Business Before Pleasure By Crossmanx at - crossmanx@hotmail.co.uk - comments and ideas welcome. The Mason Girls get the business done first so they can enjoy the pleasure! Business Before Pleasure The man, Eric Trentbridge, sat there looking at the person sat opposite, this was one of the most unusual business meetings he'd had in a number of years, a good number of years. He looked down at his watch wondering how much long he would 'have' to be here. When Eric had been a much younger man taking his first steps into the world of finance he'd been to some odd meetings, peculiar gatherings, eccentric gettogethers and thought those long and distant days where well and truly behind him. Especially now as he was the head of his own thriving company and, even if he was to say so himself, quite an important 'player' in the cities financial hub. But today's meeting was taking him back, making him remember some of those early experience he'd though he'd forgotten. Today Eric was at the county home of one Mr Johnathan Mason, who was himself head of his own company, companies, firms and corporations. Jonathan Mason was not the sort of successful businessman that you would expect, he was never in the public eye, not many people actually knew about him, his wealth, his businesses and his influence. Not many people knew how Jonathan Mason managed to keep out the public eye, or why, and not many people got the chance to meet him either. But Eric Trentbridge did know Mason, he knew about, some of, the Mason business' and the wealth and knew that this was one businessman that you would have to keep your wits about you when talking to him. Eric had known Jonathans parents, he knew about the accident and that Johnathan had inherited the family business. Even back then it was a large, profitable business and the family fortune had been quite large, and acquisitions where impressive, but now everything was bigger. The business, the many different, new and diverse business', where bigger, the wealth was so much larger and the 'acquisitions', that Jonathan Mason had 'collected' around him where 'different, diverse and interesting' to say the least. Some of these acquisitions where more interesting than others! During this 'meeting' there was a very noticeable acquisition on display, which was why this had become so unusual. Opposite Eric, but a bit further away than you might expect was sat Johnathan. There was no desk between the two men just an open space, the meeting was taking place inside the office of Jonathan. In his quite stunning county house located just outside the city. The men where sat in an open area away from the large ornate desk where Johnathan normal worked, Eric sat in one antique chair, once more checking his watch and Jonathan in another but as the two men talked about a business 'opportunity', someone else was moving around and causing Eric to remember all those strange meetings from years gone by. This other person was a woman, a quite stunning and attractive woman, she wasn't talking, taking part in the meeting, taking notes or doing anything business like, no she was shaving her boss Mr Mason! Johnathan sat in his chair talking away as if nothing was happening while the woman had set up a small table next to his chair, consisting of a large chine bowl containing hot water, she then placed various shaving implements next to the bowl. The woman had placed a towel round Jonathans shoulders and neck, she uses one of those old shaving brushes in a cup, she'd whipped up the lather. Then sitting astride Mr Mason, she applies the foam to Jonathan's face. All the time Johnathan is talking away as if nothing is happening, once he is lathered up she gets off him and picks up a cutthroat razor from the table. Now she slowly sharpens, hones, the blade on a strop that's hanging down from the side of Mason's chair. All the time that the woman hones the blade she's starting at Eric, her gaze fixed on the man as he sits across from the female's boss. He looked down again to check his watch only to bring his eyes back up and meet that stare from the woman, and the almost frown on her face as she shows her annoyance at him. Once the blade is sharp, she then returns to sitting astride Jonathan, her back towards Eric, but still he can sense her annoyance with him. Jonathan carries on talking away as if nothing is happening, as the woman start to shave him. The blade goes across his face, slowly, accurately, grooming Johnathan very delicately, across his cheeks, his top lip and chin and down his throat. Eric is amazed at all this, how the woman is so careful and at the same time she could end his business rival's life with the slightest movement of her wrist, Eric quite enjoys 'that' thought! But there is something else that amazes the older businessman Eric, and that is the woman herself. Jonathan Mason is well known, to those who have actually heard of the secretive entrepreneur, for having a group of lovely 'companions', some might consider these ladies, the Mason Girls, as his most stunning 'acquisitions!' Although Eric does not know all the ladies, he is currently very sure this woman is one of those females that Johnathan Mason has, acquired! (Reader may wish to read about the Mason Girls in the previous stories An Evening's Entertainment, The Hunt, The Hen Party, Don't Upset the Lady, Mason's Business Pt 1 & Pt 2, Mason's Investigation and Animal Magic) The woman who is grooming Johnathan is called Sade, around here known as Miss Sade, a beautiful, tall black woman, with short tight dark hair, dark eyes, and a strong, toned body. It's not only her attractive looks but also her dark, toned body that has Eric's attentions, as even though she is in the middle of carrying out a morning shave for Mr Mason she is dressed in a tight white revealing bikini! The woman, Miss Sade, had come from her morning swim, she does enjoy her time in the pool, and when you live in such a large mansion with indoor and outdoor pools why not take full advantage? When Eric arrived, and starting his business meeting, everything seemed normal, then Miss Sade had entered the room through the side door, dressed in her bikini and wet. Her dark skin glistened with the water that was dripping off of her as she brought in the tray full of the shaving implements. Then she'd began her task of giving Johnathan his morning shave, and so the meeting went on. Mason talked, Miss Sade shaved Johnathan and Eric sat there, bemused by all this but still, sort of, listening. All of this was very surreal for Eric, the very wealthy Mason talking business while being shaved by the quite stunning black woman, the wet woman in her bikini, very strange indeed. Was Eric a bit jealous, maybe? The more this went on the more Eric thought to himself 'what the hell am I doing here?' And somehow what Mason was saying was in fact seeping in, Johnathan was telling Erica about the plans he had to take over this other man's company. But it was the casual way it was all being done, almost as if Eric didn't matter in all this he was just being calmly notified as to what was going to happen to 'his' company! The woman, and what she was doing, was this all just for show, 'Johnathan, Bloody, Mason, Ha!' He was still only a kid, why was he being shaved, he wasn't old enough to shave in the first place. Eric was on the verge of getting up and walking out right now, this 'boy' was doing all this to try and humiliate the older businessman and Eric wasn't going to have that. But still he sat there, listened and took all this in, as if waiting. Outside of Johnathan Mason's office and there was a small group waiting for the 'meeting' to finish. There were three men, Eric's bodyguards or really that should be his 'business associates!' Also, there was Eric's Son, Ethan and all four of them were wondering how much longer that Eric would be in this 'meeting.' For the three 'business associates' it was a tense time, they, like most people they didn't know much about Johnathan Mason but they did know, had heard, some of the rumours. Some of the low whispered talk, some of the stories about the female 'entourage' that accompanied this mostly unknown and recluse entrepreneur. The bodyguards all knew the stories, about a group of women 5, 6, 7 females who kicked the arse of anyone that came too close to Mr Mason and his business, 'but they were just stories!' Still these men were not taking any chances and where maybe just a little edgy at being here in the middle of the Mason dynasty, in his country estate. The men's anxiety meant they had eyes everywhere as