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

what is this

all must go

Choosing his words?

you already do naturally and as part of your job, but

“To you?”

me. You will be my

my coffee, digesting his words. “So, you want

the people around us for any kind of threat. I think you are a ‘people-person’, good at assessing them, weighing them up, gauging their intent. That’s perfect in any case in the work you are doing. But now, it will

through my stomach.

it isn’t. I can handle that kind of thing myself rather easily, even when I have to take Michael’s feelings into consideration.

what Marcie said, and it doesn’t faze me. That female has been trying to get her claws into Michael for years. It must have come as a nasty shock to her to realise that some other woman

“A woman

brows, laughter dancing in his

what am I watching

to Charlotte, much

is a cool smoothness to his words that leaves me thinking of the proverbial swan; all

“James….”

you have to tell me more than that. It sounds as

that of you. Other people, myself included, will deal with any threat

What sort of

wish I could answer that, but I can’t. In short, I want you to watch for anything that….” He holds up both

me to

all I’m asking

I

desktop, you will find a second panic button has been installed. If you hit that alarm, Kirstie, it will come directly to

“Which other people?

“Michael for one….”

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