here trying to shake us down. You’ve been seen
meeting him, and please don’t deny it, because I have the photographs to
prove it. You just went to the hotel where he was staying to find he’s
gone.’

‘Her face dropped, You were following me?’

‘Sam, you’ve been caught red handed, don’t deny it, just tell me the
truth.’

‘Where is he? I won’t tell you anything, until I know where is.’

‘He’s back in London. he’s been scared, but unharmed.’ Not strictly true,
but I wasn’t going to tell her that yet.

Sam leant back in the chair, blew out a long breath and looked out to
sea.

‘OK, OK. Does Areeya know anything about this? she asked, still not
looking at me.

‘No,’ I said, ‘Only me so far. I wanted to hear your story before I did
anything.’

She finally looked at me and I could see tears forming in her eyes.

‘I’m sorry, James, things got out of hand, I’m really sorry. What you
have to know is that if i could roll back time I would do so in a
heartbeat, I never meant to hurt any of you.’ She wiped her eyes,
sniffed and went on, ‘Tony is my b*****r.’

Shit, I thought, that was why he seemed vaguely familiar when I met him.
‘My half b*****r, actually. My dad died and Mum married again, and had
Tony. there’s about three years difference between us. He had a good
future as a journalist once, but then the booze took hold and it was
downhill from there. He might have had a future on one of the big papers
once, but it was a downhill slide to a grotty little regional paper.’

She paused, wiping her eyes again before continuing. ‘When the attack
happened and I was asked to come out here, he found out I worked for the
same company as you, and he pestered me for information. He was about to
get sacked again, and he thought this story would save him, get him back
up the ladder once more. I didn’t see any harm in it. I hadn’t met you,
Areeya or Alex and it seemed so easy to pass on information about what
was happening. But once he got his claws into me, he just kept coming
back for more and more, threatening to expose me as his leak at the
company. I hoped it would all die down, I didn’t know it would blow up
as it did.’

She looked at me, pleading with me to believe her.

‘He kept on and on about it. It was getting him some attention from the
other newspapers and he couldn’t stop. By the time I had got here and
met you, and Areeya and Alex, I stopped feeding him anything. I even
tried to warn you as far as I could. He went beserk and by than, I think
he had done some digging on his own and came up with Areeya’s link with
her father. He saw that as his big story, his route back to the big time
as an investigative reporter. I tried to put him off, but he flew out to
Thailand, and then on here. I was desperate to stop him, but I think he
had lost the plot completely now. he was always talking about getting a
payoff from you all. He had come off the rails completely, I think. He
was d***k most of the time and I tried and tried to get him to give up
and go back to London, but he wouldn’t. Shi, shit, shit, I didn’t want
any of this to happen, I was trying to stop it, believe me.’

She stopped and tears trickled down her face. ‘He promised he wouldn’t
do anything until I got back today. I was going to pay him to go home.
I’m telling the truth, you have to believe me.’

There was little doubt in my mind she was telling the truth, only a
psychopath could fake the way she was telling this story, and I didn’t
think she was one.

‘Why didn’t you tell us, or Areeya about this? Just come clean about
it?’

‘I thought I could deal with it, without getting anyone else involved. I
didn’t want to confess to you or Areeya, especially. I thought I had too
much to lose. Fuck him, I should have walked away from him.’

‘He’s f****y, Sam.’

‘I know, but I’ve been hauling him out of shit for as long as I can
remember. Now, he’s dropped me right into it.’

She put her face in her hands and sobbed, her tears rolling down into
the deck.

Without looking up she said, ‘What happened, James?’

‘He was sniffing around Cockatoo, asking the girls questions. They
called me and I went down to see who he was. He didn’t recognise me, he
was too d***k. He told me he was a journalist after a story about me and
Alex and Areeya, and our links with her father. He was so d***k he told
me a lot more than he should. We had him followed to the hotel where he
was spotted with you. I was the only one who knew that, but the others
knew about him. I thought he looked familiar, but now I know why. Alex
went mad, but we calmed her down and came up with a plan to scare him
away. I met him and asked him what he was really after. He wanted a
hundred grand sterling to begin with.’

‘The fucking fool,’ Sam shook her head. ‘He thought he was so smart.’

‘We made him an offer of 50 US and he accepted. He came to the bar to
collect and, well, he wanted one of the girls as well.’

Sam looked up and started to cry again.

‘We d**gged him, and put the fear of God into him about what would
happen if he didn’t leave and forget about the story. You don’t need to
know the details Sam. He flew out this morning, and onto London. He
won’t be coming back.’

‘The stupid little idiot. He was so in over his head.’

‘He’s lucky he was dealing with us, Sam. If he had gone up against
Kritsada, it wouldn’t have gone well.’

She had stopped crying, but sat there biting her lip and looking out to
sea.

‘What are you going to do, James?’

I didn’t say anything for a few seconds. ‘To be honest, Sam, I don’t
know. I wanted to hear your side of the story, because even though I
knew you were involved somehow, it didn’t seem to square with what I
thought I knew about you. Whatever it was I expected to hear, it wasn’t
this.’

Sam looked at me, distraught.

I said, ‘Neither Alex, nor Areeya knows anything about this. I think
they need to know, but it shouldn’t be me who tells them.’

‘You mean, I should.’

