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and you have me kidnapped by two extras from Goodfellas. It’s a federal offence,
honey.’
    She shrugged and took a sip of her multi-coloured cocktail
through a wiggly straw which looked like a piece of spaghetti. ‘So
go to the fibbies, ya big cry baby.’
    ‘ Liss,’ Kruger said firmly, using the pet name he had always
called her, ‘stop assin’ around and tell me what’s goin’
on.’
    ‘ How’s business?’
    ‘ Good to booming.’
    ‘ I wanna hire you for some detective work.’
    ‘ Such as?’
    ‘ I want somebody followed - to see what they’re gettin’ up
to.’
    ‘ Is that it?’ Kruger growled. ‘You drag me here for that? Why
in hell didn’t ya tell the fucking telephonist? She woulda sent
someone round.’
    ‘ I don’t just want someone, Stevie . . . I want
you.’
    His eyes narrowed, suspicion growing in him like a cancer.
‘I’ll send one of my best guys round in the morning. I don’t follow
people any more.’
    She shook her head stubbornly. ‘No, honey. I want
you.’
    Kruger leaned back in the cane chair. It creaked under his
weight. There was the remnant of an ache in his back where he’d
been punched.
    ‘ Why?’
    She pouted. ‘It’s Mario.’ Her eyelids flickered, eyes
moistened. ‘I think he’s being unfaithful.’
    Kruger staunched a belly laugh. At last - something to
brighten up his day again. ‘Expand.’ He interlocked his fingers
around a knee and bowed forwards like a counsellor whilst trying to
keep a straight face.
    ‘ Oh, it’s just - oh, I don’t know - something, y’know? The
hours he keeps, the times he doesn’t come home, how we ever only
seem to screw maybe once a month, if that. God, I feel so horny. I
think he’s got someone else, Stevie,’ she concluded
desperately.
    ‘ Felicity,’ Kruger stated. ‘Your husband, as you well know, is
one of the biggest and most feared gang bosses in the United States
of America. The fact that he has time to come home at all is a
blessing. He’s a busy guy. He’s got fingers to break, debts to
collect, people to blackmail and intimidate ... and all those
groupies hangin’ around. It must be very tempting for him. He’s
only human - like you once were. And if you think he married you
for any other reason than to have a good-looking woman on his arm,
you’re kidding yourself.’
    ‘ You’re a son of a bitch, Steve,’ she said tightly.
    ‘ I tell the truth, that’s all. And to be completely honest with
you, Liss, I hope he is seeing someone else. It’ll teach you a
lesson.’
    ‘ Our marriage was over long before I slept with Mario,’ she
protested.
    Kruger looked at her pityingly for a few moments, tutted,
slapped his thighs and said, ‘Gotta go, babe.’
    ‘ I still want to hire you.’
    ‘ Naw - it’s company policy not to get involved in anything
which remotely stinks of the mob. Mario Bussola is very definitely
mob. I don’t like to find my operatives with their brains blown
out, so the answer’s no. Now, if you’d be kind enough to beckon
your human Dobermans back here, I’d like my vehicle keys.’ He stood
up.
    ‘ Sit down, Steve,’ she ordered him, a hard edge to her voice,
an uncompromising expression on her face. Something made him obey.
‘You will work for
me - and you wanna know why? I’ll tell ya - because if you don’t
I’ll put, you out of business like that.’ She snapped her fingers
with a crack. ‘I can ruin you, Stevie babe, because I know things
about you, don’t I? Things you would hate the Feds to
know.’
     
     
    A trickle of sweat rolled down the valley between Danny’s
breasts. Her whole body was on fire, every nerve-end tingling,
overloading her with pleasure. She could feel her toes against the
sheets, the skin on her inner thighs holding and moving over the
skin on the outer thighs of the man underneath her. His fingers
kneaded into her backside, his hands then caressed her breasts,
fingering and rolling her dark, purple nipples, tugging them
gently, so