I'm John, I'm production manager for Roberts & Son's Industrial clothing company, I'm twenty two years old and have been working for Roberts since I left school at sixteen, I started as an office junior and quickly worked my way into management. The last thing Mr. Roberts Snr. Did before he handed over control of the company to his three sons was to promote me to manager in charge of production and with that responsibility came staff training. The three Roberts sons were all in their forties, they didn't have a very good business sense and it literally took all three of them to replace their father. I met Sue when she was seventeen, Personnel or Human Resources as they like to be known sent Sue down for training in May, that was totally crazy, we took girls straight from school, in July, "Get them before anyone else has a chance to teach them bad habits!" Was old Mr. Roberts credo, Sue had left school ten months earlier and had managed to dodge work for those ten months, the unemployment officer had sent her to us with a warning that if she didn't stick at the job she would get no support from the government in the future.

I had an informal chat with Sue while one of the line supervisors was setting up a machine to train her on, I found out that Sue had never worked, no paper round, no Saturday job, no helping the family out, "What do you plan to do with your life Miss. Watkins?" "I planned to get married, then I wouldn't have to worry about working!" During Sue's first three weeks I got to see her many times for being late in to work, for not trying hard enough, for disappearing during the day so that no one could find her and for constantly chatting on her mobile phone. She didn't really care that she was being told off, the five or six 'Final Warnings' that I had given her didn't faze her at all, her work ethic didn't impress me at all but her beauty did, as did the way she dressed and made herself up, even just to come into sit at a sewing machine in a room full of women all day.

Eventually Sue got to a point where she could do the job, she couldn't do it well or fast, she was put on sewing up parts of clothing that were hidden from view, she and I started going out together, Sue made it clear that what she wanted from me was a wedding ring and a way out of working, which, just after a year of meeting her, she got! I had quite a healthy bank balance when we married, a good salary and no debts except my mortgage, all that had changed by our first anniversary.

My wife of just a year was proving to be a little high maintenance, in just twelve months she had emptied my bank account totally on extravagant shopping trips, catalogues and shopping channel purchases. Sue gave up working as soon as we were married, I suggested starting a family early if she didn't want to work but she wasn't keen on that idea at all.

And now to the point of this story, my bosses had decided that the company was going to expand into fashion clothing, 'Industrial Chick', making clothes that looked like work ware but were made from soft cotton, silk or crape-de-chine, I got the job of organising a meeting with buyers from a large store chain, I was asked to take five staff with me to London and help them pitch the sale to the buyers, as the senior representative of the company I would be expected to pay for the hotels, the meals and all the entertaining, then claim the money back from the company. I had to go to the three Roberts brothers and explain that my credit card was maxed out; I doubted that I would be able to pay for a McDonald's meal with my card. Finance transferred five thousand pounds into my credit card account by overnight transfer so that I could pay for the trip, the oldest Roberts brother said that we would have to have a talk about my finances when the trip was over, I didn't think that he meant a pay rise or anything so useful.

Sue must have checked on our account balance because towards the end of our stay in London a restaurant declined my card and I had to pay cash for the meal, I had to make an embarrassed call to my bosses, I had to explain that my wife had spent some of their money, I still had to pay for six hotel rooms for four days and the meals that we had had in the hotel, I would need around fifteen hundred pounds, this time the money was sent in cash, by motorcycle courier.

The following Monday morning saw me standing in the main office in front of Paul Roberts desk, he was alone in the office which was unusual as the three always seemed to be joined at the hips, no decision was ever made by just one of the brothers.

"Well John, it seems that there is about three thousand pounds missing!"

"Yes sir, something like that!"

"When will you be able to pay it all back John?"

"It will take me about a year to pay back that much!"

"That will give us something of a problem John, the auditors will be in at the end of the month, the books will have to balance by then!"

I was shocked, I had worked for them since I left school, they had known me for seven years, they knew that I wasn't going to run out on the company.

"Could you organise a loan from anywhere John?"

I shook my head.

"A year ago I would have had no problem but now I have a terrible credit rating!"

"John, you know what the auditors will do when they see this missing sum, they will be forced to report it to the police!"

Paul now had my full attention.

"Couldn't you arrange a loan for me from the company?"

"I wish I could John, I wish I could but that would just look even more suspicious to the auditors!"

"Do you have anything that you could sell?"

I shook my head.

"What about all the stuff your wife has been buying with our money, can't you sell any of that, or send it back and get the money back that way?"

"My wife only ever buys junk unfortunately and not from the kind of place that would take it back for a cash refund!"