I nodded, ‘As I see it, you have two choices, Sam. One, tell Areeya
everything, as you have just told me. She will tell Alex, anyway. They
don’t keep secrets from each other. If you’re not prepared to do that
then you should leave straight away and tell Areeya it’s over between
you. I would not be able to keep this from Areeya. I believe what you
told me, Sam. It makes sense with what I know about you, but I can’t
cover this up for you, it would be too much of a weight for me to
carry.’

She looked everywhere but at me. ‘You’re right, I know. Can I borrow
your phone? I lost mine. I’ll tell Areeya I’m not feeling so good for
dinner tonight. I’ll ask her to come back here and tell her tonight.’

I handed Sam my phone, knowing that Areeya would realise I had been
here, but that couldn’t be helped.

Sam called and spoke briefly to Areeya, telling her that she had felt
ill in town and I had helped her back to the boat. Areeya would be on
her way in a few minutes. Sam gave me the phone back, stood up and with
tears in her eyes, said, ‘James, whatever happens, I want you to know I
think you’re a great guy. Keeping this to yourself, and then listening
to me first means you’re stand up. Thank you.’

She hugged me and went inside the cabin to wait for Areeya. I walked off
the boat, not wanting to be there when Areeya arrived. This had to be
between the two of them. I took the side streets to get back to the
apartment to avoid Areeya and found Alex on the balcony. She took one
look at my face and said, ‘What the fuck is going on. What have you been
doing?’

‘I need a drink first, it’s a long story,’

I got myself a scotch and Alex already had a beer. I sat down next to
her and took her through the whole story, from when Nin first saw Sam
with Tony, until tonight and finishing with Sam’s story. When I finished
Alex was quiet, normally a bad sign. I waited for an explosion, but none
came. She went to fetch herself a beer and me another scotch.

‘I feel so sorry for Areeya, I don’t know how she will take this. I
guess i feel sorry for Sam, too. I didn’t see this coming. I can see now
why Nin and Pao were behaving a bit oddly.’

‘Don’t blame them,’ I said, ‘I asked them to keep it to themselves. They
weren’t happy doing it, but it’s not their fault,’

Alex looked at me and said, ‘Oh, I don’t blame them at all. I blame you
entirely for it.’ She paused and then went on, ‘I don’t know whether to
punch you in the face for keeping this from me, or to give you the fuck
of your life as a reward for doing it this way. You took a big risk, you
know. It could have gone completely tits up.’

I nodded, ‘You can’t say it’s gone well, but it didn’t make sense to me
that Sam would be on Tony’s side. I had to find out the truth before
blowing the whistle.’

‘Do you think we were too hard on Tony?’ she said.

‘No, I don’t think so, nothing we know now changes what he did, or was
trying to do. He got what he deserved.’

Alex came and sat on my lap, ‘I told you that you didn’t know how good
you were.’

She nuzzled my neck and said, ‘Is there anything else you’re keeping
from me?’

‘Well, I have to go see Kritsada tomorrow. I have to sign the paperwork
for the buyout and to sort out the payment. it’s due in three days time.
I know Kritsada will make me pay more if it’s late.’

She laid her head on my chest. ‘I hope Areeya will be OK, should we go
see if she’s alright?’

I put my arms around her and kissed her hair. ‘No. I think she would
want to handle this on her own, I think she will let us know what she
needs.’

We stayed like that for a while, listening to the sea and holding each
other. It must have been an hour later when we heard someone walking
slowly up the stairs. Areeya gradually appeared and Alex jumped off my
lap, took one look at Areeya and ran over to her. She opened her arms
and embraced Areeya. I stood up and slowly walked across to them as
Areeya looked at me and tried to smile. Instead, she began to cry on
Alex’s shoulder and I put my hand on her arm. Areeya put one arm around
me and we were all hugging. Her tears hot on my skin as she cried
silently between Alex and myself. Areeya eventually stopped crying,
grabbed hold of Alex’s hand and walked across to the sofa. They sat down
on one and I took the other. She took a deep breath and said, ‘I’m sorry
for what has happened, and especially I’m sorry for and you, James. You
took a lot on yourself and I thank you for that.’

Alex jumped in, ‘You have nothing to be sorry for Areeya. None of this
was your fault and we feel so sorry you had to find out this way. We
wish this had never happened.’

‘It goes for me too, Areeya.’

She nodded and said, ‘Thank you both, but I feel such a fool. I was
taken in and should have realised something was happening.’

I said, ‘I don’t see how, Areeya. It’s not your fault.’

Alex said, ‘James, can you get us all a drink, please?’

I went to fetch beers and when I returned Areeya had her head on Alex’s
shoulder. We sipped our drinks for a few minutes, and then Areeya sat
up.

‘Sam told me everything about her and Tony, I guess you both knew the
story now?’

We nodded and Areeya went on. ‘What I don’t understand is why she didn’t
just tell me, us, what was going on before it was too late.’

I said, ‘I think she had got so far in, she could only see one way out.
She thought she had to sort it out herself.’

‘What are you going to do?’ Alex asked gently.

Areeya didn’t say anything for a while and then, ‘Alex, I don’t know. I
feel sorry for Sam, having a b*****r like him, but she deceived me
completely and I don’t know if I could ever trust her again. She is
staying on the boat tonight and then leaving for Bangkok in the morning.
I need time to think about this. Above all, I need some sl**p right
now.’

She stood up and headed off into the flat into the second bedroom.Alex
watched her go and started to cry, tears trickling down her face. I
cradled her in my arms, rocking her gently.

