Chapter 20

"Your aunt is Andrea Beaumont?" he asked incredulously.

"Yes, why?" replied Vickie.

The two lay in bed, naked, taking a short respite between sexual marathons. Donnie Seward was a senior computer program analyst whose company did business with Andrea's.

"How do you feel about her?" he asked.

"Well, I know she's very competitive."

"Ruthless might be a better word."

"Why do you say that?"

"I've seen her operate. First she does you favors, gets you indebted to her, then comes the squeeze. She makes it all sound so reasonable, but before long you're diverting funds and robbing portfolios because you feel you owe it to her."

"Is that what she did to you?" asked Vickie beginning to feel a bit uncomfortable.

"Tried to. She got a friend of mine fired and blackballed from Wall street for trying to repay one of her favors."

A slight shiver ran up Vickie's spine.

"She's been very nice to me."

"Just watch yourself Vickie. You're a very sweet girl. Don't let her get you in her debt, because before long, she'll be asking you to sell yourself out to repay her."

Too late for that, thought Vickie.

He looked at Vickie for a long moment as if weighing how much she could be trusted. Donnie was from Chicago, single, and in town for the weekend to update some programming for his company branch office. Vickie had dinner with him on Friday and the two had hardly been apart since, Vickie staying in his hotel room overnight on both Friday and Saturday night. They awakened this morning planning on visiting the park, but instead, one sexual feast after another found them still in bed at two-thirty in the afternoon.