"John, think, do you own anything else that you could sell or swap for money?"

I shook my head again.

"Sorry sir, I have no way of getting your money back before the auditors arrive!"

"What about your wife?"

"Sue doesn't have anything except for wardrobes overflowing with expensive clothes that no one else would buy!"

"I didn't mean that!"

"What then?"

"My brothers and I are all bachelors, we never wanted to marry and allow a woman to get her hands on our family money, now it seems that your wife has managed to do just that!"

"I'm sorry; I don't see what you mean!"

"We all pay women for sex John; Tony will pay up to fifty pounds for a good hooker, would you say that your wife would qualify as a good hooker in bed John?"

Again I had to shake my head.

"Unfortunately all Sue is good at is spending money!"

"You really did luck out with that woman didn't you John? But even if your wife is a bad lay she'll be worth twenty-five pounds a fuck to anyone!"

I nodded my head in agreement at the first comment and changed my expression to shock at the second part

"My brothers and I have a proposition for you John, your wife has gotten you into a mess of trouble, we propose that you let her work the debt off, we will each pay twenty-five pounds a time to sleep with your wife until the debt is paid off!"

"She'll never agree to it, and anyway, even if you paid fifty pounds a night it will take her months to pay off three thousand pounds, at twenty-five it will take forever!"

Now it was Paul's turn to nod his head in agreement.

"Well we don't think that she needs to agree, you didn't agree to her spending all of your money and my brothers and I certainly didn't agree to her spending any of our money, so all we need is for you to deliver what is after all your property to us and we will do the rest!"

I was a little shocked at what I was hearing, it all made sense now, why Paul was talking to me on his own, he was suggesting something that was totally illegal and didn't want any witnesses.

"Even if I agree and Sue has sex with one of you every night it will take her four months to pay back three thousand pounds!"

"If you deliver your wife to our house, I will give you three thousand pounds, in cash, when you leave our house alone, and as an extra inducement we will pay off your debt to our company too, you will get a little breathing space from your wife's spending and a little relief from your debts too at the same time! What do you say?"

Paul left it at that for me to think about it, I went back to work for a while but couldn't settle so I left early, the first time I had dodged out off work early in my life. I got home and walked into the kitchen from the back door just in time to hear my wife, on the phone, say, "Well, if I take the parasol and base, the 'bar-b-q' and two loungers will that take the value high enough for me to get interest free credit?" I walked in and put my finger on the telephone cradle to cut off her call, the TV was tuned into the shopping channel and they were selling lawn furniture, low quality at inflated prices.

"I don't think we need lawn furniture!"

"It's all right for you at work, you have air conditioning in your office, when my friends come around here in the afternoons and it's too hot to sit inside I have to put a blanket on the grass to sit on and everyone thinks it's barbaric in this day and age......!"

I cut her off short, there was a package on the coffee table, I asked what was in it.

"Oh that, it's a diamond choker and ear rings, I saw it on 'Price Drop TV' and just had to have it, we had enough money in our account before you go mad at me!"

I opened the package, there was a velvet dog collar studded with tiny fragments of diamonds mounted all around it and two tear-drop ear rings also with tiny diamond fragments mounted all over them, they did sparkle well in the bright afternoon light shining through the window.

"This actually looks nice!"

I was twisting the choker in the shaft of sunlight, allowing the flashes of brilliance to memorise me momentarily, I looked over at Sue, she was smiling awkwardly at me, under my breath I said.

"It looks really lovely, I'm not sure it's worth six months in prison for me though!"

I smiled broadly and picked up the phone, I dialled the number for the factory and asked to speak to Paul Roberts.

"Hi Paul, you invited me to come to dinner at your place tonight, Well I've changed my mind, Sue has some great new jewellery and I think she would look really lovely in it in a place like yours, yes, she will look just like the Lady of the manor, your dead right!"

I checked the time, Paul had said very little during my telephone conversation, allowing me to play my role for Sue's benefit, all he did say was be there at seven o'clock. I suggested to Sue that she should go and have a nice long soak in the bath, I even ran up and started the water running, I dropped two of her very expensive 'Bath Bombs' into the stream of hot water, she caught me up in the bathroom.

"What about my friends, they usually get here around three o'clock?"

"Don't worry about them, I'll tell them that we have an important meal tonight and tell them to come round tomorrow!"