‘Come on,’ I said, ‘let’s go to bed, I think we all need some sl**p.’ I
led Alex through to the bedroom where we undressed and lay on the bed.
We must have drifted off to sl**p at some point, because I was woken by
Areeya gently sliding onto the bed and laying next to me, with Alex on
the other side. I groggily put my arm around her and she snuggled into my
side. She leaned over and kissed me once and whispered, ‘Thank you.’

I woke later to find I was spooning Areeya and Alex was doing the same
to me. I was laying between the two people I loved most in the world,
and I offered up a silent prayer that all would be well for us all. Alex
woke me with a cup of coffee and, as I came to, whispered, ‘ Areeya’s on
the balcony. Did you know she slept with us last night.’

‘Yes, she woke me when she slipped into the bed. I think she needed to
be with someone after all.’

We took our coffees out onto the balcony, where Areeya was sitting, her
knees drawn up and her arms wrapped around them. We bent down to kiss
her and sat, content to quietly drink the coffee in the morning light.
I reluctantly broke the silence. ‘Areeya, I am going to see your father
today in Bangkok to finalise the deal for the club buyout. Is there
anything you want me to say to him?’

She thought for a moment, ‘No thank you, James. I need to speak to him
sometime today, but thank you for asking.’ She sighed and then said, ‘I
am not going to sit here, how you say, moping. I am going to go down to
Cockatoo and see what’s been happening there. I have neglected it too
much recently.’

I saw Alex raise her eyebrows, but I thought it would do Areeya good to
get stuck back into some work.

‘Will one of you talk to Nin about the assistant job?’ I asked.

‘Are you happy with Nin?’ asked Areeya. Before I could say a word, Alex
said, ‘He wanted Pao as his assistant because he said her cock was nicer
than mine.’ She winked broadly at me.

Areeya giggled, a lovely sound in the circumstances, ‘I don’t think so,
Alex. You just made that up,’

‘Oh, it’s closer than you think, Areeya.’ Which earned me an arm punch
from Alex. I needed to get going to make my flight to Bangkok, so I told
them I would see them both later, and headed to the wet room. I was
booked back on the late flight so wouldn’t be back until well after 11.
Alex offered to pick me up from the airport, but with the last ride I
had with her in mind, I said I would get a taxi. It would allow her to
keep an eye on Areeya as well.

I was soon on the way to the airport and in a couple of hours heading
into Bangkok. My first call was to the bank to finalise the arrangements
for the money transfer. Everything seemed to be ready for the payment to
Kritsada in the next few days. I went on to my lawyers office to review
the paperwork which he had gone through and agreed the final draft with
Kritsada’s lawyers. There was, of course, no mention of the added
services which I had agreed with Kritsada. That was to be entirely
between the two of us. My final call was to Kritsada himself where I
waited for a few minutes before being ushered into to see him in his
office.

‘Ah James, it is so very nice see you as always,’

He came from behind his desk and shook my hand with his usual macho
aggressiveness.

‘I have as promised a little drink ready for us. Our wonderful
GlenDronach, it is always a pleasure to have a drink with someone who
enjoys it as much as I.’

He poured two generous measures from a crystal decanter and we sat down
on the sofas in the corner of the office. He took a sip and he indulged
in eye rolling and lip smacking which might have been comical in anyone
else. I sipped mine and the smoky taste of the whisky worked it’s usual
magic for me.

‘Sir, it is always a treat for me to drink this with you. It is
sumptuous, isn’t it?’

‘sumptuous, that’s a lovely word to describe it. I will use
sumptuous in the future.’ He rolled the word around a couple of times
to get used to it, and I could picture him using it to impress his Thai
friends.

‘Now, to business, James. We have to sign the papers and then the
agreement is finalised. I want to ask you if this is what you want to
do. It is still possible to back out, if you so wish.’

‘That’s kind of you, but I do want to go ahead. Areeya and Alex are both
happy with the arrangement and so am I.’

‘That’s splendid, James.’

He pulled out a Mont Blanc fountain pen and signed both copies of the
paperwork, then handed me the pen to do the same. I signed and thus
became a business partner in a Ladyboy Cabaret. How things had changed.
We took our copies of the paperwork and he leant back and looked at me
over the top of his glass.

‘James, I must say again how very impressed was with the way you handled
the journalist. That could have become very difficult, but your actions
yet again prevented anything bad. There are, unfortunately, some enemies
of mine, competitors and so on, who would have been happy to see me
embarrassed. Thank you.’

He raised his glass in a toast. I responded and said, ‘thank you sir. It
was in all our interests to see that he did not come back again,’

He nodded and frowned, ‘Let me move on to how you might be able to help
me. As I hope you know, I regard you highly. You have a rare ability to
act when others wouldn’t and you also have a clear mind. I think you
would be very useful to me in a troublesome matter.’

I was still wondering how, but I said, ‘If I can be of help, then I
would be happy to do so.’

‘I have a problem in my interests in the entertainment industry here in
Bangkok. I have several clubs and bars in Nana Plaza, Soi Cowboy and
Patpong. Over the past few weeks I have become convinced one of my
people is being disloyal. I am not only losing revenue but I believe the
same person is also leaking information to my competitors. I have a
shortlist of people who it could be, but I need someone I can trust to
find out who exactly it is.’

‘Sir, but I don’t know anything about the business.’

