Hot Revenge Box Set 4

Chapter 34

Michael

“James, we have to tell her. Given her condition, Mitch has to know. ”

He exhales slowly, avoiding my eye. “Yes, she does. I’ve… been avoiding it…”

“Hoping it would go away? That Klempner would contact us out of the blue and we could warn him? That just like that, everything would be alright?”

“Something like that, yes.”

“If Mitch doesn’t have all the facts, she can’t make proper decisions. She’s going to need support. And part of that support is to give her the truth. It’s not doing her any favours to be kept in the dark.”

“You’re right of course.” James squeezes his eyes closed, presses at a temple. “Let’s get it over with. Can you get everyone together. We’ll need the family with her for this.”

*****

Richard and Beth drop what they are doing, joining us in the lounge. Georgie appears shortly afterwards, strolling in from the hotel with a speculative look in her eye.

Elbow resting on the chair arm, I talk behind my hand to James in the next seat. “You think it’s a good idea to have Georgie here?”

“She’s family too,” he snaps. “And she was also targeted by that maniac woman. So, yes, she should be here.”

Turning away from me, he flips open his mobile, giving the screen a couple of taps. “Hickman? Yes, it’s James. Could you join us in the house, please… Yes, right away.”

I bite down on my doubts. Georgie sits off to one side, silently waiting, regarding me from under lidded eyes as she sees me watching her.

But it’s James’ call…

His daughter…

His problem…

Or at least, the problem he created…

Charlotte perhaps has similar reservations. She meets my gaze for a long moment, her attention broken as James speaks. “Charlotte, could you fetch your mother, please. Tell her I need a word.” He stares at his feet for a moment, then, “Don’t say more than that. This has to come from me. Try to keep her calm.”

Sucking at her lips, Charlotte nods and heads out.

James paces the room, looking as though he’s just been asked what he would like for his last meal.

Richard pushes a glass into his hands. “Calm down. We all know it wasn’t intentional.”

James knocks back half an inch of golden liquid, then thrusts the glass back at Richard. Legs akimbo, his back to the fire, he stares moodily into space, cracking his knuckles.

of any expression. He takes an armchair at the back of the room; leaning back, arms folded, legs outstretched, crossed

one arm hooked through her mother’s. Mitch pauses in the doorway, brow furrowing as she sees the gathering. “What can I do for you,

don’t you sit down, Mitch. There’s something I have

is it? Is it about Larry? You’ve heard something?”

“Please, Mitch, sit down.”

her hand. “Sit by

glance at her daughter. “So you know something I don’t? How

please sit down. James needs to talk and

but sits, sandwiched between me and Charlotte, who slips

his words slow,

indeed,

was fooled into uploading James’ Trojan to his

Set a locator

so that when Klempner replaced his mobile, he would be automatically

how James himself was hacked, and that virus now has control of

that it

intended any of this, but we’ve heard nothing from him. Hickman can’t make

is pale… paler than usual, her complexion sallow. “Are you telling me that woman can trace exactly where Larry is? And he has no

yes, that’s

any of us

James doesn’t reply.

carefully, precisely, hands clasped over a still flat stomach. “What exactly is she able to

He swallows…

voice rises an octave. “Tell me, James.

Klempner’s mobile. If the phone is capable of doing it, then she has control. She’ll certainly know where he is. She’ll have his log-ins, passwords and his entry codes. She’ll be able to use the camera and the microphone. If he carries it in his pocket as he usually does, she won’t be able to see much, but she will be able to eavesdrop and to record any

“Larry uses a top-line model. It’s capable of a

him, trembling, stroking her

long is it

heavyset man gives James a look that would etch glass then, speaking in

he

once a day. Different times. Different pattern. Mainly…” He looks

the last thing you

obtain the information regarding the organised crime syndicates in

“I’d have

his gaze to James. “Your

of me. I’ll book a flight

but his voice has lost its edge. “Mr Alexanders, I know you mean well, but if Mr Klempner has encountered the kind of trouble that he can't handle…” He raises

say. “I can

Mr Summerford.” Hickman sucks at his lips, rubs his nose.

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