The Lady of Leisure
Theresa's promise of membership of the Country Club had in fact taken
over a month and by the time confirmation had arrived in the post it
was turning Autumn. Anthony had noted the membership type was associate
member and had needed to look at the club's website to understand
exactly what that implied. The nub of the matter was that an existing
member had to be there to sign them into the club. The expletive that
he uttered about Theresa when he found out was quite graphic and it was
loud enough for Anwyn to come running to the dining room where the
computer was located.
"What's wrong?" she asked.
"That bitch queen has screwed me over," Anthony told her. "We need her
every time we want to go to that Country Club of hers."
"I could just do with a break. A nice long weekend in the Country would
be a perfect way to relax. The wedding planning is getting to be a bit
too much aggravation at the moment. With your parents being divorced
and not talking to each other being only one of the minor problems, I'd
love to just get away from it all for a while"
"Well I could talk to Mark as Angela. He'd know when they were next
going up there and we could take in a long weekend there. Perhaps
Bernard and Claire could come too. That'd be fun all of us there
together."
"You want to invite my lousy brother?" Anwyn demanded. Anthony still
hadn't worked out why Anwyn was so annoyed at Bernard
"Sure he's my mate and Claire's husband."
"It's not like we don't see them most of the time now that they're are
our neighbours," Anwyn tried a different tactic. Bernard had moved in
with Claire just as Anwyn had moved in with Anthony. Bernard was now
trying to sell the small family home that he and Anwyn had shared since
no one was living there now. Anthony wondered if she was annoyed at
that.
"All the more reason to be neighbourly," Anthony said sweetly. He knew
that he'd get his way in the end, but he wondered whether he was right
about the house. Suddenly Anwyn caved in quicker than he'd expected.
"Ok I suppose it will be nice having Claire to talk to whilst you boys
go off and do your own thing," she replied.
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Sally Chang had been let off with a suspended jail sentence for
defrauding HM revenue, but it had not helped her much. She'd been
unable to secure another good job like the one she'd had at Airtracks
Ltd until she was sacked. Although it was in a niche end of the market
making uniforms for air crew and other occupations, Sally had thought
that her experience would count in a number of other jobs. Her criminal
record though now counted against her and she'd had to try and survive
the last month on the small amount she'd got from working at her
brother's restaurant.
She was desperate to get more work and so had sought out a less
reputable contact that she knew from the Immigration Welcome Centre.
"So can you get me a new identity to work then?" she asked desperately.
"I can do anything my dear" the big fat Jewish man replied, waving his
arms into the air to give weight to the multitude of things he could
do. "It'll cost you ?250 for the new papers or for ?300 I'll even throw
in something a little extra."
"What do you mean?" Sally asked intrigued.
"Well you don't exactly look like someone called Katie Everheart my
dear do you? You'd need something along these lines," He reached down
below the desk and grabbed something that he threw onto the desk. It
was a mass of blond hair with something fleshy underneath.
Sally Chang smiled a toothy grin.
"?300 it is then. I'll go borrow it off my brother."
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Anthony had meant to destroy the Anwyn suit and mask as he'd promised
her but when it came to doing it, he'd just not been able to do it. The
suit had cost money and the mask had taken him ages to craft. In the
end he'd hidden it in the loft and told her he'd destroyed it.
Sometimes he mused what Anwyn didn't know wouldn't hurt her. Moving the
suit had meant that there was a little more space in the disguise den,
but that had been quickly swallowed up again by the clothes that Angela
had bought with some of the money Mark had given her for helping catch
Wesley Caplin. Anthony thought about maybe buying Anwyn's old house
just to store all of Angela's clothes, but that wasn't a realistic
option. The clothes were only part of the issue though, he also needed
to find somewhere to store his new secret project so that Anwyn
wouldn't find it.
It was one of those new outfits he'd bought with the Insurance money
that Angela was currently trying to squeeze herself into. The label had
said it was a size 14 but the reality of the matter was proving to be
somewhat different. Anthony was used to men's clothes sizes which
pretty well were what they said on the labels. He'd been learning that
for women's clothes different shops had different ideas of what the
size should be, and just because the label said one size, it didn't
mean that it was that size. He'd wanted Angela to wear this one
tonight, but he resignedly started to strip off the dress and put it
back on the hanger. That would teach him to be lazy and not try it on
in the shop. Finally he settled on a mauve sweater and a long pink
skirt to replace the dress. He picked up his handbag and coat and
headed downstairs.
"You look nice Angela," Anwyn was being sweet to Angela. Either
something was wrong or it was because Angela was going to go and talk
to Mark about them going away for that long weekend break that she'd
been fixated on. Poor Anwyn had been tearing her hair out over all the
wedding planning.
"Thank you Anwyn. You look lovely yourself."
"Don't be long. I'd like to book some time with my fianc?e this evening
if you don't min." Somehow this was worse than her shouting at Angela.
"I'll bring Anthony back as soon as I can. He has some exercise classes
that he thought the two of you could engage in later up in the
bedroom."
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Mark was meeting Angela at his office rather than at his house. It was
safer that way since Theresa and Angela got on like a fire and water.
Things with Theresa had been great ever since Angela and him had helped
her escape the sack at work, but she didn't really approve of him
seeing Angela. So he told her he had a client coming over to his office
after work and that he'd be home soon afterwards. They had however been
having great sex since he'd discovered that his wife liked having sex
in risky places by accident when one Sunday afternoon they'd spent
walking in the woods and the pair had found a little hollow and got it
on.
Angela was wearing somewhat more restrained clothing today he was
somewhat relieved to see. It was always off putting the clothes that
she normally wore.
"Good evening Angela," he greeted her.
"Hi there Mark. I see that the business is continuing to do well,"
Angela smiled sweetly.
"Yes, thanks to you." Angela had been a great help to Mark over the
past few months. There were sometimes things that Mark couldn't do
either as a man or alone and he'd called on Angela a couple of times to
help him keep tabs on suspects. She'd also helped make a couple of
masks for him too when he'd needed to not be recognised on a job.
"Your silent partner at your service. Well not silent exactly since I'm
talking now but you know what I mean." Angela was babbling a bit.
"Indeed. What did you want to see me about?" Mark asked.
"Well actually it's about the Country Club. Anwyn and I would like to
go down for a long weekend but we need a member there to sign us in.
When are you and the lovely Mrs Entwhistle-Houghton going to be there?"
Mark could hear the sarcasm dripping through the word lovely but let it
slide.
