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 clears.

couple of A4 sheets. “Invoice and delivery note.” Shaking her head

hallmarks of a scam, except that all it appears to have

“I’ve not done something stupid, have

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

*****

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 in

the same one as is connected with the website. A further search shows that the directors are authentic, actually

alarm bells are still ringing. Something

of adjustments to my online security first, I sign up and wait to see

email pops into my inbox within two minutes. Welcome to Arcadia Lingerie!

I read on…

marketing stuff. Not inspired, but since they’re selling a quality

my seat, fingers drumming the

I

spin in my chair, but it’s

surprised. Yes, of course.

up a chair by my desk, slides a glass across to me. An inch of amber nectar sits in the bottom of the

“Beth alright? And Adam?”

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

him, along with some of

shrugs. “What’s so exciting about a sales

malt, then take a gulp.

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

in-box

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

professed to come from

“Personal email address?”

“No, work address.”

ten-second look at a Haswell corporation brochure

which case, why the personal connection

Hmmms… Sips his whiskey… Swallows… “Perhaps you’re tackling this from the wrong end. What did that email lead Charlotte

common enough tactic with hackers,

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

course it fucking

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

pull up Charlotte’s email onto the screen,

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

redhead wearing an emerald green corset. The model can’t match Charlotte for looks, but the suggestion is there: a red-headed girl in

they are.

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

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

home page, looking for anything out of kilter. But

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 link on the email doesn’t lead

the link doesn’t lead her

Charlotte believes I have sent her a request to

Christ!

it, scoured

she would have clicked

hand, with the other I mouse through menus until I find the image from

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