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

“Invoice and delivery note.” Shaking her head slightly, “Why

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 have achieved?” She swallows. “I’ve not done something stupid,

gone to a great deal of trouble if the only intention was to sell you expensive

I’m looking for, but somewhere in the

*****

a perfectly legitimate business. It’s been trading for nigh-on

with the website. A further search shows that the directors are authentic, actually exist as

those alarm bells are

my online security first,

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

I read on…

but since they’re selling a quality product that speaks

sit back in my seat,

I

in my chair, but it’s only Richard.

surprised. Yes, of course.

you to it.” He pulls up a chair by my desk, slides a glass across to me. An inch of amber

“Beth alright? And Adam?”

catching up on their sleep.” He

gave me to him, along with some of

them, then shrugs. “What’s so exciting about a sales pitch

malt, then take a

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

arrive in Beth’s in-box purporting to come

the ad comes from one of the How To Spend It outlets.

email professed to come

“Personal email address?”

“No, work address.”

a ten-second

which case, why the

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

tactic with hackers, but

Hmmms again. “I’m not enough of a tech man to know but, just because a company is legitimate… It’s website

course it fucking

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

up Charlotte’s email onto the

site. Find something you like. Life’s

very attractive redhead wearing an emerald green corset. The 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

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

it three times already. The link is clean, with none of the ‘behind the screen’ coding

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

looking for anything out

the Home Page. Where would she go next? How about the page it’s showing

email doesn’t lead

the link doesn’t

Charlotte believes I have sent her a request to buy

Christ!

it, scoured the menus

she would

other I mouse through

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