Chapter Twenty
Amanda was still fast asleep when I left the house very early the next morning after a sleepless night. She was still clearly exhausted, and the room's faint smell of recent sex had turned stale. Even in the low light I could see that her chest and face were still flushed pink from the previous night; whoever she had been with had delivered orgasms at least as comprehensive as those she had been receiving from Andy for so many months.
With the huge expectations of the day ahead -- no less than the actual signing of the deal with the Turkish Government - I knew Andy would be at his desk well before seven o'clock and I wanted to catch him before there was anyone else in the building.
My painful, swollen ankle was not making my temper any better and provided a constant reminder of the evening's dreadful discoveries. I was as angry and spoiling for a fight as I had been the previous night but this time, I was sober and had serious justification.
Andy had cheated on our deal!
My lovely wife had been set up. Andy had put her in a position where she couldn't refuse being fucked by a client. This was not what our agreement had been. My previously innocent wife had now enjoyed two other men's cocks and felt two other men's semen inside her, both of whom had apparently brought her to heights of orgasm I had never even come close to.
The first was Andy. We had reluctantly agreed to him, but the second? No way!
As I drove too quickly to the office, I heard my mobile phone beep and saw that a text message from Yvonne had arrived. I threw the phone onto the passenger seat without reading it, and two minutes later parked my car in its reserved space in the underground car park.
A minute after that I limped straight past the guard on reception and took the elevator directly to the Partner's floor, my blood boiling.
Andy's coat was on the stand behind his PA's empty desk so I knew he would be in his office. I threw my jacket on the chair and stomped up to his door, throwing it open angrily and bursting into the room.
"We need to talk now!" I shouted as I strode towards him.
Andy was sitting behind his desk -- the desk on which he had first fucked my wife -- with papers strewn all around him and two video screens glowing.
"I know we do. Try and calm down!" he replied, rising to his feet and coming around the desk to meet me face to face. "I expected you to be upset. Take a seat; we'll talk it all through."
"I don't want to sit," I fumed. "I want to break your fucking nose! What did you make Amanda do last night? She's obviously been fucked by someone, and I know it wasn't you!"
"Calm down!" he tried again. "I'll tell you everything, but not if I'm going to get attacked. Don't make me call security!"
His hand was on the desk phone. I breathed deeply and tried to regain control, dimly aware of my fists opening and my chest loosening. But I still didn't sit down.
"Did you make my wife fuck someone last night?" I asked directly, my voice hard and low.
"Pamuk? No, I didn't!" he replied immediately.
"He didn't fuck her?" I asked, suddenly puzzled. "She was definitely fucked by someone. I can smell it all over her!"
"Oh, Pamuk fucked her all right," Andy continued.
"Bastard! You just said..." I began to protest.
"He fucked her, okay? That happened. It's just that I didn't make her do it."
"Then who fucking did?"
Andy took a deep breath.
"She did!"
"What?"
"She decided all by herself!"
This unexpected revelation took a lot of the wind out of my sails, but not all. Sensing my continued fury, Andy chose his next words carefully.
"Mandy deliberately put herself in a position where Pamuk would try and seduce her. It seems he was unexpectedly successful."
"That was NOT our agreement, Andy!" I snarled. "She's not a whore; fucking clients was NOT part of our deal!"
"Maybe not, but things change," he said, trying to keep his voice calm. "Talk to Mandy, she'll tell you."
"I'm talking to you!" I growled aggressively; the worm now turned. "It's hard enough knowing you've been fucking her all this time, but this? She's not a whore, Andy! I'm not going to let you pimp her out to anyone you fancy! The deal's off!"
Andy's eyes flashed with anger.
"You're in no position to negotiate! You want to go to jail; just go ahead, back out and see what happens!"
I was too angry and disgusted with myself to reply as Andy went on:
"Get real! Your lovely wife's been whoring herself for you for months. She's been fucking me just to save your thieving ass. Why shouldn't she whore herself for me too if she wants to? Or for the Company? Or for herself? She's a free woman. It's her body after all."
"Bastard!" I yelled but knew better than to try and hit him.
"She's damned good at it too," he went on. "Mandy is one of the best fucks I've ever had, and believe me, I've fucked beautiful women all over the world! Your wife is as amazing in bed as she is out; you should appreciate her more!"
The last thing I needed at that moment was another man telling me how good my wife was in bed, even if he did mean it as some kind of perverted compliment. I stared him straight in the face.
"The deal is over, Andy! I'll take my chances with the Police and the Lawyers. Leave my wife alone. You've fucked her for the last time."
There was a silence in the room. Andy took a deep breath then seemed to come to a decision.
"I think you should see this first," he said calmly, turning one of the desktop screens towards me.
"What is it?" I asked.
"It's a piece of video. It's not finished being edited yet, but I think you'll recognise the main characters."
"What's it got to do with this?" I demanded.
"Just watch," he said meaningfully, clicking the mouse on 'play'.
I was about to tell him where to stick his video when the action on the screen silenced me instantly.
The footage appeared to have been taken from a ceiling mounted camera, because the first thing I saw was a door opening and a man and a woman entering a room. The picture quality was excellent; this was no standard security set-up, and there was good quality sound too. I could clearly hear their voices and make out most of the conversation.
The room was Andy's office, the room in which I was standing now. The man was the overweight Turk, Pamuk, the woman was my lovely wife Amanda in the dress she had worn for the first-time last night. With her blonde hair down and in her highest heels, she looked as stunning as I had ever seen her.
As I watched, they crossed the floor to Andy's leather-topped desk where several small piles of paper were lying.
I felt Andy pat me almost paternally on the shoulder.
"If it gets too painful, just stop the video. You don't need to watch it all if you don't want to."
I silently sank into his large leather chair and began to watch the two characters on the screen poring over the piles of paper in turn, talking animatedly. There were plenty of smiles, especially from Pamuk who I noticed kept touching Amanda on the arm and back rather more frequently than he had done during the more public receptions I had attended too.