He smiled, ‘Yet that didn’t stop you investing in it, James. I need
someone who I can trust, who is very smart and can think and act on
their feet. You, my friend, have proven that already. I also have a
cover story for you. I need to upgrade my business systems to help us
become more efficient, even the sex business needs to have good
technology. I think it’s what you do, no? You would have free rein to
look into the businesses in order to complete that project. It would
allow you to get an inside view of my businesses and to observe my
people.’

‘Kritsada, I am very flattered, but are you sure?’

‘James, I am very sure. I don’t expect this to be for free, James. There
would be a contract for the systems project which is very real, by the
way, and there will be a bonus involved if it goes well.’

‘How quickly do you need this done?’

‘Very quickly, James. If you could start next week, I would be very
happy. Perhaps you could spend two or three days here to meet the people
and do an analysis of the systems and give me a first report? You could
also use the time to do some research on your new investment. We have
some very good kathoey shows here in Bangkok.’

I paused, it didn’t seem too difficult, the cover story would work and I
could combine it with my new business project. The extra money would be
useful too.

‘OK, Sir, if you think I can do it, I’m in.’

‘Splendid, James, let’s drink to it.’

We clinked glasses and it was done.

‘Thank you, sir. I’m sorry I do have to dash, I wanted to buy some gifts
for the girls before I fly back to Samui tonight. If that’s all, I can
be on my way?’

‘Yes, yes. I will be in touch with you shortly to make the necessary
arrangements. In the meantime, I hope your new project goes well. I had
great faith in the idea myself. I am sure you will make it a great
success.’

We shook hands and said goodbye at the lift and I headed down to the
street level. I was going to get a taxi to the Siam Paragon Mall and as
I walked over to the taxi stand I felt someone bump into me, and
something hard was pushed into my side. I turned round and there were
two Thai men in suits behind me, one had something in his hand which he
was pushing into my side. The other took my arm and began to walk me
towards a large black car with tinted windows parked by the pavement.
The one holding my arm said, very quietly in excellent English, ‘Sir, it
is very important that you come with us. My colleague has a gun in your
side, any resistance will be painful for you.’

It all happened so quickly, I didn’t have time to react. They opened the
back door and pushed me inside and as my eyes adjusted to the sudden
shade, I saw there was somebody else in the back seat.

‘Please do not be afraid, my name is Inspector Jandaeng, from the Royal
Thai Police.’

My heart was thumping in my chest as I tried to take in what had
happened. I thought for a moment I was being k**napped by gangsters, but
it was the police who had snatched me from the street.

‘What the hell is going on? Why have you k**napped me?’

‘Come, come, hardly a k**nap.’

‘Your men stuck a gun in my side, and f***ed me into the car, what else
would you call it?’

He smiled, ‘I’m sorry if they startled you, but we didn’t want to cause
a big scene.’

‘But why am I here at all? I haven’t done anything?’

He was still smiling, but when a Thai smiles, it doesn’t always mean
it’s funny.

‘We had a talk with a fellow countryman of yours before he boarded his
flight to London yesterday, Mr Tony White. I believe you know him.’

Fuck, I thought to myself, this wasn’t going to be good news.

Jandaeng was wearing a pair of those mirror aviator sunglasses beloved
of all Asian movie heavies. It obviously meant I couldn’t see his eyes,
but even if I could see them, I guessed I wouldn’t learn much.

He let me stew for a few minutes, hoping that I would say something to
fill in the silence following his remarks about Tony. I said nothing,
not willing to give away anything that Jandaeng didn’t already know.

‘Mr White, do you know him? He says he knows you. He is a journalist I
believe.’

‘Who? Tony the newspaper guy? If it’s him, I never knew his second name.
He was in the bar on Koh Samui a lot, Seemed to be d***k most of the
time.’

Jandaeng nodded, his eyes still concealed by those glasses.

‘Mr White was found to be trying to smuggle what appeared to be a rare
Buddha statue out of the country. That is a very serious offence. Do you
have any knowledge of this statue?’

I shook my head, ‘No, nothing, Did he say I did?’

Jandaeng wasn’t going to be drawn into answering my questions.

‘Mr White claimed that he had no idea it was in his bag, and he had no
idea where it came from. It turned out to be a fake, well made, but
still a fake.’

He paused and took a wooden toothpick from his pocket and cleaned
something from his front teeth.

‘He said that you might have something to do with it.’

‘Me? Whatever for? I barely knew the guy. Had a few drinks with him, but
he was a bit unpleasant, Stayed away from him.’

‘We have deported Mr White, for the attempted smuggling, but he made
some other claims about you.’

‘Me?. What on earth were they?’

‘He claims you k**napped him, threatened him and tortured him.’

I tried to put on my most outraged face. ‘What? I k**napped him and
tortured him? Why would I do that? I barely knew him. I didn’t do
anything of the kind. That’s ridiculous.’

Jandaeng stayed quiet for a few seconds, now chewing on the end of the
toothpick. He might look and act like a B Movie heavy, but I felt there
was a sharp mind there as well.

‘So, you deny all those claims?’

‘I do, of course, it’s nonsense. Was he d***k? He was most of the short
time I knew him.’

He laid back into the corner of the car, those mirror glasses may be a
cheap trick, but they were disconcerting.

‘Mr White certainly was an odd character, he seemed to have been fitted
with some, how do you say, sex devices.’

‘He did strike me as an odd guy, so I guess nothing would surprise me
about him.’