they waited in the long corridor outside the office, every door that opened and closed in the distance made them jump and look around. They were ready for anything to happen, anything at all, so much so that each man forgot to keep an eye on their boss' Son. Ethan, who was board and had gone for a walk around this hugh county house that he'd been brought to, looking so something to do! The lad had been picked up from boarding school for the weekend by his Father, but there was just a quick stop off so that 'Daddy could have a quick meeting' the lad knew what that meant. He'd be sat down somewhere for ages while his Father bullied someone in some even more boring business meeting! But this was probably a different type of meeting, the young lad had seen that his Father had been 'nervous' in the car, especially when turning into the country estate. All the way up the long drive, up to the hugh house Eric had been quiet, even the normally chatty bodyguards had gone silent. Almost as if all those in the car, except the lad, where 'expecting something!' One thing that Ethan also notice were the two women on horseback that they drove past. The women, dressed in tight jodhpurs and equally tight long-sleeved tops, the blond and the brunette looked into the car as they passed by. Each woman saw Ethan, looked at him, smiled at him and waved. They waved at him, 'him', the lad was sure of that, he looked around the car but everyone else was starring in different directions, still expecting 'something', so these women could have only smiled at him. For the young lad this was 'so good', the guys back at the boarding school would not believe this. So, after all that excitement and now being boarding waiting in the corridor the lad had somehow wondered off and was nosing around the large house. Soon he was sneaking a look into various rooms that he came across, trying to find something interesting, something to do. Then he found a trail of water on the floor, 'strange', this lead the lad to a door which he slowly opened. He peered around the door and found the indoor swimming pool, 'Wow', bigger and better than the one that was at his house, 'someone obviously enjoys their time swimming, wonder who that is?' Ethan moved on and closed the door as he moved away. Inside the room and as the door closed there was a moments total silence then the sound of bubbles could be heard, if anyone had been there. This was followed by the sound of 'something' breaking the water and floating to the top. This was the body of a man that now floated there, arms and legs outstretched as he just lay there, still and face down in the water! Earlier, Miss Sade had been enjoying her morning swim when a man had appeared at the large French windows that lead out to the patio and then onto the outside pool. He was no one that Miss Sade recognised so, 'this would be interesting!' He was dressed all in black, even with one of those woolly hats that a burglar or some spy might wear on a secret mission. Sade was already in the pool and so lowered herself down under the water as the man picked the lock and entered the pool room. As the doors opened the man stepped inside and looked around 'indoor swimming pool, flash!' As the pool room was empty he carried on inside, he knew roughly where he was going and headed towards the rooms main set of doors. As he walked past the swimming pool a dark hand came out of the water and grabbed onto his ankle, the man shuddered, he'd been caught by surprise and wasn't ready for ... ... . "ARRRHHHH!" SPLASH! The hand that grabbed him was strong and pulled him towards the pool, making him stumble, overbalance and fall into the water. As soon as he hit the water Sade was onto him, grabbing him, dragging him down with her. The man struggled, twisting and turning in the water, but somehow, he managed to break free of the quite forceful hold that had griped him. He shot up to the surface and burst out of the water and desperately gulped in large lungful's of air, and as he did so SMACK! Also shooting out of the water in front of the shocked man was the black woman, Sade. She shot up and as the man took those vial breaths she swung her arm around and drove her clenched fist into the side of his jaw. His head felt like it was going to explode and he dropped back down into the water, dazed, confused and feeling as if he was drifting away as the warm water cover over him. Sade saw the man float down in the water and was about to follow when she spied movement outside on the patio, there was someone else out there! Out by the outside swimming pool and another man also dressed all in black was creeping around, he knew his colleague had come this was and was going to enter the Mason residence via this door, but there was no sign of him now, strange? The second man was still looking everywhere, the first man should have waited for him, shouldn't have gone inside on his own, but he was nowhere in sight so he must have ... ... , THUD! Out of nowhere there was a flying figure that came at him, first running, then jumping and finally a foot was put out and then driven hard into the face of the second man as he turned it to see what that noise was that had caught his attention. As he'd heard something to the side and turned his head all he saw was this 'flying' foot coming his way, although he could see her, see it was a woman, his brain couldn't quite take it in. Not the black woman, in a white bikini that's was outside in this weather and flying through the air towards him. But he certainly took in the pain and felt the foot as it struck him, he defiantly felt that! The second man was taken off his feet and sent tumbling backwards, he fell into a table and set of chairs before dropping down to the ground. Almost instantly as he dropped onto the hard patio stone floor, two strong hands seemed to grab hold of him. His head was pulled upward sharply and then CRACK! Slammed very forceful into the stone floor, twice, three, four, more times this was repeated, until his head was cut, bleeding and his face was a mess. This man was hurt, in so much pain and his head was so groggy, he couldn't feel anything, so didn't realise when the bikini woman dragged him up onto his knees. She stood behind him and took a firm hold of his head in her arms, paused for a second and twisted! There was a groan, and dull snapping sound as the second man's body went all limp. Miss Sade let his lifeless body drops back down to the floor, she kicked his body, rolling him over and over until, PLOP! The man's body rolled into the outside pool, 'that will give the pool man something to later!' But Miss Sade did think to herself she had better inform Hedges, the butler, about the body in the pool. After all Hedges, the head of the household, does like to be informed of 'any mess' so he can ensure the correct person is assigned to 'deal with it!' Miss Sade strolled back inside now, as she did so she could see a weary almost worn out first man desperately trying to haul himself out of the water via the far steps. The black woman smiled 'this one has a strong survival will', she liked that, 'let's put it to the test!'. Taking in a deep breath Miss Sade dived into the pool, down to the bottom of the pool and casually swum along until she reached the far end. When she got there she reached up, grabbed onto the foot of the first man just as he was about to drag himself out and pulled him back down. The man fell backwards and hit the water, he drifted downwards, fear having taken hold of him, again. As he drifted downwards the woman in the white bikini came close to him, she grabs onto the man, her legs wrap around his body, her arms grab hold of him. She holds him, dragging him further down, to the bottom of the pool. They both hit the bottom, she can see the look of pure horror and total fear on his face and wonders how long he can hold his breath for? She has five minutes or so before she has a small job to do, so let's see how long this man can last for! Ethan left the indoor pool and carried on down the corridor, after all it was just an indoor pool and although big and nice looking it was just a swimming pool, nothing much exciting would happen in there! As the young lad moves on, he continued down one of the long corridors, halfway down he moves over to the large windows that line the corridor and looks out. Out into the wide-open grounds of the Mason estate, the lad reckoned he was on the west side of the house and could see what look like building over in the distance. They looked like stables and Ethan grinned, he wondered if the