"Actually we're heading up there for a three day weekend in three weeks
time. Would that suit?" Mark answered.
"Perfect. Thanks Mark."
"Good I'll have to let Theresa know to expect you Angela and Anwyn,
though I'd have thought Anwyn would have been coming with her fianc?."
Angela took a while before she replied.
"Oh it's a girly get together you know before the wedding," Angela
replied at last. "We may get Claire along too, though I suspect she'll
bring Bernard too."
"Oh well fair enough, you know how to get there?"
"Yes I think so. Let me know if you need a hand with anything. I think
you're going to need to take on a partner soon if the business keeps
growing. I only have so much time that I can give to help."
"Will do and thanks again for everything Angela." Mark offered his hand
and Angela took it, winked at him and then sashayed out of his office.
He was glad that Theresa wasn't here to see that little exchange, she'd
have hit the roof.
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It was the first time that Anthony had made a mistake like that for a
long time. He'd replied to Mark accepting the invitation thinking he
was Anthony and of course he was Angela talking in her voice. Mark had
rightly assumed therefore that Angela had wanted to go to the Country
Club. Anwyn was going to kill him when he told her.
He stripped straight out of Angela when he got back and went downstairs
to find Anwyn hunched over the computer still trying to sort the
seating plan out for their wedding. He massaged her shoulders and
looked at the still incomplete plan.
"Uncle Evan can't sit on the same table as your Aunt Maude he said
bluntly. You know how he tells blue jokes all the time. She really
wouldn't approve, what with her work on that feminist magazine. And I
wouldn't sit Iain next to young Julia, not unless you want a teen age
pregnancy in the family. That boy will chase anything in a skirt."
"Even you?" Anwyn asked.
"Yes. Angela looks real enough to fool him."
"Hmm you may be right," Anwyn replied agreeably, enjoying the massage.
"How'd you get on then?"
"Well I have some good news and some bad news" he said evenly.
"Good news first."
"OK we're on for a long weekend away in three weeks time," he said in
the happiest tone he could manage.
"Great and the bad news?"
"You'll be going with Angela." He didn't need to wait long before she
hit the roof.
"What! This was going to be a relaxing weekend for the two of US!" Her
voice gradually increased in volume at the end of the sentence as she
turned.
"Yes it was but I made a bit of a mistake and Mark assumed I meant
Angela. I didn't do it deliberately," His defence might have been
honest but it sounded weak.
"You buster." She jabbed him. "Are going to have to make this up to me
somehow," she threatened. I hope Angela thinks it's worth it.
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Katie Everheart had found that getting a job was nearly as difficult as
Sally Chang had. She had no references to go on and didn't have the
experience on her CV. All she had was her youth and experience to try
and get herself a position. She'd eventually got a job as a low paid
domestic in some posh Country Club outside Swansea. It wasn't what she
wanted but it would be money coming into her bank account until she
could find something better.
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Charlotte Brunfeld's sex life had picked up since she'd taken up
Angela's suggestion of using different characters and masks to get her
husband's interest in sex going again. It was not the intensity that
they'd had when they were first going out together, but she knew by
talking to girlfriends that the force of passion when a couple first
was going out could never be maintained. She had a different problem on
her plate now. Her friend and one of her fellow models on the circuit,
Irena Ganalov was starting to fall apart emotionally. The police had
searched her house and questioned her about her whereabouts after
someone had impersonated her and done some robbery or something.
Charlotte couldn't quite get all the details straight out of her
between sobs, though she did pick up that the double had actually been
a man.
Charlotte knew that there were female impersonators around; she'd seen
a very good male Brittany Spears impersonator on America's Got Talent
when she'd been in New York doing publicity work. However this man had
apparently been good enough to fool another man into having sex with
him, but Charlotte could not fathom out how that would work.
So it was that she had invited Irena down to the Margham Country Club
near Swansea in a few weeks to get away from London life. She and Gavin
were members there and went there a fair bit after his heart attack to
recuperate and relax after his heart scare. She thought that perhaps
the relaxing countryside might help her friend.
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Anwyn had waited and waited for her chance to get revenge on her stupid
brother for destroying her Sindy Doll and house as a child, and now she
thought that she'd found a way. Claire and Bernard had gone out for a
meal the night before their weekend away and so their house was empty.
Anwyn had located the copy of Claire's side door key that she given the
neighbours to water the plants on their honeymoon and put it in her
jeans pocket. Anthony was upstairs sorting out all the clothes he was
going to pack for the long weekend as Angela, so she shouted up at him.
"I'm just going to pop down the Spar to get some more milk dear."
Anthony had shouted fine back at her, so she headed out round to her
neighbour's side door which she unlocked and entered.
Anwyn headed upstairs to the bedroom that Bernard and Claire shared and
was glad to see their two cases already packed. The slightly larger one
was a plain Samsunite case and the other one a smaller pink case with
flowers on it.
"Well I think that this one will be yours Bernard then?" she said to
herself lifting it on the bed and opening it.
"Now you won't need these," she continued aloud, taking all his
underwear from the case and locating the drawer to put it back into.
Gradually she emptied his case and hung all his clothes back up in the
closet.
"Hmm I think we need to give your case a bit of weight now though
Bernard. What would you like to wear? Oh I know, how about this pretty
dress." Anwyn took one of Claire's summer dresses from the closet and
folded it neatly in the case. She packed a number of outfits to go with
it as well as some of Claire's shoes.
"Oh silly me, you'll need some underwear too. Let's find something nice
for you." With that she went through Claire's lingerie draw and neatly
packed that into the case. She packed a number of other items that a
girl would need before folding the case back up and putting it on the
ground.
"There I hope you like your new wardrobe you Sindy murderer," she
chuckled to herself. It had been a long time coming but she would
finally have her revenge on him. Now that she was one up on her
brother, she could be nice to him again for a while.
Anywn headed out of the house and locked the door again. She was about
to go back into her on house when she stopped.
"Oh silly me, nearly forgot the milk!" With that she turned and headed
off to the local late night shop.
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Theresa had expected a long fight to get Anthony, Anwyn, Angela,
Bernard and Claire membership of the club, but in the end it had been
easier than she thought. Phillipa Pennington-Smythe who was currently
membership secretary had of course started to object to their
applications, partially on the grounds that they were 'the wrong sort'
and partially on the grounds that Theresa had nominated them. Phillipa
had decided she wanted to be the Treasurer in this year's elections
that were being held on Saturday night. Now that the Squadron Leader
was stepping down from the role, Phillipa had decided to run and had
taken exception to Theresa running against her. The thing that had
swung it had been help from Charlotte Brunfeld. Theresa knew that the
Gavin Rodgers and Charlotte were friends of Angela's from the wedding
and had not so subtly sent as letter to Charlotte indicating that they
could do with her support.