‘Many farangs come to Thailand for sex purposes, it is of no concern to
me.’

I hoped that would be it. ‘If that’s all your questions, can I go?’

He smiled again, and I knew then there was more to come.

‘Not yet. Mr White did make an interesting comment about your
relationship with one of our prominent business people.’

‘Oh, what did he say?’

Jandaeng smiled and said, ‘I understand you have a relationship with the
daughter of Kritsada, is that so?’

‘Well, she and I are partners in a business on Samui. I have just bought
out Kritsada’s share of the business. it’s all perfectly legal. I can
call him on the phone now if you want to check.’

‘No, that won’t be necessary. I’m not interested in your business. I am
however, interested in Kritsada. He has come to our notice recently
because he has decided to become involved in our politics. We have to
keep an eye on him as we do all who choose to try to influence the
direction our country goes in.’

I was now alarmed. Politics in Thailand is notoriously chaotic and
corrupt. The country is ruled by a military junta, the National Council
for Peace and Order. Their power is absolute, and they have imposed
martial law, banned political meetings and detained political leaders.
If Kritsada is getting himself involved in Thai politics, he would be
playing a dangerous game.

‘I have no idea what he does, my only involvement is buying out his
share of our business. I’m not involved with him in anything else.’
Jandaeng smiled again, ‘I don’t think that’s strictly true, is it? I
think you will be doing some other work for him, I believe within his
business?’

That shook me. Kritsada and I had only just agreed that less than an
hour ago. The only way Jandaeng could have known that is if he had
bugged Kritsada’s office. I stored that little nugget away, it was a
mistake for him to have let that slip.

I blustered as much as I could, ‘I’m going to be doing some business
systems work for him, it’s what I did before.’

Jandaeng broke in, ‘As a foreigner, you know that we can declare you
persona non grata and have you deported and banned from coming back
here, don’t you?’

Here it comes, I thought. ‘Yes, I guess you could, but I haven’t done
anything.’

‘No, but that’s a mere detail, it has never stopped us before.’

I knew he could do it and that he would in an instant if he wanted to.

I sighed, knowing that he had me where he wanted me. ‘OK, what do you
want?’

‘Ah, you understand my drift. Excellent. It’s very simple, all I need
you to do is to keep your eyes and ears open around Kritsada. I want to
know everything that he says to you, and I mean everything. Do you
understand?’

I nodded, ‘Yes, but it won’t be much, I don’t speak Thai and the only
things we talk about will be the systems project.’

He smiled, and this time there was no warmth in it at all. ‘I don’t
care, I want to know everything. If you don’t agree to do this, you will
be following Mr White out of the country. I don’t think your two friends
on Samui would want that, do you? Don’t think of warning Kritsada
either. If I find out you have warned him in any way, then it won’t just
be you on your way out, it will also be your little blonde kathoey.
Please don’t forget my men carry guns.’

I nodded my head. At that moment I couldn’t see a way out of it. I had
to agree and work out how to deal with this later.

‘OK, i guess I have no choice, do I? You have made it very clear how
limited my options are.’

‘Good, we will contact you when you arrive back in Bangkok. You are free
to go now.’

I grabbed the door handle and as I made to leave, Jandaeng leant over
and said, ‘When Mr White went through security at the airport, he kept
setting off the scanner. Eventually they found out it was something on
his penis that was setting off the alarm. Everybody thought it was very
funny. But, of course, you didn’t know anything about that, did you?’
I got out of the car, and it sped away. I found I was shaking and felt
very alone. Finding a nearby wall to sit on, I tried to calm down and
gather my thoughts. I had no doubt that Jandaeng could and would carry
out his threat to me. The thought of being torn away from the place that
I now regarded as the only home I had was too much to bear. I was now
firmly between the hammer and the anvil. I had to come up with
something, anything, to get me out from there. Right now, I had no idea
what that would be. I simply wanted to get back to Samui and to be with
Alex and Areeya. I had stopped shaking by this time, but was now feeling
sick at the mess I had gotten myself into. I knew I was in way over my
head. I thought about going straight back to Kritsada and telling him
everything, but realised that Jandaeng would probably have someone
watching me, so dismissed that idea. I needed to get back to Samui and
to gather my thoughts.

I hailed a taxi to go to the airport and was soon flying back to Samui.
For the second time in a few days I was heading back there, desperately
trying to work out what to say when I arrived. It was after midnight
when I arrived back at the apartment and everything was dark. I opened
the front door and could make out two shapes on the bed. Areeya’s hair
was spread out around her head like a halo and she had her arm d****d
over Alex’s waist. Alex was snoring gently, something she tried to deny
she did at all. They were both naked, and the sight of them lying there
together brought a catch to my throat. I sat on one of the chairs and I
could feel tears pricking at the corners of my eyes as I watched them
sl**p. I thought about sl**ping in the other room and then decided that
tonight, I needed to feel someone next to me. I took off my clothes and
slid as gently as I could onto the bed next to Alex. she stirred, but
didn’t wake, so I leant across and kissed her on the forehead. She
seemed to smile, and I watched her until I too, slipped into sl**p.

I was kneeling in front of a huge statue of Buddha, who smiled at me and
opened his mouth to speak. His words seemed to come from far away and
try as I might I could not hear what he was saying to me. I became angry
because I knew that these were the secrets of life and I would never
have the chance to hear them again. I began to shout at the Buddha to
speak up, but all he did was to smile. I shouted louder and the statue
of the Buddha began to dissolve in front of me.