two women that had waved at him earlier would be there now, then sighed, no one back at school would believe that, not one, but two women had waved at 'him!' Down in the stable area and there were two more of the Mason girls, who had just enjoyed their morning ride out on horses, Miss Donna was the stunning brunette that Nathan had seen earlier and Miss Louise was the gorgeous blond, also from earlier. Both women were into their riding, there was nothing better, well no many things better, than having the reins in your hand and using your strong legs to control a young stallion. The women enjoying horse riding as well! After their morning canter around the estate the women had headed back to the stables, they were a little on the exciting side, riding always did seem to have that effect on the women. But they were a bit more tantalized as they had spied a sweet looking lad in a car heading up to the house, and that gave the girls an idea! They might not be able to get to see the sweet lad but they did have a couple of tasty stable boys working here. The boys had been thoroughly tested and knew their stuff, how to give a good rubdown, that all important bonding session between a lad and a excited energetic animal and of course making sure there was a good supply of as many much needed oats as possible. The boys were also good with how they looked after the horses too. As Miss Donna and Miss Louis came riding into the stable they could see there was a car there, and it wasn't a vehicle that either of the girls had seen before. But it wasn't just this strange car that got the women's attention, as they got closer they could see there was something else going on. There were three men, three strangers all dressed in black and looking as if they were here to cause trouble. Mr Thompson the old, firm, sometimes grumpy stable manager had already intervened and gone up to the car when it arrived to find out what they wanted on private land. Now he was on the receiving end of one of the men's displeasure as fists where slammed into the elderly stable managers body. While Mr Thompson was getting a beating for interfering the other two men dressed in black where heading after the stable lads, who were running towards the nearby stable block to get out the way. The two horse women where not happy, whoever these men where they had picked on the wrong people, in fact Miss Donna and Miss Louse were angry! Heels were dug in and the horses were now galloping down and towards these men THUD! OOOHHHHH! WHACK! ARRRHHH! CRUNCH! OOOOFFFFF! Miss Donna had gone for the man who'd just knocked the stable manager down, she rode her horse hard and at the man, turning the horse at the last moment to the side. At the same time lifting her riding boot up so it went crashing into the, shocked and frightened, intruders face. As he'd knocked the old man down, he'd heard the horse, looked up, see the large animal with the woman on it, come thundering towards him. That had scared him, and as he'd looked up and seen that horse, he's also seen a riding boot come thundering into his face. At the same time Miss Louse had gone for the two men running after the stable boys, they obviously wanted to stop the lads from raising any alarm. This wasn't allowed, these women where the only ones allowed to chase down those lads, and that was purely for fun! Miss Louise rode her horse hard and fast guiding the animal between the running men and at the same moment lifting up both her legs. Her left boot crashed into the side on one man's head while her right boot drove, with speed, into the back of the other running man's head. As all three men had received boots, they all went flying, tumbling over and dropping down to the stable yard floor. With the men down, the women quickly pulled up their horses and jumped off. Now with their feet on the floor Miss Donna and Miss Louise could shows these men just how annoyed they were with them! Miss Louise went over to the man who's beat the yard manager, the blond reached down grabbed onto the fallen man and yanked him upward, sharp and hard he came up and, THUD! THUD! THUD! At the same time driving her knee into his body, each blow harder than the last. As he came upwards, fast, there was no holding back, no trying to make this last and teach him a lesson, she just wanted to hurt the man, and hurt him bad, CRUNCH! UUUUUUHHHH! That last knee landed in his face, as at the same time she'd grabbed onto his head and slammed it down into her thrusting knee. She sent the man staggering backwards and into the car the men had arrived in. Then a twist, a spinning turn from the female rider, her other leg came around and her boot came thunder into the man's face, which at the same time drove the back of his head into the cars bonnet. His head went backwards causing a large dent in the vehicle, this was going to get even larger as the blond now came at the man grabbed his hurt head, pulled it forwards and now repeatedly slammed it back into the damaged cars body again, and again, and again. As Miss Louise was showing her discontentment for this man, Miss Donna was showing her own disapproval for the other two men. The brunette approached behind the two men who were scrambling back up onto their feet CRACK! Her riding boot goes into the back of one man's legs, his leg buckles and shakes, the woman grabbed onto the back of his head and slams the man's face back down into the dirty, muddy floor of the stable yard. This man is stunned, as he's violently thrown back into the stable floor, his body shakes as he's, again, driven hard back into the floor. The man's body jerks and she now moves onto the second man, he'd just about back on his feet and had halfway turned to face the woman making her way to him, but, WHACK! He wasn't quick enough in getting up and ready, he wasn't ready to defend himself, he wasn't able to protect himself. So, when the boot came his way there was no getting out its way, THUD! UUUHHHHHH! Straight into his gut, sending the wind out of him and doubling him over, as he dropped forward Donna grabs his head, twists and drives it into the stone water troff that is next to both of them. As his head hits the hard stone, his face explodes, the man's body jolts violently and then he falls, slumps over the troff, his head hanging in the water. With this one done for, Miss Donna turns back to the man on the floor, who barely moving but still breathing. She walks up, lifts her legs and pounds her boot down into the back of his head, down further into the stable yard floor she pounds him and now this man also moves no more. Over by the car and Mr Thompson is back up onto his feet, he may be old but he's a tough old thing, a grumpy old man whose prides been hurt more than he has. He waves Miss Donna away, he's fine just need a second or two to get his breath back, then he'd take care of the 'clean up' out here! Miss Louise has slammed her man into the car for the last time, blood runs down from the bonnet onto the floor and the third man is finished off. 'No one, no man comes into these women's stable and causes trouble!' Miss Donna and Miss Louise now head over to the stable where their devoted stable boys had headed for when the bad guys turned up. The women knew their lads would need some special attention to get over the trauma of what just happened, some very special female attention there in the hay, in the stables! Back up in the main house and Ethan's still looking out the window, staring at the stables in the distance as this imagine of him and the two horse riding women is running around his brain. Yes, him and those two women he'd seen earlier, in their tight jodhpurs and now just in their bras, the woman and him lying there in the hay in the stable. The blond on one side of him the brunette on the other, the women's hands moving over his young body, their breasts pushing into him as they got in close. Then both their hands coming to rest on the front of his trousers. There is a pause, then one hands starting unbuckling his belt with the other hand slowly pulls down his zip, and when this is done ... ... BANG! The sound of a door slamming shut brought Ethan back out of his daydream 'Shit!' It was just getting good, but maybe, even though he didn't know it, just maybe it might be getting better. The lad turned around at the sound of the slamming door and saw. 