The Country Club had been thrilled that an international model and star
Rugby player had applied and joined their ranks some years ago. They
were the cr?me de la cr?me of celebrity. So with her backing all the
other members fell into line supporting the application and Phillipa
could no longer be seen to be blocking it. It was a master stroke
Theresa thought, even if she didn't like having to help Angela get
membership. Now of course she'd made an enemy in Phillipa, a dangerous
enemy. Phillipa was the better at the game than Theresa was, and with
the election ending this weekend she was going to have a battle royale
on her hands. Theresa had tried not to show to her husband just how
displeased she was that Angela and her crew would be turning up just at
the critical time, but it was so difficult. It was something that she
was just going have to manage.
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Anthony had packed a little something extra in Anwyn's mini before they
left unknown to her. He'd had to remove the spare tire from the boot to
hide it under the boot floor and before putting their cases back on
top. They'd not need the spare, the chances of getting a puncture were
very remote these days. Their weekend cases now sat atop the false
floor in the boot and the spare type hidden at the back of the garage.
He'd decided on to wear something a bit more sensible for the drive
down to the Country Club. He'd chosen a pair of very light pink
trousers with a belt at the waist and a pink cashmere sweater. He swung
his heels in the passenger side and closed the door.
"Time for us to head off and be ladies of leisure," he said to Anwyn as
she started the car.
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Bernard and Claire arrived first at the Country Club in Bernard's Range
Rover with the Manor Zoo logo alongside a roaring tiger emblazoned on
the side. Bernard went round to the passenger door to help Claire down
from the high door on the vehicle and then went to retrieve their cases
from the boot. As he was starting to lug the cases into the old looking
manor house Bernard spotted Anwyn's mini coming up the gravel drive.
"Looks like beauty and the beast have arrived," Bernard commented to
Claire.
"Don't be mean to your sister love. She's nice really and we're here to
have a nice relaxing time this weekend," Claire replied.
"Alright boss, but when she grows fangs and starts to bite your neck
don't come running to me," Bernard ventured.
"Bernard," Claire said sternly.
"OK, OK, I give in. I'll be as nice as pie to Anwyn all weekend."
Anwyn's mini pulled up and Angela got out and waved to them. Bernard
decided to wait up for the two girls and put the cases down whilst he
waited. Bernard noticed Anwyn get out and spotted that Angela had to go
and get both cases. Typical of his sister he thought. Claire had headed
over to Anwyn and gave her a hug. The two of them had become a lot
closer over the last few month having a regular weekly get together
when he met Anthony in the pub. Bernard couldn't hear what they were
saying, but he spotted Angela bringing their cases over to where he
was.
"Hello gorgeous!" Bernard said aloud.
"Hi Bernard" Angela replied "You'd think they could tarmac this drive,
it's hell to walk on in heels."
"I'll get them to start this afternoon," Bernard joked as he stared at
Angela's breasts. Angela laughed along with him and politely ignored
his stare.
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The two other women caught up with them and they all headed inside to a
vast hallway with stairs either side. Angela was feeling quite relaxed
and looking forward to the weekend. Ahead of them a woman dressed to
the nines in twinset and pearls spotted them and called back into the
room behind her.
"Theresa, your council estate recruits have arrived." Wow, Anthony
thought she can even out bitch Theresa. After a second or two Theresa
came running into the hallway.
"Thank you Phillipa. Hello Claire welcome to our little club," Angela
noted that Theresa was studiously ignoring her and not countering the
Council estate jibe. Whilst it was true that the road he lived on used
to be a council estate now all the houses had been bought by their
owners since Thatcher had given them the right to buy.
"I'm sure you can remember the way to show them around Tre, just make
sure they don't take any of the silver with them when they leave." God
that woman made Theresa look like an amateur Angela thought.
"Excuse me, do you get off on being rude to people you've just met?"
Claire demanded. Anthony realised he should have said something like
that.
"I'm sorry, are you on the committee here? Do you actually matter?"
Phillipa took umbrage and turned on her heels and walked out in mock
umbrage.
"Some welcome," Angela commented. Maybe it was not going to be quite as
relaxing as Anthony had hoped.
Theresa made them all sign the associate member's book and explained to
them all that they had been put in the guest rooms. These transpired to
be an old servant's block some way away from the main manor house that
was used as an overflow. Angela translated this as 'I don't want you
lot anywhere near the main house and I have given you the worst
accommodation that we have here'. Several other club members came to
gawp at the newcomers who stood out like a sore thumb in the hallway.
Angela noted that several of them whispered behind their hands to each
other.
Then as Theresa was explaining to them how to get to their new
accommodation an old man dressed in RAF uniform came slowly into the
hallway using a stick to balance on. Angela reckoned that he must be
well over eighty.
"Good to see you bringing some new young blood into the club Theresa"
the old man said unsteadily.
"Er, thank you Squadron Leader" Theresa it seemed was uncomfortable
taking praise for bringing them here, though it was the first praise
that Angela had heard about them since they arrived. "This is Squadron
Leader Blenkinsop. Here's the current outgoing Treasurer of the club."
"Yes dammit, I'm getting too old for those books. I can't see like I
used to anymore. There was a time in the war when I shot down three of
the filthy hun with one shot you know." The Major sidled up to Angela
slowly as he spoke and looked down at her. If he didn't know any better
Anthony would have sworn that the Squadron Leader was looking down at
Angela's breasts. Perhaps, Anthony thought, his eyesight is not as bad
as he claimed.
"You can regale them all with your war stories later Squadron Leader. I
need to get them all safely parked away in the new block," Theresa said
cutting the conversation short. Angela suspected she meant 'out of my
way' but didn't say anything. It was then that it happened.
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Sally Chang had spotted that the evil woman Theresa Entwhistle-Houghton
was a member of the club earlier this morning when she arrived, but her
duties had taken her away from where Theresa was sat with her husband.
By lunchtime she had been given the job of polishing the brass
throughout the main manor house. She was currently cleaning the brass
plaques on the pictures that surrounded the landing above the main
entrance hall when she heard the voice of the bitch below. She looked
down over the railing and spotted that Theresa was located right below
where the statue of the founder of the club, Sir Arthur Cavendish, was
located. What if the statue was to come loosened from its plinth and
accidently fall below? Its weight would probably do the bitch in for
good. No one would probably mourn her, except maybe that lap dog of a
husband of hers.
