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.”

frowns, then her face

A4 sheets. “Invoice and delivery

a scam, except that all it appears to have achieved is to sell you an item of

“I’ve not done something stupid, have

But someone else has gone to a great deal of trouble if the only intention was to sell

for, but somewhere in the back of my

*****

be a perfectly legitimate business. It’s been

further search shows that the directors are authentic, actually exist as people and, judging by the string of

bells are still

So, making a couple of adjustments to my online security first, I sign up and wait

two minutes. Welcome to Arcadia Lingerie! We’re

I read on…

standard marketing stuff. Not inspired, but since they’re selling a quality product that speaks for itself,

back in my

if I join

chair, but it’s only Richard. “I couldn’t

not surprised. Yes,

chair by my desk, slides a glass across to me.

“Beth alright? And Adam?”

a silly grin. “Doing great. Just catching up on their sleep.” He leans in peering at

paperwork Charlotte gave me to him, along with some of

so

then take a gulp. “Something’s

all the time, trying to sell her this or that: clothes, jewellery, bags, hats… For

arrive in Beth’s in-box purporting to come

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

professed to

“Personal email address?”

“No, work address.”

public information. Anyone taking a ten-second look at

which case, why the personal connection

What did that email lead Charlotte to do? It purported to advertise a lingerie website.

common enough tactic with hackers, but this link

company is legitimate… It’s website too, perhaps… Does that necessarily mean that an individual

it fucking

the link and page together? Perhaps I can ask some numbskull questions that you can

up Charlotte’s email onto the screen, ‘from

site. Find something you like. Life’s

looks, but the suggestion is

are. This is no random spam. It’s

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

website. There’s not even that attached tagging that tells the more

home page, looking for anything

his. “Alright, so Charlotte’s on the Home Page. Where would she go next? How about the page

the link on the email doesn’t lead her…” And

the link doesn’t

sent her a

Christ!

scoured the

would have clicked

of one hand, with the other I

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