'Wow!' There just a little further down the corridor stood a woman, a quite beautiful oriental woman who was stood there a short way away for the now ogling young lad. The woman was called Su Ling, Miss Su Ling and was indeed beautiful and oriental, she was also a petite woman, but don't let that fool you she had a strong, toned body and liked to have a good workout every morning, and that's where she'd just come from. She was very much into her martials arts and was dressed in her normal blue gi, trousers and jacket. But as she walked out that room her belt was missing, her jacket was very much open and on display was that strong body of hers. Her toned body and quite well-formed chest with the red sports bra that could be clearly seen, especially by Ethan. The boy was transfixed by this woman and how she looked, now she turned and looked at him, she grinned, 'Oh My!' Ethan froze as this woman started to slowly make her way towards him, each step brought her closer and gave him more to take in. That body of hers, another step, her full thrusting chest, another step, her stunning eyes that stared back at the boy, another step, the beads of sweat that where running down her body. 'Oh God!' The sweat running down her body came for the workout that Miss Sue Ling had taken part in through that door, it was a good workout today, even if there had been a 'slight interruption!' Earlier Su Ling had gone into the room, it was one of many set out from fitness, training that sort of thing, and this room was laid out as the martial arts room. When Miss Su Ling entered the room, there was her personal trainer, a strong, tall, skilled man in his early 30's and at his peak. But each time the smaller, younger oriental woman walked through that door he swallowed hard and tensed himself up ready for their 'impending session!' The session had gone its normal way, badly for the 'trainer', the petite woman was all over him, she jumped, flung her leg around slammed it into the man. She grabbed him throw him over her shoulder, down to the floor. She dragged him up, sent swivelling leg kicks into him, beating him with her feet. She used her fists, driving them into his body, knocking the wind out of him, hurting him dropping him down onto his knees. If there was one thing this oriental woman liked it was to take a bigger man down to his knees, so there he was knelt before her, and that's what she always seemed to do to her 'trainer!' Miss Sue Ling stepped close to the man, grabbed him by his hair wrenched his head backwards, raised her free arm up high and was about to ... ..CLUNK! The door handle to the room started to turn, that was strange, everyone knew this room was Miss Sue Lings in the mornings. Everyone knew that, something was wrong! The woman let go of her battered trainer and spun around and around, before the door could fully open she was across the room like a whirlwind and behind it, ready for whoever came in! Into the room came two men, both dressed in black, the door opened slowly as if those coming in where being careful, which they were, these two like their other colleague had a general idea of the layout of the Mason Estate but there was no real detail. Each man, each team had a task, but even so they were going in a bit blind, which meant they would need to be stealthful. These two men had got into the house without any trouble and where making their way around the place, they had seen a young lad at the end of one of the corridors wandering around by left him alone, they were after someone else. The men moved down another corridor and another, then heard muffled sounds coming from this room, it was time to investigate. As they entered the room the first thing both men saw was another man, knelt in the middle of an open room, a sort of fitness room covered in blue mats. The man was dressed in a martial arts suit, white, but it looked dirty, bloody as if he'd just been badly beaten up. This man looked hurt, his face battered, bloody and he looked exhausted as he limply knelt there on both knees, 'but what had happened to him?' The two men moved further into the room and towards the injured martial arts man, as they did so, WHACK! THUD! Miss Sue Ling came out from behind the door and made her move, whoever these men where they didn't belong here so they must now pay the price. The oriental woman's leg comes up and strikes, she goes for the base of the first man's back, he jolts and a second later his legs buckle dropping him to his knees. Miss Sue Ling launches her fist straight and up, into the back of the second man's head, a full hard punch that makes this target, the man's head, explode in fiery pain. With the first man down on his knees, where the woman likes her men, the second man is stumbling around in pain. Miss Sue Ling jumps up at the second man and garbs hold of him, locking her arms around his head. He wobbles, stumbles some more with the woman hanging onto him, she now wraps her legs around him and throws herself to the side. As Miss Sue Ling now moves, summersaults through the air, the man comes with her, having wrapped herself around him, he has no choice but to follow, THUD! They spin, twisting in mid-air, rotating around and then landing together on the mats, but with the woman on top. The spinning, the hard landing that knocks the wind out the man also hurts him. The smaller woman quickly jumps up, standing on the man's chest and WALLOP! UUUUHHHHH! She raised her foot and brought in down hard, very hard into the man's face, blood splatters and his body jolts, she brings her foot up again and WHACK! This time the foot comes down across his windpipe, his body shudders this time, and then is still. The petite oriental woman jumps off man number two and heads back to her first victim, he's just pushing himself back upwards, when, WHACK! The woman comes in close, lifts her arm up and brings her elbow down hard onto the top of his head, sending him back down onto his knees. Miss Sue Ling whips the belts off from around her, warps her hands around each end of the belt and UUUUUHHHHH! She flips it over the stunned man's head, around his neck a couple of times and pulls, hard. The man's struggles as she chocks him with her own belt, slowly draining every drop of his life out of him, until THUD! He's not moving any more, not struggling and the woman releases him, so he falls forward onto his face, and man number one is also done for. All that is left is Miss Sue Ling's trainer, the man who has been there on his knees, watching, in silence, you don't interfere when this woman is working out. She now moves over towards the trainer, he looks up at her, knowing what is coming, knowing what she ... ... , WHACK! The kick knocks him out, but at least he'll be able to take part in another training session with the woman, and for that he should be very grateful to her! Miss Sue Ling, having completed her morning workout left the room, when she stepped outside she saw the sweet looking lad there in the corridor, 'he's nice!' She makes her way over to Ethan, he looks scared as she reaches him, 'even better.' The woman smiles, places her hands on the side of his face and pulls the boy to her, Ethan's heart races as her beautiful face gets closer and closer and then ... ... . They kiss! Ethan can't believe it this woman is kissing him, her lips, her tongue 'OH GOD!' After a good long kiss with the lad the woman pulls away, let's go of him, turns around and walks away, the lad stands there wondering 'what the hell ... .!' A beautiful woman had just kissed him, properly! 'No one at school will believe this, no one!' He stands there staring as the grinning oriental woman now walks away, down the corridor, around the corner and out of sight, still he stands there staring. Miss Sue Ling was off to see Hedges, head of the Mason household, the butter! She would have to inform him there was some extra 'mess' to attend to the martial arts room. She was sure he would give her 'that look' of discontent that he had, but hopped she would get away with it! He wasn't sure how long that he's stood there looking down the empty corridor but eventually Nathan, came around and staggered off! He couldn't get what just happened out his head, of how that woman had kissed him! So, he wonders off, still thinking about that kiss. In another part of the house and another Mason girl, the attractive, exotic Asian Sameera, Miss Sameera, was making her way downstairs to the room set up as a dance studio. Miss Sameera enjoyed all forms of dance, from classical ballet to modern Hip Hop, but she did have a passion for the exotic dancing of her native country of ... ... . BANG! 