'Slowly and carefully, I put on the new scarlet lingerie I had bought for this occasion. At the mirror, I applied a bright red lip gloss, to complete the hooker look. I squirted perfume of a powerfully musky kind all over me, with an extra squirt on the crotch of my panties. Before leaving the room, I picked up a plastic bag which clinked as I carried it.'
Lucy is ending her loveless, sexless marriage, but she makes sure it finishes in a way that her husband Robert won't forget. For years, he's neglected her, but on this night he'll be made to see her in a new light. In fact he'll be a captive audience. A previous version of this story was published in Kindle Books under the title A Wicked Woman.
Contemporary fiction writer. Previously wrote four crime novels under the name Gay Longworth.
Carrie worked on a game reserve before university, and went on to hold her own in the alpha male world of the oil-trade.
She’s now married to theatre producer Adam Spiegel, who is responsible for putting Dirty Dancing on the London stage, and they have two young daughters.