Sweet Agony. Charlotte Stein
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Название: Sweet Agony

Автор: Charlotte Stein

Издательство: HarperCollins

Жанр: Эротика, Секс

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isbn: 9780007579518

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      Sweet Agony

      CHARLOTTE STEIN

      A division of HarperCollinsPublishers

       www.harpercollins.co.uk

       Copyright

       Mischief

      An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

      1 London Bridge Street

      London, SE1 9GF

       www.mischiefbooks.com

      Copyright © Charlotte Stein 2015

      Charlotte Stein asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Ebook Edition © 2015 ISBN: 9780007579518

      Version: 2015–04–21

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Chapter One

       Chapter Two

       Chapter Three

       Chapter Four

       Chapter Five

       Chapter Six

      

       Chapter Seven

      

       Chapter Eight

      

       Chapter Nine

      

       Chapter Ten

      

       Chapter Eleven

      

       Chapter Twelve

      

       Chapter Thirteen

      

       More from Mischief

       About Mischief

      

       About the Publisher

       Chapter One

      The advert says ‘Seeking Housekeeper’, which I guess sounds innocent enough. Even the other stuff underneath is only pretty weird, rather than very. It just asks for excellent tea-making skills, and no social huggers, and an enthusiasm for order, and to me all of those things sound reasonable. They don’t ring alarm bells in my head.

      But the house does.

      I sit for around ten minutes across the street from it, in my battered little Beetle with the red vinyl seats. Part of me really, really wanting to go in and save my own skin. But most of me too scared to do anything but stare in horror. Honestly, if you looked up Dickensian in the dictionary you would find this place. It looks as though someone called Mrs Migglethwump lives here, after her husband ran off with the maid on their wedding day.

      The front of it is the kind of grey you only get after natural disasters. Some apocalypse happened to this place and this place alone, and now it sits like a bad tooth in a mouth of pristine white ones. It even seems vaguely crooked, in a way that should be impossible. The other houses are ramrod-straight. There is no space for it to slant to the side – it just looks as though it does.

      Malevolence is probably making it happen. I think malevolence might be making a lot of things happen. All the windows are blank, black eyes, and each one seems to follow me wherever I go. I glance away for a second and can almost feel them, pressing into my body. Then I turn back and they pretend to be all innocent again. They never watched me reach for the newspaper on the seat beside me. They are just windows, busy minding their own business. There is nothing to worry about here.

      Apart from the garden that time forgot.

      Lord, the garden that time forgot. I get out of the car feeling СКАЧАТЬ