'What was that?' The woman looked over the side balcony and down the large main staircase in the centre of the house, but it was empty, apart from what looked like a sweet looking boy who was wondering across the main hallway, 'nice!' But he couldn't have caused that noise, so that was very strange, she'd defiantly heard something and ... ... BANG! Again, a noise and then something else, muffled clattering, almost as if it were whispering voices. Miss Sameera looked around 'Arh!'She'd had a thought, the old staircase, 'down, 'this' corridor!' She made her way to the corridor that housed the 'secret stairway', well not so secret, more like 'out of the way', a shortcut that lead from near to the library and old study on the ground floor and went all the way up here to the third floor. It was one of those quirky little things about this old house, and just as she suspected this is where the noise had come from, plus there was still that low muffled sound of voices. As Miss Sameera got closer to the staircase she could detect they were male voices, 'even stranger!' The staircase was small just big enough for one person to move either up or down at any one time. Rumour had it that in the 'old days' it had been used by the master of the house to 'visit' secretly, the female visitors using the old guest rooms on the top floor! But now there was someone, some others, using this clandestine route, but why? Why would someone, a man, men, want to move about the house without being seen, it could only mean one thing! Miss Sameera frowned and now made her way down the stairs to where the voices where coming from, and with a 'determination' to see what was going on here. Below and two men, dressed in black, where making their way up the 'concealed' staircase, they'd had a bit of a disagreement, one man wanted to check out the library and study, but the senior man had sent another team to do that, 'this team' was heading up to the top of the house to clear all the rooms up there first. As the man in front lead the way he came to a sudden stop, the man behind him knocked into the first man and angrily whispered "what are you doing, why did you ... ." It was now, the man at the rear moved his head to the side and go a glimpse of what the men in front of him had seen and so made him stop. There was a shoe, a woman's shoe, a dancer's shoe, if the man had known what one looked like, that came down from around the twisting staircase and down onto one of the steps. Then another shoe appeared, no two shoes, two dancer's shoes. Both men's eyes moved up as the legs inside those shoes came around the twisting staircase and into view, followed by the rest of the woman. White tight legging and a flowing multi-coloured long silk skirt going up to a white crop top and matching multi-coloured silk shawl, there stood the attractive, exotic Asian woman, dressed in her dancer's outfit, ready to ... ... . WHACK! OOOOHHHHH! The dancing shoe came shooting out, catching the man in front by surprise, Miss Sameera's foot hit the right spot, the man's head went back followed by his body. He would have gone tumbling down all those stairs if it hadn't been for the second man behind catching him. The woman now jumped at the men, her knee thrusting forwards ready to make contact, the second man sees this and flings the first men he was holding forward. Why should the second man get hurt, when he's got someone there in front who can take the hit for him! SMASH! The knee crashes into the jaw of the first man as he's sacrificed and thrown forward. The blow knocks him to the side, sending him crashing into the hard-cold bricks of the staircase wall. Miss Sameera's foot comes down safely on a step, and in a quick movement she leans forwards, reaches out, past the first man and grabs onto the head of the second man. The man who thought he was safe at the back, was now thinking something else 'Shit!' The woman sharply yanks the second man's head forward, then to the left, up to the right, up and then down, and then back again in in different directions. This shaking, jerking of his head disorientates the mans, makes him start to wobble on the narrow staircase steps. He's already in a confined space and with the first man between him and the woman there no chance of getting at the woman to stop this. He tries to break free but feels giddy and unstable, his feet begin to move uncontrollably as if he's trying to steady himself, then WHACK! A full flat hand into his face, his legs buckle and he drops down to his knees, slipping on a couple of steps as he tries to steady himself and gain his balance again. Miss Sameera turns back to the first man and SMASH! She simply grabs him by his head and drives his face onto the staircases old, solid, brick wall, then once again just to make sure she'd hurt him and why not one more time CRUNCH! Too easy for the woman, who now grabs hold of the man, spins him around so he facing down the stairs and OOOOHHHH! CRASH! THUD! An 'accidental' push, a shove and she sends him into his colleague, the two men hit, collide, bash into each other, lose balance and now both men tremble and fall down the staircase. As the pair fall Miss Sameera follows, she races after the tumbling men, and helps them down the staircase with a sharp kick, whenever they need one! THUD! THUD! THUD! Eventually the men reach the bottom of the stairs, the experience was painful, but at least they survived. In a bit of a tangle the two men take a breath and rest their injured body's and head on the first few steps of the staircase. But they can't lay there they need to ... ... . But suddenly they both have a horrible feeling as the men's eyes look up and see 'OH SHIT!' The dancer Miss Sameera is up in the air, she's jumped off the steps from high above them, she aiming to land, with both feet on the bottom steps, the steps the men's battered heads are now resting on, and 'OH ... ... ' CRUNCH! CRACK! As her feet came down both men's bodies jerked upwards, it was the first time this dancer had 'danced on someone head', Miss Sameera thought about that for a moment, 'No there was that time in the hareem when she told that man she was going to turn him into a eunuch and ... ..!' Before she forgets, she makes a polite call to Hedges the butler, Miss Sameera reports that there would be some housekeeping needed around here, please! Nearby and young Ethan was still wondering around the house, still thinking about the oriental woman and how fit she looked in that outfit and how she'd ... ... , then he thought he'd heard a couple of screams. Followed by a wired crunching sound as if something hard and been squashed and broken, there was also been a muffled yelp of some kind? It had all sounded like some strange sound effect from a horror film. It left the lad feeling a bit 'UUUHHHMMM!' This house was indeed a 'different' place to be in, but ignoring that the lad carried on exploring, wondering what else he might find? On the second storey of the house, in a large bedroom, another of the Mason girls was having a lazy lie in, well it had been a 'bit of a night' for her and she could do with the rest. Charlotte, or Miss Charlotte, opened her eyes, she gave a slight stretch and looked around, 'Oh, this defiantly wasn't her room!' But she knew who's it was and she wasn't a stranger to waking up here either. 'Arh Yes!' it was all coming back to her, she remembered where she was, and what had happened, then she smiled. Just then she saw who was next to her in the large bed, the smile on her face grew as the events of the previous evening came flooding back to the redhead. Last night Miss Charlotte, the feisty Mason girl, had accompanied Johnathan Mason out to a very exclusive restaurant, the private area was booked and there was a guest there waiting for Mr Mason. The guest was an older woman by the name of Sasha, a quite attractive, sophisticate, mature woman, who Miss Charlotte took an instant liking to. The 'business meeting' between Sasha and Johnathan Mason, with Miss Charlotte being the attractive dinner companion, didn't take that long. Names, places, details where all given, terms where agreed, a handshake given and the business was concluded. It was good to conduct such dealings in a pleasant and constructive way. After everything was agreed Johnathan asked the woman if she would like to stay for the evening, take in some food, wine and entertainment. Sasha looked at the young businessman and his dining companion, she smiled and agreed. What followed was an enjoyable dinner, some gourmet food, expensive and delicious wine and some very exciting entertainment. The evening and that night had been very good, Miss Charlotte and Sasha especially hit it off and the more wine was