I longed to let him slip the ring on my finger but I gently closed the box again. Amateur porn Ken held my arm until I could manage unaided. “No, don’t try to answer. I’ll be fine in a few minutes.”
I opened my handbag and started to repair my makeup. Hadn’t they already been answered? I responded. So nice to have met you, Laura.” I let her make twenty paces along the path before calling after her, “By the way, Douglas once told me he’d had a girlfriend somewhere around here but he dumped her because she turned out to be a prostitute. “So Olga Fyodorovna will need another market for her victims. I’d quite fancied Ken, but (to quote Jen’s delightful phrase) Ken hadn’t made me slaver at the crotch as Gareth did. Sorry, should have said – I’m Laura Holmes. The smell of his body was ugly and intoxicating. What a shame for a man to have to go abroad and leave his lovely wife at home so close to their anniversary.”
I supposed Gareth had told her the same story: I was a woman he’d seen at the gym, Clarissa Something-or-other, he hadn’t realised I was in with the church choir crowd…
