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

is

all must go by you. You also

Choosing his words?

already do naturally and as part

“To you?”

will be my eyes and ears

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

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

of suspicion crawl through my stomach.

thing myself rather easily, even when I have to take Michael’s feelings into consideration. Despite Marcie’s remarks to the contrary, I am not so far over the hill that

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 finally succeeded

“A woman

flashes his brows, laughter

I watching for,

are…. other threats to Charlotte,

leaves me thinking of the proverbial swan; all calm grace above water, frenzied activity down below, out of sight. “Mr

“James….”

that. It sounds as though

I’m not asking that of you. Other people, myself

What sort

but I can’t. In short, I want you to watch for anything

want? For me to

that’s all I’m asking

do I make these

will find a second panic button has been installed. If you hit that

“Which other people?

“Michael for one….”

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