Sally headed over to where the statue was located and gave it a little
push before quickly heading off around into another corridor with her
polishing rag. She heard a shriek and a crash below and she gave a
little smile to herself that she may have done the world a favour.
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The statue had fallen and spun as it fell; meaning that only part of
the weight of the statue hit Theresa on the head. Theresa had fallen
and blood had started to ooze slowly from her head wound. Angela
quickly headed over to where Theresa lay and took her pulse.
"She's still alive. Someone go and get napkins or something similar so
we can staunch the flow of blood. Leave her lying down," Angela said
sternly to a uniformed man and when he returned she took the cloths
from him. She used the cloths to apply pressure to Theresa's wound.
"Wha happened?" Theresa said. At least it has taken some of the bile
out of her Angela thought.
"It's alright stay still there's been an accident."
"Ang. Why you help me?" Theresa asked her speech still a bit funny.
"Because you are a human being Theresa and I couldn't live with myself
if I didn't," Or at least I have no proof as yet that you're an alien
in disguise sent to torment me, Angela thought to herself.
"Is she alright?" Mark asked somewhat concerned.
"She'll live," Angela replied, "but I need to concentrate on holding
this for some time," You needed to keep the pressure on for at least 15
minutes Anthony remembered and that meant that he had to stay in close
proximity to Theresa throughout that time. There was panic and
pandemonium going on all around.
"Can you think of anyone who might want to hurt Theresa," What was he
saying the list probably included most of the human race except for
Mark. He'd often wanted to throttle her himself, but he knew that he
hadn't done it.
"Well not specifically" Mark hedged. At that point a fussy looking
woman with a short blond bob came through one of the other doors.
"Let me take over, I'm the club nurse." Angela let the nurse take over
holding the pressure on the wound and Anthony realised that he had her
blood on his hands. Angela got directions to the ladies to go and wash
her hands and wondered just who might want Theresa dead. Anthony
imagined that Theresa made enemies on a daily basis but that those
enemies were what he thought of as social enemies rather than people
who might actually want to kill her. Anthony had ruled out an accident
already in his mind and knew that he'd need to find out a bit more
about what was going on here. Theresa was locked in an election with
that horrid Phillipa woman to be the new Treasurer of the club Mark had
told him previously, but could he really see that super-bitch trying to
kill her rival? Anthony mused on this as Angela headed back to hallway.
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Another person who had ruled it out as being an accident was Mark,
Theresa's husband. After checking that she was going to be alright he
had headed up the sweeping staircase to the balcony from whence the
statue fell. The plinth was now at an angle that said to him that it
had been moved. The clean un-dusty square where it had sat for many
years was now partially visible. It was too heavy to have just shifted
there by itself, which meant that someone had moved it. That was all
the confirmation that he needed that someone had tried to murder his
wife.
Mark headed straight to the President of the club's office, knocked on
the door and entered without waiting for an answer. Stuart Templeton
was a man in his fifties with short greying hair who looked up at him
from a book as he entered.
"Mr Entwhistle-Houghton, if this is about the election on Saturday then
I really do not have the time right now." Stuart told him. Mark looked
at the dry dusty book that Templeton had quickly closed and spotted the
pages of a magazine coming from the top. Yes, very busy he thought to
himself.
"Clearly" Mark replied, "But you would have time if someone had tried
to murder my wife wouldn't you?"
"What, murder here? Preposterous!" Stuart Templeton proclaimed boldly.
Mark proceeded to tell the President of the club exactly what had
happened in the hallway to the best of his knowledge and what he had
found at the scene of the crime.
"I want you to call the Police," Mark demanded. Stuart Templeton licked
his lips nervously as he replied.
"Look, it will do the reputation of the club no good at all to have the
police involved. I'm sure there is a perfectly reasonable explanation
for the statue falling. I'll have one of the maintenance bods check it
out. Besides I'll have to try and find someone now to see if they can
repair it. After all, it was our only statue of the club's founder."
"Sod the statue, my wife's life is in danger!" Mark said firmly. "I
want this investigated!"
"Well look here, you are a Private Investigator yourself are you not? "
Stuart said in an oily tone. "Why don't you investigate it? The club
will pay you your normal rates. We can't have the police involved and a
scandal at the club. What would all the society members think?"
"Fine. I'll do it myself, but once I find the perpetrator I want the
police in to arrest them whoever they are."
"I'm sure we could get a plain clothes detective to do it quietly.
Theresa is OK is she?" Only now did the snake deign to ask, Mark
thought his temper rising.
"She'll live, but I want her watched in case this person tries it
again."
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Claire and Bernard had found their room and put their cases down to
unpack. They'd discussed the incident in the hallway as they made their
way to the room, but neither had any real clues to what had happened so
they'd let the subject drop. Claire decided to check out the closet
space in the small but well appointed room, whilst Bernard sorted his
case out on the double bed.
"What the 'ell is this luv," Bernard exclaimed, "have you packed your
stuff in the wrong case?"
"No," Claire replied turning around to see some of her dresses on the
top of Bernard's case. She went over and opened her own case and found
the things that she'd packed. "Look my things are all in my case. Is
there anything you want to tell me?" she teased.
"No. Look I packed all my things the night before last, you saw me!" He
raised his voice a little and Claire knew that he was telling the
truth.
"I think someone has played a practical joke on you then," Claire told
him. "Any suspects?"
"Only one comes to mind. My bloody little sister, it's just the sort of
thing she'd do." Claire tried to keep a serious expression on her face
and not to laugh. She'd have to get that spare key back off her
neighbours she decided and maybe have a word with Anwyn.
"You'll have to get some more clothes somehow, unless you think you'll
fit into one of my dresses," Claire teased.
"Not bloody likely. I'll go into town tomorrow morning and pick some
things up. For now though I won't need to do any unpacking, so I'm off
to get a drink. I'll kill that sister of mine if I see her."
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Bernard found the bar and ordered a beer from the barman whose name he
spotted on his tag was Jim.
"It's been a rough day already so far mate. Could I have a beer
please?" Jim obliged and set a pint in front of him which he promptly
paid for.
"You got a TV lounge here so I can watch the match tomorrow afternoon,"
Bernard enquired. Since he couldn't go to the match in person due to
this enforced weekend away, watching it on the telly was the next best
thing. It turned out that there was and that Jim was also a Swansea
City fan. They got talking during the course of the remainder of the
afternoon and Bernard lost track of time as the beers went down.