I told Sue that I would go and pick out an outfit to show off her new jewellery to its best advantage. I picked out a black silk thong, I had never seen her wear them before, and I found a 'Shelf' bra, Sue had thirty-six inch 'C' cup breasts and at only nineteen years old they were still so firm that no bra was really needed, the shelf bra was still in its wrapper, it would have made her thirty-six inch bust look more like forty inches and that was why she had probably never worn it, she brought it because it looked nice, and because it was very expensive. I found a black cocktail dress, micro mini with very low cut front and the opening at the back would reach down to the start of her bottom at a guess, with a two inch panel of material holding the two sides of the dress together at the height where the back strap of her bra would be if she wore one, again, purchased for its looks and because it was expensive rather than for Sue to actually ware. All I could find were tights so I ran out of the house to the shops and found some sheer black 'hold up' stockings and ran back, just in time to see Sue's friends walking down the drive, I told them that I was taking Sue for a surprise meal tonight and that I was paying for her to go to a spa for a few days to get her ready for our holidays. Three of Sue's friends accepted that and walked away, one stayed behind.

"I need to speak to Sue myself!"

I took her up to the bathroom, she talked to Sue through the bathroom door, she could see me laying out Sue's clothes on the bed, I was polishing Sue's four inch high heels as the girl spoke to Sue, she was reasonably happy with what Sue told her through the locked bathroom door. I was filling a small suitcase with Some of Sue's most sexy clothes, knickers and bra's and skimpy night dresses, that sort of thing, I held my finger to my mouth to signify that the girl shouldn't say anything about the suitcase as that part of the treat was a surprise. We walked down the stairs and out to my car where I placed the case in my boot and we said our goodbyes. I was asked when Sue would be getting back from the spa, I had no idea how long the Roberts brothers would be keeping Sue so I told her that I would be picking Sue up from the Spa and taking her on holiday.

"I'll get Sue to give you a ring as soon as we get home!"

I watched Sue's friend walk down the road as I put Sue's case into the boot of my car, I noticed a large black BMW Alpina pull into the end of the road, it stood out in our residential area littered with cheap bangers, it's blacked out windows added an air of sinister mystery to the car. I noticed it and then I cast it from my mind, I was walking back to the house when suddenly I heard my name being called, the BMW had parked across the end of my drive, the driver had wound down the window and was calling me, he used a nod of his head to beckon me to go to the side of his car.

"You John from the clothing factory?"

"Yes!"

"Mr. Paul told me to come by and drop this off with you!"

The driver was holding out a small bottle with an eye-dropper top, he kept shaking it towards me, trying to encourage me to take it off of him.

"What is it?"

"It's called 'Liquid Ecstasy', gets the girls in the mood to party!"

"Why would I want this?"

"Mr. Paul said that you are to give your lovely wife three drops of this in a large glass of wine about an hour before you're due to arrive at his house. Only three drops, no more!"

"Isn't it dangerous to mix drugs and alcohol?"

"Liquid Ecstasy makes girls party, wine makes girls party, both together, just makes the party better!"

The driver had a very broad grin on his face as I took the bottle out of his hand, he turned the car stereo on, the noise was deafening, even after he wound the window up and drove away I could still hear the tune clearly long after the BMW was out of sight.

I left Sue in the bath as long as I could, the perfumes and oils in the bath-bombs that I had put into the bath water would be absorbed by Sue's skin, the longer she was in the water, the deeper the scent and oils would seep into Sue's skin and the longer her skin would feel soft and smell nice. If Sue was going out shopping she would take thirty minutes to do her make-up, if she were going out for the evening with her girlfriends it would take fifty minutes and if I were taking her somewhere special it would take her seventy to eighty minutes just to do her make-up. Sue's hair was a golden blond colour, it normally hung just below her shoulders, her hair was naturally straight but when she was going out she would curl and pin her hair up, this left her neck totally uncovered and added about four inches to the appearance of her height, making her look five feet eight inches tall instead of her usual five foot four inch height. The only hair that hung down would be two barley twist curls hanging down over each ear because Sue felt that her ears stuck out too far and the twisting curls would hide that single imperfection.

At four pm. I Called Sue to start to get ready, I left her for thirty minutes and then went up to see how she was doing, she was sitting at her dressing table, she was wearing the self supporting stockings and thong but the shelf bra was lying on the floor, Sue had obviously tried the bra on and then taken it off again, she was half way through doing her hair, I asked her why the bra was on the floor.

"It looks stupid and feels all wrong!"

I picked up her dress and asked her if she had any other bra that wouldn't show above the neckline of her low cut dress.

"No, I'll just have to choose a different dress!"

"I chose this dress because it will show your lovely new choker better than any of your other clothes!"

"Yes but with the shelf pushing my breasts up the dress will be far too tight!"

