CHAPTER 1
Renée Holloway chopped down two cogs in the five-speed box in her rebuilt 1995 MG RV, the V8 motor of the Caribbean Blue roadster burbled nicely through the muffler as she pulled up behind her elder sister's boyfriend's black Lexus.
Rex pulled off Diane's lips to look nervously standing at his open car door as blonde Renée, casually pushing her dark shades into her hair and waved to him as she stopped, leaving about an inch of space between the two vehicles.
She saw his lips move and knew he'd be growling, "Your cavalier sister" or words to that effect. Actually Diane told her later Rex said, 'Your fucking crazy sister should be banned from driving' and he got in a huff because Diane said loyally her sister drove far better than he did.
Rex Oliver was conservative, a merchant banker whatever that was, and Renée knew her sister was fucking him near legless, and she knew what that meant: Rex had never had it so good. Diane was also blonde and slightly better-looking that her younger sister but she lacked Renée's drive, intelligence and ability to perform almost any task and do so many things so competently and she lacked Renée's indomitable spirit.
And that was Renée's problem. She was so good at so many things that people found it hard to like her. Male dates tended to move on to a babe a little less dominating and pushing to run the show. And that was only the sex.
The family lived in a double apartment with separate entrances, the girls sharing one apartment, in Richmond overlooking the Thames River. They also have a family home in 'the country' near Maidstone in southeast England and not far from Leeds Castle. Their father Anthony Holloway is a respected banker, but perhaps not so respected now so many people lost heavily in the recent financial crash on money invested via their bank.
Sarah their mother is The Baroness Ruxley who gives money away rather than earns more.
The girls love their mother and tolerate their dad whom they find boring. The girls agree it's all the affairs their mother has had during over two decades that makes her so interesting and she seems to know everyone, particularly men, and tells her daughters wonderful stories without censoring the passion and naughtiness she remembers.
The family loosely calls the sprawling home in Kent 'The Country House' as in 'we went down to The Country House for the weekend'. Historically it has been known for several centuries as Ruxley Hall but these days no one appears to know what a hall is when used to refer to a stately home. Anyway most of the original hall on the brink of collapse was pulled down in 1910 by the Baroness's grandfather and rebuilt out of quarried stone and milled timber, making a reasonably livable residence even today.
With twenty-two rooms it makes sense to invite guests whenever they go down to the country estate otherwise the place is like living in an abandoned hospital or an old-style jail. And that's where Renée shines and exacerbates her problem of passive unpopularity. She demolishes her parents' friends, her own friends and her sister's friends at whatever sport or leisure activity they compete against her. No guest has ever beaten her at quoits, table tennis, tennis, archery, skeet shooting, swimming, pitch and putt golf or go-kart racing baring mishaps like four years ago when she collapse in the tennis semi-finals having left her sick bed to play.
Renée holds the five-lap go-kart track record by a margin of 47.35 seconds and her fastest time for the 10-lap feature race is 1 minute 2.5 seconds faster than anyone else, nearly all competitors finding in difficult to complete the circuit ten times. Her best 10-lap time is one and a half minutes under Rex's best when he was drunk enough to have a real go at chasing her around the track. He'd been give first choice of which of the seven carts he'd race in. He left the track three times during his hilarious pursuit.
Her mother had warned Renée several times to be sporting and allow other people to win and her daughter was appalled that the Baroness could recommend she do something so underhand.
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It was a gloomy late afternoon in London when Rex pulled out of Diane and handed her a towel and he yelled to Renée they were ready for coffee.
"I'd really like to screw that cocky bitch."
"Well grab her when she comes in and I'll go off and shower."
"God no Diane, are you mad? She'd screw me into tomorrow."
"Oh thank you very much. You are now saying my sister is a better fuck than me."
"No, oh god no darling. All I'm saying I never want her to get her hands on me. No I was thinking about this afternoon when I'd just arrived and had got out of the car to be kissed by you when she zoomed up and miraculously just stopped before ramming my beloved company car."
Diane sighed and said her sister didn't require miracles to succeed like most normal people did.
"I would like to give the Hon Renée Holloway her comeuppance."
"Go ahead, you are welcome to try but I'm warning you, expect to be thwarted."
Renée swept into the room with the coffee tray.
"Here we are guys, a good fuck?"
Her sister and fiancé were too embarrassed to answer that question.
"Oh another dud one Rex?"
Rex looked at the retreating figure and reached for the bedside heavy ornate candlestick but Diane grabbed his arm and said, "Don't Rex it's an heirloom and the pair of them are valued for insurance at five thousand pounds."
Driving home that night Rex had an idea. Over late dinner last weekend down at the country home the Baroness had asked him if he could bring another younger man down this coming weekend. He said yes but it was unlikely Renée would take to anyone he produced and the Baroness said it didn't matter, what mattered was having the right balance in numbers and sex.
"Sex you say Sarah?" he said, attempting to make a joke and the Baroness looked at him strangely and said, "Well perhaps since you are interested Rex; I'll arrange it so we can slip away quietly."
Only then did Rex realize he'd just unleashed the Baroness on to himself. She'd probably been hanging out for this opportunity. God her daughter would kill him if she found out.
The next evening at his own apartment he shared with two guys who were out whoring, Rex pulled out his Year Book from his final year at university and made a list of names of guys who weren't gay and were possible real challengers for Renée. He came up with only two names and thought that class had been really top-heavy with gays, male and female.
Well Charlie Evans was first choice; he was a car rally driver and competed internationally. He looked up cell phone numbers listed on the university website database, called the number he located and got Charlie's wife who said Charlie was in France preparing to compete in a rally this weekend.
"Um Rex I'm alone except for the twins but they are both are asleep. Would you like to pop around and we can smoke some weed and see where that takes us?"
"I engaged and marry in September."
"So?"
"No thanks, I really would have liked that Annie but my fiancée is bound to find out and she'd kill me."
"So?"
"Good night Annie."
Rex wiped his forehead and thought that had been a really close one. Oddly enough he'd received more invitations from females hinting he could have sex with them than all the offers he'd received like that in perhaps five years prior to his engagement. It just wasn't fair.
Perhaps Phil Ashford would be available.
"Hi Phil, Rex Oliver."
"Oh hi Rex, that really was a great piss-up we had at our quarterly class get-together a fortnight ago. God it was so wacky, I can still picture that oldest stripper of forty with tits hanging down level with her hipbones. It was fucking revolting."
"Oh I didn't notice her. I was enjoying my 8th pint of beer, at least I think I had eight before I passed out."
"Dunno but Gary and I got you home, remember?"
"Oh you and Gary got me home. I had no idea. Look we have this really good sports person who beats the crap out of us when we go down to her parents' country estate at weekends. It's about time we produced someone to beat her."
"Her?"