For the first time, it struck Fraser that there might be another agenda at work here and that the Japanese b***h was using what he took as her genuine need to be seen with an English servant to humiliate him.
In fact, it made more and more sense to him that she would use his “bad luck”, as he chose to describe it to himself, in such a way.
Attracted to him as he had always known her to be, he also knew that she did not like him much either.
And Louise had been a close acquaintance, if not an outright friend.
Wherever the truth lay, however, and hidden agenda or not, he knew one thing was certain.
The arrangement into which she had persuaded him to enter had him trapped.
At least unless he was willing to kiss goodbye to the two-hundred-thousand and – the thugs from the casino forever