"I don't think so, it will push the top of your breasts up a little higher than usual but the look will be well worth a little discomfort. Do you want a drink?"

Sue nodded her head but told me to leave it a while until she had 'put her face on'. I left her until around six o'clock and then I took her a glass of white wine with the addition of the three drops of liquid ecstasy. Sue took a large gulp of wine as soon as I handed it to her, Sue was sitting in just stockings and thong still but she had finished her face and hair and she looked a 'million dollars'.

I watched as Sue walked down the rails of dresses, skirts and trouser suits that she had spent most of my savings on, she looked very disappointed, I think that she could see what I was saying about the combination of dress and bra that I had chosen but she was still clutching at straws to try and find something better.

"Perhaps if you put the choker and ear rings on it will help you to decide!"

Sue shooed me from the room, she told me that I was making it difficult for her to think straight, by the time I had reached the door Sue was more than half way down her glass of wine. I dressed quickly, I didn't bother to shower, the Roberts brothers wouldn't be interested in how I was dressed or how I smelled, then it hit me, why was I worrying what Sue wore, what she looked like, I had been dressing her for another man to fuck, what was going on in my head, I rationalised it like this, I had married Sue, she wasn't really a wife, she did nothing around the house, didn't cook very well, didn't clean, didn't work, and when I went to her for sex, more often than not she would have a headache, the only thing she was actually good at was spending money, Paul Roberts knew that, I wanted Sue to look as good as she could so that at least I would have that one thing to cling on to, Sue was the most beautiful woman in the county, or at least she could make herself look that way after a little help from her make-up box of tricks.

It was around ten past six when I heard the click of Sue's heels on the stairs, I got up and grabbed my car keys, it was at least a forty minute drive to the Roberts mansion so we would have to set off straight away, in the hallway I stopped and drew in a deep breath, Sue had put on the shelf bra and black dress, she looked stunning, she was giggling, acting a little drunk, she reached for a coat and I quickly put my hand on the coat rack to stop her.

"I can't go out in the street dressed like this!"

"The car is on the drive, no one will see you in that short distance!"

"What about when we get to the restaurant, I'll have to walk down the street there!"

"Not a problem, were not going to a restaurant for our meal!"

I took Sue's arm and led her out to the car, just as her friend was about to knock on the door, she had obviously got home and decided that there was something wrong with what I had told her, she stopped dead in her tracks when she saw the way Sue was dressed, Sue blushed a very deep red at being seen by her friend outside the house dressed as she was. Then her friend's face changed.

"Oh my god, your new jewellery arrived already, it looks stunning, mine hasn't even been shipped out to me yet!"

Sue's friend then looked at me suspiciously.

"I thought that you would go mad when you found out about Sue's new purchase!"

"No, mad about how much it cost, but just look at it, it just adds to Sue's beauty, makes her look even more special. So I'm taking her out to dinner to show her off!"

Sue was now sitting in the car and her friend was crouching down by her door.

"I think John has something special in mind, a little secrete for me later!"

I started the car engine and apologised to Sue's friend, I told her that we had to get going and drove off, leaving Sue's friend still crouching in my drive. We arrived at the Roberts mansion at exactly seven o'clock, I pulled up outside the front door, a butler opened the door and rushed out to open Sue's door.

"Good evening Sir, Madam, you are expected, Mr. Paul is waiting for you in the drawing room!"

The butler was holding his hand out in the direction of the drawing room and Sue walked on ahead, I asked if the car would be OK where it was, the butler picked up a small silver tray and held it out to me.

"If Sir will leave his keys I will park the car for him, erm! Is there anything in the car that Sir will need after dinner?"

"There is a case in the boot!"

"Very well Sir, I'll move it into the cellar until it is needed!"

I placed my keys on the tray and the butler rushed off to open the drawing room door before Sue got there. Sue and I were held back for a moment while the butler composed himself before he cleared his throat and announced in a 'Theatrical style'.

"Gentlemen, Your Guests have arrived!"

The three brothers were sitting around in 'Lounge suits', brightly coloured, lightweight, silk jackets, all three identical in every stitch, black silk trousers and contrasting silk cravats, the brothers usually looked like identical triplets most of the time but tonight, dressed as they were, even their mother wouldn't have been able to tell them apart. Sue was shocked; she had seen Paul Roberts a few times during her short time working at the factory, but she hadn't realised that there were three of him, I could almost see the thought rush into her head, 'Clones'!

