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.

arrives, clean of any expression. He takes an armchair at the back of the room; leaning back,

in the doorway, brow furrowing as she sees the gathering. “What can I

clears his throat, then gestures to an armchair. “Um… why don’t you sit down, Mitch. There’s something I

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

“Please, Mitch, sit down.”

“Sit by

something I don’t? How do

“Mitch, please sit down.

sandwiched between me

words slow,

indeed,

fooled into uploading James’ Trojan to

a locator

cloud, so that when Klempner replaced his

and then, how James himself was hacked, and that virus now

assume that it is

hands, “Mitch, I’m sorry. I never intended any of this, but we’ve heard nothing from

telling me that woman can trace exactly where

Mitch. But yes, that’s

us what you were doing?” Her tone would blunt the

James doesn’t reply.

over a still flat stomach. “What exactly is she

He swallows…

rises an octave. “Tell

She’ll have his log-ins, passwords and his entry codes. She’ll be

forehead. “Larry uses a top-line model. It’s capable of a lot. But he doesn’t have control

at him, trembling, stroking her

in. “This doesn’t get us anywhere. Hickman, how long is it now

etch glass

often did he

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

was the last thing

the information regarding the

could have asked me,” says James. “I’d have been happy to

swings his gaze to James.

trouble because of me. I’ll book a flight and get over

if Mr Klempner has encountered the kind of trouble that he can't handle…” He

go,” I say.

Hickman sucks at his lips, rubs his nose.

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