If her boss had known about it, she would never have been allowed near the detainee interrogation room, of course. A conflict of interest. And a major one, too. A huge big fat conflict of interest the size of St Paul's Cathedral. But she hadn't said anything to Morris. She could hardly believe she was going to do this, because DS Paula Hatcher had always done things by the book. By the book, and to the letter. And she was an excellent detective sergeant, she knew she was. Intuitive. She could read people. So how had all this got past her? Had she let her judgment be clouded by infatuation?
Yes, that was probably the best word for it - infatuation. But how was she going to explain this to Chief Inspector Morris later? Because it would all come out in the wash for sure. She had rushed into interview duty simply because she just had to see Charlie again. Even though it was going to be in the interrogation room at her own police station. Yes, at her very own nick. Her Charlie. Well, that was how she had come to think of him, she admitted to herself with a heavy sigh, "my Charlie."
The power he had had over her (and still did, apparently). Well did she remember the wetness between her legs that first night. Before he had even really touched her at all. "God, yes," she remembered thinking to herself when she finally felt his hand slip under her skirt and then slowly rise into her forest wetlands in the lift up to Paula's flat the night they met. He had been surprised and gratified -- not to mention profoundly excited - to find her little knickers were already absolutely sodden.
"Never on a first date, Paula." It sounded a kind of silly clichΓ© now, but that was her rule. Well, it had been. It had been her rule. But it was a rule she had thrown to the ground and trampled underfoot into little pieces on the very first night she met Charlie Redman.
And since that night Charlie had screwed her willing police officer pussy every which way. He had taken her anal cherry, too. No, it was more than that. He had taken it, yes, but he had slid into that forbidden dark hole at her own bidding. Not so much her bidding as her begging, in fact. She had never thought she would let anyone at all in there, let alone suggest it herself. "How many backdoor virgins actually ask to be arse-fucked?" wondered Paula to herself.