The three brothers almost jumped to their feet, Paul moved in first, I hadn't realised that it was Paul until he took Sue's hand and told her that it was a pleasure to see her again, Paul bowed his head and kissed the back of Sue's right hand, his brothers Tony and David were standing behind him eager to meet Sue, Paul's kiss to the back of her hand elicited a blush and a giggle from Sue, then Paul moved to me and shook my hand, he guided me away from his brothers and Sue, led me into the centre of the room, I noticed that Tony and David both held one of Sue's hands each, both raised Sue's hand to their mouths, and both kissed the back of her hand in unison, this brought an even louder giggle from Sue and an even deeper red blush to her face.

"Tell me John, did you ever visit the mansion while our father still lived here?"

Paul had turned me so that my back was now towards Sue and his brothers but not before I noticed both brothers kissing Sue on the cheek, one on each side and again, simultaneously. I could hear whispered compliments passing between the brothers and Sue, it suddenly struck me, I realised that the three brothers were wearing Lounge suits but they did look remarkably like they were wearing silk pyjamas.

"On the day I was promoted to Production Manager, they invited my family to Sunday dinner!"

"All sitting at one end of the great banqueting table I'll bet?"

I nodded my head.

"And did you get the grand tour as well?"

I nodded my head.

"You'll find we've changed things ever so slightly!"

A loud giggle from Sue caused me to turn slightly so that my wife and Paul's brothers were in my peripheral vision, Paul cleared his throat as I started to turn and by the time I could see the three of them it looked like David had either been looking very closely at the bare top of Sue's breasts or he had just kissed her there. Paul pulled me back to face him again.

"What do you remember from that first visit?"

I nodded my head towards a double doorway set in the rear wall of the drawing room.

"Through there was the Billiards room, to the right a long room with four leather sofas and about a hundred paintings on the walls!"

Paul interrupted me.

"The Gallery!"

"Then through the Gallery the Library was the next room on the right, and the banqueting hall to the right of that, that's all I think!"

"Well, we have made a few changes; the Billiards room is now the Pool room!"

I thought that is typical of Paul and his generation, his father and mine had really enjoyed a game of Billiards before lunch that Sunday, Billiards was a gentleman's game of skill and strategy lasting over an hour, Pool was a 'quickie', instant gratification, a game that could be picked up and put down in five minutes, a pub game rather than a gentleman's game.

"The Gallery is now Tony's room, he converted it into a photography studio!"

I thought again, typical, those paintings had taken a master artist days or even months to create and had lasted hundreds of years, would have lasted many hundreds more, I had visions of Tony tossing great masters works into a skip at the back of the house as he ripped out the very heart of the old manor house.

"And the Library, we converted that into an informal dining room!"

Paul's comments and my thoughts were punctuated with half over heard compliments being paid to my wife and her giggles in response. I even thought I had heard David say that he thought Sue's dress looked stunning on her but that it would look even better in a crumpled heap on the floor of his bedroom. Paul saw the look of concern on my face and he cleared his throat once again, only this time louder and with more force.

Paul gripped my arm tighter and led me to the door at the rear of the Drawing room, I was a little taken aback as the doors opened' I had expected to see a small green pool table set in the centre of a huge room, instead there was a swimming pool, four meters wide and around twenty-five meters long, the room had also changed since the last time I had seen it, the rear wall was missing and the pool extended out into a huge glass conservatory with doors that, in the summer, would open to allow the pool to feel like it was outside.

"This is David's room!"

Paul pointed to a mosaic set in the wall, the panel looked purely decorative but there were letters built up out of stylised fishes, they spelled out the words, 'No Bathing Suits in the Pool'. I heard David whisper to Sue that they could try a swim later if she liked the idea.

Paul guided me through the door that had previously led to the Gallery; the room was painted totally in white, the walls didn't have any sharp corners, the transition between floor and wall, and between wall and ceiling were gently curved as were the two corners furthest away from the door that Paul had just guided me through. The ceiling in the back half of the room was a grid of scaffolding bars with heavy flood and spot lights hanging down, a master control panel by the door had rheostats to control the output of each of the lights. The room had three scenes set out, a fifties living room, three piece suite and panels on three sides with gaudy floral print wallpaper, a coffee table with an Art Deco table lamp on it, next to the living room scene was a double bed, an imitation wardrobe front with full length mirror fixed to it, and a third scene, opulent wall hangings, half of a crystal chandelier hanging down from the lighting bars, in front of the wall hangings and beneath the chandelier was a gold coloured throne with velvet footstool in front of that.

