Janis has achieved her dream: to perform with her rock idols, Blade and Virgo, in their raunchy stage show. But her involvement with the sexy stars has cost Janis her rock journalist lover, Adam. When he is pulled out of the crowd to take part in the show all her old desire for him revives . . .

Dimly Janis was aware of Blade singing, 'I'm still wild, wild about you!' as he watched Virgo circling his cage. She knew the point was approaching where Virgo would come to the front of the stage and invite someone from the audience to join the girls in their orgy. The music changed to 'Are you man enough for me?' and the girls began to sing the chorus, swaying provocatively in front of the seething crowd as the men vied with each other to be the chosen one. Virgo took a few steps down in her high-heeled boots, cracking her whip over the heads of the audience, delighting them as she sang, 'I need it hard and I want it hot, so give it everything you've got!'

While she wriggled away with the other girls, Janis saw Virgo reach down into the clamouring crowd and clasp someone's hand, pulling him up onto the steps at the side of the stage. Security guards kept the rest back as he mounted the steps, followed by envious eyes. When Janis took a good look at him, however, she gasped aloud: it was Adam! He was wearing his usual scuffed jeans and a faded Reading Rock Festival T-shirt that she recognised. Flushed and sweating, his brown hair plastered over his brow, he allowed Virgo to lead him right onto the stage where he stood looking self-conscious while she crooned just for him, 'Give me a hard man to please, and I'll go down on my knees . . .'

Janis stared at him in a daze. He hadn't seen her yet, perhaps he just hadn't recognised her. His eyes were riveted to Virgo's face and figure, lusting after her red lips, her deep cleavage, the scrap of red and black lace that barely concealed her pussy from view. A sick pain that she recognised as jealousy hit Janis in the pit of the stomach. She knew the routine, knew that Virgo would give him one kiss then deliver him to the rest of the girls who would play with him for a while until the time came for Blade to break out of his cage, creating a diversion.

Then Pam was scheduled to run screaming into the wings with Adam in tow, from where he would be discreetly returned to his place in the audience. But as she looked at him Janis felt the old attraction returning in full force, making her yearn for him with that old longing. She remembered what it had been like wanting him but not being able to have him. For six long weeks he'd tried to extricate himself from a dead and bitter relationship with another woman so that they could be together. Janis had been patient, but had suffered agonies of frustration as they snatched clandestine moments together, never long enough to make love properly.

Once again, he appeared infinitely desirable. His brown eyes were aglow with that sexy light that had been such a come-on, and she was remembering how his lips had felt under hers in those early, wonderful days of infatuation. Now he was kissing Virgo, not her, and the burning pain that spread from her navel to her groin intensified. She wanted him, God how she wanted him!

But the routine that they cast had worked out to include the anonymous member of the audience didn't include Janis, except in the most superficial way. It was Pam and Diane who would get most of the action, with a bit on the side from Lucille and Tina. Janis was supposed to be diverting Virgo's attention while all that was going on so that Blade could steal her whip and turn the tables on her.

A sullen resentment took over as Adam and Virgo ended their prolonged kiss to tumultuous applause and the four girls dragged him away, tearing off his clothes. Virgo turned her attention to Janis, the mesmeric eyes reminding her that this was their moment, a little bit of a lesbian side-show to the main action. Up to now Janis had always looked forward to this part of the show, since they'd rehearsed it so many times that all the moves went like clockwork. But now she was filled with anger. Adam should be with her, not those other girls who meant nothing to him. A dark suspicion hit her that he was doing it to spite her until she told herself she was being irrational. He was behaving passively and the other girls were following their script. It was Janis who was filled with spite. Yet she couldn't help herself. In her confused, drugged state her thinking and impulses went completely awry and she tore herself away from Virgo's embrace.

'What are you doing?' hissed the other woman as she turned on Pam and Diane, who were starting to stroke and lick Adam's naked body into a state of tumescence.

The pair looked equally startled as Janis thrust them away, kneeling beside her ex-lover and kissing his engorged glans. He groaned and a light of recognition came into his eye, which promptly winked at her. Although she could hear the others muttering and exclaiming the crowd was yelling encouragement, and that was music to her ears. She could see Adam grinning in his familiar way and knew that soon it would seem as if they'd never been apart.