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.”

her face clears. “Sure. Gimme

returns with a couple of A4 sheets. “Invoice and delivery note.” Shaking her head slightly, “Why the interest,

all the hallmarks of a scam,

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

intention was to sell you expensive underwear.” I snap my fingers at the sheets in her

but somewhere in the back

*****

perfectly legitimate business. It’s been trading for nigh-on thirty years and

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 authentic, actually exist as people

those alarm bells are still ringing.

making a couple of adjustments to my online security first, I

within two minutes.

I read on…

selling a quality product that speaks for itself, they’re doing

in my seat, fingers drumming

I

my chair, but it’s only Richard.

not surprised. Yes, of course.

to it.” He pulls up a chair by my desk, slides a glass across to me. An inch of amber nectar sits in the bottom of the glass. He sips from

“Beth alright? And Adam?”

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

push the paperwork Charlotte gave me to him, along with some of the print-offs

at them, then shrugs. “What’s so

the malt, then take

her this or that:

they arrive in Beth’s in-box purporting

chin. “If I’m mentioned, 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

professed

“Personal email address?”

“No, work address.”

ten-second

the

his whiskey… Swallows… “Perhaps you’re tackling this from the wrong end. What did that email lead Charlotte to do? It purported to advertise a lingerie website.

common enough tactic with hackers,

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

course it fucking

look at the link and page together?

Charlotte’s email

to browse this site. Find something you like. Life’s getting back to normal

model can’t 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 I

on target, whoever they are. This is no random spam. It’s targeted… at

website… again… I already know what I’ll find, I’ve done it three times already. The link is clean, with

attached tagging that tells the more alert reader that some associate account is going to earn a few per cent

the home page, looking for anything out of

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

the link on the email doesn’t lead

doesn’t lead

believes I have sent her a request to buy that

Christ!

it, scoured the menus until

would have clicked

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

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