"This is Tony's play room

Paul was trying to hurry me and the others on through the film studio and into the third room, the informal dining room, David had other ideas though, he was guiding Sue through the scenery, Tony was setting up the various sliders on the control panel, each scene burst into full, multi coloured lights, David sat Sue on the sofa, Tony picked up a very expensive looking SLR - Digital camera and started shooting pictures of Sue, then David pulled her to her feet, and led her towards the double bed, Paul cleared his throat twice quite forcefully, David looked very disappointed but moved Sue on to the throne, Tony fired off several photographs, then he collected a tri-pod and mounted the camera on it, he set the camera to self time and both David and Tony stood on either side of Sue and the camera flashed by its self. The camera had a large screen on the back that I could easily see what the picture looked like even from four metres away.

Paul was trying to pull me through the door into the dining room; Tony had taken the camera again and was firing off photographs in rapid succession, David was whispering something in Sue's ear and she giggled loudly again and her face returned to bright red, Tony increased the blue lights intensity to remove the excess red. David brushed an imaginary strand of hair from Sue's forehead then his hand slipped slowly down her face, his palm on her cheek and his finger tips brushing down her ear, at her neck David's hand dwelled over her choker before falling down onto her shoulder and slowly on to the swell of her breast caused by the combined effect of the shelf bra and the tight, low cut dress.

"Gentlemen, our meal will be cold if we don't move on quickly, and remember we have a lot to do tonight!"

Paul managed to pull me out of the studio and into the Dining room, but not before I spotted David's finger tips easing down into the neck of Sue's dress, the speed of the flashing of the camera sped up as soon as I was out of the doorway, the sound of the camera clicking sounded like a machine gun firing, Paul led me to the opposite side of the table, the table was large enough to sit ten comfortably but the place settings for the five of us were all cramped down one end, two opposite the photography studio and three with their back to the door, Paul and my settings were comfortably far apart, the other three setting took up the same space as our two. It took about five minutes before the lightening fast flashes died down and the three came through the door, Sue appeared to be putting her breasts back into her dress as she walked through the door.

David sat in the left seat, Sue was placed in the middle seat by Tony and he took up the right hand seat, as soon as his bottom hit the seat another door opened and the butler carried a tray with five starters on it, the starter was a very light smoked Salmon mouse piped into a basket made of a lattice work of strips of smoked bacon. There was little actual substance to the starter but it was incredibly salty, David whispered something to Sue and she laughed wildly.

"Could you bring us water please, and I think our guest will need two ice cubes I think!"

It was the first time David had spoken aloud and the first time to anyone but Sue since we had arrived. The butler brought over a pitcher of water which he distributed around the five glasses, then he left for a moment returning with a silver plate with two ice cubes on it and a pair of silver tongues, he placed both ice cubes into Sue's glass, there was something strange about the ice, it wasn't clear as I would have expected, it to be, there was a dark star in the centre of each cube, as if another liquid were mixed in with the water that had a much lower freezing point, as the ice hit the water there was a loud cracking sound as the ice dissolved into hundreds of shards and the water began to turn a little cloudy.

Paul, Tony, David and I all finished our started in a few moments, Sue was only half way through her starter but she had beaten the four of us to finishing her water. I had suspected that the brothers would not be serving wine with the meal and I had been right, water was the only drink at the table. The butler was hovering around waiting to clear the first course dishes away, I noticed that Sue had stopped giggling now, even when David told her a joke that would normally have sent Sue into loud laughter on a normal day only elicited a smile, her face had returned to its usual white shade of pink, the movement of her fork to her lips was slowing down too, almost slow motion, David turned to her and asked.

"Have you had enough of your started beautiful?"

Sue pushed her knife and fork together and nodded her head, the butler swooped in fast and collected all the plates and cutlery from in front of each of us.

"It was a little too salty for me!"

Sue said with a faint hint of a slur to her voice, David and Tony both slipped a hand under the table, from the movement of their shoulders and upper arms hinted that they were both stroking Sue's upper thigh, up and down, I felt very uncomfortable seeing that and Paul spotted the look on my face, he cleared his throat before trying to distract me, David had a look on his face that showed that he was fed up with his older brother trying to slow down his and Tony's fun with my wife. The main course arrived and was enough of a distraction to all five of us, the main course was thin strips of Stir Fried chicken covered in a light mushroom and double cream sauce, served on a bed of vermicelli pastor, like the first course there was little of substance to the main course, I doubted if both courses served together on one plate would have made a decent starter in a restaurant in town. The dish was eaten in record time by the men at the table; Sue's slow-motion eating meant that her plate was still half full, the four of us men were sitting watching her eat, usually that would have been off putting enough for Sue to make her stop eating.