poured the more friendly they became. Sasha insisted in siting in between Johnathan and Charlotte, and then getting her new friends to get up close to her. After some more wine and some wondering hands, Sasha insisted in saying thank you will a kiss, then some more kisses and so on. Sasha was invited back to the Mason estate house for a 'night cap' and then ... ... ! So now the next morning and Miss Charlotte wakes up in a bed, not hers but that didn't matter, and next to her new 'friend!' Now it was just the two of them in the bed when the redhead woke, she slipped out the bed and headed to the bathroom grabbing a silk dressing gown on the way, she knew where things, where most things, where kept in this bedroom. In the mornings Miss Charlotte liked to spend a few minutes by herself, a little me time, a quick shower to wake up then she would see if her 'friend' was awake, and then maybe it would be time for a second shower? The bathroom was large, as would be expected in this house, Miss Charlotte walked over to the shower cubical, turned it on and waited for the water and steam to build up, she liked it like that. She moved over to the mirror, looked at herself and smiled, even first thing in the morning she looked good, BANG! There was a sound from outside the window, 'strange!' the room was two storeys' up, so what could ... ... BANG! Another sound and this time it was directly outside the window which was now moving, shaking as if someone was outside and trying to force it open! A crunching sound, a braking sound and the window swung open, Miss Charlotte was a bit confused, stunned even, that someone was trying to break in 'here!' The woman turned around to face the window, leant back against the sink unit, folded her arms and waited, 'this would be interesting!' A black gloved hand appeared and gripped the window frame, there was a grunt from outside and then an arm appeared, followed by a man's head and upper body, again dressed in black. The man pulled himself through the window, halfway through he looks up and see the redhead leant casually back, with a slight look of confused annoyance on her face as she looked back at him. This got the man to quicken his pace and get through that window faster, as he pulled himself up, Miss Charlotte moved forward. She rushed at the window, at the man, grabbed onto him as he struggled through and, OOOOWWWHHH! THUD! The redhead reached out grabbed the man, and with a forceful 'tug' she hauled him, 'helped him', through the window. He went flying as she showed off her strength by not only pulling him through, but then letting go and flinging him across the bathroom. The intruder tumbled across the floor landing in a heap, as he came to a halt the redhead in the silk rob was on him WHACK! WHACK! WHACK! She struck out viciously at him, a fist to the side of his head, a knee driven in hard to the back of his head and an elbow brought crashing into his temple. All these blows went to stun the man and daze him, so he wasn't sure what was going on as he's hauled up onto his feet. Grabbing him by his arm, Miss Charlotte spun the man away from her and back into the direction of the open window, CRACK! A high swivel kick to his upper body made the man take a staggering step backwards, CRACK! Another high kick, this time to his face and more stumbling steps were taken. The redhead let loses with more kicks, more high moves and the man is again hurt, disorientated and made to move rearwards, that was until he was in just the right position. Miss Charlotte jumped up, she twists her whole body in mid-air, swinging leg around and WALLOP! Her bare foot pounding into the side of the man's face, spinning him around and sending him off his feet and flying backwards, through the open window he'd crawled through. There was a pause, a muffled scream, followed by a dull thud from outside and then nothing, a few seconds went by then another man's face appeared at the open window. This was a confused face of another man who'd just seen his colleague fly out the window, past him and plunged down to the gravel floor below, WHACK! The redheads fist slammed into this new man's face, stunning him, WHACK! Another hard fist and the man's body shock, WHACK! A final smack into his face and the second intruder let go of the pipe he'd climbed up and was now himself falling head headfirst back down to the floor, THUD! Miss Charlotte looked out of the window and down to the crumpled bodies of the two very still men that where lying there. She'd have to let Hedges know so he could arrange for the gardener to tidy up, but that would be for later. Just then the older woman, with a sheet wrapped around her appeared at the bathroom door, a grin on the attractive older woman's face. Charlotte smiled and walked over to the now steaming shower, she slipped her rob off and stepped inside. Sasha moved towards the shower cubical, the bed sheet fell away as she got closer, and follows on stepping inside and into a warm hug from her new 'friend.' The warm water covered the two women as they slowly caress and kiss, this was certainly the way Miss Charlotte likes to start her day! Elsewhere and Ethan was now out of the long corridors and into a smallish area, well small for this house, there were three doors before him and in the corner what seemed like a small twisting staircase, all very medieval looking and a bit creepy. But it all looked clean and tidy, and there was a fresh smell here, as if it had been cleaned very recently. One of the doors was ever so slightly ajar and for some unknow reason Ethan decided to look inside this room. He pushed the door slowly open and put his head around the door, the room was a moderate size, maybe a little small for this place, but still it was impressive, it was an old fashion library. Shelves filled every wall and where crammed with books of all size, all shapes, the leather bound old types of books that had that certain smell about them. There was an open fire place and a couple of antique looking tables around the room, plus various leather chairs here and there, red, green all old looking. But still there was that old-world smell that the lad couldn't mistake and he took in, but as he moved a little further around the door there was another smell, a sweet, perfume smell, the smell of a woman! Ethan eyes moved quickly back around the room, but it was empty, he looked again and ... ... 'OH!' Now the lad eyes had fallen on the woman that was indeed there, the last of the Mason girls, the Latin beauty Maria, Miss Maria. The tall, beauty with long legs a great body and alluring breasts, the woman who likes fast cars and has a taste for speed and action was sat in one of her favourite rooms, the library. Miss Maria had a bit of a naughty side, she liked every now and again just to chill out, especially in the mornings. To take time to sit and read in the quiet surrounding here, without being disrupted. But not every interruption is a disturbance! Miss Maria sat there reading and as the door opened, she looked up and saw 'Oh, Nice!' Being disrupted was one thing, being interrupted by a sweet looking boy was something completely different. Miss Maria looking over her reading glasses and smiled, it was the sort of smile that Ethan was getting used to. The woman put down her book, neatly over a gun that had been 'misplaced' nearby and although unseen by the lad was lying next to the woman. Having covered that up quite nicely she swung her legs off the leather seat, stood up and slowly made her way to the nervous looking lad, who was holding onto the door as if he was stuck there. The boy stared, mouth open as the tall, Latino woman came to him, she was stunning, dressed in a pair of green high heeled shoes, a matching set of green frilly panties and bra and over them a see-through green nightie. The lingerie looked striking against her tanned skin, she looker wonderful, her face, her full bouncing hair with it slight curl, the sexy glass she looked over the stare at him, her legs, her body, her breasts! 