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that work out for you last night, Neal?
    ‘An enigma, huh?’
    She’s getting the full-on, infamous Neal Cannon grin here, and it’s working. Any second now she’ll forget my initial distracted demeanour and only remember my smile and the way my eyes are burning deep into hers. I can do this shit in my sleep.
    ‘I’m very lucky to have acquired your services. I’m guessing you don’t visit North East England all that often.’
    ‘First time here.’ It sure as hell won’t be my last.
    ‘Well, if you need someone to show you around…’
    ‘I’ve got a lot of work to do while I’m here. I’m not sure I’m gonna have a lot of free time.’
    ‘I can’t tempt you to dinner?’
    Her eyes are sending me all kinds of messages here, and it’s nothing I haven’t had to deal with before, but I’m not doing this. She’s a client. A very rich client, and someone who could quite possibly help me expand my English portfolio quite considerably, and I’d like to keep her as that. But only that.
    ‘Dinner? Tonight?’
    ‘I know a fantastic little restaurant not far from here. Very exclusive. Very intimate. We could discuss what it is I’m looking for and, maybe, even how I could help you . And it would be much more relaxing doing that over dinner, don’t you think?’
    She’s right, but even so, it’s the last thing I want. I want to get this meeting over with, go back to the hotel and call Kira. I want to spend another long, crazy night with her legs wrapped around me and my cock deep inside her, that’s what I want. But I have to keep an element of professionalism here. This lady is willing to pay me a ton of money to acquire some stunning pieces of art for not only her gallery here in North East England, but also her many homes around the world. Dinner’s the least I can give her. But that’s all she’s getting.
    ‘Dinner it is, then.’ I throw her another of my smiles, and try to look enthusiastic.
    I’ll go to dinner.
    I’ll turn on the charm and reel her in and she’ll become my newest client.
    Then I’ll say goodnight and go have crazy sex with the woman I really want to be with.
    Crazy, dirty, hot-as-hell sex…
     
     
    Kira
     
    ‘You don’t go on tour anymore, Kira.’
    ‘Well, maybe it’s time I changed that.’ I pour myself a large glass of red wine and look up at my best friend. ‘What?’
    ‘Don’t I get one of those?’
    ‘Pour it yourself. I’m not your fucking slave.’
    ‘No.’ Joey sighs in a mock heavy fashion as he playfully nudges me out of the way and retrieves the wine bottle from my hand. ‘I’d have to pay your over-inflated prices if I wanted that particular pleasure.’
    I kick him in the shin with the spiked heel of my boot. ‘And we both know that’s never gonna happen. I’m not what you want.’
    ‘Darling, you’re not even the sex I want.’
      I can’t help but smile. Joey always makes me smile. Joey Princess – club owner and one of the region’s finest drag artists. He’s also my very best friend, something he’s been for the past ten years. He knows what I do, and he loves me regardless. He’s the only family I really have – him and all the other drag artists he works with at his club, Bam-Bams. Without him I’d be a broken wreck. Even more broken than I already am. He saved me. He’s the only person I can really trust. I tell him everything. He knows so many of my secrets, but he’ll never tell them to another soul. He knows the real me. He knows who I really am. And he’s the only person who does. The only person who ever will.
    ‘So, come on. Why the sudden need to go on tour again? Because you don’t need to. Girl, you have a list of clients right here that means you never need to set foot outside of this city again.’
    ‘Maybe I just fancy a change.’
    He looks at me, and I know he isn’t buying any of this. I’m not even convincing myself. I know why I suddenly want to move temporarily to another city. And so does