Tony's hand, once again, slipped under the table and he began to stroke up and down Sue's leg, David had his hand on Sue's back, he was moving it up and down, I noticed his hand kept stopping at that point where the band of material crossed over, hiding the back strap to Sue's bra and keeping the two halves of the back of Sue's dress together, David leaned in and whispered something in Sue's ear, it stopped her lifting her fork to her mouth but only momentarily, then David kissed Sue's ear, Paul looked at me and cleared his throat loudly, twice. David looked his brother in the eye and cleared his own throat twice before leaning back slightly and a swift movement of his hand saw the front of Sue's dress relax, the shoulder straps slipped an inch away from her slender naked neck and the upward bulge that had been forced into her breasts by the combination of tight dress and lift from the shelf bra sagged down.

Paul leaned in to me; he whispered into my ear and asked if I had a sweet tooth? I shook my head.

"Well John, if you would like to follow me for a moment please?"

Paul stood up and walked around the foot of the table, passing his brothers and Sue as he went, I followed on after him, as I passed the side of Sue I noticed that Tony had pushed the hem of her skirt up so high that there was an inch of bare flesh visible above the top of Sue's hold up stockings and Tony's hand was stroking that bare flesh on Sue's leg on his side of Sue, he was totally unconcerned when I stopped walking and stood looking down at his hand as it slipped between Sue's thighs and pulled her legs apart, David was fumbling with the clasp on the back of Sue's bra, working on it to open it one handed. Paul reached into the room and grasped my upper arm and pulled me into the photo studio after him, as he closed the double doors I looked back in time to see Sue's bra strap fall open and the shoulder straps of her dress slipped down over her arms and then the door sealed my view. I stepped back towards the door.

"Have you been following the case this week in the Crown Court?"

I shook my head.

"The manager of our local Colour Bank Carpets shop has been on trial for misappropriation of company funds, he is accused of stealing two thousand pounds, I was just reading about it in the local paper as you arrived!"

I could see his point, he was telling me that a local man in a position similar to mine was in court for similar reasons, I took another step towards the Dining room door.

"You are, of course, welcome to stay John, if I open that door your wife will, by now, be totally naked, could you handle that?"

I shook my head.

"My brothers would love you to watch them with your beautiful, young, wife, they wouldn't allow you to stop them doing what they intend to do with her though, you would be much better off leaving now before you see something that may affect your relationship with your wife and with our family!"

Paul took my arm again and started to pull me toward the pool room, I noticed the expensive camera that Tony had been using to photograph my wife, there was a picture still on the screen, it was totally filled with a close-up shot of my wife's breasts, totally naked with a hand holding one breast, offering it to the camera. Paul shook his head.

"I'm sorry about that!"

I saw Paul's eyes flash to the foot stool in front of the throne and his eye boughs raised, I followed his glance, there on the foot stool was a small black piece of material, Sue's thong was there on the top of the stool. In the Drawing room Paul picked up the paper, he scanned it quickly then he placed his index finger on the paragraph, he turned the paper towards me so that I could read the paragraph, 'Mr. Dixon, thirty-five, was sentenced to six months in prison, Mr Justice Hackett noted that it wasn't the value of the crime but the fact that Dixon had been in a position of trust within the company that drew a custodial sentence!'

I knew exactly why Paul had saved that little bomb-shell for the end of our encounter; he could see that I was very close to changing my mind about the whole thing of my wife paying off her huge spending bill with her body, and very much without her consent. Dixon got six months for two thousand pounds; I would get longer for three thousand.

"As I've already said, you can stay but I think it will be best all round if you go home and try not to think about it at all, I'll see you tomorrow at work!"

Paul took me to the front door, as he opened it the butler drove my car up to the door, he left the engine running and hopped out, holding the door open for me to get in. Paul rushed over.

"I almost forgot, this is a receipt for three thousand pounds, just hand it in to finance tomorrow, it says that you handed the cash to me. And this envelope has the other three thousand I promised to help you clear away some of your debts, get the mortgage up to date and things like that. Oh, Tony really loved that jewellery, so here is the money tour wife paid for that too!"

I wanted to ask Paul how long he planned to keep my wife but as I started to speak my nerve left me.

So, your room, is it the Dining room?"

"Sorry?"

"David has the Pool room, Tony the Photo Studio, is the Dining room your choice?"

Paul laughed out loud as he shook his head.

"No John, my room is the cellar; I call it my Dungeon or Torcher chamber!"

A sudden terrible thought gripped my stomach; Sue's case had been taken to the cellar.