Bernard talked of his job at the zoo and Jim started telling him about
the goings on at the club. It seemed that most of the staff here were
ordinary working people like himself, but each had their own quirks and
foibles. There was Kevin Black who was the maitre de at dinner who
really wanted to climb the social ladder and be a member of it. Then
there was Francis Bridger who was a secret transvestite, or at least
he thought it was a secret. The rest of the staff all knew about it,
though he thought that he was being discreet. Finally there was this
new girl on staff called Katie Everheart. She kept to herself petty
well but Jim thought she was sexy and wanted to ask her out. Bernard
had been so enjoying the talk that he'd not noticed where the time had
gone.
"So that's where you've been hiding is it?" Claire asked him from
behind.
"I wouldn't say hiding no, just talking with someone normal. This place
is quite short on those," Bernard replied.
"Well you can buy me a drink then and I'll join you to make that three
normal people then," Claire replied.
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Angela and Anwyn decided that they'd spend the remainder of the Friday
afternoon exploring the club before they were to meet Claire and
Bernard for dinner. With Theresa still recovering and Mark off on his
own they didn't really have a guide to show them around the place. The
various snobs and bitches who were the regular members of the club were
not terribly helpful, and the two ladies were forced to explore on
their own.
"I wonder what's in here?" Angela asked excitedly opening a large wood
panelled door. Anthony was getting a kick out of nosing into places at
the club that he probably shouldn't. The door led into a games room,
with a large snooker table that took up the majority of the room, which
was set for billiards rather than snooker. Around the walls there were
stags antlers interspersed with crossed shotguns. Inside the Squadron
Leader who had been quietly dozing in a chair woke up suddenly at the
sound of someone entering the room.
"Oh hello my dears. Sorry I must have drifted off. Now what were we
talking about again?" The Squadron Leader seemed confused; perhaps he
was having a dream about my breasts Angela thought.
"You were telling us a little about the room," Angela replied.
"Oh, was I?" Squadron Leader Blenkinsop said, still confused. "It's
mainly only used for billiards these days, though many of the
youngsters here don't play. Used to get used a lot back in the day for
the shooting party socials, but now all the blighters here shoot is
clay pigeons. No sport in that at all! Those club shotguns are all
useless too. They all shoot to the right, that's why I always used my
own. That stag in the middle of the wall over there. He was mine he
was. I bagged him back in '62. It was a lovely day and Masie Wilson,
God rest her soul, said that it was the biggest stag she'd seen except
me." The Squadron Leaders mind started to drift imagining that time
some fifty years ago. Eventually Angela realised that he was now
snoring again quietly in his chair.
"He's the only decent one of the bunch here," she whispered to Anwyn
quietly as she indicated that perhaps they should leave him to his
sleep. With that they crept back out of the Billiard Room.
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Sally Chang dressed as Katie Everheart was due off shift as soon as
dinner had finished. She'd been sorting out the cutlery for the evening
meal and was taking a particularly dirty Steak knife back to the
kitchen to be washed when she spotted the other woman who had provided
evidence against her at the hearing with another mousy woman she'd not
seen before. That transsexual woman Angela had been as responsible as
that bitch Theresa for her circumstances, and a sudden anger erupted in
Sally. She had to pay as well for what she had done and a sudden
thought occurred to her. They could not see her in the servant's
corridor and she had the perfect weapon in hand. A good throw from her
would see another of her tormentors dealt with. She threw and spun on
her heels to get away as quickly as possible from the scene of the
crime.
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Anwyn saw the problem immediately. The steak knife had hit Angela in
her left breast but had not been heavy enough to dig into it and had
subsequently fallen to the floor. It had produced a large nick in the
false breast however and it had started to leak the silicone gel that
was inside the false advertising that Angela was so proud of. With
other members of the club around who'd seen the knife clatter from
Angela's breast she needed to cover up the fact that there was no
blood. Anwyn pulled a napkin from the side table near where they were
stood and put it over Angela's leaking breast.
"I have some bandages in the room. I'll patch her up. You lot go after
her assailant," Anwyn ordered. None of the assembled snobs moved, and
just watched as Anwyn did her best to cover up the leaking gel on
Angela's jumper with the napkin and guide the shocked Angela out of the
manor house. Useless bloody lot, she thought to herself.
She got to their room and smuggled Angela inside. She was pretty sure
that she'd gotten away with the cover up without anyone noticing the
lack of blood. Anwyn removed the towel that was covering Angela's chest
and ordered her to remove her jumper and bra. Angela, still in a fog,
obeyed her immediately, unhooking the bra with practiced ease that men
normally did not have. Anwyn inspected the damage on the breast. It
looked hopeless as over half the gel had seeped out through the hole in
the cut in the latex and Angela's asset on the left side was subject to
a severe deflation. Even if she could repair the cut, there was no way
that the breast would pass muster now. Anwyn decided to try and stop
any more of the fluid leaking out and went to the bathroom to fetch her
plasters.
When she returned it seemed that the shock that Angela had been
experiencing was starting to fade.
"Don't patch it yet," she told Anwyn. "There's no way we can use the
form now. We need to replace it, and to do that we will need all the
fluid out from the one that's in there. Those forms are set into the
latex and I cannot remove it and put another one in. The only way
forward will be to squeeze that one dry and then put a new one behind
it."
"But we don't have a spare breast in the right size with us?" Anwyn
responded.
It was then that Angela confessed to her about having brought a secret
stash in the boot of her mini. It was obvious that Angela couldn't go
out as she was now, so Anwyn agreed that she would go and fetch this
mysterious case from the boot of the car whilst Angela squeezed her
breast dry.
Anwyn picked up her keys and headed out to her car. She unlocked it and
opened the boot, looking under the false bottom within the boot that
normally hid the spare tyre. There was the case that Angela had
mentioned. She wondered what was inside it as she hauled it from her
car and locked it again. Was Angela keeping more secrets from her?
She entered the room once again to find that Anthony was in the
bathroom sorting his breast out, so she decided to open it to find out
what was in the mysterious case. Inside were two suits and two masks.
The Claire suit and mask she'd seen before, but there was also a
Theresa mask that she'd never seen before. The other suit inside was
something different although though. It had full arms and legs attached
and the mask was all built in as part of the suit. She looked closely
at the face on the attached mask and had to squint to see who it was,
but eventually she recognised the distinctive features of Irena Ganalov
looking back at her.
