Hot Revenge Box Set 4

Chapter 25

James

Adam is safely born. Beth is asleep. Richard too…

Nervous exhaustion?

Lol!

It’s quiet. And it’s dark.

And it’s the first real chance I’ve had to sit quietly. To think…

… To consider what Charlotte said.

But… but… you sent me an email, with the link to the site and that photo. I went right through it. They had some lovely things. But I knew you liked that corset so I bought it.

I turn the words over in my head.

Not like her to fall for something like that… Way too canny…

Too suspicious…

So it must have been good.

…

?

It seemed to come from me…

So, someone had my email address…

And baited the message with something so perfect Charlotte had no reason to doubt it…

And they… they…

… they what?

They sold her a corset…

?

?

Weird or what…

Yes… What?

How could they know her that well? To target her so well?

*****

“Charlotte, do you still have that email? The one you said I sent you. Or have you wiped it?”

She glances up from her laptop. “I was just about to wipe it. Why?”

“I’d like to see it. And the invoice for the corset if you still have it. And the packing slip.”

then her face clears.

sheets. “Invoice and delivery note.” Shaking her

taking offence at your being targeted. The thing is, this has all the hallmarks of a scam, except that all it appears to have achieved is to sell you

to have achieved?” She swallows. “I’ve not done

I don’t think so. But someone else has gone to a great deal of trouble if the only intention was to sell you expensive underwear.” I snap my

somewhere in the back of my head,

*****

I’m still shaking my head. The lingerie company appears to be a perfectly legitimate business. It’s been trading for nigh-on thirty years and the only thing that’s changed

the registrar reveals that the company listed on the paperwork is the same one as is connected with the website. A further search shows that the directors

are still ringing. Something

has a newsletter. So, making a couple of adjustments to my online security first, I sign

inbox within two minutes. Welcome to Arcadia Lingerie! We’re thrilled

I read on…

a quality product that speaks for itself,

sit back in my seat, fingers

I

spin in my chair, but

not surprised. Yes,

across to me. An inch

“Beth alright? And Adam?”

Just catching up on their sleep.” He leans in peering at my face. “What’s bothering

to him,

“What’s so

sip the malt, then take a gulp. “Something’s

trying to sell her this or that:

they arrive in Beth’s in-box purporting to come from

it’s because the ad comes from one of the How To Spend It outlets. Usually trying to persuade her that I need a new diamond watch, or a yacht or

professed to come

“Personal email address?”

“No, work address.”

ten-second look at a Haswell corporation brochure would pick

case, why the

did that email lead Charlotte to do? It purported to

is a common enough tactic with hackers, but this link was to a

enough of a tech man to know but, just because a company is legitimate… It’s website too, perhaps… Does that necessarily mean that an individual page or link

it fucking

my face closely. “Why don’t you take a close look at the link and page together? Perhaps I can ask some numbskull questions

Charlotte’s email onto the

site. Find something you like. Life’s

match Charlotte for looks, but the suggestion is there: a red-headed girl in sexy underwear which, had I really sent this message, is just the kind of thing

sender was right on target, whoever they are. This is no random

website… again… I already know what I’ll find, I’ve done it three times already. The link is clean, with none of the ‘behind the screen’ coding

website. There’s not even that attached tagging that tells the more alert reader that some associate account is

the home page, looking for anything out of kilter. But there’s

into my glass, then his. “Alright, so Charlotte’s on the Home Page. Where would she go next? How about the page it’s showing on the email? The one with the

email doesn’t lead her…” And I swallow my words in

the link doesn’t lead

have sent her

Christ!

find it, scoured the menus until she found that

she would have

on the knuckles of one hand, with the other I mouse through menus until I find

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