For all her excitement, she was not completely easy in her mind about what he had said, particularly about her being a natural slave. It seemed too extreme, far beyond her fantasies of capture and punishment, and suggested a permanent and deliberate inequality in their relationship rather than a purely sexual one. She had also become very much aware of the gap in age between them, and the inevitable social consequences. He was roughly the same age as her parents, which would make introductions difficult if it ever came to that, while she could already hear Brian and Dave sniggering and the catty remarks from the other girls at EAS if he accompanied her to company functions. Despite her misgivings she was determined to go through with it, at the very least dinner and whatever came afterwards, almost certainly more. Not only did he seem to be the answer to many of her most compelling needs, but it would be immensely satisfying if Chris Drake was to discover that she had found herself a new partner just two days after Hazel had brought their liaison to an end.