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Anthony squeezed all the remaining fluid from Angela's left breast and
then undid the zipper from the back to ease down the torso revealing
his slightly sticky and hairy chest beneath. He washed his chest and
the inside of the ruined suit as best he could to remove all the sticky
silicone gel that had leaked out. He hoped that it wouldn't cause a
blockage in the drains, but at the moment that was the least of his
worries.
"Care to explain these?" Anwyn called from the bedroom. Anthony
finished towelling himself down and then went to confront her, the
Angela torso with remaining good breast flopping in front of him as he
went.
"I brought them as an insurance policy. I didn't know whether Theresa
had planned anything against me this weekend and I just wanted some
insurance in case she did," she replied.
"OK I can buy that for the Claire suit and masks for Claire and
Theresa, though Theresa is taller than you so you'd be taking a risk
there. But what about this?" Anwyn pointed to the Irena Ganalov full
body suit. Ever since he'd spied on that scene in the hotel with the
bald man impersonating Irena Ganalov Anthony had not been able to get
it out of his thoughts. Could he make a full body suit that didn't
require blending around the shoulders and thighs? That way the
difference in his skin tone and the latex wouldn't notice and he would
no longer need to shave his arms and legs. He'd obsessed about it for
some time, such that when he'd chosen to make the full body suit he'd
chosen the same subject as his first trial.
"It's something new that I wanted to try, a full body suit to see if it
would work. Looks like I'll never get to try it though. The breasts on
the Claire suit are not a good match for Angela, but for that suit I
used the same size forms as I used for Angela," Anthony replied. He
could see that Anwyn had pursed her lips as there was more she wanted
to know but she left asking the questions for now.
"Get the nail scissors from the bathroom; we need to do a bit of breast
to breast surgery."
Anwyn obeyed him and fetched the scissors from her vanity case as he
sat down on the bed and put his hand into the back of the Irena suit.
He carefully felt around the breast and using the scissors that Anwyn
handed him he carefully cut the latex around the form and removed it.
As soon as he looked at it however he realised that he'd made a mistake
and had taken out the wrong breast, so he was forced to repeat the
process on the other side. Throwing the now ruined suit aside, he took
the left breast and inserted it in the space where the now completely
deflated breast form was still stuck to the outer part of his suit.
Holding it in place he then got Anwyn to apply her plasters over the
cut hole. It wasn't perfect and the breast was not as fixed in as he'd
like, but he mused it should be good enough for now.
Anwyn helped Anthony do the suit up at the back whilst he held the
loose breast in place. The tightness of the suit was enough to keep the
breast where he needed it for now and Anthony was satisfied with the
repair. The new Irena suit was ruined however. He'd need to start all
over again as the whole idea of a one piece suit needed to be made in
one go.
"I'll finish up, here and change clothes. Could you go take that" he
pointed to the Irena suit "and get it out of here." Anwyn nodded and
took the remains of the suit in a summer bag she'd brought with her.
Anthony had assumed that she was taking it to hide in the car. He then
put the jumper and bra in the hatch for the laundry service for the
club.
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Anywn took the suit out to the back of their rooms. She'd spotted some
large trash bins with the swing tops on her way out to the car, and
that was all that this thing was suitable for now. She opened the bin
and pulled the suit from her bag and heaved it in before shutting the
lid down again. She'd have words with Anthony later about this. They
were not supposed to have secrets from each other anymore.
On her way back she spotted her brother Bernard coming out the room.
Damn, that was the last person she wanted to see now.
"I want a word with you little sis. What exactly is your problem?" he
demanded. He'd put two and two together she reasoned and make four.
"I don't know what you mean?" she tried to deny it.
"Your little joke with the cases. Now I can take a joke the same as any
man but that little stunt is going to cost me money. I have to go into
town tomorrow and buy new things. I can't wear these clothes all
weekend."
"I'm sure there was something that would match your colouring in your
case" Anwyn sniggered no longer denying it.
"What's all this about really?" Bernard demanded.
"You should ask Sindy, God rest her soul. Murdered by a brutish man
years ago and only recently new evidence has come to light on the
crime," Anwyn said boldly. She could see the cogs slowly ticking in
Bernard's brain. The only one he'd told this to had been Anthony, or so
he thought.
"Bloody hell Anthony told you that?" Bernard stated. "Besides that was
all years ago."
"Yes he talks in his sleep poor darling." That wasn't strictly true but
Anwyn didn't want Anthony to get in trouble with his friend. "You know
that I don't let these things lie."
"Anthony doesn't know what he's letting himself in for with you sis,"
Bernard said. "Is that it now are we all square, or am I going to find
a tarantula in my bath next?"
"That's it we're even now. Don't even think of trying to get even
Bernie or you'll get it back worse," With that Anwyn turned at headed
back to their room hurriedly to make sure that the repairs to Angela
were going to plan.
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Charlotte stormed out from her room that she shared in the main mansion
with Gavin Rodgers. How dare he suggest that? She'd suspected for some
time now that Gavin had had a thing about Angela Clemence, but their
recent success in masking had she hoped put all that to bed. However
when he suggested that Charlotte get a mask that looked a lot like
Angela with her long red hair, she knew that he was still hung up on
his rescuer. Suggesting that she be Angela for him during sex had gone
way too far. She'd not forgive him for this easily. So she went to get
solace from her friend Irena. She was supposed to be giving Irena help,
but this was an emergency and she needed a girl's shoulder to cry on.
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That evening everyone (except Theresa) had checked that Angela was
alright and she'd enjoyed the attention showing all and sundry the
bandage around her chest and ensuring everyone that she was alright
now. Mark had been concerned about the whole thing however and had
taken Angela aside to have a talk with her.
"That's two attempts on people's lives in a day," he said, "and that's
probably not a co-incidence."
"Yes, there's some connection here." Angela replied. "If they were just
after Theresa then you'd have to suspect it being something to do with
the election. But with the killer going after me as well. There's only
one person that I can think of that both Theresa and I have upset
jointly, and that's Sally Chang."
"You're right. I was thinking the same thing. But I've not seen Sally
Chang here and when I asked I was told that no one of that name works
here."
"I wonder if it's some relation of hers or friend. We should probably
out to check the members list or the staff rota." Angela left it
hanging and Mark nodded.
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Anwyn had finally given in to Anthony's suggestion after a long
argument that had included a discussion on the reason for the new suit.
