The First Touch

St Just glanced at his brother during the dinner; the guests were having a grand time, no doubt; Ava was trying her best to climb on Liam’s lap but he was having none of it.

Exasperated, she turned her attentions to Hussain Khan, the dealer from Pakistan, who was only too happy to oblige.

As the cars drove away in the darkness late into the night, Finn turned to his brother.

He had a speculative gleam on his face.

“The little Pet’s got you riled up, Liam, my man,” he said, making it sound half statement, half question.

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Liam O’Grady was a man who had worked his way through many thousands of women. He had begun when he was young, still in his teens, breaking the women who worked for his father; for his father had also run a popular wh*re house.

But after his old man’s demise, Liam had taken a momentous decision and had shut it down; the thought of making women sell their bodies for his profit had been an abhorrent one for the young man and his long-suffering mother, who had been aliv