‘James, James, you’re dreaming. It’s only a dream. Come on, wake up.’

I opened my eyes to look straight at Alex, her face full of concern.

‘You were shouting something about never having the chance again.’

I pulled her close to me and hugged her tight.

‘I’m sorry, bad dream.’

She stroked my face with her fingers and kissed me. ‘That’s alright
baby, you’re awake now. You’re safe.’ She ran her fingers down to my
chest and followed them down with her lips. Pushing me onto my back, she
took a nipple between her lips and gently sucked it until it grew hard
and she pinched it between her teeth. I tried to move my hands to touch
her, but she rolled onto my chest, straddled me and pushed my arms above
my head and held them there.

‘Let me take control, baby,’ she whispered into my ear, ‘just let me be
in charge.’

I nodded, and she reached over and pulled a silk scarf from the bedside
table, tying it around my eyes as a blindfold. She moved onto the other
nipple, licking and sucking until it was hard as well. My cock began to
swell as she kept my hands pinned above my head, and began to move her
hips, grinding herself against my groin, and I could feel her cock
growing as it slid over mine. She continued to roll her hips, and I
moaned as I could feel our cocks rubbing between us. She let go of my
hands with one of hers, but kept the other holding me down, and slipped
two of her fingers past my lips into my mouth. I licked and sucked her
fingers as if it was her cock invading my mouth as she slipped them in
and out. She let go of my hands completely, but I kept them where they
were above my head, as if she were still holding them there. Sliding
down my body, she kissed her way down my chest, licking and nipping the
skin between her teeth. In total darkness from the blindfold, I
surrendered myself to her, feeling my will slip away as she slid her
fingers over my tummy, giving me butterflies inside. She must have
raised her head up as I felt her hair flick against my cock which was
now standing up hard. I winced as she did so although there was no real
pain involved. Alex blew across my cock head, a gesture guaranteed to
get me going, and I moaned from somewhere deep in my throat.

Submitting to Alex gave me a feeling of release, almost of freedom, as
the stress of the previous day melted away as I gave myself up to her.
It felt so liberating to be controlled, to be able to simply do as
directed, to do without thinking or questioning.

‘Turn over,’ she said, ‘onto your stomach. Keep your hands above your
head.’

I turned over, raising my hands above my head. I felt her straddle me
and her cock bounced against my back. She leant forward and tied my
hands with something soft, maybe another scarf. I felt the last vestige
of control slip away from me as she tied my hands although the binding
was so slight as to be symbolic. She kissed her way down my back, her
hair tickling me as she moved down. I flinched a little as her tongue
slid around my hole, but it soon gave way to pleasure as she lapped
around my rosebud. She drew her fingernails down my back and I arched as
I felt them sc**** across the skin. It wasn’t painful as she didn’t
break the skin, but in total blackness every movement, every feeling was
multiplied. I jumped as I felt the lube she smeared around my hole, and
then again as her fingers slid into me. She put two or three inside me
and rocked them in and out, my muscle flexing to take them and then the
empty feeling as she withdrew before sliding them back inside.

The penetration seemed more shocking because I could not see anything
and I had no control over what was to happen. This seemed to accentuate
the pleasure I felt as her fingers slipped rhythmically in and out of my
hole. I expected her cock to replace the fingers, and it was with
disappointment I heard her say, ‘On your back again.’

With my hands tied it was more difficult to turn over this time, but
eventually I managed to do so and Alex straddled my chest this time. I
felt her cock tap against my lips and then she slapped my face with it.
It wasn’t hard, but it was so shocking I let out a small yelp. She wiped
it across my face in an obvious gesture of domination and this time I
said nothing. She tapped her cock against my lips and I opened them to
let her slide the head through my lips. I ran my tongue over and under
the head, flicking the sensitive little fold of skin where the head
joins the shaft. I was rewarded with a little hiss of pleasure and I did
it again, getting another hiss in return. I took more and more of her
cock into my mouth, and I felt Alex raise herself so that she could
plunge her cock into my mouth almost vertically. I was taking her deeper
into my mouth than I had ever done before and I almost choked and she
withdrew to let me catch my breath before plunging herself back into my
mouth.

I thought she was going to cum in my mouth but she stopped and moved
back down until I could feel her bum against my cock which was now
aching for some attention. Alex smeared lube onto my cock and I assumed
into her hole as well. I felt her position herself over my cock and with
her hand she steered me into her hole before impaling herself onto my
cock. I heard her gasp as she took me all the way inside before raising
up again and coming down on me once more. She began to raise and lower
herself on me, and I could feel my cock sliding into her hole. I had
never felt this hard before and her hole was tight around my cock. She
was gasping as she slammed up and down and I was grunting as she rode me
like a horse.

My senses were so scrambled by this time that I came almost without
warning, my cum pouring into Alex and I arched my back and fell back
onto the bed. Alex stood up, releasing my still hard cock, and her lips
wrapped around it, cleaning up any remaining cum with her tongue. She
slipped my cock out of her mouth and untied the blindfold, my eyes
blinking in the sudden light. As my eyes adjusted, she also untied my
hands, and I turned over to see Areeya laying on her side looking at us,
her eyes wide open with her fingers busy between her legs. I had
forgotten Areeya was there and she must have been woken by Alex and me
as we fucked.