"You're not going to hurt my wife are you?"

"Let us not think of Sue as your wife at the moment, let's just think of her as our employee until she has paid off nine thousand pounds worth of debt!"

Paul turned and walked towards the house.

"You didn't answer my question!"

"I'll see you first thing in the morning at work John, try not to dwell too much on what will be, put three drops of that liquid I sent over to you, you'll have a wonderful night's sleep!"

As the butler closed my door I heard him say that the brothers were shit to work for but the Manor house definitely had its fringe benefits, there was a wide grin on his face and he pushed my door closed. I drove down the long driveway to the lane leading back to civilisation, I had six thousand pounds in my pocket, I would no longer be in any danger of losing my home but what had I done to Sue?

I didn't sleep all night long, I went into work early, I had deliberately left the money at home, I knew that if I had it with me I would have thrown it in Paul Roberts face and demanded my wife back, even though I knew that the damage was already done, I had the image of her fucking one of those corrupt old bastards all night long in my head almost as clearly as the image of my wife's breasts being fondled and left deliberately for me to see.

As I drove into the car park I was surprised to see the Rolls Royce parked in the spot marked MD, I took the stairs to the fifth floor, two at a time, I heard Paul talking to Rebecca, his secretary, in her office.

"Rebecca, my brothers and I have a new toy at home and so we won't be in for the rest of this week or any of next week either, arrange for all of our meetings to be pushed back to the end of the month!"

I held back, waiting for Paul to come out or go into his own office, I wanted to talk to him on his own.

"John Carter will be going on leave tonight for two weeks, find someone trustworthy!"

I heard the garbled tones of speech rewinding and then the part about me going on holiday repeated in a tinny parody of Paul Roberts voice.

"Get Phil the Cutting room supervisor to sit in with John for an hour or so to take over for the fortnight, but keep your eye on him and if it looks like he's struggling in any way at all switch him with the Dye room supervisor, I'll leave the details up to you!"

I realised that Paul was alone in Rebecca's office talking into a Dictaphone, I joined him in the office, he smiled at me.

"You look like shit if you don't mind me saying so John, I'm glad I decided to send you away on a nice relaxing holiday, help you get your mind off things and stop any awkward questions at home!"

"How is Sue?"

"You were right John, she isn't a very good screw, we've had to rethink the repayment schedule slightly, instead of twenty-five quid a fuck, we've decided on twenty-five quid per man per day!"

I felt my jaw drop; I must have looked like an absolute idiot standing there with my face bright red with anger and my mouth wide open without a sound coming out of me.

"But you'll be glad to hear that she has already paid off one hundred and fifty quid from her account. I did the simple maths, that was six lots of twenty-five, my jaw dropped lower.

"How did she get to one hundred and fifty pounds in one night?"

I knew Sue, we had sex three times on our honeymoon, and four times in the year following that, I had wanted it more often, a lot more often but she had refused me on all but four times.

"Well, there were myself and my brothers, that accounted for seventy-five quid, then there was our butler, chef and our head gardener, they all wanted a turn, and it does keep the staff loyal if you give them these little extra bonuses!"

"You mean you made Sue have sex six times last night?"

Paul started to chortle.

"No, don't be silly, I fucked her at least six times myself, David and Tony did her even more times, when we went to bed at three o'clock we just left her with the staff to amuse her for the rest of the night!"

"So I guess she's sleeping now then?"

Paul shook his head and thought for a short while.

"I doubt that she will sleep much until you come back from your holiday, we have pills and potions that will keep a woman awake for a week or two. I'd like to think that by the time you get back Sue will have paid off most of the first three thousand"

Paul studied my face closely, then he smiled a broad grin as he slapped my shoulder in an overly friendly gesture.

"Come on John, it's only six men, other than David, Tony and me extra each day on average, and think of it this way, when I deliver her back to you after she has paid off the nine thousand she will never refuse your requests ever again, whatever you want her to do for you she will willingly and happily do without a single complaint or refusal, my guarantee is that if you have any problems at all after she has been trained we will take her back and re-train her again free of charge, she will end up totally compliant or die during the training!"

Paul handed me a piece of paper, it was a printed receipt from the internet for a seat on a scheduled flight to Antigua, leaving that evening from Heathrow airport, I had very little time to think about things, it was a three hour drive to Heathrow, and I had to be in the airport a minimum of two hours before departure.

"I'm assuming that all of your shots are up to date from your honeymoon last year, you will have to go to the Chemists when they open to get something for Mosquitoes. Oh, and I need Sue's passport dropping off at the mansion before twelve o'clock please!"