'OH, DEAR LORD!' Now this lad was one interruption that Miss Maria didn't mind, not like the minor disturbance she'd dealt with a short while ago! Miss Maria had come down to the library to catch up on some quiet reading time before that afternoons rally meeting. She'd been trying on a present left by an admired and couldn't be bother to change so was sat in her lingerie whilst she read, then it had started BANG! BANG! THUD! ARRRHHHH! The noise outside the library door was getting too much, plus there had been those two men wondering around in the garden earlier. It had all disrupted her quiet time and she wasn't happy. The last thing, that finally did it for her, was the when two men burst into the library through the French doors for outside. She'd opened the doors a bit to let in a nice cool breeze whilst she read, and now two men, dressed stupidly all in black like some pathetic pair of bulgers or whatever, had burst into the library! As they rushed in, the men had shouted something at her but she paid no attention, she was annoyed. The woman took her book, slammed it down, in annoyance, and then realised she hadn't marked the page! Arrrrhhh! Miss Maria was now angry! She shot up to her feet, the two men, the stupid men that had disturbed her, stepped further into the library, and still they were shouting at her! She stormed over to the men and just as she reached them, one of them pulled out a gun and at arm's length pointed it at Miss Maria! This was the final straw, she stared at the man holding the gun, he looked calm but there was a bead of sweat slowly trickling down his temple. He could see that the woman, the very attractive woman, dressed in lingerie! was looking angry, but he was in control! Miss Maria looked deep into his eyes, as if she could read his mind, then through those black rimmed glasses she caught sight of his throat moving, as he nervously swallowed, WHACK! THUD! CRACK! OOOOHHHH! ARRRRHHH! Miss Maria's arms moved fast, her hands even quicker, one hand grabbed onto the bottom of his hand and on the gun, the other hand grabbed onto the top of the gun. One hand twisted one way the other hand the other way, the man winched. The hand on top moved the guns slide backwards, the bullet in the chamber flew out, her finger moved, flipped the safety mechanism and locked the slide back and in position. With the safety catch now on it wasn't going to fire, at the same time her hand that was on the bottom of the gun came away, she clenched her fist and now rammed it hard into the astonished man's face. Pounding his face and nose, stunning him and making him lose grip of the weapon. Miss Maria pulled the gun out of the man's hand, rammed it back hard into his face then flung it across the room and onto one of the seats there. The Latin woman was now looking into the hurt face of the man who had dared to pull a gun on her, there was blood running from his nose and he held his face with one hand, CRACK! ARRRRHHH! An angry Miss Maria threw her head forward and slammed her forehead into the man's face, the man crumpled, he dropped down onto his knees in an instance. Behind him was the stunned looking second man that had also come through those French windows, a look of total shock on his face after seeing what she had just done, SMACK! He got a good old fashion fist to his jaw and fist with a lot of anger behind it and a blow that sent him spinning around and down to the floor. With the two men stunned and down, Miss Maria turned around and walked over to the open fireplace in the library, she picked up one of the old fashion iron pokers that was all in a pot next to one of the original features of the house. With the unevenly shaped 'instrument' in her hand she moved back to the two men. The two hurt men on the floor looked up at the sexy Latino woman, who now took the poker in two hands, lifted it up high and, WHACK! ARRRRRRHHHH! SMASH! UUUUUUUHHHH! THUD! There was a moment or two of female anger as Miss Maria used this to deal with her anger issues, and get them out of her system. Finally, when the job was done and she was happy, she stopped, returned the iron poker back to its holder and took a deep breath. There was now a slight mess in the library that would need to be dealt with. She made a quick call to Hedges, apologised and said she'd made a bit of a mess here in the library, she had to stop herself from laughing as she suddenly got the game 'Cluedo' in her mind' 'in the library with the ... ... !' But Hedges would not have found that funny! With the 'mess' reported and on the list of household chores Miss Maria went back to reading her book, she quickly pulled a rug over the two men to make the place look a bit tidier, for now. A short while later and after a quick and initial removal of the 'mess' everything was back to normal. It was now that a sweet lad had appeared at the library door, not what Miss Maria had expected but a very delightfully interruption! Unfortunately, not all of the mess had been dealt with but Miss Maria had covered that up with her book. Her quiet reading time could take a back seat for now as the Latin woman's interest had been sparked by the sight of Ethan, so she went to say 'hello!' The young lads eye got wider and wider as the sexy Latino in lingerie came closer and closer to him, he swallowed hard as he wondered 'is it going to happen again?' Miss Maria came close to him, very close she grabbed onto the lad's top, pulled him too her, very close. Her face was in his, her nose was touch his, she looked deep into his young, excited, scared eyes, she pushed her breast into his body, the lads whole body shook, she felt that and liked it. Miss Maria thought she could even feel his heart beating hard and fast against her breast, now that did excite her! She pulled him that bit closer, her breasts squashed into his chest, her nose slid down the side of his, her lips moved onto his 'OH GOD, He was kissing another woman!' Her lips moved over his, her lips parted and so did his, her tongue move out and met his tongue, they kissed passionately. Ethan was in heaven as he and the tall Latino woman that held him kissed hard, but even this had to come to an end. The kiss ended, Miss Maria moved back a bit, she looked over her glasses at the lad, the pushed them up her face. Then placing a finger on his lips, she pushed him backwards, out of the room, she tuned him around and sent the mesmerized lad staggering away. Ethan's head was full of everything as his tried to work it all out and stumbled endlessly down one of the many corridors, 'Had all this really happened to him?' Miss Maria had a very good idea, that whoever he was she hadn't seen that last of that young lad! She returned back to her seat picked up her book and just then her phone rang. There was a quick catch up about the mornings 'events' and the conversation was over. Miss Maria put her book back onto the shelve, she'd have to return to it another day, right now there was business to attended to! Down in the stable area Miss Donna and Miss Louise also received similar phone calls, the mornings events where relayed and the blond and brunette where informed their presence was required. The women pushed their naked stable boys back into the hay, they could rest now, they had done their chores for the day, the two women got dressed and headed up to the house. Mr Thompson has already cleared up the stable yard, but there was other work that still needed to be done. In the dance studio Miss Sameera wasn't too happy about having her practice session interrupted, and having to answer her phone, it was bad enough having those men earlier who'd delayed her dance time. But once everything had been explained on the phone the woman was setting off across the house. Like the rest of her friends the woman wasn't pleased with what she'd been told, it was time to do business. In the large bedroom Miss Charlotte kissed Sasha, who was laid out on the bed and told here, "wait here, someone will be back up in a bit to see to you!" 