Anwyn had discussed boundaries to his masking and she felt that the
Irena suit went over these boundaries. Anthony had reluctantly agreed
that he would not make another Irena suit, but mentally decided that it
would not stop him trying to make a new full body suit version of
Angela in the future. Anwyn in turn had reluctantly agreed that they
needed to look at those staff lists and that the only person who would
have access to that area of the manor house would be Theresa.
So later on that evening around midnight Anthony had stripped out of
his repaired Angela suit and mask and was now putting on the Claire
suit together with the Theresa mask. He couldn't really do her voice
but he decided that he'd have to bluff if he met anyone in the building
at this time of night. Anwyn had lent Anthony some of her slacks and a
jumper since all Angela's clothes were too large for Theresa.
The false Theresa headed into the manor house and crept up the stairs
to where the record office was located. So far she'd not encountered
anyone wanting to ask questions of her and she slipped into the room
carefully only to find Mark sat at the desk pouring over the records
himself using a torch. Mark looked up at the fake Theresa in the half
light.
"Honey I thought we agreed that I was going to come and sort this out
myself." Anthony could not impersonate Theresa well and he hadn't built
a voice disguiser into this mask yet. There were only three courses of
action he could take and he didn't like any of them. He could bluff it
out trying to use Theresa's voice and failing, he could run away which
didn't seem likely, or he could try and keep things quiet between them.
He decided that the third option was perhaps the best and he put
Theresa's finger to his false lips and headed over to Mark with the
books.
"Oh honey, you want to do it here. I thought you're head still hurt.
How naughty of you!" Mark said quietly."Turn around and bend over the
desk and I'll give you a good spanking." This was perhaps something
that Anthony didn't expect and he really didn't want to know about
their sex life, particularly as he was now about to get involved in it.
Mark got up and turned the fake Theresa around and began paddling her
arse with a book quite gently. "You're a bad girl Theresa, but I love
you" Mark whispered in his ear. Ewwww, this was getting worse by the
minute. Anthony could feel Mark pulling down the fake Theresa's slacks,
followed by her tights and her knickers whilst he was bent over the
desk. He could see little of what was happening, but he felt Mark's
penis slip inside his fake pussy and the pounding on his rear started
followed by the massaging of his breasts by Mark's arms round the front
of him. Anthony was forced to pretend to moan with pleasure as Mark
grunted from behind, each thrust of his cock put pressure on Anthony's
front on the desk below him. The lack of lubrication in Theresa's false
pussy meant that Mark quickly came much to Anthony's relief and Mark
sat back down in the chair spent after his exertion. The fake Theresa
pulled up her undergarments and slacks and then moved into a less lit
area of the room.
"Well the only members to join in the last 3 months are us, but there
have been 3 new staff to have joined. Their names are Evan Wilson,
Deanna Meade and Katie Everheart, none of who sound Chinese to me. Evan
is on shift tomorrow morning so I'll check him out then, but the two
ladies are not on shift again till tomorrow evening now." Mark said
quietly. "Don't worry honey I'll find the assassin before they do
anything to hurt you." Anthony nodded Theresa's fake head and then
slipped out the room, determined to be out of sight before Mark
realised that the woman he'd banged was not really his wife, hoping
that he believe that she's slipped back into their room before he got
back.
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The next day Angela had been enjoying herself sitting on a longer by
the indoor pool reading a book. The ladies had been out playing tennis
together that morning and Bernard had gone to the local town to see if
he could buy a few new clothes. So Angela had put on her one piece
bathing suit and enjoyed a dip and relaxed by the pool. Anthony thought
that he could get used to being a lady of leisure.
Sometime close to lunchtime he felt water on his chest and he looked up
from his book to see Anwyn and Claire in their sports skirts and T-
shirts. Anwyn had an empty paper cup still in her hand and it was
obvious to work out where the water came from, particularly as neither
of the women could stop giggling.
"You have got my attention Anwyn. What can I do for you?" Angela asked.
"We've just found out that they do horse-riding so we're all going to
go out for a ride" Anwyn replied excitedly.
"Oh well I hope you have a good time," Angela said.
"No silly! We are all going, all us girls together," Claire chimed in.
"I've never ridden in my life before" Angela told her.
"Not what I'd heard. I heard you liked riding!" Anwyn gave him a big
wink.
"Who's been talking about me behind my back then," Angela said in mock
outrage.
"If I didn't know that you were just friends I'd have thought you two
were flirting," Claire said. "Come on Angela live a little."
"I don't have anything to wear for riding," Angela tried her final
excuse to get out of it, moving away quickly from Claire's comment that
was closer to the truth than she knew.
"That's ok you can borrow a riding hat and boots here. Oh come on
Angela, it'll be fun. Besides, we've already booked it for the three of
us," Anthony could see that Angela was being given no choice.
"Let me go change out of my costume then, since I have no option."
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Claire noted that Angela seemed to be wincing as she rode. She should
never have let Anwyn persuade her that it would be ok for Angela to
ride after Angela's injury the day before. The poor woman must be
really hurting where the knife had pierced her breast. They should have
taken Angela to the hospital as she'd suggested, but Anwyn was having
none of it saying that it was less serious than it looked. Claire was
an experienced rider, she'd been with the pony club when she was young
and had only given it up in her teens. Angela she could see was clearly
not experienced and was obviously suffering as they trotted through the
countryside.
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It was not the pain in Angela's breast that was causing Anthony agony.
The source of the pain came from elsewhere. When men rode a horse,
their genitals were in front of them in the saddle. As Angela,
Anthony's penis was tucked back between his legs and secured there
using a pouch that linked to the catheter at the end of it so that he
could pee as a woman through the tube it connected to. Its position
meant that every time the horse beneath him rode up with its gait he
was sent into the air and landed back down in the saddle heavily on his
sexy arse. The crunch on his balls and his dick made him wince in pain
each time the gait of the gentle mare beneath him caused him to come
back down after being thrown up from the saddle. Claire slowed the
horses down and moved alongside Angela.
"Are you alright Angela?" she asked.
"Yes, though it's quite painful. Do you mind if we stop this early?"
Angela responded. "It's where I had the operation. It can still be a
little sore if pushed too hard." Anthony thought the lie might just
cover it.
"Yes you poor dear. I didn't think about that. You'll have to get off
and walk her back though as it's a good couple of miles back to the
club from here. Anthony dismounted the horse and felt the pain in his
balls as he did so. A two mile walk back would probably be better than
riding, but it still wasn't going to be a walk in the park.
