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THE DEAL (part 5 of book)
Chapter 20 Attire for dinner

In each room was a dressing room with an arrangement of fresh clothes for each person. David fingered his way through the saville row shirts, the designer suits, jeans and other such commodities that were there and decided if it was going to be his last night on earth he may as well feel good about but comfortable at the same time as he slid on a pair of cream linen trousers and a cool cotton shirt with a small motif on the left side of the chest probably designer but David would not know as he wasn’t exactly what you would call fashion conscious as he tried out several expensive aftershaves on his wrist to decide which one to wear and settled on Fahrenheit as he eyes himself in the mirror thinking I don’t scrub up to bad as he’d also had a shave. Ellie opened the wardrobe door and was presently surprised to find an array of dresses, blouses, skirts shorts and jeans and settled on a set of linen trousers and a silk blouse and mid to high heels and obviously they wouldn’t have her favourite fragrance here but Angel would do nicely as she looked herself up and down and thought this will do I don’t want to put to much effort in. Cindy however opened the door found the most beautiful black lace and linen dress with a halter neck and sequinned sown the side and a pair of high heels and pure poison fragrance and thought oh if they could see me now those who treat me so badly as she was 1st to walk the down the stairs noticing the butlers eyes all over her. Cindy couldn’t resist and gave him a cheeky wink and slid her finger into her mouth teasingly as she walked past much to his appraising eyes as she sat at the table awaiting the other two. David was the next down and Cindy watched him as he walked down looking like a totally different man now to whom she had first met and he sat across from her not wanting to try and be dominant by sitting at the head of the table because let’s face it not one of them in that room was capable of feeling dominant let alone being dominant given the situation. Ellie walked down the stairs looking as elegant as she could but inside a rage burned she was angry not only at the voice from the speaker but at herself for being so foolish thinking that anybody would give away a million pound away without there being a catch. She composed herself and sat down at the table. All 3 of the, watching each other the mood was a little tense to say the least as they were served lobster Thermidor and cracked crab and dauphinois potatoes with a side of chips or salad and warm bread with whatever beverage they chose to have from the vast menu in front of them. They all ate and...