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

is this

pacing the room. “Kirstie, you man the lobby desk right through the day. You are in a key 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 spotted Ben the other day as he was crossing the road.” He pauses, taking a

Choosing his words?

naturally and as part of your job, but do it

“To you?”

will be my eyes and ears down

sip my coffee, digesting his words. “So, you want me to…. what? Be

to watch the people around us for any kind of threat. I think you are

suspicion crawl through my stomach. “Is this just

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

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 had

laugh. “A

his brows, laughter dancing

I watching for,

other threats to Charlotte, much

his words that leaves me thinking of the proverbial swan;

“James….”

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

of you. Other people, myself included,

sort

anything that….” He holds up both hands in a gesture of helplessness, “…. anything that doesn’t seem right. Odd strangers, people behaving out

For me

that’s all I’m

do I make

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 those of a number of other

“Which other people?

“Michael for one….”

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