‘Lick her,’ Alex said, as she knelt beside Areeya on the bed and fed her
cock into Areeya’s mouth. Areeya began to suck on Alex and I pushed her
fingers away and began to lick her pussy. She was wet already, and I
used my fingers as well as my tongue on her and she was quickly pushing
her pussy into my face. I looked up briefly and Alex had her eyes closed
as Areeya sucked on her cock. Areeya put one hand on the back of head to
f***e me even harder onto her, and I managed to get my finger inside her
as I sucked on her clit. I felt her stiffen and then her hips slammed
her pussy into my face as her orgasm ripped through her. I could feel
her juices covering my face as I tried to keep sucking on her. Alex
moaned, and I knew she had cum too, her back arched and she fell
forwards onto Areeya.

Areeya kept her hand on my head keeping me pressed against her pussy as
her hips moved once or twice more before finally releasing me. I moved
up the bed to where Alex and Areeya were already embracing. They made
room for me between them and we all lay there, recovering from what had
just happened. My face felt sticky with Areeya’s cum and she touched my
face and giggled, ‘James, I should say sorry, but I enjoyed that so
much. You are very good at that, you know.’

I smiled, ‘No need for apologies, Areeya, I enjoyed it too. It was about
time I paid you back.’

She laughed, her hair tumbling down over her shoulders, ‘Consider the
debt paid, but we must do it again soon.’ She leant across and kissed
me, licking my face to taste her own juices.

‘Hey, don’t forget me, I was there too, remember?’ Alex pouted as she
sat up, her arms crossed her breasts.

‘Yes, you were nice too.’ I said.

‘Nice? nice? I was fucking awesome.’

I kissed her. ‘Yes, you were, and I loved every minute of it.’

She grinned, ‘OK, good save, mister. But don’t ever forget I’m the boss,
right?’

I cast my eyes down, ‘Yes Miss Alex, I won’t forget.’ and grinned all
over my face.

‘Bastard,’ she yelled, and hit me with a pillow.

I had forgotten what happened yesterday, and as it flooded back to me,
it must have shown on my face, because both Areeya and Alex stopped and
said, ‘What’s the matter?’

‘Let’s get cleaned up and I need some coffee,’ I said, ‘I need to talk
to both of you, we have a problem.’

Despite both of them badgering me, I refused to say anything before we
had had showered and sat at the table with some coffee and breakfast. I
took them through what had happened the previous day, word for word as I
could remember the conversations with Kritsada and then with Jandaeng. I
could see their faces drop as I got to the end of the story.

‘Fuck, fuck, fuck.’ was all Alex said.

‘I must tell my father straightaway,’ said Areeya and reached for her
phone. I put my hand on her arm and said, ‘Yes, we must find a way to
tell him, Areeya, but I will bet that Jandaeng has the phones bugged,
your father’s as well as ours. If you call now, it will only tip off
Jandaeng.’

She nodded, ‘You’re right, but we must tell him he’s being bugged.’

I thought for a moment, ‘Actually, your father is a pretty sharp
operator, it wouldn’t surprise me if he knows or suspects the phones are
bugged. When we spoke about Tony’s departure, the conversation was
almost in code. Areeya, did you know he was into politics?’

She shook her head, ‘No, and I don’t believe it to be honest. He has
always stayed away from getting involved. He’s had to deal with both
political factions over the years, so he’s always been careful to stay
neutral.’

Alex spoke for the first time, ‘I know that some of the people I had to
get close to for him, were involved though. Maybe he’s got on the wrong
side of somebody?’

Areeya nodded, ‘Yes, that’s always a possibility. But what do we do
now?’

‘I’m sorry to bring this down on you two, I had no idea what we did with
little shit Tony would result in this.’

Alex looked up and said, ‘It’s not your fault. if Kritsada and I hadn’t
run the Buddha trick at the airport, Jandaeng wouldn’t have known about
you.’

Areeya put out her hands to stop us both, ‘I think you’re both wrong. If
Jandaeng is out to get my father, then he would have found us anyway. We
just fell into his hands. It’s not anyone’s fault, none of us could have
foreseen it. We have to move past blame and carry on to what we need to
do next.’

Alex looked at me and I nodded, ‘She’s right Alex, we need to come up
with a plan.’

Alex frowned and said, ‘So, you did have a side agreement with Kritsada
for extra work?’

I blushed, ‘Yes, I’m sorry. I should have told you both. I won’t keep
secrets from you again. I promise.’

Areeya said, ‘Stop it you two, this isn’t helping.’

Alex looked at me in a way that made me think I would pay for that
omission sometime in the future.

Areeya went on, ‘I think we must above all behave normally. I would be
that Jandaeng has men here and will certainly be trying to keep an eye
on us somehow. I suggest that we carry on as we would and that James
goes across to Bangkok as planned to start the project. James, if our
phones are monitored, can we get some that they don’t know about that we
can use between us?’

‘Yes, that’s easy enough, we can get somebody to buy burner phones that
can’t be traced back to us. I can set us up with encrypted emails and
messaging as well.’

‘Ok,’ said Areeya, ‘When you’re in Bangkok, James, you must tell my
father what is happening, is that OK?’

‘Sure, I can find a place where we can talk securely. There is one thing
I need to ask. I will need an interpreter in Bangkok, on Kritsada’s
project. Nin seems to be the perfect candidate, she has good enough
English to translate for me and her IT skills might be useful too. What
do you think? Kritsada will pay for her I know. I won’t involve her too
deeply, but I think I can trust her.’

