Choosing Her Lover

Chapter 34

“Us?”

“Charlotte, myself and Michael.”

“Right, so….?

“I’ve been quite impressed with your performance….”

Really?

“Really?”

“Yes, really. I liked the way you dealt the situation out on the street the other day, and Ben in the downstairs lobby; even, dare I say it, the situation when Ben dragged you to our home, although I’ll admit, that’s with the benefit of hindsight.”

I flush. “You didn’t seem very impressed at the time.”

He rolls his eyes ceiling-ward. “Yes, I’ve never apologised for that, have I….”

“I don’t think you have a lot to apologise for, Sir. I feel terrible about it….”

“Well, get over it. It’s in the past. I want to talk about where we go from here. It seems to me that you handle yourself rather well in awkward situations and that being the case, I have a favour to ask of you.”

What’s he talking about?

“Right…. what is this favour?”

Perhaps I look suspicious. For a moment, he meets my eyes, his gaze level, expressionless; then he says, “Don’t misunderstand my motives, Kirstie. I’m not about to go dipping my nib in the office ink. It would be horribly unprofessional of me, and also, regardless of what Ben might think, I’m a married man.”

I flush. “I didn’t mean that at all.”

“Good. But for the avoidance of doubt….”

change the

is

position. You see everyone who comes in or out of the building; workers, visitors, delivery men, couriers.… everyone. They all must go by you. You also see a lot of what passes by the building or happens in front of it. You

Choosing his words?

and as part of your job, but do it deliberately and report

“To you?”

me. You will be my eyes and ears

digesting his words. “So, you want me to…. what? Be a

and that’s not it at all. Really, all I’m asking you to do is something which comes easily to you, which is to watch the people around us for any kind of threat. I think you are a ‘people-person’, good at assessing them, weighing

crawl through my stomach. “Is this just about Ben

that kind of thing myself rather easily, even when I have to take Michael’s feelings into consideration.

me what Marcie said, and it doesn’t faze me. That female has been trying to get her claws into Michael for years. It must

laugh. “A

his brows, laughter

am I

are…. other threats to Charlotte, much more serious

me thinking of the proverbial swan; all calm grace above water, frenzied activity down below,

“James….”

more than that. It sounds

that of you. Other people, myself included, will

sort of

features. “I wish I could answer that, but I can’t. In short, I want you to watch for anything that….” He holds up both hands in a gesture of helplessness, “…. anything that doesn’t seem right. Odd

you want? For me to report what I

all I’m asking

I make these

you look under your desktop, you will find a second panic button has been installed. If you hit that alarm, Kirstie, it will come directly to my phone, and

“Which other people?

“Michael for one….”

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