Penny watched Daniel and Katherine carefully, he looked every bit like a predator circling his prey. Her lips curled into a triumphant smirk, he hadn’t taken much persuading at all. Perhaps the thought of having a willing slave, signed, sealed and delivered was the way she would win every argument. The thought sent a rush of desire through her, but it wasn’t enough to overrule her careful planning.<br/><br/>Katherine's relief was palpable, Penny could see it radiating from her.<br/><br/>It might well have surprised anybody else, how quickly she had surrendered, but Penelope hadn’t left anything to chance. She knew exactly what she was looking for, she had been diligent in her research of the young woman sitting before her. Now she watched Katherine’s eyes flicker to Dan’s, there was arousal there. She wondered briefly how long the girl had harboured attraction towards her husband. Had there been flirtation? Fantasies? Her eyes flickered to Dan carefully. Jealousy wasn’t an emotion she experienced often, and never over her husband’s affections. He was faithful, at least as far as she knew. Many women had false trust in their partners, Penny didn’t account herself as one of them. Dan was loyal. Attentive. And she knew very well that she exhausted him, another woman would likely drive him to an early grave.<br/><br/>His eyes could wander though, hers did enough.<br/><br/>If either of them had wanted to cheat, it would have been easy. Well, easy save for the enormous loss of assets when the other inevitably found out and started divorce proceedings. If he cheated on her, she would destroy him.<br/><br/>Okay, so perhaps she wasn’t<em>immune </em>to jealousy, she wasn't very good at sharing. If Daniel betrayed her, it would be it for their relationship. But Katherine? Well Katherine could be a toy they both shared, she could learn. Katherine was young, attractive and entirely willing to do whatever it was they desired.<br/><br/>The willing part was a nice touch; a flawlessly submissive beauty who was entirely indebted to them. Sometimes the world worked in such perfect ways, she wondered whether the fates were sadists themselves.<br/><br/>“You’re not quite out of the woods yet Miss O’Rourke,” she observed coolly. Her eyes fixed on Dan teasingly;<em>down boy</em>. “Bring the papers to the desk.” She indicated next to her, then leant behind her and picked up the fountain pen that she reserved for signing documents. “I got this pen for my twenty-first birthday.” She intoned, “my father was a stickler for longevity. You may not know this but here at Harper-Dasse we have a special kind of ink imported. It never fades. So you see, a signature is not something that you can rescind. Once it’s on the paper, it will never fade. Your consent, on this document, will outlive you by centuries. I’ve always found a certain comfort in that. It’s like…<em>immortality</em>.” She finished with a flourish, turning the pen over in her fingers.<br/><br/>Then, without any further hesitation, she held it out towards Katherine, as if she were a Queen handing over a sword to a Knight sworn to her service.<br/><br/>She wasn’t in reach of Katherine; the other woman would have to stand and walk towards her to claim the pen. There was enough room beside her on the desk for the contract, the space that Daniel had recently vacated. Katherine would have to step infinitely closer to her to be able to complete it. Penelope concealed how powerful that thought made her, Katherine was going to have to get very,<em>very </em>used to following orders.<br/><br/>To the letter.<br/><br/>But their contract wasn’t completed yet. Until her name was on the contract, they still had to play it carefully, she could change her mind. All of this could be lost.<br/><br/>There was a part of her that was mildly irritated that Daniel had already sent security away, she could see by the visible relief in Katie that the pressure had been lifted. Not that she let it show, nobody looking at Penelope would every suspect the tiniest modicum of vulnerability or disappointment. Still, she would have preferred to keep it up until the contract was completed. Professional to the last.