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….”

to change the

is

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.

Choosing his words?

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

“To you?”

You will be my

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

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 them up, gauging their

suspicion crawl through my stomach. “Is this just

to take Michael’s feelings into consideration. Despite Marcie’s remarks to the contrary, I am not so far over the

doesn’t faze me. That female has been trying to get

“A

laughter dancing in his

I

other threats to

of the proverbial swan; all calm grace

“James….”

more than that. It sounds as though you’re asking me

people, myself included, will deal with

sort

over his 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

For me to report what

that’s all I’m asking

I make

you look under your desktop, you will find a second panic button has been installed. If you hit

“Which other people?

“Michael for one….”

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