'Someone' that sounded 'interesting!' Miss Charlotte put her silk rob back on and was back on her phone as she left the bedroom, catching up on this morning's events. Having reported the 'mess' she'd made Miss Sue Ling was about to head off to her room when she got a call, she passed all she knew about today's events. She was near to her training room so quickly made for it, the room was next on the list of chores to clean so her belt was still there around the man's throat. She retrieved the belt, loosely tied her jacket and heading for the business meeting that had been called. In Jonatan Mason's office Miss Sade had moved over to the large desk and was sat there making various phone calls, as if organising something. Eric was sill sat there as Jonathan carried on explain what was going to happen to the older man's business, but Eric wasn't taking this in. He was more interested in what the black woman was doing all that way over by the desk, talking on the phone and he couldn't hear what she was saying. The older man looked again down at his watch, it had gone past 'that time' surly something must have happened by now, was that why the woman was on the phone? Eric was getting more nervous, anxious, not about what that young Mason was saying about taking over his business, there was something else on the older man's mind, something that he was waiting for, waiting to happen. But it hadn't, not yet, and the man was getting worried. Just then Jonathan conclude his talk, at last! The business meeting had come to an end and the young entrepreneur said 'good bye!' Eric was a bit stunned, especially when the black woman got up, walked over to the large doors and open it, a clear indication it was time to leave. Eric got up, mumbled a farewell or something, turned and left, still excepting 'it' to have happened or about to happen! Outside the office and Eric just waved to his men to follow on, which they did, again a bit bemused by all this, after all it hadn't been in the briefing they'd been given about todays 'activities.' The four men stormed through the house to the main entrance hall, as if trying to get away before 'something' occurred! Jonathan and Miss Sade stood at the door to his office, watching the men hurry off and then followed on themselves. In the large entrance hall Eric stooped, his three bodyguards close behind him, he checked his watch again, 'why hadn't it happened?' and then ... .. "anything the matter Eric?" The older man looked up, there leaning over the banister on the second floor was Jonathan Mason, a smile on his face as he looked down, 'how did he get up there so quickly?' Eric's face changed as if he'd just been caught out, and with the realised that he probably had been! Eric then started to notice a few other things, a number of different 'people' who seemed to appear out of nowhere. Taking a couple of steps down the staircase from the second floor was the black woman in the white bikini. At the bottom of the stairs leaning against an old suit of armour was a redhead woman dressed in just a short silk robe, coming out from a doorway at the back of the hallway was another woman, tanned skin, attractive, dressed in some kind of dance outfit. Two women stepped forwards near to the main entrance, either side of the large doors they stood, a blond and a brunette both dressed as if they had just been out riding. Then in an archway leading off to one of the many corridors that came off the entrance hall was a tall dark-haired woman dressed in a green, almost see-through, negligee. Last but not least on the opposite side and in another archway stood a petite but firm looking oriental woman dressed in a blue martial arts suit. Eric had a very bad feeling about all this, very bad indeed! Just then the main doors burst open and 4 men, all dressed in black rushed in. Eric grinned, it was with some relief that he now looked back up at Jonathan Mason and smiled at him, there was now seven of his men there with him, seven men and there was seven of Mason's girls there too. But Jonathan just carried on smiling back, wondering when the penny would drop, "Eric, this is all you have, the rest of your 'plan' have been dealt with, all that is left remaining is stood there with you!" 'Shirt!' The main doors where suddenly shut, the blond and brunette by them had sealed off that exit point, the men in black all realised this was not good and huddled round in a circle in the middle of the hallway, with Eric in the centre of all this. A group of men now surrounded by the Mason girls and there was no way out! Eric realised that the rest of his men who should have infiltrated the house and taken care of anyone there, one by one, had themselves been 'dealt with!' 'SHIT!' What was left, was seven of Eric's men versus seven of Jonathans' ladies, not much of a competition was it? But how had this happened, how had Mason known what Eric had planned for today, "If you're wondering Eric I had a meeting last night with your wife, she was very forthcoming, very forthcoming indeed ... ... " Charlotte couldn't help but give a little giggle at this. " ... ... she told me of your plan to somehow turn our meeting to your advantage. Sorry Eric but that won't be happening." Eric Trentbridge realised he was now in deep trouble, if you're going to turn nasty with Jonathan Mason, you only get one shot and you had better come out the winner or else. For Eric, here and now was the 'or else' part. "Maybe you should have been a bit more generous in your planed divorce settlement towards your wife, she found out and wasn't happy so she came to me, we've sorted a few things out, I still get your company and she gets, well she'll be taken care of, very well taken care of!" Just then there was a cough and Hedges appeared with young Ethan with him. The lad had bumped into the stern old butler and been brought back to his Father. "Did you forget something Eric?" Eric had forgot all about Ethan and the young lad could see that this was one situation where he shouldn't be. But was also very disappointed with his Father for forgetting him, and it wasn't the first time, Mother was right about him! Hedges could see that the current situation was getting a little 'tense' and decided it was best if lad was not present when this 'meeting came to order!' The butler guided the lad through the hallway towards the stairs so he could be taken to a quiet place where he could wait. Ethan could see all the women now, all the Mason girls, and 'OH MY!' His eyes where wide, and took in each stunning female, his face was a picture, with that 'kid in a sweet shop' look of delight. Eric tried to reach out stop the butler from taking his son away, Hedges pulled the lad to the side and gave the Father his stern stare. All the Mason girls took in a deep breath, there where a few lips bitten as, 'No one tries to stop Hedge!' The butler glared at Eric, and told him, firmly but politely, "the boy will be far better off with me, you ... ... Sir, have other issues that need to be attended to at this moment in time, I suggest you deal with them!" And so young Ethan was led away. With the lad out of sight, "right Eric I believe we can now finalise the takeover of your company, can't we!" The Mason girls now all slowly moved in closer to the group of men in the centre of the hallway, each of the women picking out one of the men to 'deal with' and then that would just leave Eric himself! As Ethan was led away the air filled with the sound of smashing, cracking, pounding, crunching and banging as the group of men tried to defend themselves against the Mason girls. There was the sound of bodies being broken, men calling out, screams of pain and agony, all of this was missed by the young lad, his head was just too full of thought about being kissed and how all those women had looked 'no one at school is going to believe any of this!' A short while later and after Jonathan Mason aggressive takeover bid of Eric Trentbridge's business had been successfully completed, two people where waiting to see who would turn up to see them. In one very large bedroom on the second floor Sasha was lying on the hugh bed, waiting, she was pleased that she had gone to Jonathan, Eric's business rival, with all that information. Very pleased, it had been a much better and more interesting 'meeting' than she could have hoped for. Now her pending divorce would not happen, she might loss the business, but so what, she didn't want it. Anyway, she'd come away very well off, so that was good, and also having made some new friends as well, even better. The door to the bedroom opened, Sasha, pushed herself up to see who had come to see her, 'Oh, very, very, nice! This would be so much fun!' In another bedroom on the top floor young Ethan was sat on the bed, waiting. Hedges had brought the lad somewhere 'safe', he'd looked at the youth, looked at all the woman, whose eyes were glued to him as he'd walked through that hallway. The butler had decided who would be the best person to 'look after' the lad after this traumatic experience and placed him in the appropriate room. Ethan could see this was a woman's bedroom, but which of the women he'd see did it belong too? Just then there was noise outside the room in the corridor, the door handle turned, the door was pushed open, 'Oh God!' The boy stopped breathing for a moment as he wondered, 'if what he thought might happen, was really going to happen?' Was it one voice he'd heard, or maybe two, could it be ... ... . The door opened fully, his heart was racing, the mouth went dry as he swallowed hard, and there was ... ... ... 'OH MY DEAR GOD!' He thought his pounding heart would burst as into the room walked ... ... !