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Bernard had returned from his morning shop to get clothes to find that
the ladies had all gone off riding. Well that suited him as he wanted
to watch the match anyway this afternoon. The problem was that his team
were doing badly. The worse they did, the more he drank and by the end
of the game Jim politely suggested that he go and take a lie down in
the lounge. Feeling the beer go to his head, Bernard agreed and he was
soon asleep, legs up on the armrest and snoring away. Many of the other
members whispered behind their hands - just how low could the standards
of this club go? Were they letting any football larger lout in now?
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Francis Bridger had emptied all the bins from the extension old
servants block and was now transferring the contents of the bins to the
dumpsters at the back before he finished his shift. As he opened the
dumpster he got the shock of his life, there was a body in it. Looking
again closer however he realised that it was not a body but a flayed
human skin with a full head of long luscious brunette hair. Curiosity
got the better of him and he fished it out of the dumpster. What he
found when he examined it was a transvestite's wet dream. It was a full
bodysuit of Irena Ganalov with the breasts cut out. He examined the
suit closer and he found that inside the pelvis part of the suit was a
pouch where a man could put his penis. Francis' cock sprang to
attention and he wondered whether Irena Ganalov, who he knew was
staying at the hotel at present, was really a man in disguise. The
prospect excited him nearly as much as the prospect of trying on the
suit himself.
Francis folded the suit up and put it in a plastic bag as he finished
up and headed to his staff locker. Inside his locker he had a sports
bag with the items for his evening's excursion as 'Frances' including a
wig, underwear, a corset, a nice dress, heels and most importantly
breast forms. He added the plastic bag to his sports bag and put it
under his housecleaning cart.
Eager to find out the truth, he hurried along to her room and knocked.
When he got no reply he opened the door using his maintenance key and
slipped inside with the cart. On the bed he saw a number of discarded
dresses including some paperwork that was strewn all over the bed. He
did a quick read of the police report. It said something about a man
using a realistic bodysuit to disguise as Irena. He stopped reading any
further, he now knew Irena's secret. If the man pretending to be her
had discarded the useless suit then he probably would not be back. That
gave Francis all the time in the world to try it on and even some of
her clothes.
Francis gave the suit a wash first to remove the smell and fitted a
waist nipper. He then proceeded to enter his feet into the leg pieces
one at a time before pulling it up and smoothing out the legs. It was a
little small, but the latex was able to stretch a bit and he located
the pouch for his penis and connected it up to the catheter. He then
pulled the remainder of the suit up and awkwardly, trying not to rip
the broken latex front tried to get his arms into the arm pieces of the
lovely Irena suit. He then pulled the headpiece over his own head and
was blinded, first the latex that needed adjusting correctly to fit the
eye holes to his eyes, and then by the mass of brunette hair that he
had to brush back out of his face. Doing up the zip at the back was
awkward but he eventually found it at his coccyx and was just about
able to pull it up without ripping his arm from his shoulder. He
looked a bit like Irena now and he was getting excited. Using the
breast form glue he then glued his forms in place to try and cover the
holes and further hid them by adding his bra and panty set. There,
Francis thought to himself, not at all bad. He was going to have fun
being Irena in this new suit. He took the dress that was lying on the
bed and began getting into it, zipping it up carefully as he went.
The new Irena Ganalov began to pose in front of the mirror, trying to
imitate her style from the catwalks. Inside the pelvic region Francis
was hard and was really enjoying himself. That was right up until the
point when the real Irena Ganalov opened the door to the room and saw
her twin posing in from of the mirror. Irena screamed and then feinted
beside the door.
Francis had no time to think. He gathered up his male clothes onto the
cart and headed out the door. Then he heard footsteps starting to come
from the lift area and he had no choice but to flee the other way into
the next door room.
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Charlotte and Irena had been out walking discussing their problems and
Charlotte hoped that her friend was starting to get over her identity
problems, what with having a man impersonate her. Irena had not been
too helpful with Charlotte problem though, she had merely suggested
that Charlotte do what her husband wanted, after all it was Charlotte
who he'd be making love to, which was infinitely better than letting
Gavin go off and do it to the real Angela.
Charlotte had stopped off at the front desk to see if she had any
messages, but was only a short way behind her friend when she heard her
scream. She rushed out of the lift and headed down the corridor until
she got to the right turn that lead down the corridor where Irena's
room was located. Once there she found her friend out cold on the
floor. Still part way in the doorway she tried to revive her friend but
it was a slow process. Eventually though with a few slaps and a bit of
water Charlotte managed to revive Irena.
"He vas here again trying on my dress," Irena said still weak from the
feint.
"There's no one here," Charlotte said. "Are you sure you didn't imagine
it?"
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Francis was trapped in the last room of a dead end corridor. There were
only two ways out of here where he wouldn't be spotted. One was the
fire escaped that he knew was alarmed, the other was the window. If he
could move along the ledge past Irena's room he could get to a room
where he could slip in and then away out of sight of the other woman
who was blocking the corridor. Francis pushed the window up and began
to move out onto the ledge outside, the autumn wind blowing his dress
about. Carefully Francis inched along the ledge as quietly as he could.
When he got to the window of Irena's room he peeked in it and saw
Charlotte Brunfeld slapping Irena. Good he had a chance. He took a deep
breath and counted to three as he started to inch further along the
ledge, in front of the window. He was pleased with his progress as he
got most of the way across and then it happened.
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Irena had awoken still slightly unsure of herself. Maybe she had seen
something because it had been on her mind so much lately. Maybe
Charlotte was right?
"I suppose zat I could have imagined it," Irena said slowly still
recovering her wits. Then she looked up into the room and saw her
doppelganger at the window. She screamed again and feinted a second
time.
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Sally Chang's shift as Katie Everheart had started early that evening
and she was disappointed to learn that both of her targets had survived
her earlier attempts to kill them. As she was clearing away some plates
she happened to hear the Squadron Leader fellow arguing with that
prissy Phillipa woman.
"Those guns have with the club for nearly seventy years now. They are
part of our heritage." The Squadron Leader said proudly.
"Still that means that they are probably worth a pretty penny and will
sell well. We can use the money to re-invest in a nice new tanning
station for the ladies. When I'm treasurer, I'll see to it that we
invest in the future," Phillipa replied. "Besides there are no bullets
for those things that I've seen."
"They don't take bullets. They take shot and we have plenty of that in
the drawers below. They are the easiest things in the world to load and
shoot." The Squadron Leader responded.
That gives me an idea to finally sort those bitches out, Sally thought,
thanking the old man profusely in her mind.
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They returned to the stables some hours later and Angela had made a
real meal out of the walk back. They'd changed back into their own
clothes a