said now? ’ Lynn questioned in a loud whisper, following Kate.
‘ Sshh ! Don’t call her that, someone else will hear you and you’ll get in trouble and then I’ll get in trouble and then we’ll both be in big trouble, ’ Kate spoke her eyes wide as she looked around to check no one had heard.
‘ Sorry. ’
‘ Do you remember the Prestwick accounts? You did the memo for me? ’ Kate asked, showing Lynn the file as she put it down on her desk and splattered more confetti on the floor.
‘ Yes I remember, they were thirty seven pages long - took me ages to photocopy because the Lady Dragon can’t have even a hint of a paper crease on them, ’ Lynn responded.
‘ Yes, well, these thirty seven pages weren’t the thirty seven pages I finalised, I’m sure of it, ’ Kate told her, passing the information over .
‘ I can easily check , I save a copy of everything I do in a separate directory. So even if the main directory has been changed I’ll be able to compare the two, ’ Lynn said.
‘ Oh Lynn , you’re a life-saver, could you have a look? I mean it could be that I’m imagining I ever finalised them but I’m sure I spent at least three hours of my life staring at these figures. ’
‘ I’ll have a look, the Lawrence file is there by the way, the Lady Dragon said you’d need it, ’ Lynn spoke.
‘ Great, ’ Kate answered sarcastically.
‘ So, I hear you have a new boyfriend, ’ Lynn commented.
‘ Sshh ! ’ Kate exclaimed , looking over her shoulder at her colleagues in the hope they were all too busy working to pay any attention to Lynn ’s loud voice.
‘ I think the Lady Dragon is bristling about it. Word in the office is that Colin Sykes is dating one of the trainees, ’ Lynn spoke in slightly more hushed tones.
‘ Really! Now that will have got her back up for certain. She’s been sniffing around him since he became a partner. ’
‘ Mmm , so expect a foul mood for a few weeks, until she sets her sights on another victim. My money’s on Andrew Kent, ’ Lynn said, speaking of one of the other partners in Randall’s and touching her nose with her finger.
‘ Isn’t he married? ’ Kate enquired .
‘ Wife left him last summer, watch this space. ’
Eleven
Highbridge Leisure Centre was only five years old, built between the Princess Diana, Queen of Hearts memorial garden and the BMX ramps. It had a leisure pool, a twenty five metre pool, a large sports hall and, as Kate was finding out, it had state of the art gym facili ties with giant flat screen TV s all across the walls, some showing European football matches , others blaring out the latest hits on MTV.
Getting a message to Joel through Elite Escorts had proved to be a fruitless task. The receptionist insisted that she couldn’t give out any pers onal information and in fact the only thing she could do was book an appointment , which required immediate payment. So here Kate was, in her lunch hour, in the middle of a gym, somewhere she hadn’t ever set foot in, feeling awkward and out of place amongst the fit individuals around her.
It was so noisy she could hardly hear herself think and she couldn’t see Joel anywhere. This was definitely where he worked, he’d told her. She couldn’t find anyone else to ask, they were all busy running or stepping or cycling ridiculously fast, especially the twenty or so people pedalling and being yelled at by a psychotic woman wearing a headset. She was just about to give up when she saw him, at the side of the room, doing sit - ups with a pretty dark - haired girl.
She took a deep breath, trying to run over in her mind what she was going to say to convince him to help her. But as she moved closer, seeing how fantastic he looked in a very tight top and shorts, all her carefully thought out plans went out of the window. He was never going to agree to this - why would he? It was a mad plan.
Before she got too close she turned abruptly and found herself walking into a luckily
‘ Sshh ! Don’t call her that, someone else will hear you and you’ll get in trouble and then I’ll get in trouble and then we’ll both be in big trouble, ’ Kate spoke her eyes wide as she looked around to check no one had heard.
‘ Sorry. ’
‘ Do you remember the Prestwick accounts? You did the memo for me? ’ Kate asked, showing Lynn the file as she put it down on her desk and splattered more confetti on the floor.
‘ Yes I remember, they were thirty seven pages long - took me ages to photocopy because the Lady Dragon can’t have even a hint of a paper crease on them, ’ Lynn responded.
‘ Yes, well, these thirty seven pages weren’t the thirty seven pages I finalised, I’m sure of it, ’ Kate told her, passing the information over .
‘ I can easily check , I save a copy of everything I do in a separate directory. So even if the main directory has been changed I’ll be able to compare the two, ’ Lynn said.
‘ Oh Lynn , you’re a life-saver, could you have a look? I mean it could be that I’m imagining I ever finalised them but I’m sure I spent at least three hours of my life staring at these figures. ’
‘ I’ll have a look, the Lawrence file is there by the way, the Lady Dragon said you’d need it, ’ Lynn spoke.
‘ Great, ’ Kate answered sarcastically.
‘ So, I hear you have a new boyfriend, ’ Lynn commented.
‘ Sshh ! ’ Kate exclaimed , looking over her shoulder at her colleagues in the hope they were all too busy working to pay any attention to Lynn ’s loud voice.
‘ I think the Lady Dragon is bristling about it. Word in the office is that Colin Sykes is dating one of the trainees, ’ Lynn spoke in slightly more hushed tones.
‘ Really! Now that will have got her back up for certain. She’s been sniffing around him since he became a partner. ’
‘ Mmm , so expect a foul mood for a few weeks, until she sets her sights on another victim. My money’s on Andrew Kent, ’ Lynn said, speaking of one of the other partners in Randall’s and touching her nose with her finger.
‘ Isn’t he married? ’ Kate enquired .
‘ Wife left him last summer, watch this space. ’
Eleven
Highbridge Leisure Centre was only five years old, built between the Princess Diana, Queen of Hearts memorial garden and the BMX ramps. It had a leisure pool, a twenty five metre pool, a large sports hall and, as Kate was finding out, it had state of the art gym facili ties with giant flat screen TV s all across the walls, some showing European football matches , others blaring out the latest hits on MTV.
Getting a message to Joel through Elite Escorts had proved to be a fruitless task. The receptionist insisted that she couldn’t give out any pers onal information and in fact the only thing she could do was book an appointment , which required immediate payment. So here Kate was, in her lunch hour, in the middle of a gym, somewhere she hadn’t ever set foot in, feeling awkward and out of place amongst the fit individuals around her.
It was so noisy she could hardly hear herself think and she couldn’t see Joel anywhere. This was definitely where he worked, he’d told her. She couldn’t find anyone else to ask, they were all busy running or stepping or cycling ridiculously fast, especially the twenty or so people pedalling and being yelled at by a psychotic woman wearing a headset. She was just about to give up when she saw him, at the side of the room, doing sit - ups with a pretty dark - haired girl.
She took a deep breath, trying to run over in her mind what she was going to say to convince him to help her. But as she moved closer, seeing how fantastic he looked in a very tight top and shorts, all her carefully thought out plans went out of the window. He was never going to agree to this - why would he? It was a mad plan.
Before she got too close she turned abruptly and found herself walking into a luckily
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