Alex smiled and said, ‘I can trust her, it’s whether I can trust you
with her. I think it’s a good idea, Areeya?’

Areeya nodded and said, ‘I’ll speak to her today. Is that all agreed? If
so I need to get to Cockatoo.’

We all nodded and Alex said, ‘I’ve got some work to do downstairs.’

‘And I need to finish off the systems project for us, it won’t take
long.’

We pushed back our chairs and Areeya and Alex disappeared leaving me to
work in the apartment. I was impressed with the way Areeya had taken
over the discussion when Alex and I had got sidetracked. It showed a
side of hers that I had never seen, maybe she was more like her father
than she believed.

I emailed Kritsada to confirm that I would be arriving to start the
project next week and I would be using Nin as my interpreter. I also
asked him to book hotel rooms for us both. He emailed back almost
immediately, agreeing that an interpreter would be a good idea, and he
agreed to fund the costs. He would organise the hotel rooms close to his
office where we could meet on the first morning. I booked flights for
Nin and myself and I was sure that Jandaeng would be aware very quickly
that I would be arriving.

I went back to the systems project for our business and had an outline
plan finished by the end of the day ready to present to Alex and Areeya.
Areeya called to say that she had spoken to Nin who was overjoyed to
learn of the job and had accepted immediately. I told her I would come
down to Cockatoo later to see her. I would also speak to Pao about
getting some new phones. It’s not difficult in Thailand to get hold of
cheap phones, and I felt sure that Pao would know where to go.

I finished off the proposal and took it to a local print shop to get
printed and bound. Just because it was for us didn’t seem to be a good
reason to less than professional about it. I dropped it in and it would
ready the following day, so I took a leisurely stroll down the strip to
Cockatoo for a beer and to see Nin. She was so pleased to be asked, and
I agreed with her that we would meet the following day to discuss what
we were going to do. I had to smile at her excitement and I was
convinced we had made a good choice. Pao wasn’t around and nobody seemed
to know where she was. It could wait a day so I had another beer and was
about to head off to the apartment when I received a text from Alex.

‘sorry babe, gotta do something with Areeya. won’t be back til late, can
u sort out dinner by yourself? Might stay on boat with her tonite’

‘Yea. no probs. anything I can do to help?’

‘Not really, go home. have nice dinner get early nite, Luv u’

‘luv u too. cu later.’

I wasn’t looking forward to spending the evening by myself, but I
suspect Alex and Areeya might be looking for some time together. I
thought how strange it was that I didn’t feel jealous. How my life and
attitudes had changed since I arrived in Samui. I made my way back to
the apartment and walked up the stairs. I thought it was strange that
there were lights on in the apartment, I was sure they weren’t on when I
left. I opened the door with the keypad and was astounded to see the
table set for a meal for two. I was taken aback, what was going on? I
heard a noise behind me and turned around to see Pao, looking stunning
in a beautiful gold coloured Thai Chakkri dress and with her hair done
up in traditional Thai style.

She smiled, made a Wai to me and bowed quite deeply to me.

I made a Wai back to her and she said, ‘Saswadee, Mr James, Miss Alex
say I come tonight for my bonus.’

Pao’s eyes flicked across my face looking for reassurance.

‘Miss Alex told me it OK.’

I smiled, ‘Pao, it’s fine, Miss Alex just forgot to tell me it would be
tonight.’

I walked across to her and gave her a kiss on both cheeks.

‘You look beautiful, that dress looks lovely on you.’

She giggled and looked up at me, ‘Thank you, Mr James. It one of Miss
Areeya’s. She say I can keep it if I like it.’

I had always known Pao was pretty, but tonight with her hair up, her
makeup done to perfection, wearing that dress, she was stunning.

‘Pao, it looks wonderful on you. It suits you so well.’

She giggled once more and her smile lit up her face.

My phone bleeped at that moment and from the tone I could tell it was a
text from Alex.

‘Surprise! Give her a wonderful night, champagne in kitchen, restaurant
will bring up food. I will even turn off cameras.’

My eyes flicked up to the camera through which Alex was undoubtedly
watching. I grinned to myself and texted back, ‘I will treat her well.
Will get you back sometime’

‘Hah, just try! C u tomorrow luv u’

‘Me 2’

I turned to Pao, ‘That was Miss Alex, she says she hopes you enjoy
tonight.’

Pao blushed and lowered her eyes. I gently raised her chin with a finger
and kissed her on the lips. I brushed her lips with my tongue and she
parted them in response and I slipped my tongue into her mouth. Her
tongue flicked against mine and I wrapped my arms around her and I could
feel Pao shaking as we kissed. I realised she was so excited about this,
so I broke the kiss and said, ‘Pao, this is for you tonight. I want this
to be about you. Why don’t we have the restaurant send up our food, and
then we have all night to do what you want.’

Pao smiled and nodded, ‘Yes, Mr James, if you want.’

It was at that moment I realised how smart Alex had been. The bonus for
Pao was not me, it was that for the first time, maybe ever, Pao would
have a night where she was in control. A night where she wasn’t just
satisfying someone else, but able to satisfy herself. Alex guessed that
I would work that out and give Pao the opportunity to be the centre of
attraction, with somebody she had chosen, not who had chosen her

‘Pao, tonight, it’s not what I want, it’s what you want, you’re in
charge. OK?’

She blushed again, but nodded.